Revenge on custards!!!

[vern]

Right been touched on before, and in another thread, So I decided to start another dedicated thread.

What's the best you or a work pal have pulled (or heard about) when you ain't got paid or the custard has been just so unreasonable etc.....

Heres one to start.....

Mark gets called to a boiler breakdown in Tingley, Gloworm Fuelsaver banging pilot won't stay lit due to overheat tripping etc.....quickly works out pump does not sound right but is trying to run, this is on a y plan system, decides to change pump as valves looked good, this done old pump in hand is full of white foam bubbles????? Deffo dead too....tries to bleed a few rads (upstairs all newish, downstairs originals) foam and bubbles come out of vents, so decides to check cold feed ain't blocked close coupled behind pump all pipes present and correct, just before this he checks tank in loft.......holy s*it 2 empty bottles of fairy liquid next to tank.......work it out for yourselves........

Mark gets on to custard who owns the house and is also a landlord with a few properties, informs him system is feked as it is just pumping foam not water lol, turns out he bumped plumber who did rads upstairs and we found out after had not paid him for a few other jobs on his properties!!

It took a mains flush with cold feed and expansion capped 2 days to sort! After first day i told him to add some Karcher anti foaming agent, and flush, needed a new pump again too lol......

think about it though pure genius cheap, evil, and adds salt to system to rot everything, I don't think the plumber had banked on the foam and hassle to landlord lol.

BTW got paid for job no problem....

 

[SimonG]

If it's an oil job and unpaid then it's trip the fire valve when next passing and wait for the call. 'Yes i'll be out later to have a look, and you can pay me for the other job before I start.'

 

[MrMeek]

thats genius, serves the custard right! lol

 

[R1CKY]

Turn off external stop tap and fill the chamber with rapid setting cement.........

 

[vern]

Turn off external stop tap and fill the chamber with rapid setting cement.........

Very evil lol, wonder if the water board would make the custard pay?

 

[Howsie]

Turn off external stop tap and fill the chamber with rapid setting cement.........

Or level up and turn it almost off. 😉

 

[Keefy]

My brother and cousins (joiner, spark and bricky) where doing some work on a big fancy house and had nothing but trouble from the beginning from the homeowner. Changed my mind, that's not right, it shouldn't be that much, take your boots off etc. Not entirely sure what work they'd been doing but it involved among other things a new ceiling full of spot lights which ran the length of the open plan house. On the last day of the job (obviously) my cousin the spark sat down to eat a bacon butty and the homeowner walked in and freaked out screaming at him to get out and started cleaning up and spraying air freshener around the place.

Turns out the fella's a jew and a heated argument and standoff ensues with my cousin telling him to chill out 'it's only a bit of bacon' and 'I don't push my religion on you so don't you push yours on me'. So everyone's standing there trying to calm the situation when the words 'I'm not paying you, get out' instantly produces a menacing silence. Knowing that negotiation wasn't likely to work with this fruitcake my cousin the brickie who was running the job grabbed my brothers big spirit level and rammed it through the ceiling above him and said 'come on let's rip it all down' which they did with hammers, ladders and the good old fashioned foot through the ceiling trick.

The satisfaction they got out of it was better than getting paid because they'd put up with so much from him that it had even been causing tension between one another and they'd been made to feel like naughty kids who should be heard and not seen.

They never ever heard from him again so I think he either decided their actions were justified or he was afraid they might turn up in a JCB next time.

 

[Guest123]

Get 5,000 full colour leaflets printed with a photograph of the customer. A nice big and bold headline "This customer who lives at (insert address) does not pay her bills to an honest tradesmen trying to make a wage", should just about do it.

Otherwise. just blow up her car with your SF2.

 

[Keefy]

Strange that I checked only a few months ago if RogueCustomers.co.uk and RogueCustomers.com were available and some has registered them since. Maybe someone's planning to set up a customer blacklist site for tradesmen?

 

[Guest123]

The only customer I've had payment problems with soon got the message.I turned up at her door wearing my tool belt, fully loaded, with knives, an axe and a claw hammer. Put the s h i t e r s up her I think.

 

[Howsie]

Get 5,000 full colour leaflets printed with a photograph of the customer. A nice big and bold headline "This customer who lives at (insert address) does not pay her bills to an honest tradesmen trying to make a wage", should just about do it.

Great idea but Libellous surely?

 

[vern]

The only customer I've had payment problems with soon got the message.I turned up at her door wearing my tool belt, fully loaded, with knives, an axe and a claw hammer. Put the s h i t e r s up her I think.

LMFAO Colin an axe in the tool belt classic

 

[vern]

Great idea but Libellous surely?

Only libellous if NOT factual

 

[Howsie]

Only libellous if NOT factual

But must be proved right?

 

[Guest123]

Great idea but Libellous surely?

Ah but first they have to prove who got them printed!

 

[Keefy]

The only customer I've had payment problems with soon got the message.I turned up at her door wearing my tool belt, fully loaded, with knives, an axe and a claw hammer. Put the s h i t e r s up her I think.

MAKE MY DAY t-shirt complete with bloodstains together with that rig out and I think anyone would pay up, probably ask you to fit a new bathroom too. :coolgleamA: < And shades.

 

[SimonG]

Strange that I checked only a few months ago if RogueCustomers.co.uk and RogueCustomers.com were available and some has registered them since. Maybe someone's planning to set up a customer blacklist site for tradesmen?

BBC NEWS | England | Sussex | 'Rogue customer' website launched

 

[vern]

But must be proved right?

Fairly easy, here my lord is the receipts for my materials, it took me x time so final cost as per my written quote is x custard has made no complaints ( or I have put right the small snags as applicable) they just don't want to pay me.

 

[AWheating]

I went onto a job for a large builder a few years back. The first sparks on there had fallen out with the builder over money. They had wired/finished about 10 houses before they walked off. Anyway the builder sold and moved people in and with a week had started to get compliants about the electrics sometimes not working. The builder kept sneding people around and finding no problems, but they kept getting compliants about lights not working in the evenings etc..... this went on for weeks.
It turned out the first sparks had wired timers into some of the circuits to cause very slight intermittent faults. The builder had spent a fortune on sending people in to find no faults and snaggs, repairs etc....

 

[vern]

I went onto a job for a large builder a few years back. The first sparks on there had fallen out with the builder over money. They had wired/finished about 10 houses before they walked off. Anyway the builder sold and moved people in and with a week had started to get compliants about the electrics sometimes not working. The builder kept sneding people around and finding no problems, but they kept getting compliants about lights not working in the evenings etc..... this went on for weeks.
It turned out the first sparks had wired timers into some of the circuits to cause very slight intermittent faults. The builder had spent a fortune on sending people in to find no faults and snaggs, repairs etc....

Absolute class!