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Hey Joe,
I should’ve kept quiet – the central heating’s died and they can’t come ’til Wednesday! AARGH!!
Penguin.Oi, Joe.
Thought you’d pegged off……….
Haven’t you learnt yet? Use an independent – they’re motivated enough to turn up. It’s the same for them as the it is for us independents.
Regards,
Penguin45Wasn’t Snowcap Russian and all recalled? Disastrous insulation (Electrical) problems as I recall.
Early Blombergs were from Ocean and basically Zanussi copies – even some modules were interchangable!
Regards,
Chris C.Stuart,
Terminal block goes:
1 white/brown
2 light blue and dark blue
3 not used
4 black/white and Black (t/stat)Element
Far left pair terminals – black(t’stat) and black from loom
Right pair of terminals – red
Single terminal – blue from reset statPretty diagram I made appears to have got dscombobulated.
Regards,
Penguin45.Howsabout a Miele W709 timer. It’s a Crouzet 889 series (you remember – Hoover Logics …) It’s £249.17!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Regards,
Chris Chantrell.Terminals i i i i i i i i
W+Br Bu/Bu Bk+Wh/BkHeater i
Bu
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Bk/Bk
Pull the plug first……………….
Regards,
Penguin45Spoke to Ian at ASD couple of days ago – they are Whirlpool main agents; spares for FP won’t be a problem. Unlike last time….. an immigration machine. Got the spares direct from http://www.fp.co.nz – very helpful but the shipping was a bit much!
Regards,
Chris Chantrell.The future……
As an independent sole trader I’ve avoided getting directly involved with any of the manufacturers, but have actively gone into niche service areas; most notably rented/lease property work + pubs/restaurants etc. “Domestic” work is getting more and more problematical as already discussed so this type of work (fix it now, we’re deparate/want a quiet life free of tennant hassle) is profitable. The downside is monthly billing and credit control. However the wife is an ex school teacher and is devastatingly efficient at rounding up the cheques!
Another area is “odd” machines. Most of the independants want to stick with Hoover/Hotpoint/Zanussi. If you start ringing around as a customer with say an Asko, sooner or later someone will say “Phone Chris, he does all the weird ones!”. And it works – customers are so pleased to find someone to take on the machine they will happily pay up. I have one storage crate in the van for Beko bits for instance, contains about 20 parts, value maybe £80 – but the job gets done on the spot. Agood investment.
Dishwashers. We’ve got 40-some independants in the local Yellow Pages and yet there are 5 of us in the whole area who sort dishwashers out. Good niche.And yet you run into the lads in the local wholesalers and they’re all grumbling that they’re only doing 3 or 4 calls a day. I’m typically doing 10 – 12 calls a day (Apart from last Friday – 16 – no fun). There is plenty of work out there – find the right niches!
Regards,
Chris ChantrellDysons
The contarotating drums are operated by a planetary gearbox on the back of the tank.The new “14” series Beko’s are quite good really and SEME has all the bits at sensible prices. They’ve still got to recover from the awfulness of the “10” series. Door knobs and exploding modules….
Regards,
Chris Chantrell
