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Cumbria Handyma
What is the weirdest job you have ever been called out to. I was called out yesterday to remove a spider from a bath.
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to repair a boiler and give written quote that boiler repair will not cost more then £100.00+vat
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benjibilly
Out of interest, did you go? and if so how much did you charge?
What do you think ?
my mate had a 3 am call asking if he would give them a quote to change a bath
Mine could well be tomorrow morning - a bricky called me earlier panicking because he's fitted some new rads or something and is begging me to fix it before the homeowners return. I'll have the camera phone ready just in case.
Strangest call out to date for me though was to get someone's ladder back down from their roof. He'd let a roofer use his set as a cat ladder but he left them up there before packing his own away and going home.
Strangest call out to date for me though was to get someone's ladder back down from their roof. He'd let a roofer use his set as a cat ladder but he left them up there before packing his own away and going home.
Had a Saturday morning call out to get someone's bath plug out for them! That's up there with my weirdest
Reminds me, looked at a slow draining sink in sheltered accommodation where two fellas lived together and found a digestive wrapper and fully intact scourer sponge in the plug hole. They both denied any knowledge of how they must have got in there.
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vern
Faulty Vokera, only it wasn't strangely working perfect, and un be known to me only 3 days old.........his wife hated the size and the "look" of it, could I quote for a new boiler whilst I was there.....
they got a call out charge alright lol
I once serviced a boiler and took the cover off and a gay pron magazine fell off the top.
Both of the male "friends" that lived there denied all knowledge that it was theirs.
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kay-jay
Bet you took it home as it wasn't claimed....
Pahahahaha busted!
You still got it? I'll swap you for a 'Sumo Sue & The Fat Chicks' DVD.
Get used to weird calls stan mate. I worked in Kettering/Northampton for 1 year for BG and met some of the strangest people going. Had some weird call outs and nonsense calls. Made earning money easy though 🙂
I have not had any business here yet
had one from my aunt and uncle few months ago got back from their hols and phoned me saying heating not working .I turn up and first thing i see no power to boiler switched it on and it worked fine .
Uncle just looked at me and said suppose it helps if i turn it on lol
Uncle just looked at me and said suppose it helps if i turn it on lol
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R1CKY
Got called to retrieve an old fella glass eye from the basin trap!
My mate got called out late at night to remove a cat from a chimney!
My mate got called out late at night to remove a cat from a chimney!
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Whyme
when i was doin the social housing circ got a call saying "every now and then my fire makes a low buz like humming noise" the lady had left her pager (bet the younguns dont remember those) on top of the fire. it was behind an ornament and kept vibrating...social housings the best for stories i'll try and remember a few
I did my apprenticeship on social housing and working in it for 4 years and would hate to go back to it now.
I work in the private houses now and love it. Housing association work makes me cringe looking back now. I reckon atleast 95% of tenants live in squalor and 100% want a new boiler.
I used to be on call out for 7 days every 5 weeks and I hated it, the amount of calls we went to where it was made out to be worse or a tenant had lied was unreal. We used to get between 30-50 calls a week on call and I reckon only about 4 maybe 5 where actually emergencies. Makes me sick :-(
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Whyme
social housing puts hair on yer chest, id recommend all new lads to have a stint working in it just so they can see everything else is better and stop moaning...
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RPG 80
do quite a lot on social housing, changing tap inserts because it dripped last Shrove Tuesday just to keep the tenant happy
Whenever I'm at work now and I hear a direct bloke having a moan, I tell them, to work in social housing for a week and you'll be begging to come back 🙂
Im a stubborn git with people like this though, I wouldn't do it. If anything in close the tap so tight that they couldn't turn it back on 🙂
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RPG 80
some older people have a lot of time on their hands and if they think their taps dripping, its up there with breathing oxygen on their priories, id rather change the insert and get paid than get a call back two days later on the same work order.
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mountainman
I don't mind social housing TBH, after thirty odd years in that sector I could only pinpoint a handful of scumbags.
I've come across many more patronising idiots with less humanity in the private sector.
I've come across many more patronising idiots with less humanity in the private sector.
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Whyme
i hate it. i was only doing it for five years on the local council and saw kids playing with needles, rats under baths, having to work with a council escort cos the people your dealing with have done terrible things . drugs, scum and filth. thats only my midlands experiance though...Is there a therapy thread lol.
HA are all the same every where ..... I love the HA work , bring me on some and I/WE will smash 5 a week again
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julesverne
went to a house no hot water . got there no water coming out of the taps. thought it might be airlocked. anyway went to look in the CSWC no cover on the top. and saw what looked like a magazine at the bottom.
pulled a copy of Razzle out. it was the teenage sons room.
haha
pulled a copy of Razzle out. it was the teenage sons room.
haha
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negas
recovered a 11 week old kitten from behind a class 2 inset on thursday pulled it out and it ran behind dish washer got paid and left them to fish out
i work on social housing, showers not working (forgot to turn the isolator on , or turned it off thinking it was the light and left it off) ,heating not working ( stat turned down by kids playing about) , radiators ripped off walls, "leaking toilets" because of bad aiming! just to name a few! and the things ive found behind rads ect i couldent mention here!!!
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