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Re: Affresh or patio cleaner?
Used to use it a lot on recons to get the soap drawer clean. Just put it in a bucket of the stuff and It just eats lime scale, you see it fizzing away and brings them back to new, but don’t leave them to long otherwise turns the plastic yellow.
Never ever would I dream of putting it in the machine like that though!
Rumour has it they also use it in a diluted fashion at these car wash places that are springing up everywhere, apparently they get alloys really nice and shinny but obviously if they use it to much it eats the alloys away which is what I should imagine will happen to a drum support!Phil
Re: Miele Dishwasher G645 SC Plus
Not sure if it is meant to be open or closed circuit to be honest.
Try putting a magnet near it if it switches you know it is ok.
It’s usually the wheel that spins in the matrix which the reed switch counts that sticks.Phil
Re: Miele Dishwasher G645 SC Plus
As this one got a reed switch in the matrix on the side? If so sometimes the wheel sticks in the matrix or the reed switch may be faulty.
PhilRe: delo0ngi range daul fuel cooker
If I remember correctly didn’t you have to change the wiring loom? it has been a very very long time ago!
Phil
Re: Is it just me or is anyone else quiet?
I still think, well I hope there is a lot of life left yet in the trade! White goods ain’t the same as the brown goods there are many many differences. Might be a similar trade but it ain’t the same otherwise this trade would of collapsed at the same time the brown goods did.
As I say when you got the big boys in the game there as got to be some money in it especially when they are claiming to do millions of repairs at what is a very high premium to the customer, so that means that there is work there and people are paying! it’s just flash sales people, middlemen and fancy websites that are creaming all the best stuff.Phil
Re: bush washing machines
I have been there as we’ll hence my little outburst. A landlord with quite a few cheap machines and looking for a cheap way out or any reason not to pay usually equals disaster from my experiences with landlords.
Sorry Keith, yes I know that is a lot of money a month to sniff your nose up at, and you would be a fool to turn away good paying work, I was not saying you should turn down the work.
I was trying to say that the landlord set his stall out early with his intentions by buying such crap, so he never really as any intentions on investing to heavily in them, otherwise he would of brought something with some quality to it and I am afraid I don’t put hot point in that category. These machines are a pile of rubbish that are going to get over worked and abused due to them not being the tenants, so recalls or what the landlord calls recalls are going to be sky high! And he will not be wanting to pay for your return visits if you managed to get your money out of him in the first place that is.
Then I just snowballed in my own little rant. Lol
Think you can tell a landlord and cheap machines wind me up.Phil
Re: bush washing machines
Overpriced merloni???? There is a contradiction in terms! Even £400 nowadays does not cut the mustard! And neither should it! They are nearly all crap in that region and below! You can’t expect quality for less then a weeks minimal wage! £6 odd quid an hour x 40 – £240 a washer sub 240….. Just how does that work? Sorry but they are all pieces of sub priced imported crap! I know, I know work is work and we all have to make a living but as long as they sell this shite then people will buy it and expect miricales and want to pay nothing because the machine is worth nothing to the point it ain’t even a student at mcdonalds wage for the week! even the clothes inside the drum are worth more in scrap value!!!!!!!!!! And that is the logic that under values our trade!. Can get a brand new washer for £200, But they then expect a miricale and then when it goes wrong expect you to use the same expertise and service that you would apply to a quality machine of plus £500 to that appliance and then not even want to pay you for the above and beyond service you have provided!
Yes a blocked pump is a blocked pump! But a blocked pump on a bush or a Bosch or miele who do you think,
A, is going to pay more,
B, which machine will last longer?
C, which customer will be more satisfied in the long run and recommend you again?!Sorry I am not directing my anger at you, it just gets to me sometimes our expertise, experience, knowledge is way past the pale, and then customers, work providers, manufacturers try and dump a load of shite on our lap and expect us to polish it into a shinning diamond and not want to pay when they have given us a pigs ear to start with! So what chance have we got?
My advice which is wrong ( I really know and would never do it myself) is screw the landlord! He is expecting to pay little and get a lot! And his intentions was clear to start by putting 14 machines in to properties to start with …. He as never had any intentions of paying out!
Just my view even if it sounds bitter, I’m sorry if I have caused offenseGood luck!
Phil
Re: Pay a contact
Think it is run through a company called paym and it looks like most of the big banks inc natwest have already took it on as a way of payment.
Looks like an easy way of getting payment without to much hassle, just hope it lives upto the hype.Phil
Re: Is it just me or is anyone else quiet?
Got say it, I don’t know why people go for these d and g , British gas etc etc deals. The ones I see are usually d and g they have usually paid £135 upfront I walk in fit a part if it is needed (average price overall of parts is about £6 If I remember correctly) half hour later walk out and I have a “that it?!” “We Thought it was going to be x,y and z but at least it is guaranteed!” Or “it’s only cost us £12 a month” What they don’t realise is chances are they could probably have two repairs and the work still guaranteed for the same money! Plus the direct debit they just set up is on auto renewal so in a years time it will renew and if they don’t cancel it they will be paying for that repair for years!!! Which many do because they forget.
The thing is there is obviously work out there because the big boys are getting a big old slice of the pie! And people are having it done otherwise these big companies would fold in minutes.
So the question is how do you get your slice of the pie? More than why is the work is drying up?, it is only drying up because they have changed their game plan so you must change yours now to combat it! I don’t have the answers, it is your business and your local area you know it better then anyone inc these big outfits. You know what your customers want or perhaps expand a bit put more or new advertising methods in place or specialise in something a bit different, I really don’t have the answers. But there is work there just got to find a way of getting your hands on it!
But as kens signature says it’s not the biggest,strongest or smartest that survive it’s those who adapt to change the quickest that survive! Or something along them lines but it’s sentiment is very true.Phil
Re: How they deliver in Edinburgh
Is there not an engineer on here who goes round doing his calls on a bike? Perhaps he as expanded and gone into retail?
Who ever it is can not be Scottish, they have used way to much insulation tape to hold it on! Such waste would never happen! :tomato:
Is it me or does it look like it as got one side of the handlebar missing?
Phil
Re: Miele W360 wps Novotronic
Rinse light means that the board (pcb or as miele like to call it ” the electronic”) as not received a signal (voltage) from the tacho on the motor, so if you have metered the motor out correctly and checked the carbons,tacho,windings etc then I am afraid the next step you will be looking at will be the board………sit down and brace yourself when they give you the price, not cheap!
Oh just for future refernce if I am usually metering the motor or any other component on a miele I tend to do it from the board itself, A, you meter the loom and the component and B, it is usually easier to get at then anything else on the machine! It is easy to understand which component goes to where because they have a wiring diagram come with them.
Martin is right though this should be in technical.
Phil
Re: Argos
There as been rumblings for a long long time of Jtm losing the argos contract, the call volumes they had due to that contract was pretty big, argos is a big outfit with big volumes (ain’t sure but think there is only currys shifting more stock on the high street) even if a lot of the appliances ain’t up to much, that is still a considerable amount of work! I think it was their first or second biggest revenue stream, so it was a lot and will hurt them.
Let’s just hope they have lost it and the independent engineers get a bigger slice of the cake and a paid a better rate then the pittance Jtm paid ……. That’s if they got paid!!Phil
