some people

[hammers4spanner]

Done some heating work about three weeks ago which resulted me putting some cleaner in at the end of the job , explained to cust if they want me back to drain it out its an extra .

Three weeks later get a call to come round to drain the cleaner out but customer insists after seven in evening .

Well turn up after seven last night its a big old system takes me about 90 mins all done 15 odd big rads over three floors. Took a while to heat up and get back going customer all happy until i ask for payment which is all of 40 quid!!!!

She's 'what you mean you want money?' Have i not payed in the last job you done? I think your trying it on !!!

I explain to her that i charge each visit and spent 90 mins doing 'work', also that she was told on last visit it would be another charge to drain also its after 7 pm in eve and £40 is really cheap .

Well i have never seen anyone so annoyed and begrudgingly had over £40 in my life.

I swear to god some people really think our services are pitta or free talk about unappreciated

 

[oz-plumber]

I hope you ran your car key down the side of her car on the way out.

Not that I've ever done that before.

 

[Riley]

I've just had an awesome one bloke wants me to hide pipe in wall that he's just had plastered without damaging it. He said "can't you just thread it through". I despair sometimes.

 

[hammers4spanner]

Thread it through WTF!!!!!

 

[MarkAqua]

I've just had an awesome one bloke wants me to hide pipe in wall that he's just had plastered without damaging it. He said "can't you just thread it through". I despair sometimes.

Can you not then?

Some people, honestly!

 

[Riley]

I did have to choose my words carefully

 

[IDCHAPPY]

Ungrateful cowbag...

 

[cr0ft]

I think you are too cheap. If you price yourself higher you will instantly lose customers like this and attract ones who actually do value your time and effort.

 

[hammers4spanner]

I think you are too cheap. If you price yourself higher you will instantly lose customers like this and attract ones who actually do value your time and effort.

I know was to cheap

 

[rocketmanbkk]

I don't & won't do evening jobs.

I've been offered silly money to do jobs, £5 to do this or that.

Custards are idiots sometimes.

 

[rocketmanbkk]

I've just had an awesome one bloke wants me to hide pipe in wall that he's just had plastered without damaging it. He said "can't you just thread it through". I despair sometimes.

Tell him to phone Paul 'fecking' Daniels.

 

[TFGplumbing]

I think you are too cheap. If you price yourself higher you will instantly lose customers like this and attract ones who actually do value your time and effort.

Very True That

 

[Leo21]

Lesson learnt, be clear and repeat. And don't do jobs after 5 let alone 7!

 

[stevetheplumber]

i went to a job the otherday move a toilet aprox 1 m along the wall, wasnt difficultas as it was fed from the sside anyway so metre of 4 inch coupling new bent pan con bit of 15mm i said 120 guy said i was thinking about 30 quid i said bye

 

[Leo21]

i went to a job the otherday move a toilet aprox 1 m along the wall, wasnt difficultas as it was fed from the sside anyway so metre of 4 inch coupling new bent pan con bit of 15mm i said 120 guy said i was thinking about 30 quid i said bye

And people wonder why I don't want to quote in the evenings.

 

[Riley]

Had one today, went to quote for a boiler replacement. First question she asked was are you cheap to which I always quip that I'm reassuringly expensive. She then said oh I'm ️looking for a cheap job but could I give her a quote anyway. Don't think I'll bother somehow!

 

[cr0ft]

And the good British public wanders why cowboy builders do so well!

 

[Rickster123]

Glad I'm employed these days! Don't miss all that grief.

 

[hammers4spanner]

Glad I'm employed these days! Don't miss all that grief.

Its the amount of deductions from the pay packet that puts me off from employment

 

[Rickster123]

Its the amount of deductions from the pay packet that puts me off from employment

And the harder you work the more you pay. I try not to think about it.