Ever get the feeling customers think your out to rip them off?

[lloyd1980]

ive been there commercially
was in a shop replacing 24 flurecents
i undid the last screw on the last one with my battery drill and water starts to **** out all over the shop floor as in pools of it
im thinking ive nicked a pipe as ive unscrewed the last screw
the last screw was 3 inches long - yes 3 inches!!! god knows what muppet put that up!!
we chipped away the cieling to find that when the lights were put up whoever fitted them with the 3 inch screw had screwed straight through a plastic water pipe sealing it when the screw was in, as soon as i un screwed it psssssssssssssssss all over the shop floor!!!
that sinking feeling was horrible when it happened!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

and I hate the am i being ripped off look!!!
i get it every time i get called to estimate for a cu change and for eg the water or gas isnt earthed and i tell them its a legal requirment so have to do this as well

people as in general public do not have a CLUE

NEVER do work for family or friends

they expect the earth for nothing and take the **** more than paying customers

 

[cbw]

Yep, agreed, 3 days work at a 'mates', total net profit about £70, waited months for payment............

 

[wattsup]

I must add I've dropped a -------...years and years ago rewiring houses for the then YEB on estates in south yorks (must admit worst job I ever had)
Screwing new pendant up in living room, I hear a loud hisssss, then smells gas, **** I thinks...I turn screw another turn, no hiss, undo slightly big hiss. **** I've hit a gas pipe.

Yep lead gas pipe to bedroom gas fire still live (although the gas fire is removed, the pipe just capped off under floor)

YEB tells me I should always b careful when rewiring, err you get ****ed yeb that pipe should not be live...end of yeb career

 

[DurhamSparky]

lol. i quoted for a full rewire, job and alone it was costing me £800 in parts for what the guy wanted .

woul dtake me 4 days i recon plus with a second set of hands so 2x labour i worked out £2250 ball park!!

this was 3 bed Victorian terrace!!

i never got job aparently i was well off the mark and he went with a quote for 1k??? i never asked any questions! goo dluck to mr Validmer or XQerrihikhukyhjhcnjkld ..

 

[lloyd1980]

hands up whos hit a pipe?!!!
we had an aprentice who was a bit too over enthusiastic with a wall chaser and would inevetably cut pipes when you werent in the room or would always seem to put his fut through the plasterboard ceiling!!
or a guy i used to work with we nicknamed greame gaspipe

ive done it on water pipes, when pulling through cable through joists pulling it up and kinked a water pipe psssssssssssssssss

its never intentional but always a pain in the ---

 

[wattsup]

My mate once did a favour for a neigghbour...pull cord in bathroom sticking...just change it, simple no bother...except several years of paint made it difficult to remove the pattress, it needed a tap with a hammer. So no bother, done it...except when all done the hammer falls off the step ladder and cracks the nice new wash basin...ooops

 

[lloyd1980]

hahahahahah ooooohhhhhh

you could just caulk the cracks and scarper

wasnt me guv!!!

 

[DurhamSparky]

except when all done the hammer falls off the step ladder and cracks the nice new wash basin...ooops

INSURANCE!!!!! thank god..!

so far no pipes!!!

 

[wattsup]

Don't think insurance would cover (look at small print) due care and attention....don't trust insurance

 

[5-Week-Wonder]

hands up whos hit a pipe?!!!

Yeah, I've hit a gas pipe. Last screw to fix a bit of trunking and then I was on the home straight. Bloody cowboy builder had built a lean-to extension with gas pipes hidden where they shouldn't be (according to gas engineer who put it right).

Bang goes the profit on that job.