When I ask a tradesperson friend for advice or help, I ask them what they want in exchange.
A quick 'hey, don't use that hvac company, they're rubbish, use these guys instead' is, of course, going to be a lot different from 'hey, can you help me rewire my house?'. (Rewiring the house cost my father six hours of welding and fabrication, two twelve packs of beer, and a pot of spaghetti, but uh, that's a reasonable trade between tradespeople)
(I mean, barring the phone call of 'hey, I am about to attempt to replace my sink, if I don't call you back in X hours, please send a welfare check because I might be squished under the sink', but that is a way different sort of thing and it's not always tradespeople, I just know more tradespeople than not.)
Blue green ungulate; LW is kinda awful and everything is terrible right now.
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When I ask a tradesperson friend for advice or help, I ask them what they want in exchange.
A quick 'hey, don't use that hvac company, they're rubbish, use these guys instead' is, of course, going to be a lot different from 'hey, can you help me rewire my house?'. (Rewiring the house cost my father six hours of welding and fabrication, two twelve packs of beer, and a pot of spaghetti, but uh, that's a reasonable trade between tradespeople)
(I mean, barring the phone call of 'hey, I am about to attempt to replace my sink, if I don't call you back in X hours, please send a welfare check because I might be squished under the sink', but that is a way different sort of thing and it's not always tradespeople, I just know more tradespeople than not.)
Blue green ungulate; LW is kinda awful and everything is terrible right now.