Alison_cat

Just adding my voice to the chorus of recommendations - I found Hussein through the forum, and we are so pleased with the work did. He painted our hallway and stairs recently, which involved tidying up a lot of very old, chipped woodwork, and they did a fantastic job. We left him our keys and went away for a few days and it was so nice to get the photo updates while we were away. We would definitely use him again for any more painting we have, as it was just the easiest process and the results are fantastic.

Just adding our recommendation here as well! We found Paul through this forum, and he was out the next day to Sydenham collect various bags, bits of rubbish and random household things for us after we've been doing up our garden and bathroom. Was so good to get it sorted - and also so quickly too. We'd used a bigger company I found online last summer when we had loads of kitchen waste but they were much easier to deal with, cheaper and more efficient.

Fernando did some work for us last month on our little garden - he was lovely to deal with, very hard working and tidied everything up beautifully after he'd been. Hopefully we might call on his services again come the winter!

I have been trying to post a query in general issues about charity collection but it won't post. Is there something I could be doing wrong that's stopping it posting? I've had no problems posting in For Sale.

It had a password on so I'm hoping (probably naively!) that might deter them for a bit, but it was a 14inch white macbook (and we also lost another, older, macbook amongst other things). The police seemed pretty sure it'd be in our local cash converters in a matter of hours so someone's probably already bought it. I should say though, that our lettings agents (Homewood Homes) have been ace about the whole thing; sent maintenance people straight round to see what they could do for the door and had a brand new frame, with London bar as well, installed by yesterday lunchtime. I know lettings agents have a bad reputation so thought it was nice to share a good story for once!

Came home from work today to find we've unfortunately joined the 'I've been burgled club'. We're on Talfourd Road, near Bellenden Road and they kicked in the doorframe to bypass the locks and took two laptops, some cash and various other bits and pieces. Thankfully the cat seems ok (possessions are replaceable but I'd have been devastated if they'd harmed her as she's quite old now). Going to have to barricade the door tonight till we can have the frame completely replaced tomorrow so hopefully they won't be paying a repeat visit.