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Re: cd/radio/bluetooth car kit
You wear the earpiece whilst in the back of a machine Martin? Mind you, at your age… :rotl:
Anyway, I shortened the URL as the original one was a tad brutal in length and it does look to be a nice bit of kit.
K.
Yeah I heard that Bosch used them as well and had exactly the same issues, shocker, but there’s not a problem. 😕
As far as I can gather Bosch have now dropped using the Smeg or at least dropped it to the 1200rpm machine.
K.
Yeah, where have we heard before….
“There’s absolutely no problem with the machine at all, it is not at fault and there is no danger or risk in it’s use”
But here’s a modification and we’ll pay you to go and do it.
Uh huh, okay then….
K.
Re: City Centre Calls
Yeah I think most city and larger town centres are getting to be out of bounds for anything with wheels on it and an engine in it. 😕
I gotta love these contract customers with the holier than thou “it’s your problem” attitude, well actually no, it’s not my problem as they don’t work for free or pay the company they work for for the privilege of working there so why should I work at a loss? Can you tell I was on my high horse about Brandt this morning as well? 😆 Who incidently, happen to be one of the offenderswho asked us to do a city centre call where there’s no parking within a half mile radius!
To get into the city (and up here many of the larger towns are the same) takes you time, to find parking takes time, to walk to the house takes time and time costs money! On top of that you have the actual cost to park and it’s extra time, hassle and expense that is in no way accounted for.
Up here, in Glasgow and Ayr etc., we have privatised wardens who are contracted to the local council to enforce parking restrictions, they are affectionately known as “The Blue Ba****ds” because once their pen hits the paper, you’re done. Leave a vehicle where it shouldn’t be for five minutes or more and you’ll have a ticket in the city, leave it for twenty minutes and it won’t be there and the same applies if you’re lucky enough to get a meter (at 30p for five minutes) and it runs out! At that stage you’re on a taxi ride to the compound to part with £150 plus VAT to have it back and, even if you should return to see the vehicle getting lifted, if the wheels have left the deck that’s it, it goes whether your there or not!
If, as is being mooted, that they introduce congestion charging as well, the inner cities may well become total no-go zones.
Or that’s not actually fair, they won’t become no-go zones but the charges will have to be reviewed dramatically to accomodate customers who live in inaccessible areas. I mean I get hit with, “but in London they go in at 5.30am and are done by 10”, well that’s fine for a sole trader that wants to work that way, if you can get away with charging for such a service or if you happen to have staff that want to work shift patterns, many do not. Same thing with weekend and out of hours working in general and it means rewriting contracts of employment and all sorts just to accomodate a minority of customers. My contention is that for the amount of work in these areas and the renumeration on offer, it just ain’t worth the hassles.
K.
Hi Denis,
Are you sure it’s the thermostat as many people just assume that and often it isn’t the fault? What’s the symptoms?
The thermostat is listed as 45X0639 and is £37.84 exlc. VAT and carriage.
K.
Yeah Mike, you’ll have to pull out the oven and it’s on the rating plate on the underside of the hob. There’s no other way really and user manuals are not to be trusted for model numbers as they more often than not cover a range, not a specific appliance.
K.
Just had a thought though…
There’s no harm in asking, with a poll of course in a public forum, for people’s experience of the BG scheme. Now that’s totally innocent and all we’re doing is asking for comment to see if it is worth recommending to customers. 😉
K.
Re: British Gas…time to tell all
If someone starts it outside of us, i.e. the trade, Martin then fine, but I don’t think that we should be seen to do so. It’s nothing to do with upsetting BG, in fact I’d like to ream them but…
For a start it’d look like sour grapes since they took a load of work off the independents and beyond that it could be construed as us being inflamatory. At some point I’m quite sure that some of the public will pick up on it and post the gripes on here, at which point it becomes open season on BG in public. Ideally there would be a few posts on it that kicked it off so we’re only commenting on “what we know of BG” in relation to the complaint.
Just remember that it doesn’t take too long for Google to index stuff and BG’s name has appeared on a few occasions now. 😉
K.
Try http://www.highmist.co.uk as they do recon motors 😉
K.
Re: British Gas…time to tell all
Repair & Care, appeared from nowhere and sold out to BG.
Shortly after they asked me to do some work, I told them to fook off basically as we had enough and I didn’t need or want the grief across multiple brands. Plus they just passed the shite.
So I gave them Mike’s number in Ayr, stupid Kiwi will have anything, he’s even taken on NESN and Walter’s number. 😆
Needless to say the stuid Kiwi bought vans and allsorts to do it then got fucked and Walter, well he prolly fucked it up anyway and lost it, never did hear.
It will fail I’m sure but they have invested so much into it that they just cannot u-turn on it for now, just like Comet although there will be a day of reckoning sooner or later.
You see it always happens when you do multi brand work in these sorts of volumes, you just can’t get the first fix rate to sustain it and the engineers don’t ge the experience on the product. Apart from which you just cannot carry the stock required in a 3.5 tonner let alone a Berlingo! When you branch into multi-brand it’s fine so long as you’re small and can spend hte time, like Chris and Martin, but employees just don’t give a fuck, they order the motor and module and worry about it another day especially if they have thirteen calls on and one’s a Zanussi washer dryer rear half change.
Can you blame them? It’s no ineptitude or even laziness, it’s reality.
K.
Re: British Gas Homecare
Given the equipment used, backup staff, quality of materials used and the sheer size of the workforce it simply cannot be economical IMO to run the operation that BG do. But they say they’ve made masses of money, in the order of multiple millions from their “homecare” scheme or whatever it is that they call it.
With the product diversity I doubt it somehow and I think that they lump the electrical side in with alarms and appliances. Just wait till Part P bites and some bright spark decides to delve a little deeper.
They also say that the gas maintenance side loses money! 😯
Go figure.
K.
Adrian,
It uses the pressure switch to fill, when it hits level then the water stops coming in.
For drain it’s timed. And just for your interest there’s a load of them out there that were timed fills, which is just stupid, but most are now pressure switch controlled.
They can time it out the way as they know how much water is there and the flow rate of the pump, easy to work that one out.
Timed fill on the other hand, is entirely dependent on the BAR pressure of water coming in. 😉
K.
