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.

So, all-round smart-arse, then? What's the QUALITY of your all-round
work like, though? Or are you just yet another smart-arse DIY-er who
think they know better than the people who do it all the time?

Not that there AREN'T useless so-called professionals - there are, it's
just that you come across as a smart-arse, is all. Was that your
intention?



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