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Re: Whirlpool dw – ADG7560 – F7 code
A1engineer wrote: the pressure switch in sump can also give this error if the black grids all choked with grease
If this is the case, do I need to replace the pressure switch or give it a clean?
Re: Bosch WFX3267GB/10 – motor won’t turn
Thanks Dave,
I attended to different job this afternoon with exactly the same make and model and fault.
Replaced brushes, cleaned up, tested the motor before refitting. All working fine.
The owner of the machine I attended earlier this week wasn’t very truthful about the machine. He says it came from a friend who had it for a while with no issues. Then his wife says she had it since new.
TBH the machine was in such a poor state. The state of the house give a lot to be desired. Oddly enough the husband is a carpet cleaner and offered to do mine at a discount. Me tempted? Nah.
Re: Taking in a 15 years old boy for work experience
Andy jones wrote:Of course it’s a great thing but it does make you feel on edge in that environment
It put anyone on the edge in that environment regardless who they are!
I understand the need for the security but I didn’t have that kind of security when I was a toddler. It does feels like a prison for toddlers when you are in there. I once did a dishwasher repair in one of their kitchens, you would not believe the length they went into to keep me in the corner even though the children can’t get to the kitchen. I was fenced in or out! How times have changed!
Re: Taking in a 15 years old boy for work experience
Andy jones wrote:I had to do some pat testing at a play group. I insisted that there was an adult beside me at all times. Kind of makes you feel like a criminal
I had summat similar, it was a broken tumble dryer that was shoved from the kitchen to outside in the service yard by the smoker’s shelter. I was guided to the machine after walking through so many ‘airlocks’ then was locked outside. I was told if I needed owt just press the doorbell and someone will attend to my call. It was a right faff, good job it was hot ‘n’ sunny outside.
The experience puts me off doing nursery, play centre repair job.
Re: Taking in a 15 years old boy for work experience
How on earth teenagers nowadays get work experience? With that DBS?
Re: success rates
lee8 wrote:
Chances are the indie is just doing what the major boys do and lie, well its not really a lie, just not accurate.
That is the most offensive thing you said about Indie. There are some cowboys out there but for someone to advertise the high success rate which is untrue then it is misleading and an offence to say such thing without proof. And there are consequences of doing so.
Implying that one of us on WTA would dare inflate the success rate figures in order to win jobs. It’s against the principles of WTA and it is immoral. There are talks on getting good customer service and getting the basics right. The standards are high and we should be proud to be part of a good trade association.
If that what you think of other indie (fudging the success rates) then it must mean you look down on us.
Re: success rates
It depends what you mean by success rates. In my case every job has the potential to be successful one way or another.
It would typically starts off as repair call and if you are able to repair then that is good. If you are unsuccessful to repair due to board failure, sealed drum and obsolete parts then you have succeeded in identifying the faults which is a success for you or the customer but getting that repaired is another matter.
Some brands you get more success than others. In my case it would be Bosch, Hotpoint and certain whirlpool variants. Others are pot luck.
Re: Scrap machines, worth anything
Waste carrier licence = £150, take 16 scrap machines at £8 each and you will just make profit, but the licence lasts for 3 years.
At the moment scrap machines are worth £8 each. 10 years old plus are heavier thus worth more, newer machines worth around £5.
So it is worth taking it to the scrap yard.
Re: Customers expected their washing machines to last for 12
You do have a point Ken,
I mentioned on another thread a while back that household managed to buy a good quality machine before they had children, those machines lasted most of their children’s lives. Now the children have flown the nest for university then comes home with a truck load of washing, I get calls to their houses, the owner bemoans that their current machine is not up to the job unlike the one they replaced before their kids went to university and they have a truck load of washing to do – they panic!
The moral of the story, parents get more cash strapped as the children gets older even when they go to university. The dad have a brand new Beamer on the drive way, a collection of useless golf clubs in the garage (I shall never understand the attraction of golf), the mum have a brand new Tassimo in the kitchen along with the latest coffee capsules and they still have the cheapest washing machine in the kitchen or utility. Most often you will find the tumble dryer being the twice the age of the washing machine! IMO the tumble dryer can be reasonably expected to last 12 years!
People don’t prioritise quality in their household especially the ones they depend on the most such (I do not mean depending on their children coming home for quality time as they miss them so much) washing machine and dishwashers.
They may rant and rave on how amazing their former appliances were and were also equally surprised to discover that they can get two new appliances for the same price as one they paid for 10 years ago.
I think we have a challenge on how we can convince that they need to treat the washing machine in the same manner as they treat their cars in terms of dependency. If they have a Ford car then it is reasonable to have Hotpoint, if they have Evoque then it is reasonable to have Siemens, if they have Dacia then it is reasonable to have Beko.
Re: Taking in a 15 years old boy for work experience
My son who is 5 loves playing with the pump. He even likes the Beko dryer pulley wheel. A large cardboard box off an LG washer never disappoint him.
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My work experience was with British Rail (south east base in Brighton), they gave me a train ticket to allow me to travel all over the south east. All I did was riding the trains all over the south east. Nowt educational about it, I even visited the construction site of the channel tunnel.
Re: Taking in a 15 years old boy for work experience
What kind of work can you give to a 15 years old in domestic appliance repair?
Re: Engineers in Benidorm area
Sadly I don’t have a name to a face for Lee8. It did crossed my mind though! 😉
Re: are things really that bad?
It has been quiet for the last two weeks but then our landline phone was faulty. We just found out this afternoon!
I don’t mind quiet times as it gives me something else to do around the house or work on the caravan.
I have a nice 10 years old Hpt wm in need of new bearings. Maybe will work on it this week if it’s still quiet…
