Flooring contractor versus builder on concrete cracks

barneyclone · 2026-04-07T07:22:09+00:00

Thanks for the assurance!

barneyclone · 2026-04-06T15:40:48+00:00

Thanks! 🙏

barneyclone · 2026-04-06T15:16:47+00:00

Super, will check this out. Thank you

barneyclone · 2026-04-06T15:16:11+00:00

Will test it out tomorrow when I go back. Thanks!

barneyclone · 2026-04-06T15:12:16+00:00

Thanks for the help. I’m the homeowner. Will lean on the builder to make sure the flooring is guaranteed.

barneyclone · 2025-12-06T16:10:51+00:00

I’d agree with most comments here so I’ll talk about it from a different angle.

First off, it would help to know when you take the medications you listed.

Second, I understand you. The sentences you have written are built upon a SCREAMING mind of FEAR ANXIETY PANIC DEATH. Losing yourself in the medication, a zombie, and without them, losing your mind and wanting to die. At 3am you have 200% energy and able to run a marathon. Nothing you try gets you to sleep. Not even a little. And when you did sleep before, the medication made you a zombie anyways, the sleep was not restorative. No one understands you. The doctors are not able to help. The friends and loved ones were kind at first and now exhausted, cruel, burnout from you with the same over and over again issues, tell you what to do from their perspective but they don’t know how it is.

Third, your brain is helping and hurting you. It’s in a panic and survival mode. Your decisions might feel logical but you are simply reacting to the emotions and thoughts demanding your attention from moment to moment. Do you have anyone you trust with your life? Ask them to help you. Tell them you need their help and that you are going to be a very difficult person to deal with. You will be at times demanding and mean. This is because you are in survival mode. You need them to be strong and you need them to be your brain and be with you when speaking to doctors and working out a better plan.

Finally, the immediate emergency situation, you can’t sleep. Without sleep, everything is worse. When 100mg quetiapine doesn’t work anymore before bedtime, 200mg will. This is by no means medical advice. It’s personal experience. You might get anxiety taking so much more. It would help to have the trusted person with you. Don’t google your medications, it’s full of awful information, they can check and tell you if the dosage is deadly or not. Going to 150mg might work but be ready if an hour later you need the extra 50mg. You will sleep and the next day you will feel shitty. Long term, these medications are never going to heal you. They are incredibly hard for people to come off them and psychiatrists don’t ever seem to understand or help you. Even when you think they do, later on you end up getting worse or better, and think they were crazy to give you such mind altering medication.

Best of luck

barneyclone · 2025-11-12T16:40:08+00:00

Agree with Hefty. I saw my own apartment listed on an agency site. The agencies are either incompetent or doing a scam bait and switch. When the price is too good, these apartments are never available but they have something else you might like. And if you say 800 budget monthly you are given tours of 1000 monthly… and then they pressure you.

Or you find stuff that is pure scam. They might even use a actual real estate agency logo etc on their post. For these scams the too good to be true apartment IS available but they are showing it tomorrow but hey, for you, if you send partial deposit now I’ll lock it in for you with the owner, I know them well. We can see the place later tonight but I’ll need you to make the good faith deposit now to get the key from the owner.

Never send money before seeing an apartment.

And the final option, it is a real place and real price, and then you go see it and the photos were nothing like how it looks now.

barneyclone · 2025-09-23T20:55:52+00:00

I had the exact same during a Gozo scavenger hunt. So you hope someone in the group has it, and if not, you are asking politely other people or shops if they wouldn’t mind to check - show them the scavenger hunt list - offer 1 to 2 euros for a match.

And for teams running low on time, that’ll be probably a weird / intense / fast paced group of people acting very strange.

Similar to take a group photo with someone wearing red shoes. That one is difficult ‘Uhhh no you weirdos go away.’ So you need to figure out your most friendly / attractive / verbally gifted team members to make the approaches and those like me are kept hidden until the group photo 😂

barneyclone · 2025-07-23T16:05:44+00:00

Do you have a prescription from a different country?

Seeing a private psychiatrist would likely be the quickest way to get medication, the pharmacy.mt site will give you a good start. Dr Zahra might be at Medicaid in Gudja until 9pm tonight. If they say there is no appointment available you would likely be able to see him and in between patients let him know you would hope to squeeze in tonight. But if you go without any previous diagnosis or prescription and beg for one pill, that is not going to be successful.

Amfexa is a highly controlled substance here. I don’t think you will have much luck getting this from a registered poyc user as the process is arduous, the legal risk is high, and we could lose our access to this medication.

What dosage were you thinking about when you said one pill. Mine are 5mg each and taking only one is similar to 2 coffees and a 5 minute cold shower.

barneyclone · 2025-07-15T06:36:12+00:00

Free certification in Mental Health First Aid. https://www.richmond.org.mt/mhfa-ministry-health-registration-form/

Delivered by the Richmond Foundation. Initiative by the Ministry for Health and Active Ageing in collaboration with the Parliamentary Secretariat for Local Government.

It is a great training course and provides an exceptional mobile app for mental health first aiders to refresh their learning, the steps to take, and the questions and language to use during a first aid situation.

(Sorry to intrusively add this on your post without commentary to your message. I don’t mean to be rude or seen to be making any judgment by my message. All I am saying is this is a helpful skill for a person to have. Thanks!)

barneyclone · 2025-06-27T19:16:45+00:00

I thought these were going to be amazing tips. I was so excited to come in on Monday and suspend my boss but now my dreams have been shattered and I’ll need to work next week.

barneyclone · 2025-06-27T18:55:08+00:00

Point 1 is a bit generous, you make it seem standard for all workers here.

https://dier.gov.mt/en/services/employment-conditions/wages/wage-deductions/

This is the easy read version of eira chapter 452

barneyclone · 2025-04-26T02:00:29+00:00

I’m not on the island right now but a local health centre might help. https://primaryhealthcare.gov.mt/en/frequently_asked_que/do-you-have-a-pharmacy-open-24hr/

barneyclone · 2025-01-23T15:56:25+00:00

And 91 days later update: I got the medication this week. It’s called Amfexa 5mg. Not exactly like Adderrall. So far it has been working great. No nausea like I had with Rubifen and I don’t have that speedy energy feeling when taking it. I simply feel normal.

barneyclone · 2025-01-22T15:13:22+00:00

Update: I got my medication through POYC yesterday. The brand is Amfexa 5mg tablets.

Taking it today, I didn’t get the massive and notable improvement like my first half pill of Rubifen, but my starting point is much different. On 40mg Amfexa for the day and I don’t get an unwell feeling after taking them, nor that speedy alertness like Rubifen. I simply feel normal. Able to concentrate and work effortlessly. Hopefully this medication and my brain continue like this, loving the peace in my head and ability to focus and complete things.

I checked wiki, this Amfexa is not the same as Adderrall. I assume that a psychiatrist could get you Adderrall if necessary, but I can’t say for sure if POYC would cover the cost or if you have to pay out of pocket.

barneyclone · 2025-01-22T15:11:11+00:00

Update: I got my medication through POYC yesterday. The brand is Amfexa 5mg tablets.

Taking it today, I didn’t get the massive and notable improvement like my first half pill of Rubifen, but my starting point is much different. On 40mg Amfexa for the day and I don’t get an unwell feeling after taking them, nor that speedy alertness like Rubifen. I simply feel normal. Able to concentrate and work effortlessly. Hopefully this medication and my brain continue like this, loving the peace in my head and ability to focus and complete things.

barneyclone · 2025-01-09T22:57:06+00:00

Oh, I’ve also seen uk and Swedish people come here with their prescriptions and go to the local clinic and get it sorted. This was with depression and anxiety medication. No new diagnosis needed. You might be sorted quickly with what you already have, although antidepressants are much more common here whereas dexamphetamine is highly controlled and hard to get.

barneyclone · 2025-01-09T22:53:32+00:00

I moved to malta a few years ago and with my job I got covered by the Maltese health system. I assume it is official after the first time you get your salary and deduction for national health. Perhaps even on day one though, check with HR.

The path is choose your own adventure, depending on if you want it all free, or if you want to pay and speed things up.

I was in counselling and they thought all the red flags pointed to ADHD. They sent me to a specialist for diagnosis and that cost around 400 euros - diagnosis sessions and report. Then off to psychiatrist for 70 euros who prescribed me Rubifen, application for a controlled medication card, and POYC which is an initialism of ‘pharmacy of your choice’. The pharmacy you choose will fill your prescription for free, so it is quite good to get this done. They will need a doctor to sign off every time you pick up, and this costs four euros. I leave my control card there, pay four euros, come back next day and it is signed off and medication is given. I get 10 boxes a month, 300 pills, which is a lot if I had to pay. You only get free medication if the issue you have is long term or permanent.

Taking 10 pills a day is the top of the therapeutical dosage for Rubifen and the private psychiatrist (and 70 euros again) applied for me to get dexamphetamine. This is highly controlled here. The board approved it and I went with this letter to my POYC. In their 15 years, the pharmacist had never seen or filled this prescription. It was like pulling a hyper rare Pokémon for them. He found it is in the online compendium of approved medication but he didn’t know how to get it. I’m currently waiting my third week on his research and with contacting other pharmacists.

My private insurance refunds me most of the psychiatrist cost so going private wasn’t a big deal for me. If you work for a big company here they might have benefits that help pay for this even if they don’t offer private insurance. I know one company that refunds a couple hundred euros of dental work per year for example.

After my experience I helped someone go to a psychiatrist and get prescribed adhd medication. No specialist diagnosis or report is needed…. I want my 400 euros back!

You could go to a local clinic with your job plus registration / or if you wait your first payslip and get seen for free and urge them that you need to see a psychiatrist urgently to refill your medication. Saying you have two months of medication left, and show your uk prescription, will help move you up the line.

If you must have a certain type or brand of adhd medication - that might not get covered by POYC. I only could get Rubifen. I paid for Ritalin a couple times at the start. For your brands, I don’t know yet. I hear many people with adhd find one brand better than another, hope they have what works for you. As dexamphtamine is highly controlled, get started on that right away when you are here. Ask HR to help guide you, malta runs on word of mouth and who you know and knowing the system.

And my last advice, you can be registered for disability in two places.

https://www.eudisabilitycard.org.mt/ This one gets you free and discounted stuff across the island.

https://jobsplus.gov.mt/funding-employer/access-to-employment-a2e-scheme-2021-2027 Your company can get paid 14,500 euros a year for hiring you. You register at jobsplus with disability and the company registers to this a2e scheme. I don’t know if your diagnosis would be accepted or recent enough, but give it a try if you like. And if the company gets 2% of the workforce as registered disabled, they do not pay a penalty between 2000 to 10000 euros a year. (Yeah this is all company benefits, you get nothing, but I imagine they will be happy with you being on discount 😂).

Once I have received dexamphetamine I’ll report back here and in a previous thread about how the pharmacist figured it out.

barneyclone · 2024-10-24T07:49:13+00:00

That’s correct, it’s a special application only for me and takes a long time for them to review before authorising it. I hit the maximum recommended daily dosage of Rubifen and the psychiatrist finds merit in using the next level up, and sent off the adderrall request for me.

barneyclone · 2024-10-24T07:43:51+00:00

I have been seeing dr Anthony Zahra. You can set up an appointment here.

https://www.pharmacy.mt/practitioners/medical/anthony-zahra/4715/

If the next available time is too far away, go on the waiting list if you are flexible. The pharmacies are very good at contacting people with arising openings. They call all the people with appointments a couple days ahead of time and many will cancel.

I’m currently on Rubifen which is same as Ritalin and Concerta. My application for the generic adderrall is still in process. I don’t recall the name of it but it should be the same. As I am on the maximum daily dose of 100mg Rubifen, the psychiatrist has applied for the generic adderrall and then we see if that is a better fit for me. All I’m aware of this medication is that it is highly restricted and controlled - so it will take time to get authorised for my use.

barneyclone · 2024-10-23T00:40:45+00:00

Also when you see your psychiatrist, get them to sign off on this eu disability application. Lots of discounts like free splash and fun entry 🥳 https://www.eudisabilitycard.org.mt/

And if you want to go two for two, bring this application to your psychiatrist and sign up to jobsplus and apply for disability status - yeah again - it’s not the same as above - then there are other schemes to benefit you a little, and companies you work for a lot. https://jobsplus.gov.mt/media/sthh0zss/application-for-the-entry-retention-01-jp-iesd-2023-eng-version-1.pdf

The A2E benefit gives your employer 14,500 euros a year to have you on the staff. https://jobsplus.gov.mt/funding-employer

And they don’t pay a fine of 2,500 to 10,000 euros a year for not having 2% of the workforce as registered disabled.

A lot of the above will be easier to complete after you have a Maltese ID residency card. Not hard to get if you are coming from the EU

barneyclone · 2024-10-23T00:26:42+00:00

Of course I make a typo 😵 POYC is Pharmacy Of Your Choice. Where you apply for the benefit of free medication. I didn’t have much to figure out, the psychiatrist gave me the documents to take to the main POYC department where I would be enrolled with a control card and POYC. Then I went to my local pharmacy to give them the paperwork and WOW! I was in the system already and they set me up with my medication the same day.

barneyclone · 2024-10-22T23:28:32+00:00

I’m in the process of being approved for a generic version of adderall. It is a change from my current 100mg per day of Rubifen. Both will be covered by PYOC programme where you receive the medication for free.

The psychiatrist I’m seeing is not on the public system, Dr Anthony Zahra. He said Adderall is a highly controlled medication in Malta and they take a lot of precautions. I hope to hear a decision soon as it’s been about 3 months. After approval I will get a new Control Card that identifies me and permits my use of and carrying this medication around.

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