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    Does anybody know of a place that does training on agas

    As above really any body know anywhere that does training on agas? I turn down quite a few and want to start working on them. Aga themselves wont touch you unless you work for one of their companies and I cant see them subbing to me when I have no experience on them.
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    Polyplumb or speedfit

    Which out of these 2 is cheapest. I always thought polyplumb was cheaper but I seem to be paying a fortune for it. I can even buy 15mm elbows cheaper at b&q.
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    What a sh!**y day.

    Started off I slept through my alarm (I haven't done that in about 10 years) My analyser ran out of charge so I plugged it in then forgot to unplug I noticed this after driving from falmouth to newquay which took about an hour. Luckily I just had enough charge to do the 2 services. I found...
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    Checkatrade changing telephone numbers

    Anybody else a member of checkatrade? Have they changed your telephone number? I thought it was odd that the phone calls Had checkatrade said before being able to answer. Am I right in being fuming about this I pay over a grand a year to this lot to advertise MY details and they have changed...
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    Magnaclean pro3

    Anybody fitted one? What's your opinion of it? Not fitted one and wont fit one. Cant see the point if you clean the system prior then why do you need to know how full it is. And then the customer will keep saying it's got x amount in it need cleaning. I cant see how it is going to prevent...
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    Gazebo for external work

    Any body use a gazebo type thing for external work? More thinking of oil installs. I want something fairly hard wearing as it's got to with stand cornish wind and ideally have sides to it.
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    Another bloodsucker to take money off the hardworking trades

    Just had an email off uber trades! We cant even get uber eats down here. Yet another company after our hard earned money for doing nothing
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    Firebird slimline combi

    Never installed one cant fit the grant combi in so thought I would price for a firebird. Are they any good? I'm not a big fan of worcester oil and dont think they are worth the extra £400.
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    Being a loyal customer

    Just recently I've double checked some prices to screwfix only reason is I didnt know baxi did a 600 heat only and when I checked I found they were £50+vat cheaper than plumbase. I went in to plumbase and they matched it. I've just priced a 624 system and vertical flue extensions etc and...
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    Vertical flue through 4 pitched roof

    How do you go about putting a vertical flue up through a roof where you cant get a roof ladder to hook over anything. They have a vertical flue in now and it's on a pitched roof but a side one if you get what I mean. I'm guessing scaffold up then unsure what to do next.
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    Nest with oil combi compatible?

    I wired up a nest with an oil combi and whilst the heating side works fine is the hot water side compatible? It seems to me that it doesnt work with an oil combi so I just turned it off. Am i right or wrong.
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    Gas engineer software glitches

    Anybody else having problems with it? Just tried to convert a quote to invoice as I have loads of times and its deleted everything on the quote! :mad: I've had numerous times I cant open up invoices and it seems to lose things from time to time. Getting pretty fed up with it at the moment.
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    Anybody installed an alpha e-tec

    Got one to fit in a couple of weeks wondered if anybody had fitted one and what they are like to fit?
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    When customers insist they want a quote for a small job

    What do you say to them? I've just had someone that want a radiator installing in an annexe and would like me to go round and give them a price and size the radiator for them to order! I said it's not something I normally go out to to price and you would be looking half a day plus parts. He...
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    Can you fit any pressure reducing valve/ multiblock on unvented.

    Assuming the pressures are the same can I fit a standard pressure reducing valve/ multiblock or do I have to fit manufacturers specific? At the moment i have a grant duowave with a megaflo multiblock but the block is leaking the grant one I can get in a couple of days but I can get a standard...
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    Have worcester spares jumped up in price?

    Following on from the debate about giving customers to worcester for fixed price repairs. Have they upped their parts costs quite dramatically recently? I know I stopped working for myself for a bit so didnt take notice of the spares prices but now the prices seem to have jumped dramatically...
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    Boiler plus on oil question.

    I've been asked to quote for an oil combi which I dont do very often. What do I have to do to comply with boiler plus? Is it just fit a smart programmable stat like a nest? As obviously weather comp doesnt exist for oil does it?
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    What blow torch you using?

    Mines seen better days which isn't bad for about 4 years so instead of just blindly going out and buying a super fire 2 again just seeing what else is available.
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    Anybody recommend a card reader.

    Well as above really anybody use a card reader and recommend one?
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    Is 1k for a website about right?

    I've had a price of someone suggested to me by a friend of a friend to build me a website and he quoted around £1000. I've had a couple of cheaper quotes in the past £600-£800 but this bloke explained it a little bit more and said he wouldnt go with building a basic site from the likes of...

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