awkward job / customer / situation?

[Stu3y]

just for fun, whats the worst/weirdest job/customer youve had? is there any jobs youve had to walk away from becasue of a nutty customer, or a minging house? you must come across some sights and some awkward moments working in peoples houses every day? :cool3:

 

[hammers4spanner]

to many minging houses now lost count did have a full blown punch up with a tennant and all their mates in someone elses front garden once , was over a heating pack!!

 

[Alex Knight]

Haha definitely been in a few scummy houses, just wipe your feet on the way out and you'll be fine, I'm sure one of them had **** up the wall in the living room, and the flies were too scared to land on the sticky work tops! Don't even talk about the cats

 

[Resolute]

to many minging houses now lost count did have a full blown punch up with a tennant and all their mates in someone elses front garden once , was over a heating pack!!

Did you win?

 

[rpm]

Had a customer years back who thought he had a lifetime warranty on his macerator after a lengthy conversation I gave up talking to him, to this day I don`t know if he was winding me up or he was serious. And a work mate once had a customer refuse to pay so he flushed the tampon back down the toilet and back in the macerator as he left, made me smile that did but he got a slap on the wrist from the boss.

 

[lame plumber]

did a mobile home this morning, arrived to find another plumber there, out came the owner who I could smell at 25 paces!!! BO and ****, so mentioned she owed me a cancelled call out fee, at which point matey who was already there said I dont, got in his van and vanished!!

On with latex gloves, Deep breathe went in and opened bog window, didnt look in the bath as the contents were level with the overflow and writhing!!. WC cover was off, noisy valve so in with a new washer, on service valve, flushed 3 x and all quiet. Head out of window for air and knealt down to pick up dropped screwdriver, euuugh, wet floor and knee pads soaked it up. Outside, billed £60 notes and of to some clean air, only issue was the kne pads had absorbed too much off the floor and my eyes were streaming!, so went home stripped and everything in the WM, with Mrs retching in the corner. Still £60 for 10 minutes is good money, just need big lungs and a strong stomach, the first bloke had neither and I have followed behind him once before and copped the readies then. Just how some folk live is beyond me, she was straight out of Little Britains sketch to my mind

 

[rpm]

did a mobile home this morning, arrived to find another plumber there, out came the owner who I could smell at 25 paces!!! BO and ****, so mentioned she owed me a cancelled call out fee, at which point matey who was already there said I dont, got in his van and vanished!!

On with latex gloves, Deep breathe went in and opened bog window, didnt look in the bath as the contents were level with the overflow and writhing!!. WC cover was off, noisy valve so in with a new washer, on service valve, flushed 3 x and all quiet. Head out of window for air and knealt down to pick up dropped screwdriver, euuugh, wet floor and knee pads soaked it up. Outside, billed £60 notes and of to some clean air, only issue was the kne pads had absorbed too much off the floor and my eyes were streaming!, so went home stripped and everything in the WM, with Mrs retching in the corner. Still £60 for 10 minutes is good money, just need big lungs and a strong stomach, the first bloke had neither and I have followed behind him once before and copped the readies then. Just how some folk live is beyond me, she was straight out of Little Britains sketch to my mind

And you were the one telling me that you wouldn`t touch a macerator Lame, I think I`d be the one throwing up at that.

 

[village idiot]

A month ago, I walked out of a shower install. All that was left was fitting of the quadrant cubicle. But the customer went on and on about what her friend said should be done etc? Every time something did not go to plan (she bought a 900x900 shower tray and cubicle, when I had already removed old one, 800x800, removed old tiles, fitted backer board and retiled), she would start to cry???

On the final day, just as I was about to fit cubicle, she called from work, saying her friend says I should have used a mould resistant sealant in the bath area? I asked if she knew what sealant I had used? She said no, but said she wants me to remove the sealant and reseal with mould resistant sealant.
I hung up the phone, packed up my tools and left.

 

[hammers4spanner]

Did you win?

old bill turned up blues n twos on , council liason officers few arrests couple ko's we went back in a nd cracked on with heating pack

was all quite surreal

 

[lame plumber]

And you were the one telling me that you wouldn`t touch a macerator Lame, I think I`d be the one throwing up at that.

p1ss is ok to deal with, poohs a different kettle of fish. Once youve drunk in some of Glasgows best, you can cope with urine, no one sensible would go near a pub bog in normal circumstances, and I will never try macerators. I didnt delve to deeply in what was in the bath but I am sure it wasnt supposed to be in a bath, luckily ammonia outstinks pooh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Paulus]

I was cleaning out a heating system. Once I had drained the system I went into the roof space, switched on the overhead light and started to clean out the f&e tank. As I was working away it started to get darker and darker. Eventually I looked up at the light bulb to find literally thousands of flied all over it.

I got out fast and did some research. They were cluster flies. I bought a bomb thing and set it off in the roof. All you could hear through the ceiling in every room upstairs was the buzzing of these flies dying.

The next day I went back up and waded through all the corpses and cleaned out the tank, there were hundreds of flies just lying dead in the tank. I was itching for days.

 

[rpm]

p1ss is ok to deal with, poohs a different kettle of fish. Once youve drunk in some of Glasgows best, you can cope with urine, no one sensible would go near a pub bog in normal circumstances, and I will never try macerators. I didnt delve to deeply in what was in the bath but I am sure it wasnt supposed to be in a bath, luckily ammonia outstinks pooh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Shall we agree to disagree over a brown slurry

 

[Jimbob]

I had a customer who's father knew everything (but didn't). Bloody nightmare

 

[SimonG]

I had a customer who's father knew everything (but didn't). Bloody nightmare

The wife's niece is married to one like that, he knows everything about nothing.

 

[AWheating]

i had a guy who had been on a dole multiskill course and said he knew everything. He went on and on about it, he had never done a days work in his life. So to shut him up i went outside and came back in and gave him a bit of paper with a time and date on it. he asked what it was, i said "its your interview time, ive told the gaffa you know your stuff and he wants to give you a job."

he stopped talking to me and never mentioned work again.