customer started work on my quote.. wtf

[TFGplumbing]

I priced for a oil boiler, unvented cylinder & oil tank install last month on a new build; UFH had been installed by a previous plumber that had ''done a bunk'' apparently so I was connecting on to that.

Got a call from the electrician, come plumber, come general builder, come tosser that had hooked me up with the job - ''The clients want you to do the job''

Well I was chuffed as I really wanted to do something other than a combi install... until.....

He said (he the electrician) had already started work on the on the 22mm cold main and various other pipework that I had quoted for in ******* JG speed fit!!!!!! And I wasn't to worry about balancing the mains supply as he just usually caps the balance supply off :thinking:

Also the Client had already cast the base for the oil tank with a 10% slope so as to tip the oil tank back & if the slope was a little steep... **please take a seat if your oftec

''we will put a sleeper under one end of tank to level it out a bit'' .. :whatchutalkingabout

bloody **** take.. At this point I had to politely tell them I was no longer interested in the job

 

[hammers4spanner]

I dont blame you unfortunately very other job i goto these days an idiot seems to be their .

 

[TFGplumbing]

I dont blame you unfortunately very other job i goto these days an idiot seems to be their .

I've had some right messers this year.. no one seems to want a decent tidy job..

Come on though.. JG speed fit on an unvented, Really? really?

 

[plumben]

I'd of walked as well, sounds like a right nightmare of a job,

Tell me though as I've never done oil
Am I right in saying that the tank base should be level as surely any sludge would block the outlet and the tank should be completely supported

 

[rpm]

I dont blame you unfortunately very other job i goto these days an idiot seems to be their .

Talking of idiots ........
5yrs ago I left a job because the women didn`t know where to isolate the electrics or the water to a macerator which was running on until the motor overheated and stopped.

Went back today to find the motor was shagged because the women had been shutting the door to deafen the noise!

PS. She still doesn`t know where the isolation points are!

 

[TFGplumbing]

You can tip them back so the sludge goes to the opposite end, not the outlet end. I've seen it done on steel tanks.

 

[gassafe]

I've had some right messers this year.. no one seems to want a decent tidy job..

Come on though.. JG speed fit on an unvented, Really? really?

I would have guessed it was okay up to the airing & then copper everything else!?

 

[TFGplumbing]

I mainly just use copper for everything.

I was really picturing a tundish hanging from some speed fit or maybe a sad looking two port hanging at some god forsaken angle from a bit of plastic.

 

[Best]

Plastic oil tanks are really to be fitted level.
The outlet is often up off the base of tank a couple of inches or more anyhow, so if you are dragging water or dirt into the fuel line, you would have been eventually anyhow. Only way is tank level and checked each year for lid area letting rain in or water or dirt in the base and it can be pumped or syphoned out directly through the lid to base.
As to customers doing your work, - what I really hate is doing a Rolls Royce job, with just the final bits where you need to wait on kitchen fitters etc, and then the customer deliberately interferes and joins the sinks up. The idiots think they can save money