The Managing Carpenter

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I’ve got the carpenter working here today. He arrived early (unusual!) but immediately engaged me in a requirements and expectation discussion. “This”, I said to myself, “is going to be interesting”.

When Jazz was last here, he worked under the auspices of the project manager and said very little. This time round he is here because I commissioned him to do some finishing off in the now almost completed rooms and he is verbose and enthused!

I put the kettle on, made the tea and we adjourned to the conservatory and sat at my 9ft long dining table where he began to reel of what he thought I needed, what he could do in that respect and also what added value he could bring to some other woodwork that required reworking that he’d noticed when he first came to work at the house. The add value work, he claimed would indeed add to the sale value of the house. He’d heard that the house is being done up for resale purposes.

So, much to my surprise I have a talented artisan and an articulate one man business owner engaging his customer in a conversation . He oozed me!!