Trades and Services

I Hired a Skip Without Checking the Rules and It Cost Me More Than the Skip Itself

October 12, 2026 | Trades and Services

Last spring I hired a skip for a kitchen clear-out and a bit of garden tidying. Rang the skip company on a Tuesday, had the thing sitting outside my house by Thursday. Job done, I thought.…

Finding a Reliable Plumber in Cork City: What I Learned After Three Bad Experiences

October 7, 2026 | Trades and Services

There's a period a few years back I'd rather forget, involving three separate plumbers, a leaking copper pipe behind our kitchen wall, and a repair bill that climbed well past what it had any right to…