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Re: British Gas Homecare
I know how you feel Kevin but then again there is the funny side of it.
I had one recently when an ex engineer of mine who now works for BG phoned and asked me about a problem he had with a “friends” Brandt pyro oven in which he had changed the oven stat, door lock and pcb and could not get it to work on pyro, told him I hadn’t a clue without seeing it so he said he would go back to try again.
Next day get a call from BG who paid the the money upfront for us to go to a pyro oven and when we called found the wires were not connected to the door lock motor, 2 minute job and done. Upon questioning the customer we found out that BG had been and fitted guess what ??? 😮 😮
Quick phone call back to the aforementioned ex engineer and the wind up was worth another £100
JohnRe: British Gas Homecare
Ah the circle of life.
WE employ electrically competent people and train them up on our appliances because we cannot get decent engineers at all, BG take one and then offer him cash to poach the others, this way they have poached 6 of us in the last year. BG then train them to reset alarms at 2a.m. 100 miles from home. BG then phone us because they have no engineers to fix their appliances. And then we charge them £72.50 (paid by credit card over the phone) before we go, plus parts at retail.
I for one cannot wait for the bubble to bust, The costs of all these engineers must be more than a few pennies and at the end of the day they have to answer to the shareholders. So I suspect in the next year or so there will be a few hundred engineers on the marketplace looking for jobs.
JohnRe: Whirlpool ADP539AV Door springs!
I Have not done one of these for a while but remember fondly keeping a 2ft bit of strong string in my box for pulling the spring through the back. You can do this job without pulling the appliance out if you feed the string through the hole at the back and connect the spring to the metal band/plastic rod and pull through.
saves you the hassle of taking the machine out.
JohnRe: Next Pet Project
Flipper wrote: Them prices seem a lot more than distripart prices for the same model , I will check on Monday.
They sure are, but I have to buy them from Whirlpool for their repairs.
JohnPS just checked on connections and the motor is £142
kwatt wrote:John, can you put together some figures on the new Whirlpool models for me please.
Will do, tomorrow.
JohnRe: Next Pet Project
Got the fax on Friday thanks
Just noticed, the prices above are off last years Sios.
John
Re: Next Pet Project
As Jason says, Whirlpool for example selling Crosslee spares. Tumble dryer model CL847 the motor costs £237.51, the door frame costs £69.37 and the vent hose is £75.98 incl.
can you imagine quoting for a vent hose on a cash job?
John
machineman wrote:whats a ukw charter.m
look in the downloads section under Word documents. It is the last one on the page.
John
Re: e-Jobs
Option 1 looks like the best choice at the moment. No doubt this will be on the agenda at Sibson and we can see where we are then.
JohnRe: SatNav
shane wrote:I have a Tom Tom on a Dell and quite frankly it,s a pain in the buttocks. It does not utilize Post Codes and is very temperamental.
ShaneI have just put Tom Tom 3 into a new Ipaq and if you go to http://www.digitools.co.uk/home.php you can download the Uk postcode database add on for Tom Tom 3. Just tried it and when you punch in the full post code it starts Tom Tom and plans the route for you down to street level.
You can also download a database of Uk static speed cameras, mobile cameras and red light cameras from http://pocketgpsworld.com/uksafetycameras.php which would be usefull for all of you with 9 points on the licence
John
Re: A happy New Year
Bagpipes and whisky, I dont think so.
Us Scots normaly have some hot chocolate and a good book at 9.30 p.m. on new years eve and eyes down by 11.00 😀
John
