What we all working on this week ?

[king of pipes]

I have a insurance job to try and rescue a poorly installed quad shower the customer wants to save the tiling if possible and has a few spare so fingers crossed it may work , the loss adjuster allowed em £1500 that will just about cover materials. Kop

 

[Aquarius]

Another one completed.

Are the toilet bunny ears a Yorkshire thing? 😂

 

[SimonG]

Are the toilet bunny ears a Yorkshire thing? 😂

Good spot 👍👍

Tray, radiator, shower unit, basin, toilet and twin air fresheners all re used.

Customer now wants new radiator.

 

[Aquarius]

Good spot 👍👍

Tray, radiator, shower unit, basin, toilet and twin air fresheners all re used.

Customer now wants new radiator.

Re-used as in theirs, or second hand? Was it the tiling that you’ve done then, obviously removing and refitting suite?

 

[SimonG]

Re-used as in theirs, or second hand? Was it the tiling that you’ve done then, obviously removing and refitting suite?

The toilet and basin had been fitted a couple of years back. Tray was in good condition, just took it out, new waste, remove the old silicone and revealed it back into position. Tanked it and tiled it.

New cladding on ceiling and lvt on the floor.

They've had loads of problems with condensation, but their son is in the shower on full tilt for half an hour.

Electrician going in to fit a second extractor, but this time ceiling mounted in line fan and out through soffit. Existing one far too low.

 

[king of pipes]

The toilet and basin had been fitted a couple of years back. Tray was in good condition, just took it out, new waste, remove the old silicone and revealed it back into position. Tanked it and tiled it.

New cladding on ceiling and lvt on the floor.

They've had loads of problems with condensation, but their son is in the shower on full tilt for half an hour.

Electrician going in to fit a second extractor, but this time ceiling mounted in line fan and out through soffit. Existing one far too low.

Very nice Simon 😁 kop

 

[ShaunCorbs]

Hope it’s not imperial sizing

 

[Ben-gee]

Are those two air freshers needed ‘cos you got a bit carried away on your ‘plumber’s privilege test run?!’

 

[Aquarius]

This is what I’m working on for the next few weeks:

 

[ShaunCorbs]

This is what I’m working on for the next few weeks:

that’s going to take you a bit counting them

 

[Aquarius]

that’s going to take you a bit counting them

I just normally shovel them in 😉 had jaw ache last night after some though 😏

 

[SimonG]

Are those two air freshers needed ‘cos you got a bit carried away on your ‘plumber’s privilege test run?!’

As the wc was re used I didn't feel the need. Even more so with all the slid marks inside the pan.

 

[Dan]

Morning everybody.

1. Hope you are all well. What have you got on today / the rest of this week?
2. How are we all feeling? I think we need help each other out a bit when we're in times like these. Hope you're doing okay.
3. When are you up for your jab? - Do you know yet?
4. How's work, is it still trickling through or has it dried up? Or perhaps you're booming at the moment with boilers breaking left right and center.
5. What PPE extras are you taking?
6. Which suppliers are open physically? Which are online only? Where are you getting your stuff from?

Answer all or any or nowt. Let's see if we can check in and help each other out.

 

[Markxxxx]

All good

 

[harleyjohnston027]

Work and life is good. What about the others?

 

[Dan]

Your suppliers still open mate?

 

[harleyjohnston027]

Your suppliers still open mate?

Our services are open

 

[Aquarius]

Morning Dan,

Great thread mate. Mood/mental health is up and down, but generally ok. How about you? I haven’t stopped really other than annual leave since last lockdown. Boiler breakdowns is my main area of concentration, I work in social housing, so we have to provide landlord certificates, so these guys are still working as well, and we provide emergency breakdowns, but we’re still attending non emergencies. PPE I’m using is more disposable gloves (wore them anyway with my kind of work) and masks. Customers have to adhere to social distancing, we now ventilate the room(s) where we’re working, and ask the customer vacate the room(s) as well. Our stuff is mainly from Travis Perkins - called managed services they have measures in place, such as booking a time slot, only so many allowed in, etc. A lot of gas/heating stuff will come from direct heating spares (TP owned).

 

[Amarka]

All good my ends Dan. I’m a DIYer so rely upon the support and advice from this forum to get the simple jobs done. Other than that, all else is well.

 

[Murdoch]

Too much work to do and just having 10 days at home self isolating hasn’t helped

fortunately all my customers are understanding and realistic

 

[Reddwarf4ever]

Morning everybody.

1. Hope you are all well. What have you got on today / the rest of this week?

My life centres around 24/7 caring for & shielding my Wife, not much time for anything else

1. How are we all feeling? I think we need help each other out a bit when we're in times like these. Hope you're doing okay.

Depression and anxiety are my main concerns....anytime I have had to go out, I get a severe panic attack, never known anything like it. I hope when this is all over, these feelings will stop, get so paranoid, a very scary world. 😱

1. When are you up for your jab? - Do you know yet?

Meant to be getting a letter this week for my Wife, I am 67 so hope it will come fairly soon

1. How's work, is it still trickling through or has it dried up? Or perhaps you're booming at the moment with boilers breaking left right and center.

No work, not paid anyway 😂 retired, thank God

1. What PPE extras are you taking?

Use masks when answering the door, fanatic about hand gel and sanitising worktops and delivered parcels.....got to do everything possible.....so far so good 🙏

1. Which suppliers are open physically? Which are online only? Where are you getting your stuff

we have a local hardware shop that stocks just about everything, all food & meals are delivered, so rarely any need to go out, I guess we are very fortunate 👍

1. from?

Answer all or any or nowt. Let's see if we can check in and help each other out.

 

[Dan]

All good

Where has this guy gone? People can't delete their own accounts now and I haven't deleted them.

@Lou? - You do ne this?

 

[Dan]

My life centres around 24/7 caring for & shielding my Wife, not much time for anything else

Depression and anxiety are my main concerns....anytime I have had to go out, I get a severe panic attack, never known anything like it. I hope when this is all over, these feelings will stop, get so paranoid, a very scary world. 😱

Meant to be getting a letter this week for my Wife, I am 67 so hope it will come fairly soon

No work, not paid anyway 😂 retired, thank God

Use masks when answering the door, fanatic about hand gel and sanitising worktops and delivered parcels..got to do everything possible..so far so good 🙏

we have a local hardware shop that stocks just about everything, all food & meals are delivered, so rarely any need to go out, I guess we are very fortunate 👍

Nice reply thanks matey.

You'll be alright once this is all over mate. Anxiety has increased massively recently but I bet it calms down just as quick once we're all comfy going for walks that aren't forced on us lol

 

[Reddwarf4ever]

One thing that’s increasing anxiety, for both of us, is the number of scam phone calls we get each day, currently 4-5. Set my mobile to do not disturb at night, but Have to leave the landline on, in case get hospital calls etc. Have registered with TPS, but makes little difference that I can tell. I block the numbers, but my land line phone only has a 100 blocked call limit, so soon fills up, have to delete and start again. Most calls are pretending to be Amazon, Apple Open reach, recent car accident etc. etc. I admit I do use some choice words to these callers, I do have to be careful though, as some withheld or unknown numbers are genuine, so have to wait & see if a scam or not.....the Virgin media ones are particularly convincing, discussing router issues and possible connection issues...lostened to a lot of drivel the first couple of times, but now I recognise the banter 🤯 I suggested to OffCom & Virgin media that have a database of scam numbers, contributed to by customers ( an easy way of doing this could be created ) then anyone subscribing ( free ) to this service would automatically have all the numbers on this database withheld, this would cut down on a lot of nuisance calls, as the database would continually be updated, every time a scam call number was reported....Virgin could have the option to confirm the number before adding to the database.......but they JUST NOT INTERESTED.....Even wrote to my M.P. Who just suggested blocking unknown callers, well that wouldn’t work as hospital calls are always unknown as they come from a switchboard, in fact it’s now illegal to make a marketing call from a withheld number, so I think they are in the decline, the numbers used are I believe virtual numbers. I phoned One scam call number and it was a private residence who said he had no knowledge of calling anyone.....I think maybe the scam callers are now cloning normal numbers, anything’s possible I guess 🤯

may have to invest in a new cordless landline phone, found one that has a 1000 blocked call memory and can block numbers by the area code or simply beginning with 0229, so that may help....🤞

 

[Aquarius]

One thing that’s increasing anxiety, for both of us, is the number of scam phone calls we get each day, currently 4-5. Set my mobile to do not disturb at night, but Have to leave the landline on, in case get hospital calls etc. Have registered with TPS, but makes little difference that I can tell. I block the numbers, but my land line phone only has a 100 blocked call limit, so soon fills up, have to delete and start again. Most calls are pretending to be Amazon, Apple Open reach, recent car accident etc. etc. I admit I do use some choice words to these callers, I do have to be careful though, as some withheld or unknown numbers are genuine, so have to wait & see if a scam or not..the Virgin media ones are particularly convincing, discussing router issues and possible connection issues...lostened to a lot of drivel the first couple of times, but now I recognise the banter 🤯 I suggested to OffCom & Virgin media that have a database of scam numbers, contributed to by customers ( an easy way of doing this could be created ) then anyone subscribing ( free ) to this service would automatically have all the numbers on this database withheld, this would cut down on a lot of nuisance calls, as the database would continually be updated, every time a scam call number was reported....Virgin could have the option to confirm the number before adding to the database....but they JUST NOT INTERESTED..Even wrote to my M.P. Who just suggested blocking unknown callers, well that wouldn’t work as hospital calls are always unknown as they come from a switchboard, in fact it’s now illegal to make a marketing call from a withheld number, so I think they are in the decline, the numbers used are I believe virtual numbers. I phoned One scam call number and it was a private residence who said he had no knowledge of calling anyone..I think maybe the scam callers are now cloning normal numbers, anything’s possible I guess 🤯

may have to invest in a new cordless landline phone, found one that has a 1000 blocked call memory and can block numbers by the area code or simply beginning with 0229, so that may help.***🤞

Perhaps try this?

 

[townfanjon]

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