A plumber's Unique Selling Point

[tonybhoy]

Or,what about the ones that phone you about a minute after your due to find out when your coming.

Or the ones that phone at 7AM to "catch you before you go to your work"

Funny how some of them never phone you to tell you they won't be in on the appointed date/day.

 

[oilman]

Goldspoon, "SPECIALIST" is written on most ***** vans, this should tell you something. Sign written vans are an advertisment to the aforementioned specialists, that you are worth visiting, or at least your van is.

 

[gremlin16]

Or,what about the ones that phone you and expect you to sort their minor problem immediately.

When you explain you cant get there till later in the day or tomorrow morning, they come back at you with "surly you cant be that busy, or theres a 90 year old person freezing in the house.

Or after fixing my dripping tap could you give me a quote for a new heating system

The stupid customer list must be endles

 

[tonybhoy]

Or the ones that go on about having a 'six week old baby' with no heating in July!

I kid you not, I heard about a woman who was on a BG homecare contract who moved into a hotel overnight because of having said baby and the fact that BG couldn't get the boiler fixed till the next day.

Now I'm not saying that babies don't get cold of course they do but usually six month old ones are wrapped up pretty well all of the time so they hardly need extra heating and the need for hot water from six month old babies is not that great either.

I mean how much hot water does a six month old baby actually get through in a day?

I've been told that kettles are pretty good at providing hot water for small persons though that could be a lie

I blame Gordon Brown

 

[Gasguru]

Customer phones me at 6.30am on a Sunday morning..."Can you come round and give me a quote for a couple of new radiators"....No I don't work for selfish customers that phone at stupid times.

or the customer that phones me on Boxing day morning "I've bled the radiators and my combi doesn't work anymore"...No don't work for dumb customers either.

Actually I've had a few do this; and not forgeting the customers that expect you to leave the van in a multistory a mile down the road or drive to the other side of London for free. Dumb down Britain...it's geting worst.

Had an idiot on the phone yesterday winging that the hot water only worked if he turned the combi boiler on....a student...gawd help this country.

 

[namsag]

Had a guy phone me 4 times in 2 days new install combi not working each time i went perfect . tried evedrything to get it to trip out etc nothing. Only for on last visit watch him turn power off as he stripped wall paper from walls, i dont trust the water dripping into sockets etc he said.
Oh but its a gas boiler why does it need electricity on.
Oh don`t worry easy mistake i said through gritted teeth.
Had a customer when i worked for board phone up and say no heat and fire playing up. Well summers day and about 80c. Couple of simple repairs took ten mins but told him he would have to leave on full blast for next 2 hours to test.
God was he bright red and sweaty when i turned up ,just turned them both off and said yep there workin

 

[tonybhoy]

Replaced a boiler for an old Norwegian guy (stay with it) on New Year's eve about four year ago.

Old boiler was in the kitchen above freestanding gas cooker anyway job went well but had to go back after the holidays to upgrade the gas supply to 22mm.

Phone goes at 8AM on New Years' morning.

Old guy on the phone complaining that his bread didn't rise