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Hope your not tarring us all with the same brush !!!Moley551 wrote:Just off to another, cock up job, Plumber hasn't followed the simple setup instructions, because they are lazy, too dim, or haven't got the right gear.
So even the regulation we have now is too lax. To me that's reason enough to tighten up across the board not give up altogether.Glennyb wrote:"You can't trade as an electrician unless you are qualified and are proven to at least have the knowledge required"
When we bought our house we got a sparky in as the house (repo) needed a rewire, got the sparky in, paid a small fortune, then noticed issues....long story short our sparky wasn't NICEIC registered, let it lapse 10 months before taking our job, so they "can" trade. NICEIC couldn't give a stuff about the fact he was using their logos etc as he "wasn't a member".......Trading standards did follow it through and he got his wrists slapped (no fine or anything) and to this day is still trading......oh and he charged us VAT even though he wasn't VAT registered.
Needless to say we are a bit more careful now on who we hire for jobs.
Definitely not, there's a small and often quite loud number that like to preach, I don't go to the good ones apart from the odd service or genuine failure, It's nice when you meet a gobby c@#t in the merchants, and you can tell them what they didn't do properly. I had a phone call from a guy doing a breakdown, he was asking me if I thought it was the PCB, I said have you checked the fuse? his reply was "I haven't got anything to check a fuse" (dead pump)Tractorwackyracer wrote:Hope your not tarring us all with the same brush !!!Moley551 wrote:Just off to another, cock up job, Plumber hasn't followed the simple setup instructions, because they are lazy, too dim, or haven't got the right gear.
Unfortunately you get this in all trades, but some times its easier to point the finger than admit there wrong.Moley551 wrote:Definitely not, there's a small and often quite loud number that like to preach, I don't go to the good ones apart from the odd service or genuine failure, It's nice when you meet a gobby c@#t in the merchants, and you can tell them what they didn't do properly. I had a phone call from a guy doing a breakdown, he was asking me if I thought it was the PCB, I said have you checked the fuse? his reply was "I haven't got anything to check a fuse" (dead pump)Tractorwackyracer wrote:Hope your not tarring us all with the same brush !!!Moley551 wrote:Just off to another, cock up job, Plumber hasn't followed the simple setup instructions, because they are lazy, too dim, or haven't got the right gear.