Re: How to deal with incompetent plumbers and payment


<louisa.king@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Just Another M.I.5 7/8 Fan wrote:
The Todal wrote:

My roof needs fixing. I suppose your advice to me would be, fix it
myself.
However, some of us would rather pay someone to do jobs that involve
time,
trouble and getting dirty.

Euphemism for a lazy ***?

Mmm, see my other post regarding the practicalities of sourcing the
part, but also - I don't have the time available to spend several
hours/day(s) with my boiler in various states of repair (or lack of).
I'm working 6-7 days a week currently with a demanding job due to
temporary staffing levels as well as working/studying techie stuff for
the job in the evenings. I don't call that lazy.

If I pay someone to provide a service, I do expect them to provide that
service. Right now, my time costs more than paying for what should
have been a simple and quick repair.

I don't need to justify my ability to DIY stuff but I will - I've had
cars in bits (and back together again), laid floors, done electrical
wiring, repointed brickwork, fitted roomstats, cut glass to size,
insulated a loft (and not using that sealed blanket stuff either, rolls
of bare glassfibre stuff), run internal phone extensions/network
cabling - and I'm a networks engineer, I'm fully used to the technical
and hard graft side of things (I don't just sit at a desk poncing about
with a keyboard all day) so I can read a flowchart/follow a circuit
diagram etc.

But when I lack the time to do it, I do what thousands of other people
do, and pay someone else to do it for me. That doesn't (and never has)
give the people doing the work carte blanche to extort money for shoddy
work.

And apart from your DIY skills, you write a bloody good letter of complaint.
Better than many a lawyer, so that's another DIY skill under your belt :)


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