Plumbers!!!!!!

[Rockingit]

They really do themselves no favours sometimes!!

Just got back from a call-out, elderly woman, oil burner went out last night and the programmer was dead. So gets a plumber out this morning, has a look and decides it's an electrical issue but 'can't find' the incoming mains (took me about 2 mins to find, helps if you look in the right place...) and said to get a sparky in to sort out the timer.

I arrive, it's all dead, fair enough. Find the fsu buried in the most inaccesible of corner units with a 1" hole for the switch (please can I add kitchen fitters into this rant?) so 30 secs later there's a 4" one instead and I've changed the fuse, don't know if it's gone or not as drops out of the carrier down behind the back of the unit. Fit new one, get meter onto the terminals of the 6 plate, momentary life then dies.

Hmm, thinks me. Remove cover off boiler, disconnect the controller cable and fit a flying lead to a plug - pop goes the RCD. Open the other cover on the boiler to find lots of water everywhere and the pump is knackered in every sense. It's an oil burner sat on the floor with pushfit covers for petes sake, takes seconds to remove and refit, and he hadn't even bothered. He'd also turned his mobile off when I tried to call him to tell him to come back.

 

[DurhamSparky]

probably a 5 day plumber!!!

 

[Rockingit]

Sadly, this is an old timer that is very well known in the area!

 

[topquark]

Sadly, this is an old timer that is very well known in the area!

Was that in reference to the plumber or the programmer ?

 

[trev]

Guys they're only sparks with their brains knocked out so we can't give them too much of a hard time

 

[Specialist]

Reckon every Sparks should have their own Plumber, to keep them in work:tounge_smile:

 

[trev]

Can I have a monkey, they aren't as cheeky as a plumber or an apprentice

 

[Rockingit]

In fairness I do have a good mate that's a very good plumber that I trust 100% and we each recommend the other on a regular basis, but it's when you come across the other ones....

I went out last night and found an old big Halogen heater I had in my garage and took it round to the customer, as the plumber still hadn't even called her back, let alone look like it might get sorted. And it's beeping freezing in this part of Zummerzet at the moment, not the time to be 85+ and have no heating.

 

[Specialist]

In fairness I do have a good mate that's a very good plumber that I trust 100% and we each recommend the other on a regular basis, but it's when you come across the other ones....

I went out last night and found an old big Halogen heater I had in my garage and took it round to the customer, as the plumber still hadn't even called her back, let alone look like it might get sorted. And it's beeping freezing in this part of Zummerzet at the moment, not the time to be 85+ and have no heating.

Can't you give her your mates number to get it done properly ?

 

[ruston]

In fairness I do have a good mate that's a very good plumber that I trust 100% and we each recommend the other on a regular basis, but it's when you come across the other ones....

I've got a mate like that ,super safe and conscientious . Only fault is getting him to turn up.

 

[Rockingit]

Unfortunately he's away this weekend, but the customer has asked me to put the two in touch tomorrow as she now doesn't want the other guy back.

 

[Specialist]

Can't say I blame her for that, by the way nice 1 with the Heater mate. Many would'nt have bothered.

 

[Geordie Spark]

Can I have a monkey, they aren't as cheeky as a plumber or an apprentice

Of course you can trev ............. just keep a close eye on him if you ever do any work in Hartlepool.

 

[Specialist]

Got called to a house this afternoon for a Dead socket, plugged tester in & nothing took front of to see if any loose wires but no not that lucky. Asked the woman if anything has been done lately & she says yes we had a new gas boiler installed, so started looking, turns out the plumber chopped the wiring to her socket to feed the New boiler time clock etc & did'nt bother to mention it. Cable has been chopped under the floor & so close to the ceiling that I cant do anything with it, she had'nt noticed it was'nt working till she went to plug her crimbo lights in. Plumbers ya gotta love em lol.