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The thing is, all that everyone really wants is a better service, at least us and consumers but an awful lot, if not most all, commercial clients want service to meet their requirements as cheaply as possible. So adding this or any other costs onto that won’t fly with them
Another lengthy one here though it’s worth reading the two before it first:
https://nwar.co.uk/index.php/blog/poor-rates-poor-service
K.
Utterly clueless. [IMG2=JSON]{“data-align”:”none”,”data-size”:”full”,”src”:”https://www.ukwhitegoods.co.uk/forums/core/core/images/smilies/rotfl.gif”}[/IMG2]
K.
It is possible and there’s a few ways to do it, none are easy.
With most of these you (seemingly) need at least three minature hands and even at that it’s not easy but essentially most it’s a case of getting the spring on at the top and working down to get it to spring into place working it around the aperture. They are a total PITA to change.
The alternative is a tub lift as we call it, lifing the entire drum group out, removing the weight and so on and that’s not an acceptable solution to replace a door seal.
Or, you pay someone to do it for you.
K.
Possibly, the front module will tell the main one what to do, and if it doesn’t send the command or the correct one, it won’t work.
K.
There is a damper in it, and it does sound like that’s what the problem could be but, I can’t find one anywhere.
K.
The part number was 695210455 (695210345 and 695210379 show as alternatives) but there’s no detail of what it was and all of those numbers appear obsolete.
K.
Indeed.
Whilst it’s frustrating, and I do get it, these things really need to be thought through, and as much as possible, any consequences worked out before you implement anything at all. Otherwise, you might just come to regret it.
K.
And there’s the next problem, CORGI (that many hailed as a great idea) then Gas Safe presumed it’d have the effect that you appear to want.
Only problem is, all it’s done is kill the trade with a great many no longer doing any gas work and, if you can get someone, it’s expensive. I’ve even heard of heating repairers giving it up as it’s too much hassle.
Worse still, due to all the legislation and training requirements it’s nigh on impossible to get appliance techs trained to be able to do gas at all. If you can get trained so you are “qualified” to work on a gas hob or cooker you’re looking at a cost in the £6-9K range and, you’ll have to do that every five years or so. It’s not worth it so, nobody does it.
All this kinda stuff has come up over the years a number of times and invariably, when you drill down into it all, what initially seems like a good and simple idea to protect the more reputable traders turns quickly into a nightmare few want any part of.
K.
For one, if you have legislature, then you have to have a governing body, sorta like Gas Safe and you’d have to pay for it and pay to be qualified. I can guarantee that most repairers will not want the cost.
Manufacturers et all, won’t pay for it, why do they need it?
Then you’d be working to a strict code, need specialist equipment I expect that will have an upkeep cost and so on.
That’s just the start of the cost side of things.
It wasn’t a fridge that caused Grenfell to be the disaster; as such, there were a number of factors. However, it is stated to have been the initial cause by faulty wiring in a fridge freezer, though quite how or why I don’t know. In any event, it wasn’t caused by a repairer, so it has nothing to do with the repair side of things. However, it all pans out.
K.
The WTA is still alive.
DASA I don’t know but suspect it’s died.
However, be careful what you wish for as regulation, whilst it might seem like a good idea, actually has a lot of downsides to it. And, as someone rightly pointed out at one stage, we dont’ kill enough people to be worth bothering about.
Which is no bad thing when you think about it.
K.
