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I always offer something as I believe they are a guest in my home. After all, I invited them. Doesn't matter that they are getting paid, they are still there at my request.
I'm a military spouse and we move every couple of years. Every move we have done, I have bought lunch for the removalists, snacks and drinks. We are not paying for their time as Dpt of Defence pay them but they are doing a lot of hard work on our behalf. They are always very appreciative and a couple of times we have called the companies involved to compliment them on their workers and the receptionist always seems to know who we are.
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When it is a quick job or Defence Housing have told us that whichever trade we need as an emergency (Was the plumber recently) was booked out for a few days I don't offer because I know they have another job to get to. Generally I prefer to leave the tradies to it, but they are most welcome to ask for a drink if they need one. When our removallists were here a couple of weeks ago one asked if I was going to maccas for lunch and when I said yes, asked if I would pick up his luncch while I was there, which wasn't a problem.
However I do like to think of the fact that the tradies are not costing me anything, they are costing the government though, and we all know we would rather tax was going to some other things rather than the tradies at my house having a 15 minute break at the end of an hour and a half job.
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i do offer a cuppa and a bikkie when we have tradies at our place. i grew up with my dads friends as tradies and it was just one of those things that i see as a "done" thing. we had PVC blinds put up 12 months ago and all up it took 2 hours after an hour i took out coffee and teddy bikkies to the blokes. it was cold and wet and i felt sorry for the poor fellas!
if they're paid by the hour i still do this. we had an sparky come around and i made him sit down and have lunch, we may be paying them but i guess i feel bad to have some one in my house and not offer them anything. even a cold drink!
