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Re: Domestic and General cutting agents
I can’t wait for the day D&G quit selling appliance policies and clients sort it out themselves, the rest of Europe seem to manage without it.
Re: Thinking of moving to Spain ?
funkyboogy wrote:i would be looking for 2 hours siesta say between 2 -4 and then finish at 5 if poss … lol
I can answer for Mark.
You can take 3 hours siesta, most don’t, company engineers don’t have time and the finishing at 5 for them is not possible as the working day ends at 8pm.
out of intrest what are the appliance you work on … and are their parts company,s just like we have in the uk … ie connect master parts
cheers ally
Mark works on everything, or tries too 😉
Most of the strange makes are sold in the UK, such as Fagor, Electrolux has a strong presence, Balay are Bosch and many of the odd makes are Chinese machines found in the UK.
Nope, parts are sold via local trade counters run in the offices of the manufacturers, although it is slowly changing, some such as Mark sell to other engineers.
It would make life easier if Connect, Masterpart opened in Spain.
Re: Is anything made in the Uk now?
Even when appliances where “made in the UK” most of the components where imported into the assembly plant, sometimes even the metal was imported.
So very few for the last few decades actually got made here.
I keep hearing the experts stating that although the UK has very little manufacturing we do produce some of the best design and engineering people and that losing the plants isn’ t that bad, problem is the countries that have the plants have been investing heavily into education of there people, so that they can then develop a full package, cheaper again.
So soon we’ll be producing some of the highest educated unemployed people in the world to eventually work alongside the assembly workers now employed in Asda.
Re: baumatic gas hob
Glad I’m fully qualified and registered then, innit.
But it is still normal for guys not qualified in gas to call/work on dual fuel appliances or appliances with electrical components, work on them, with the full knowledge of Gas Safe knowing that they are not breaking any current regs or rules.
Like I say I can name at least 4 that did it last week.
Re: Trade or retail …YOU DECIDE!
Everything is fair game these days, i’m thinking of selling fruit cheaper than Asda. 😆
Re: Domestic and General cutting agents
It could be, they appeared to be very proffesional.
If not then.
I’m sure he’ll be tempted by the amazing franchise on offer when he finishes his training.
Re: DSG/RepairCare Rate Cuts
I guess when people poke they tend not to enjoy being poked back. :rolls:
It was a response I made to a post that didn’t make much sense and I concluded that since that person only response to me is negative I was wrong in concluding he was not having a pop.
To which I apologise.
On the subject of humour (I just changed the subject) my 0800 buy out was a joke, so yes even in your world Ken you are correct.
Repair rates are a joke in this business, I do work for people who promote a 14 day invoice payment policy, I’m still waiting on a payment and its now 30 days. :rolls:
Another company is 30 days, I remind them on day 32, they send cheque on day 35 and it clears on day 40.
But thats business, everybody blows their own trumpet and it rarely appears in reality.
Its never good to rely on companies, big or small, well PRed or not, they all tend to be shi8te.
Re: baumatic gas hob
You can repair without the need for a gas safe engineer.
To date I can name 4 major companies who have non Gas trained technicians replacing Electrical components to gas appliances.
Re: Domestic and General cutting agents
I watched TV last night, national channel, one of the training companies was advertising there training courses, they had a guy boasting about his training to repair domestic appliances and how he could earn £20,000-£40,000 a yr.
The death of the industry won’t be lack of people trained, it’ll be too many peeps with no demand for repairs.
Re: Lee’s Cost Embarrassment Thread
washdoctor wrote:
A man that makes a ‘Good’ living out of doing calls for £30, WITHOUT fiddling parts or getting Diesil from a Farmer half price is a man we ALL need to meet! You obviously know something we’re all missing!
Adrian 🙂
Adrian, I’m an appliance engineer, I have two options, I work for myself or I work for a company.
The going rate for an appliance engineer is around £80 a day as a wage, give or take.Now I’m self employed because I make more than that a day, with all costs deducted.
I don’t only do £30.00 calls, I repeat for the hard of hearing that it makes up a small amount of my business, for instance yesterday after writting here I did 2 calls, took around an hour 5 minutes from office to calls back to office, cost me 3 miles in fuel and £5 in parts, I took from the clients £140.
I don’t have staff, I don’t have expensive lifestyle, I never stated doing £30 a call was going to allow me a rich lifestyle, but I’m faced with doing the calls, getting free parts for those calls 😉 ,it gives me access to a large client base, far more than if I advertised. I’m already there for that appliance, the kitchen is full of stuff I can repair away from the contract, they see me, no my work and I’m the friendly reliable engineer who’s number will likely be kept and used or spread around the area, to me that saves thousands of £’s, or I stay in bed, but since staying in bed does not pay anything, give me free parts or speak to potential clients I will continue to do them until I can steal more profitable calls from my competition, which may well be other members on UKW goods, so no I’m not about to meet up with people who I intend to stress out now or in the future. :rolls:
I may be arrogant, wrong, stupid, a retard, poor, rich, flash or a complete knob head, I can’t help that, but today my business is giving me a large percentage of what I want from it, may not be ideal to most, its not ideal to me, hell I’d love to be earning several hundred pounds and hour, in the current climate, in the industry we are in that is unrealistic.
Re: Lee’s Cost Embarrassment Thread
I did not mention costs to us as in fuel etc.Sorry if I gave that impression, but this is about D&G and there restructure, not a thread about our business running costs.
The costs are the prices D&G and there clients (Not Us) are faced with, which D&G are loosing out, there repair network is not as efficient as it should be, compared to others knocking on D&G door.
Re: Lee’s Cost Embarrassment Thread
Drama queens, we smell better than worms.
As for costs “work it out”, it shouldn’t be too difficult. 😉
