pet hates?

[Best]

People that you always jump to, that ring you up for a small non urgent job & immediately say that they can get someone else.
People that think you are uneducated because you work with your hands.
People that like to slightly belittle you in front of others when you meet them in shops etc. - "the boiler you serviced 6 months ago has stopped!" etc
People that let dogs annoy you.
People that want to show you how their loft ladder comes down or how the trap door is opened!
People that want to show you to a wee job - while you are anxious to get home.
People - all of them! :smile:

 

[SimonG]

People that you always jump to, that ring you up for a small non urgent job & immediately say that they can get someone else.
People that think you are uneducated because you work with your hands.
People that like to slightly belittle you in front of others when you meet them in shops etc. - "the boiler you serviced 6 months ago has stopped!" etc
People that let dogs annoy you.

I have a feeling you could go on 🙂

 

[Best]

I have a feeling you could go on 🙂

Lol! Spot on! - I have been adding to the list already! :smile:

 

[Mrs Tara Plumbi]

Custs that phone and say 'its so and so, you changed a tap washer for me 8 years ago, remember?' and then cant understand why you cant remember them.

That would be like those who phone up and speak to me, say their name is Steve, Mike or what ever and if I just tell Mr TP he will know who they are. I don't need to take an address or know what it is about Mr TP will just know.
I know he won't, he never does, but I've given up on these self-important people.

BTW
Sorry - I am one of those who leaves all the doors open.
And I don't usually admit it but I am so often banging my head on those un expectedly open doors.

 

[Killy Bing]

That would be like those who phone up and speak to me, say their name is Steve, Mike or what ever and if I just tell Mr TP he will know who they are. I don't need to take an address or know what it is about Mr TP will just know.
I know he won't, he never does, but I've given up on these self-important people.

BTW
Sorry - I am one of those who leaves all the doors open.
And I don't usually admit it but I am so often banging my head on those un expectedly open doors.

Im 5ft 4 but my mum, dad and sister are smaller than me.

one flipping cupboard that they can all walk under but i cant and they just leave it open!

 

[solutions]

Paha, with the new type if they dont work, take the bush out that goes around the spindle, ptfe it and put it back in.
open up the drain off and blow on the other end of the pipe to clear the crap blocking it.

oh and make sure you use a jubilee clip inside!

I think I can visualise this but I would very much like a detailed technical illustration of this procedure.

 

[hammers4spanner]

I hate engineers and custs who ring for a service when it's really a faulty boiler

 

[Best]

I hate engineers and custs who ring for a service when it's really a faulty boiler

That's a good one! And they usually agree the service charge first with you!

 

[AXTENK]

Gate valves and customers who watch over you :mad2:

 

[Ch4 plumbing]

Over filled rooms when you need to lift the floor.
Custards who don't let you park on the drive.
Being called "boy" by custards even though I'm 6,4 16 stone and 32 years old!
being told how to do the job best.

Theres thousands, sometimes I think I'm the problem ha

 

[mfgs]

People who tell you the job is very easy and will only take 5 minutes.
Customers who watch you work all day.
People who sit in the middle lane on the motorway doing 65mph!!!!!!!!!
customers who let your young kinds wonder around unsupervised in my work area, there are open tool boxes ffs!!! keep the kids away.
Ball a fix valves that leak out the middle if you even look at them the wrong way.
getting any concentrate inhibitor on my hands, it takes ages to get rid of the smell.

 

[mfgs]

Just thought of another which really annoys me. Having to dismantle a cupboard to be able to service a boiler, and not being made aware of this when booking the appointment. It ends up adding 15-20 mins on to the job taking it apart and putting it back together.

 

[Ch4 plumbing]

Hunting for the filling loop thats been boxed in in a random place.

 

[Ch4 plumbing]

getting any concentrate inhibitor on my hands, it takes ages to get rid of the smell.

I used to eat tinned mackerel in tomato sauce, that's a smell you don't want on your clothes.

 

[TBServices]

If I started I'd never stop. I could fill a page with pet peeves about bad driving tbh

 

[Toxic Ted]

Lorry drivers on the motorway who take 20 miles to overtake and idiots who make coffee and put the coffee covered spoon back in the sugar.........or stir the tea after the coffee.........AAAAAAAnd weekend cyclists who insist on riding three abreast on a country road where its almost impossible to overtake!!!!!

 

[Ray Stafford]

idiots who make coffee and put the coffee covered spoon back in the sugar.........or stir the tea after the coffee

This should be a capital offence. Instant kangaroo court martial, and if guilty, immediate execution. No appeal.

 

[Ermintrude]

Doing work at home , you can't walk off and when u tell wife that it would be a real help if she took toddler two dogs and numerous cats and she takes them f or 30 seconds. Did I mention I hate tiling .

 

[Mike Jackson]

Cheap tea bags especially when you turn up to a posh gaff with a fancy car in the drive.

Customers that question your hourly rate, if you don't like it employ someone else.

 

[Ray Stafford]

Cheap tea bags

The work of the devil. But not as bad as cheap cheese.

What is the point of cheddar that has so little taste you may as well be an American?