it has not happened to me yet !, but when working for my old boss, we returned back to his house to pick some parts up out of his garage,his next door neighbours had only gone and got another plumber to refit there bathroom, my boss's face was a picture defo annoyed, i thought it was quite funny but wondered what i would have felt like if it happened to me
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what gets your goat....????
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Kimou
Coffee granules in the sugar. Usually in places where there's a lot of mouse traps around. Strange coincidence that :skep:
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gaspastemania
Plumbing gets my goat especially anything bathroom related e'g shower screens !!!
Next doors Lion............. 🙂 🙂 🙂
I won't work in my street. Too handy for all those little bits and pieces 'while your here'. Next door neighbour caught me at half seven the other morning with a leaking toilet, torbeck valve passing, just needed a new diaphragm, 'sorry don't have one, that many different types, don't carry them all'. 6 months previous he had a full heating system installed. Think it was the same bloke that complained to the council that I was running a business from home.
I won't work in my street. Too handy for all those little bits and pieces 'while your here'. Next door neighbour caught me at half seven the other morning with a leaking toilet, torbeck valve passing, just needed a new diaphragm, 'sorry don't have one, that many different types, don't carry them all'. 6 months previous he had a full heating system installed. Think it was the same bloke that complained to the council that I was running a business from home.
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diamondgas
The custard turning the tap off when I'm gas rating!!! Or the cooker on when I'm tightness testing! grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!:73:
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diamondgas
The tenant that lets you in at 1pm then goes back to bed!!!!:73:
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diamondgas
Phone calls on Sunday!!!!!!! lol
Don't mention shower screens to me, my two (not paid for) empty tile adhesive tubs are now full of a 2000 x 500 x 10mm wet room screen that blew up in my hands. Grrrrrrrrr
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Kimou
I can't stand that. How can you stop them. I'd love to know. Times like that I wish I had no inhibitions about farting
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diamondgas
Unless the top is loose fitting! :cool4:
or at 930pm on a friday night asking for a quote to swap some bathroom taps grrrrrrrrr
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Puddle
I always ware loose tops,better for working in,maybe thats why some customers stand over me,to try to get a glance of me man boobs
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what get's my goat is very little,many find this very annoying in it's self,however with age comes less tolarance of others stupidity ,my own is still ok though !!
I do hate redoing work when a customers says,actually think I would like basin 40mm to the right or think now rad would look better on that wall !!:hammer:
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Barry98
when the love slave TXT`S and says he/she isnt coming in today and you ring straight back and there phones off, i always follow with a reply text ok nice knowing you good luck.
what i really dont understand though is chinese ,
what i really dont understand though is chinese ,
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diamondgas
Getting to a job only to be faced with a customer who knows "exactly what is wrong" and "how much the job will cost" coz they've been online to some obscure plumming forum talking with 'Diamondgeeza' or 'mrknowitall'....! lol
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Billy Bob Bob
the tenants that dont stay in,get up,have gas or electric or the house is a bit mingy,the lazy waste of food scumbags:32:
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diamondgas
Engineers that use graphite grease on EVERYTHING!! Why?????:banghead:
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Billy Bob Bob
and scumbags that damage my van
Everybody and everything!!!!!!😡😡😡😡😡:skep::willy_nilly:
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diamondgas
Deep breath gas man .................................................. and relax .................................... !!! Low life sonsabitchez!!!!!!:73:
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Billy Bob Bob
thanks Steve the steam is abating from my ears
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Kimou
Going to fix a leak under a sink and they know you'e coming yet don't clear out rubbish
Or leave urines and pubes around the w/c, again, when they know you're coming. Have some shame, man/*woman.
Give me the former over the latter anytime.
*Me being PC.
Or leave urines and pubes around the w/c, again, when they know you're coming. Have some shame, man/*woman.
Give me the former over the latter anytime.
*Me being PC.
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fixter1
going in a tenants homes fixing there boilers and coming out full of flea bites :thumbs_down:
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dontknowitall
Different staff at the merchants charging different prices for the same thing within a few days of buying them.
Customers' "helpful" comments before I've finished a particular part of the job (e.g. tile not straight before I've finished setting it or slightly crooked pipes before I've soldered).
Customers insisting I stay and work clean and tidily then sweep up without moving or closing my toolbox.
Customers who see me arrive then spend 2-3 minutes answering the door.
Customers borrowing my tools then not putting them back when they've finished with them.
Customers who ask how much the bill is before I've finished working or who insist on chatting for 1/2 hour after paying.
I feel there's a theme building here ...
Customers' "helpful" comments before I've finished a particular part of the job (e.g. tile not straight before I've finished setting it or slightly crooked pipes before I've soldered).
Customers insisting I stay and work clean and tidily then sweep up without moving or closing my toolbox.
Customers who see me arrive then spend 2-3 minutes answering the door.
Customers borrowing my tools then not putting them back when they've finished with them.
Customers who ask how much the bill is before I've finished working or who insist on chatting for 1/2 hour after paying.
I feel there's a theme building here ...
it would be a great job if it wasnt for the customers
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Hybrid
It irks me that customers ask me in the first place. They're not communal tools, they're mine and they're not for hire.
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What about when you just start a job in an old birds bathroom and 5 minutes into the job she needs to use the bathroom so you pop to the van and when you get back in there the bottom of the pan looks like the starting grid at Silverstone and you have to break your own nose with the lump hammer just so you can finish the job cos of the stench!
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Mikey456
Reminds me of the house i was working in not long back, woman in her 40's sitting with the door wide open cracking a jobbie out never seen anything like it in my life, she knew we were there but continued haha
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curious jane that hangs over your shoulder and asks about everything your doing and why
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