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Got a phone call at 9pm last last from a customer who had tried to install her new machine but couldn’t stop the drain coupling leaking and needed my help.
I called round this morning at the same time as the local council were backing in the drive to collect and dump here old machine. The customer explained the problem with the drain and I immediately realised she’d yanked the whole waste pipe coupling and dumped it outside with her old machine. 😯
At that point I heard the council pickup truck pulling away….dashed outside and managed to stop the driver to explain I needed the drain hose off the machine. He duly obliged and I was able to reinstate the drain coupling back under the sink unit.
Boy! that was close……!!! 😀
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Its unusual that the council picks something up that quickly, round here things are sat outside for weeks
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These things seem so simple but are obviously not simple enough for some people. I have seen hundreds of machines with the rubber cuff cut off the end of the hose but have yet to speak to anyone who admits to doing this :rolls: It can be a real pain trying to get a satisfactory seal without the cuff. At least the ones where the customer pushes the hose onto a blanked off fitting provide a “nice little earner”.
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Neil7741 wrote:Its unusual that the council picks something up that quickly, round here things are sat outside for weeks
They’re pretty slick over here I must say. A few weeks back I phoned our local council for them to dispose of an old iron bedstead, mattress and headboard. The charge to dispose is just £10 (per item) and that lot counts as just one!
They give a day in which they will collect but insist the item or items be available and easily accessible outside the property by 7am of the morning in question. 🙂
When the lads called that morning at around 8:30 am I was still here and asked them if I could chuck a few other bits and bobs of mine for dumping? No problem they said and for my 10 quid not only did they dump a chuffing great big double bed for me but 2 old tellies a video recorder and a three legged garden table…..all off to the land fill….a great result!! 😈
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I hope you tipped the lads a few quid Martin for their little bit extra:?:
Maybe just enough to buy themselves a good lunch. :stir:Re: Just in the nick of time!
Bryan wrote:I hope you tipped the lads a few quid Martin for their little bit extra:?:
Good lord no! I’m a Yorkshireman with Scottish ancestry, besides I don’t store junk and only throw away good stuff. Chances are the lads that drove away with my old gear will have flogged it at the local weekend ‘car boot sale’ anyway…. 😀 😉
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