Funnily enough, that's EXACTLY how I imagine Chris.
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The new kitchen
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Funnily enough, that's EXACTLY how I imagine Chris.
Heard waterstones are waiting to sell out Harry's book before they unleash this years bestseller.
scratchnsurf
Player Valuation: £40m
I'm with you here. Had our kitchen done recently - a few hiccups but nothing major. Guy who deconstructed the aga (was in the house when we moved in) thought it would be a good idea to leave the gas supply pipe sticking through the plinth after he'd capped it, cos obviously we wanted 3 inches of copper pipe sticking out at ankle height. Needed it sorted before the new units went in so had to try someone else.
Managed to get the GasSafe guy whose house backs onto ours to come and do it (he'd ignored my calls and emails about the Aga, despite advertising as an Aga specialist). Again, I was at work. Mother in law estimated he was in the house about 20 minutes. Job done. Next day at work, panicked messages from Mother in Law, boiler not working so no heating, no hot water. Before I can get back to investigate, she phones the guy from the previous day who comes round. Boiler not firing up due to low pressure in the system. Again in the house less than 10 minutes. Eighty sodding quid plus VAT for less than half an hours work at a job literally 2 minutes from his house.
Rita_Poon
Player Valuation: £90m
Why do a job right when you can get paid again for fixing the mess you've made. It's called cutting throats. Write him up on the internet, point out he is one money hungry half assed dawdler always wanting cash payment.
Get friends with a proper plumber.
scratchnsurf
Player Valuation: £40m
To be fair to him, he didn't cause the issue with the boiler but how you can justify that cost - no materials, no transport costs, less than half an hours work. The other guy - dismantling an aga is a messy job and he disposed of all the mess and no problem with the price but why he didn't cut the supply pipe back, god only knows.
Rita_Poon
Player Valuation: £90m
Cos he know's your mate round the corner, and he'll cop a return favour somewhere down the line?
chrismpw
Player Valuation: £70m
Profuse apologies from the bloke who owns the firm - and he's putting it right as a priority.
So early this morning the same two lads turn up with a 3rd in tow. I don't know why so many are needed .... they walk around as a unit mumbling to one another, two watching while one does the work. Occasionally one will fetch a tool. Progress is slow. Then the senior engineer appears to fit an extra bracket where I suggested it should have been in the first place. So now there are 4 men here doing one job, each of them traipsing in and out if the house .... and none of them know how to shut a fricking door behind them.
The interior trim has been reset tidier but they've left now and have not sanded the filler smooth. Also the wall has black marks all over it and will require repainting. Excellent- that's further leverage when I negotiate a hefty discount on the fee.
Still. Done now. For now.
So early this morning the same two lads turn up with a 3rd in tow. I don't know why so many are needed .... they walk around as a unit mumbling to one another, two watching while one does the work. Occasionally one will fetch a tool. Progress is slow. Then the senior engineer appears to fit an extra bracket where I suggested it should have been in the first place. So now there are 4 men here doing one job, each of them traipsing in and out if the house .... and none of them know how to shut a fricking door behind them.
The interior trim has been reset tidier but they've left now and have not sanded the filler smooth. Also the wall has black marks all over it and will require repainting. Excellent- that's further leverage when I negotiate a hefty discount on the fee.
Still. Done now. For now.
chrismpw
Player Valuation: £70m
And now back to the SIM.
Accepted what I described as a derisory fee of £40 from Three for the hassle they created just to end the saga and immediately got mt PAC code and cancelled the dd.
Two days ago I registered with a new provider and got the new sim overnight. Excellent.
Today I get an email asking me to log into their app and set up a PIN. I try, but get a message telling me that since my account closed more than 6 months ago I need to contact them.
What???
Another long story short - I tell the rep that no, I'm not going to create a new email address just so I can log jnto their system, faff around and change it. Its a problem with THEIR system and I'm not employed to fix it. Let me know when it's remedied.
Like I said- why am I going to need their app? So long as they provide good service and take my money I'm grand. As soon as there's a problem with that I cancel the dd and go elsewhere. Its simpler than using her customer service.
State of this country ffs!
Accepted what I described as a derisory fee of £40 from Three for the hassle they created just to end the saga and immediately got mt PAC code and cancelled the dd.
Two days ago I registered with a new provider and got the new sim overnight. Excellent.
Today I get an email asking me to log into their app and set up a PIN. I try, but get a message telling me that since my account closed more than 6 months ago I need to contact them.
What???
Another long story short - I tell the rep that no, I'm not going to create a new email address just so I can log jnto their system, faff around and change it. Its a problem with THEIR system and I'm not employed to fix it. Let me know when it's remedied.
Like I said- why am I going to need their app? So long as they provide good service and take my money I'm grand. As soon as there's a problem with that I cancel the dd and go elsewhere. Its simpler than using her customer service.
State of this country ffs!
Rita_Poon
Player Valuation: £90m
sniff*, our little boy has grown up, and now he's coughing up fighting talk all of his own. Sunrise, sunset, sunrise, sunset...the cats in the cradle and the silver spoon....
chrismpw
Player Valuation: £70m
I'm a peace loving man who lives to avoid trouble ... but when I'm pressed and there's a fight to be had I aim to win it.
I dont think 2 makes a trend, but I wouldn't bet against - it it's the same by me in Brisbane.
Contacted 6
3 got back
1 actually turned up...and as it wasn't straight forward, aka, money for jam, easy peasy, quoted an outrageous price*
Then when we reluctantly accepted it said he couldn't do it due to, blah,blah blah blah.
* it was an 'elective surgery' type job, the sort that...well it would be nice to have but not a deal breaker, we later found out that the supposed/promised benefits were pie in the sky
But the principle still applies
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It just occurred to me that you're the sort of bolshie bugger that The Chairman would do an Alan Stubbs on.
Well done that man!
chrismpw
Player Valuation: £70m
Went to the boat this weekend. Its been stranded just outside Stratford for a week due to the Avon flooding and then another week as the canal froze over. Largely defrosted by today but still about a mile of icebreaking was required before stopping at Shakespeare 's birth town for a bag of chips and then through and onto the Avon for a short stretch before entering the marina.
Its done! At last! Now I can relax.*
And get on with the kitchen.
*left the female there for work - came back home thanks to a lift with her dad. Now for an evening of loud music!!!
Its done! At last! Now I can relax.*
And get on with the kitchen.
*left the female there for work - came back home thanks to a lift with her dad. Now for an evening of loud music!!!
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