Asked to change a programmer. Ch fault still occurring.

[armyash]

Hi,

Had a phone call today from a letting agent. Asked me to straight swap a programmer and asked how much. I said 1hr labour if its as they say.

Programmer supplied by agent and left at the property for me. I asked has it been confirmed it's the programmer at fault. (I didnt want there to be another issue and be expected to deal with it for the same charge). They said yes it's just that the guy who diagnosed it couldn't get there today.

Replaced programmer, turned ch on pump comes on, runs for 10 seconds then goes off. Same with hw.

If I manually open three port it will run fine.

I bled the radiators, slow to fill. I checked the f and e, full of muck. Bleeding rads the water looked like oil.

3 port makes a bit of a creak. Got to. Be this that is faulty surely?

 

[SimonG]

Not your problem. Bill for work asked for. Don't touch until you get written instructions.

 

[armyash]

100% agreed.

It was a honeywell imitation, I had one on the van but said to the tenant I'm not changing it as I haven't been given the go ahead and I can't guarantee they will pay me. (they most likely would but not going to risk it). I have done a few jobs for them now, not big bucks but 1 or 2 jobs a week.

I left it in the open position so they have heating but advised it was a temp fix. Going to let the agent know tomorrow and will say to them if they put it in writing that they are happy for me to carry out repairs up to a certain amount in the future then it might mean getting some jobs done sooner.

 

[chris watkins]

What the hell are you doing Ash! you really must learn not to get carried away. You were instructed to go fit the programer (no warrantee offered by you as they supplied) That is all you should have done, just as soon as you start on other things you become liable.
I know you do it with the best of intensions (as I us to) but you will learn the hard way.

 

[armyash]

What the hell are you doing Ash! you really must learn not to get carried away. You were instructed to go fit the programer (no warrantee offered by you as they supplied) That is all you should have done, just as soon as you start on other things you become liable.
I know you do it with the best of intensions (as I us to) but you will learn the hard way.

I understand, I'm a glutton for punishment and no doubt it will bite me one day.

The tenant doesn't speak very clear English so will not be able to say to the agent what I did.

I know I didn't have to do any more than change the programmer but I wanted to see what was going on in case I do get asked to go back.
Thanks.

 

[chris watkins]

I understand, I'm a glutton for punishment and no doubt it will bite me one day.

The tenant doesn't speak very clear English so will not be able to say to the agent what I did.

I know I didn't have to do any more than change the programmer but I wanted to see what was going on in case I do get asked to go back.
Thanks.

I know BUT........

 

[SimonG]

You always get bit in the ar$e when you go above and beyond.

 

[Welder]

I understand, I'm a glutton for punishment and no doubt it will bite me one day.

Ash. Chris is quite correct. It's not you, it's the world we inhabit. It's simply full of people who bend you over given half a chance.

Try looking at it this way. If you do more, even investigate, than you were asked WHO pays for it? The extremely simple answer is YOU and YOUR family. That's who.

Carry on doing what you do well and DO NOT get inquisitive, because all the time you are exploring YOU ARE PAYING THEM because you use that information subconsciously to do a 'better' job than you were paid to do.

Ask yourself another thing. If you've been inquisitive 100 times, how many times have you subsequently been paid for that time?

Its different its some poor old dear, but NEVER NEVER NEVER do it for ANY form of commercial entity. They WILL screw you over.