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Re: hardest thing you to do
Lifting out the inner and out drum bl**dy heavy! 🙁 ,also I am not keen on dishwasher!
Animals
Animals fed in the laundry
Animals poo..ing in the laundry
Open cans of animal food in the fridge
Fridges that haven’t been cleared out in years
Fridges and freezers that have defrosted and are still full of rotting food
Fridges and freezers that are sticky
Dishwasher installers who don’t have a clue
Plumbers who don’t have a clue
Cupboards full plastic bags
Cupboards full of cleaning product bottles
Cupboards full of empty cleaning product bottles
Cupboards full of tupperware
Cupboards full of pots and pans
Cupboards
Earth leakage devices
Doors that need taking off to get an appliance out
Washing machines that have been lifted over the laundry tub
Stoves that need you to wear HAZMAT clothing
Plinths
Customers
Customers who say at the end “can I fix you up next month”
Appliances
Hair everywhere —-Mine :haier: :haier: :haier: :haier: :haier: :haier: :haier: :haier: :haier: :haier:
Re: hardest thing you to do
Customers that telephone me that can’t speak the required language correctly and trying to figure out what the hell they want 😕
e.g. “You dat wash machine no?” ….”It secca time go long!”….”Please you come my switching no work?”….”Hallo mister! my sheen doh no open, you understand?”
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Martin wrote:Customers that telephone me that can’t speak the required language correctly and trying to figure out what the hell they want 😕
Know what you mean, I had a vietnamese refugee trying to give me her address. It sounded like one word, “meelsillblidge” turned out it was Mills Hill Bridge. Also remember many years ago at Hotpoint we had an Irish girl in the office. She had taken a call and read it out to me as she had written it down ( you would have thought she would have checked it back with the customer), as Gorsenowlyew. It should have been Cross Knowl View. 😯 🙂Velly Solly Meant to say;
The wife finding out that the module I ordered for her, I sold it to the woman around the corner, and it will be another week that my wife will be without the machine
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Hardest job.
About two weeks into my training I had a hotpoint 95 bearing job to do.
No big deal you might think.
This machine was on a landing….on a shelf four feet up in the air, with about three inches at the sides and a foot at the back. By myself with an old dear who was the neighbour. I did the job up there 🙄
Must’ve been slimmer then 😥Knowing better now I should have told them to get it into a suitable position to do the job.
Tony C
alexa wrote:and it will be another week that my wife will be without the machine
Ah! that reminds me, about 4 or 5 years ago, I think it was, I had taken on a job about 30 miles from home. Having spoken to the customer I figured her pump was a goner (If you’ll pardon the expression) and it would be a tasty £150 plus job to sort, I arranged to call the next day.
Next morning, sifting through my jobs to make sure I’ve got what bits I needed on the van etc etc. Suddenly I discovered that I didn’t have a pump to fit the job 30 miles up the road after all 🙁
Sudden brainwave came over me…. 💡 to take the pump out of the wifes machine… 💡 ….brilliant thinking Martin!
So I took out the pump and duly fitted it to the ladies machine (perfectly good pump by the way re-sold at bargain trade price of course 😉 ) …..everyone was happy 😆
Errr! well it was, until my wife turned on her machine the following weekend….. 😥
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Sorry going a bit off topic but our Hoover New Wave AC170 has had a cocktail stick permanently holding in the on/off switch for about 18 months.
13 Amp switch socket above worktop works a treat and I think she`s forgotten it ever had an on/off switch. 😀Bryan
Re: hardest thing you to do
cornwell40 wrote:Hardest job.
About two weeks into my training I had a hotpoint 95 bearing job to do.
No big deal you might think.
This machine was on a landing….on a shelf four feet up in the air, with about three inches at the sides and a foot at the back.
I never cease to be amazed at the places people stick their appliances. I had one Hotpoint Washer/Dryer that was in a tiny loft next to the hot water system header tank, you could not stand up or turn the machine round. Still don’t know how they got it up there. Also another nightmare was a customer with English Electric washer & dryer (very big, heavy machines ) stacked and situated in an upstairs airing cupboard in a passageway. There was a 6 inch step into the cupboard and a one inch gap on either side. I refused to attempt to get the machine out and she had to pay Hotpoint a double call out fee for two engineers to lift them out.Re: hardest thing you to do
It’s been flippin’ hot down y’ere in farmboy land & this morning i had to go to one of those houses you dread when it’s hot – the kind of area where the pigeons fly upside down ‘cos theres b*gger all worth crapping on.
When I pulled up outside the place the grass of the front lawn was up to the lounge window & the rather large lady of the house answered the door & led me to the kitchen – no flooring, flys buzzing around, junk everywhere and that strange sticky sensation as you walked across the floor. Then I was hit by the stench of B O, turned around and there was the daughter – looked like the lovechild of pavarotti & bella emberg – she was big, and she stank!
The problem turned out to be that they were putting salt in the soap dispenser so thankfully i wasnt there for too long, just thankful I called early before it got really hot in there, urrgghhh…
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mentioning salt in the dispenser reminded me of a job the other day on a dishwasher reportedly poor cleaning. After all the usual checks I asked her about detergent and she showed me the box of Calgon water softner tablets! Admittedely they do look exactly the same as a powerball dishwasher tablets but these were an aditive for the washing machine.
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Martin wrote:Customers that telephone me that can’t speak the required language correctly and trying to figure out what the hell they want 😕
e.g. “You dat wash machine no?” ….”It secca time go long!”….”Please you come my switching no work?”….”Hallo mister! my sheen doh no open, you understand?”
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*Edited for vulgarity*
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