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I am never abusive. I may be curt and to the point and often humorous but never abusive.
Get off your high horse and lighten up.
Get off your high horse and lighten up.
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Every Sunday night and only Sunday night, I've asked for an extension tonight, from 10.00 to 10.30 feeling a bit more fruity than normal........
If they ask. It's their scrap until they allow me to take it.Do you tell the customer that your going to scrap copper in?
No because the cost of petrol doesn't cover the time taken to spec the materials, the knowledge i've built up of what's suitable/most cost effective, the effect supplying the materials has on my cashflow, the fact that the price I pay is the product of years of built up discount or the guarantee I extend to the materials I supply.Do you charge customer the same for materials as you get them for and put petrol on bill instead?
Why on earth would I do that? If I were to be given a free boiler it's a perk from putting years worth of business though a single supplier. What claim does a new customer have on that?Do you tell the customer that the boiler your installing is free because you have bought so many boilers from them that you get one free?
Do you tell the customer that your going to scrap copper in?
Do you charge customer the same for materials as you get them for and put petrol on bill instead?
Do you tell the customer that the boiler your installing is free because you have bought so many boilers from them that you get one free?
Anyway lets lighten things up, did you manage to sell your van jase?
I'm sure it was you who had the van for sale?
I am never abusive. I may be curt and to the point and often humorous but never abusive.
Get off your high horse and lighten up.
Yes his van and business (although I'm not sure how you sell a one man band business)but not knocking
It worth a try
You think people are rude asking another member if he would steal £2k if he saw it on a table or whatever you think that's not rude lol wise up jase
FYI Jase
I have worked with 100's of tradesmen from every part of the building trade over more years than you have lived and i have yeat to meet or even hear of 1 who would pocket as much as a 10p found in anyone's house. Not because they are all 100% honest people, in fact some were among the biggest rouges i have ever met.
Figure that one out.
You have a lot to learn about how genuine tradesmen operate.
Btw you are starting to be abusive now.
We have also learnt that the squirrel is onto more than 2 shakes and a shudder.....self edited incase jase take offence:lol:
When a poster asks for free advice from a tradesman, effectively costing themselves or another plumber a paying gig, they should be a little humble and appreciative of the fact that we do it and in our free time. As it happens the OP saw the sense in getting a plumber in but I don't think anyone was particularly rude. If you have such delicate sensibilities then a job in this industry is probably not a good fit.
Some of us work 7.30am till 9pm trying to navigate the minefield that is penny pinching, deceitful "customers", merchants trying it on, quoting for free for jobs you don't get because the customer always goes with the cheapest, being robbed at the petrol pump and so on and so on.
Giving advice for free is something we do out of kindness, is not an obligation.
Sorry if you take offence to this but you won't make it as a plumber being so soft. If you are serious about being a plumber start looking at this as your industry too. It's a business, not a public service.
If you can't grasp this then you'll never make it in any walk of life. My mortgage being paid relies on people paying me for my knowledge and expertise. With the free distribution of information afforded by the internet my (and your) pool of work is shrinking.
Not knowing how to do something is no longer and obstacle for the diyer. Now our customers consist of those too busy, too lazy and physically incapable of doing the work.
Our knowledge allows me to cloth and feed my children. That being said I will still give someone a little advice if asked. You think that person shouldn't show some appreciation? Wow.
I don't know why you're making out the members with access to the plumber's arms are some kind of arrogant, elitist bully because they're not. They're just professional plumbers.
You can't swear on the forum but you can be direct and honest with someone. Whether they have a tantrum or not is another matter.
Plumbing is and always has been a business, I take it seriously as all plumbers should. I'll help another plumber if, and only if, his customer base doesn't overlap with mine. Likewise i'll see a member of the public pay another hard working plumber to do a job before I hold their hand through it and no-one gets paid.
If it's a hobby for you then great, just don't preach to the people who are walking the walk. It's a bloody hard game and i'm not in it for fun, social consciense be damned.
As for your last post, all I can say is you display an absolutely shocking naivety which will evaporate in the first year of trading if you manage to make it that far. I just hope you don't have a family relying on you to make a living out of being a tradesman because they'll starve.
Personally speaking when I'm alone in a customers house doing the bathroom while everyone's at work/school I'm completely trustworthy and just stay in the bathroom all day. The thought of snooping through bedrooms and drawers repulses me let alone steal anything.
I mean they must thrust us otherwise we wouldn't be there alone?
I'm sure only the lowest of the low of even the cowboys would even consider it?
Personally speaking when I'm alone in a customers house doing the bathroom while everyone's at work/school I'm completely trustworthy and just stay in the bathroom all day. The thought of snooping through bedrooms and drawers repulses me let alone steal anything.
I mean they must thrust us otherwise we wouldn't be there alone?
I'm sure only the lowest of the low of even the cowboys would even consider it?
sounds like an air lock.if you have hot water in the bathroom and a mixer tap place your hand over the spout open the handle in the mid position and hold it for 5-10 mins. this will force the air out if the toilet dosent start filling while doing this the valve is broken and will need changing first. Also very important water will be hot if cylinder is up to temp. so worth letting it cool down first.
Light has broken and the mind rewinds.
Will these people change just because I have shown my disgust at their behaviour, NO
Will this make any difference to these peoples behaviour on this Forum? NO
Will I make any friends from it? probably not.
Was It worth It? Definetly not.
Oh well, back to putting food on the table and paying bills.
its worked for me in the past just trying to helpIt's an air lock in the cold. Using hot water at the same pressure will have no help
its worked for me in the past just trying to help
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