Cowboys everywhere

Zamboni

Are all tradesmen the exact same?

• Offer free call out and quotations and charge anyway
• Hang around looking at stuff scratching themselves and charge additional labour
• Offer unnecessary expensive and time consuming solutions to milk additional labour
• Only offer honest service to friends and family

:mad:

DGOBS

No, not all tradesmen are the same.

jimf

sounds like you had a bad experience

Wearb

In all fairness to the op, I have to admit to having the odd scratch while working.

I do, however, keep my promises and do the work that I charge for. You seem to have been stung. Please don't tar us all with the same brush.

Are all customers stingy ignorant morons? Of course not.

Fuzzy Clam

Feel for you OP.
Parents were ripped off twice by plumbers.

Carpenter

Like anything we are not all the same (Some good some bad) but you pay for what you get in most case,s.

Zamboni

It is a shame if there are good ones because there is no way of distinguishing them until they're in your house and on the clock.
Basically have to pay twice to get second opinion.

Guy 1
"Free" call out and quotation
Here for an hour. Wants €70 + VAT
Says new pump is needed €200 + Labour. Then leaves house with no heating.
Then phones and says it actually needs a new board €500 + Labour

Spidey senses tingling

Guy 2
Here for 45 minutes - I say nothing about guy 1.
Says the boiler, board and pump all fine.
Just air in the system.
Full service
€100

It's like a feckin lottery.

Wearb

I know it very difficult to know who's who. A trusted recommendation is probably best.

You ask "Are all tradesmen the exact same?" then give an example of a bad one and a good one in your last post. So there, you have answered your own question.

Billy Bunting

Zamboni wrote: »

It is a shame if there are good ones because there is no way of distinguishing them until they're in your house and on the clock.
Basically have to pay twice to get second opinion.

Guy 1
"Free" call out and quotation
Here for an hour. Wants €70 + VAT
Says new pump is needed €200 + Labour. Then leaves house with no heating.
Then phones and says it actually needs a new board €500 + Labour

Spidey senses tingling

Guy 2
Here for 45 minutes - I say nothing about guy 1.
Says the boiler, board and pump all fine.
Just air in the system.
Full service
€100

It's like a feckin lottery.

Recommendation. never just trust the book or the web.

DGOBS

TBH, most guys will call out for a free quotation for 'substantial works' or 'boiler replacements' etc

But I don't know that one would callout free of charge to diagnose your required repair, I would have always applied a callout charge for this, but would waiver it if the customer decided to go with the (correctly diagnosed) repair.