Dirty

[helpsy]

I'm interested to hear your tales of jobs you turned up at that the person or place was in a bad way.
I returned to a job to do more work ( why did I give him my card!) another time and stuffed Vicks up both my nostrils knelt down and the bathroom floor was squelching in...yes you've guessed it. The owner saw me constantly sniffing( the Vicks was burning like hell) and said have you got a cold! Yeah something like that !
Another job called out to, bloke answered the door with his breakfast down his top, pair of dirty Y fronts on lounge floor along with bags of food waste, cig butts overflowing in a fire bucket, holes in carpet where he rubbed his feet, no toilet seat and dark brown bath FULL of magazines. Said I had to go and get tools out of van. Drove off although I did feel bad.

 

[plumber0808]

The ones where you don't put dust sheets down because they might get dirty from underneath.

 

[Leo21]

The ones where you don't put dust sheets down because they might get dirty from underneath.

And they're normally the fussy ones.

 

[AWheating]

The ones where you don't put dust sheets down because they might get dirty from underneath.

these are the one who make a claim for damages to the carpet or washing machine. Like they can see the carpet or have a washing machine.

 

[vern]

Whilst i was a Bg apprentice, they invented and marketed a heating system called "Homewarm" only it did'nt lol, it was aimed at low income familes who really wanted central heating, long before the days of Warmfront, Eaga etc.......... it consisted of a 30,000 BTU wall mounted boiler or Baxi 401 back boiler, with a primatic cylinder, with the 3 port valve & pump on the return, so it did not blow out the air bubble on the cylinder etc, only one header tank too, room rads were usually 600x800 K1's ......long before combi's became the norm!

These systems were dreaded by the installers as a good 80% of the properties were dives.......one that sticks in my mind, altough not one i was on, Biffa went to pull out the sofa, the lounge had a strange smell, he soon discovered why...... their dog had died behind the sofa and been there that long it just melted and matted into the carpet!!!!! custard "is that where it went we thought it had been run over!!"

........Same sort of job, i went to hang a radiator in a bedroom, they were lots of used lady garden towels all over the floor!!!

.......Another went to find mains stopcock under the sink, trap had been leaking so long, it had rotted out the base unit, along with old potatoes etc there were maggots everywhere!

.......One more.....just packing up after 1st day of a 2 day install, discussing moving furniture etc, when custards little un let rip on the potty in the front room, yep you guessed it on our arrival for the 2nd day the aroma was fantastic!

 

[REDSAW]

this is my worst, it was better in here than the rest of the house.
when they called a couple of weeks later for another job, i sent my mate and he has not spoke to me since!! this is the hallway toilet.........

 

[plumber0808]

this is my worst, it was better in here than the rest of the house.
when they called a couple of weeks later for another job, i sent my mate and he has not spoke to me since!!View attachment 13262 this is the hallway toilet.........

That picture just sucks the life out of you. So depressing.

 

[woodsy]

Memories of as an apprentice working for the old fellas company whos work was 50% council house work where some of the houses smelt so badly, even from the outside, that you used to knock so quietly that they didn't hear you and report it as nobody in and hope your mate got it the next time. Worked in several houses where the depth of rubbish within the whole house was up to the level of the sofa cushions with a small 12" track from one room to another. Trouble was, these were the first people to offer you cups of tea etc !

 

[Rickster123]

I used to work in the grubby places when I was on price work. As a company man now on an hourly rate I just refuse them. The trouble is the smell gets into your clothes which you then spread to the van and your own home.

 

[Leo21]

Horrible when there your first job, you smell of it all day. And the your customers may smell it later in the day.