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I'm given the day off when it's decorating... She absolutely loves it... All I do is move the ladder!!!It's decorating i loath !
These guys are supposed to be "professionals", but in one experience they should not be allowed anywhere near plumbing fixture. Moen, the fixture manufacturer should not be making faucets either. The spray head returns to stream every time you use it.
You're not the only one who has seen that problem and it's not just plumbers who fit the description either.
To be honest the majority of service and repair work I have done in my life has been going in and fixing what the 'professionals' did wrong or could not solve themselves despite their 'years of experience' and 'certified training'.
To be honest I have come to loath general contractors with a passion now. Plumbing, HVAC, Electrical, construction, you name it. The vast majority are grossly over paid idiots working for grossly incompetent greedy scumbags now if they themselves aren't that on their own.
This week I learned of their latest and greatest money making screw the customer scam they have now. 'Liability fee' which basically is that they give you a up front ******** story about how how expensive their liability insurance is and how it limits them from doing anything but for a fee they will do the work anyway.
The going rate on their 'liability fee' now is $100 every time they show up (and they will not show up if you don't agree to it) and that's on top of their already $100 fee just for showing up and there 1 hour minimum billable charge regardless of whether they are on site for a minute or a full hour even if they don't actually fix or do what they're hired to do anyway.
On top of that being you paid them the liability fee they are absolved of all wrongdoing and any resulting damage regardelss of how badly they do their job. You paid them and thusly contractually agreed that they hold zero liability for anything they do event its deadly wrong in the end. So basically they show up and even if you tell them to go screw themselves your still out for the $100 show up charge, $100 liability fee and the $100- $200 an hour one hour minimum charge rate.
That right there nets them a $350 - $400 charge to you even if they either don't do crap while there, or you told them to get lost for showing up late, and going by what I have seen and heard showing up late and doing crap work, so you have to call them back again, is the general operational procedure.
Now let me guess, these guys mostly change tyres and exhaust pipes "Kwik" ...ly.so I went to one of the big discount motor repairers.
....... So he proclaimed that the exhaust was the problem and needed to be replaced.
Anywho!! The electrician promptly fitted the meter and tested his work..
Electricians don't replace meters - it's done by minimally trained staff after a short training course.
Same applies to Gas meter replacements, the people who come to do it work for a third party company, and aren't plumbers or even Gas Safe registered.
They've been trying to replace my gas meter for many years now, and not managed it yet
First guy who came, took hours to find us (but didn't bother ringing the phone number he had), he then looked at the meter and said "it's an old one" - so I said "yes, that's why it's been replaced". "But it's not metric he said, so it needs an adaptor" - "so fit an adaptor" I said. He then informed me that they don't carry them, as the gas company won't pay for the adaptors - and he would have to report back, and someone else would come out with an adaptor at a later date.
At a MUCH later date, another guy came out, with exactly the same result as before
A while after this date we had new heating fitted, which included a new pipe to connect to the gas meter - when they eventually came out again (with adaptor this time) they couldn't do the job because the meter is free-standing, and they aren't allowed to fit free-standing meters - and he couldn't fit it on the wall as the new gas pipe is in the way (and as he's not a plumber, or qualified in any way, he couldn't move the pipe).
I'm not sure when this all started, but I suspect it was last century
I'm hoping that as meters age they start to read low
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