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Re: hotpoint larder fridrge
The leak of R600 from a Fridge wouldn`t make a bang, more of a puff.
Regulations are weird, mainly because there dictated by costs than safety, the cheaper procedures tend to have tighter regs. :rolls:
Your gas meter stores enough gas to make three terrace houses disappear. 😆
Yet they still locate them alongside your house. 😆
Have to laugh at high visability vests, was watch a programme on fraud and they guy explains you need to ware a high vis vest when stealing peoples bin bags for documents, as it makes you less noticable. :rolls:
Re: a bit fun
Mine would be a spark plug from an engine.
Wasn`t in Pump, still jamned in the rear of the drum between tub & drum.
Re: Pathetic!
Phidom wrote:I’m glad I don’t have to work under that sort of pressure. .
I never understood the pressure that some mention.
I was paid for 8 hrs work, i did 8 hrs, if more i got paid overtime, if at 7hrs 30 minutes i still had jobs left, simple, phone SM.
I never had too.
I always ordered parts to return another day before i ran out of time. :rolls:
Re: Pathetic!
Bearing jobs, like most appliance jobs are easyonce you no what your doin.
When i was an employee of ServiceForce 😆 we`d get 2 rear tub changes a day, got the extension bar on the drill to remove bolts and we were issued a small bench for the tub to slide in and out of the cabinet without touching the floor.
In a kitchen with space, total job start to finish could be done in 45min.
To put tub springs back we have the lift tool or now I use the snapped belt to pull up.
When i was doin Servis UK an out the top drum would be slide through the top once appliance was on side and a board is used to slide drum out.
Bearings take around 1 hour.
Beko through the front 40 min max.
Neff rear spider, 45 minutes.
Bosch bearings on all models max 1hr.
After 5 years if a job took longer than an hour, i start considering retraining somewhere.
If you ever get a scrap m/c i recommend taking it away and practice on, like most things, practice makes perfect.
Re: british gas
We`ve had to do Appliance calls because B/G guys couldn`t repair the appliance.
Changing a split belt on an Haier is hardly rocket science.
But B/G took three months b4 giving up.
Re: british gas
Redflame wrote:just a bit annoyed that I go to night school for the last 2 years
Well if you stated you`d been at night school i wouldn`t have bothered.
but I do object when someone claims they are a qualified electrician after only 5 days !? to do !
That course takes 5 days.
Full time though at 8 hours a day or 40 hours more or less.
If you go to night school at 2 hours a week it`ll take half a year.
Time isn`t always the issue nowadays.
Qualifications are king.
Re: british gas
Alex wrote:
I had to a 5 Year apprenticeship to become a fully indentured electrician to City & Guilds final C certificate. August 1965 to June 1970
Mine took 4 years and then 1 yr shadowing a tech around, that was for industrial cleaning machines though.
Now it is all classroom based.
ACS cracked me up.
How can you fail a 4 answer multiple choice exam with 4 attemps.
I had to ask the examming if I was goin mad.
Each time you`d go up to the guy, he`d mark whether your correct or not, you then go back and re choose one of the remaining 3 answers, get that wrong and go back and choose one of the remaining 2, get that wrong, go back choose the remaining 1, get that wrong.
Shoot yourselve :rolls:
Its a mad mad world. :rolls:
Re: british gas
Its taken 2 yrs to be a Semi Qualified Spark. 😳
There is no such thing as a Spark, its a slang word to describe a person working on the electric`s of a property.
They simple have a different qualification, not better or worse.
I work on appliances.
I have a qualification in Electrical, Electronic and Mechanical Engineering.
The Domestic Electrical Installer Qualification DI01: Domestic Electrical Installer Training Course .
This course is suitable for those persons carrying out electrical work in dwellings who have no formal qualifications and seek to register to self certify their work to meet the requirements of the Building Regulations.
Is only 4 and a half days. 😆
The Building Regulations for Domestic Electrical Installations course to level P is only 1/2 a day.With a 40 minute exam to gain C&G level 3 qualification.
Even to gain Gas Safety registered from nothing to qualified takes around 28 weeks.
So 2 years seems a bit long for a semi qualified Spark. ❓
Re: sons
The UK hides responsibility behind legislation.
The amount of grief i get by people who instead of lookin into there computors and making a decission is beyond a joke.
A just went to the DR for daughters repeat medical form, on request paper i filled out last week i missed the name of the medication. :rolls:
So I go there today to pick up the form, to be faced by a receptionist who cannot give me the form as i didn`t write the name of the drug.
No props, i cant remember. :rolls:
Reply, sorry can`t give you the form without knowing name of drug.
I don`t know it, can you check.
No we cannot.
Why, just look at the records.
I `am, but i need the name of the drug.
I don`t know it.
Well we cannot give you the form without the name of the drug.
So being smartass i say can i have some Methonal, morphine and the largest dose available of Diazapan. 😆
No thats not what the patient is on.
So I say, can i have what the computor say I should have then.
No, we need to check and you need to write the name down.
but its in the records, she`s only on one drug, the last one this surgery recommended.
So off she goes and asks the DR.
Now an i goin insaine or what. 😥
As for W/M is a client feels your repin them off, you`ll probably get no logic, there just hiding behind regualations to ripe you off. 😉
Re: Baumatic
Its a matter of time.
If Baumatic went tomorrow it has already the service network in place to carry on repairs, sales are on a buy/supply system, so no large overstock.
Re: Baumatic
They only have 28 engineers nationwide.
Most are covering huge area`s, only 1 engineer in Wales.
Contractors pickin up the rest.
Funny most of there engineers struggle with the m/c`s mainly because there the type of appliance that can fail mutiple times in a very short space of time. :rolls:
Mainly because there badly designed, re the dishwasher which blows its stat due to location being to close to element with too little water.
And they keep the same design, though many recalls previously. :rolls:
Re: Baumatic
They laid off engineers last year.
There working at a managable loss.
There placing engineers in hotels over night to increase the area a person can cover since they cannot afford to employ eng and there area`s are not busy enough.
All engineers had to agree to being away from home 1 or 2 nights a week.
There a pathetic company, run by an italian idiot.
They sell appliances that don`t work, for too much money (Intergrated coffee m/c that can`t make coffee for long) then get multiple recalls.
