does anyone else get frustrated by this?
i have a couple of examples, all with my brother and his wife, both intelligent people but lack in common sense / real life skills.
example 1, i had a new boiler installed with smart this that and the other, all opentherm etc we spoke about the costs savings it appears to have worked out for me. 6 months later they are converting their bungalow to a house. need a new boiler, ask me for advice. i said fit the brand the installer advises and he is on their approved list for warranty, they say they want a similar heating to mine with the opentherm etc, so i spent time speaking to their installer, installer said he's fitting vaillant and that they do a good controller with an opentherm type thing that can have trvs fitted etc, is a little pricey but he'll do a package deal... spoke to brother and his partner over the moon.
spoke to him a couple of weeks later, brother tells me he ended up going for the nest stat as it looked better, i said what about the smart efficient stuff you wanted like the smart TRV's etc, he response was, yeah but the nest looked better....
example 2, their car (nissan almera tino) burnt oil, i looked at it and said its the piston rings in cylinder 2 have gone, the car had just passed it's mot and they wanted to get a new car anyway, so i said trade this in and get the new car, it'll only get worse and cost a fortune in oil. i said i could repair it but time isnt on my side and i couldnt do it in the timescale they needed, it would cost around £250-300 in spares, garages were quoting 1k+.
a whole year went by with them moaning about the car smoking and how much oil they were having to put in it and they couldn't trust it to go on long journey's. then the MOT came round again and it failed on emissions, they then complained about it not passing and what can i do to help them, i literally hit my head on the table, explained to them they've had a whole year to get this sorted and they've done bugger all about it, lucky i knew an mot tester that was willing to do me a favour and fudged the test, a further 10 months went by with me reminding them regularly it wont pass again and they need to get it sorted.
i just think to myself why even bother asking and wasting my time if your going to do your own thing anyway..
i have a couple of examples, all with my brother and his wife, both intelligent people but lack in common sense / real life skills.
example 1, i had a new boiler installed with smart this that and the other, all opentherm etc we spoke about the costs savings it appears to have worked out for me. 6 months later they are converting their bungalow to a house. need a new boiler, ask me for advice. i said fit the brand the installer advises and he is on their approved list for warranty, they say they want a similar heating to mine with the opentherm etc, so i spent time speaking to their installer, installer said he's fitting vaillant and that they do a good controller with an opentherm type thing that can have trvs fitted etc, is a little pricey but he'll do a package deal... spoke to brother and his partner over the moon.
spoke to him a couple of weeks later, brother tells me he ended up going for the nest stat as it looked better, i said what about the smart efficient stuff you wanted like the smart TRV's etc, he response was, yeah but the nest looked better....
example 2, their car (nissan almera tino) burnt oil, i looked at it and said its the piston rings in cylinder 2 have gone, the car had just passed it's mot and they wanted to get a new car anyway, so i said trade this in and get the new car, it'll only get worse and cost a fortune in oil. i said i could repair it but time isnt on my side and i couldnt do it in the timescale they needed, it would cost around £250-300 in spares, garages were quoting 1k+.
a whole year went by with them moaning about the car smoking and how much oil they were having to put in it and they couldn't trust it to go on long journey's. then the MOT came round again and it failed on emissions, they then complained about it not passing and what can i do to help them, i literally hit my head on the table, explained to them they've had a whole year to get this sorted and they've done bugger all about it, lucky i knew an mot tester that was willing to do me a favour and fudged the test, a further 10 months went by with me reminding them regularly it wont pass again and they need to get it sorted.
i just think to myself why even bother asking and wasting my time if your going to do your own thing anyway..
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