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Re: quiet week
Anybody here think we ought to change this topic to Quite Month 😕 cannot remember the last time work was so slow,i have done all the house jobs we all put off,sorted garden out,spruced up the van and anything else that needed doing.SO FRUSTRATING. :bang: :bang: :bang:
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You know what, I’ve just started to get calls again
I was so depressed with the lack of work a year ago that I stopped all advertising cancelled yellow pages and stared doing other stuff, as and when the phone rang from old regular customers i’d go and do, but that crept down to 1 or 2 jobs a week.
Unfortunatly round there were so may “I will do fixy for you cheeply nice lady” (in my best polish accent) that it killed my business overnght.
I had a leaflet dropped through my door offering to fit brushes from £10, pumps £20 seals £20 bearings £50, I phoned the mobile and spoke to the “ENGINEER” said I had a hotpoint that wouldn’t spin and he told me £10 to fix.
I had customers phone up asking if I could compete with their prices and i’d explain the you get what you pay for and is he insured blah blah blah, but they were not interested.
So that was that, did somthing else and just did the odd call, but this last week i’ve not stopped, my biggest problem was getting spares as most had closed my accounts as I had not used them for so long.
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According to the BBC news this morning renting a washing machine is now back in fashion due to the credit crunch. Even less work for me 😥
GrahamRe: quiet week
Showing signs of life here, just started picking up again. As dead as a dodo until two weeks ago, lets hope it stays busy.
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just about to travel 12 miles away to look at a 20 year old hvr logic… by the symtom described over the phone looks like brushes.. could be wrong but ive forwarned her at that age if its ber then she will still be expected to pay £30 for my time and fuel.
Was half expecting a no thanks then… but she is happy to pay if so…. 🙂Re: quiet week
Update… bearings gone but worse of all… she had this machine 20 years.. brother in law apparently plumbed it in for her… turned out the cold feed at machine end has been leaking ever since.. what a mess we were to discover.. new machine i will be quoting for…. trouble is, because of its location shes asking if there is a machine right hand opening but more so controls on left side of facia, anyone know if such a machine exists with left hand controls? never been asked for that before. 😕
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LJDomestics wrote:because of its location shes asking if there is a machine right hand opening but more so controls on left side of facia, anyone know if such a machine exists with left hand controls? never been asked for that before. 😕
The only manufacturer I know of with a right hand hinged door is Miele as for the left hand control bit not a clue. This Miele prestige plus has a more central control unit if it helps. Not the perfect solution I know 😉 but a compromise may be needed.HTH
Don
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had a email this morning asking if i had parts
anybody thinking of moving on to better things because its quiet
there may be some room for those engineers with a vast amount of experience in technical development.âž¡ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxryeNycJX0
garn…… 😉
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keep fit, save on the electric and do the washing, the fitter you get the better the spin speed
could sell a few of themRe: quiet week
Thats nowt, there was a poster on the public forums a year or so back who built a bicycle powered washer, based on an old Hotpoint machine. It was featured on the TV and he took it to events & shows all over the country.
Someone must know where the original post was.
Jim.
Found them. 😀
B****y ell, it was in 2005, were has the time gone. 😥
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I bet hes walking around smelly and stinkin these days? especially if hes chain snapped? LOL
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That’s nuts
Until Today i didn’t know There Was So Many Washing Machine Songs out There To.
Tried dragging The Link In & Failed u Tube.the good old electric washing machine 😉paul… 🙂
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