I had a horrible day today and managed to not repair anything, just went around condemming boilers.
I get a call from a builder who provides me with around 30% of my work....though he does get a fairly good rate from me.
Anyway, he owns and lives in a top floor flat and the people who own the ground rent (as with flats) had organised an inspection of all the boilers in the property.
Anyway they're all Kestons (lovely right!!) and my client has been ordered to change one of his flues, (intake) as it was the wrong material. he has also been ordered to take out the mechanical couplings and change them to solvent.
He wanted me to do this as it would be cheaper than using the guy who did the inspection.
Anyway, I check his and see the mechanical connections. Fine, easy. However both flues are made from the same material. So alarms start to ring. Also to my horror there are two more sets of flues passing right through the customers property. All in a compartment. Worse still they're both made with the wrong material and even worse, one of them is sealed with silicon and not solvent welded. The silicon has failed and shrunk back in places.
So I had to knock on his neighbours doors below his flat, look at their boilers, some of them were shambolic. Silicon used in joints that should be solvent welded, and mechanical couplings to the boilers.
The compartment where these flues pass through is the storage cupboard to the most adorable little girls bedroom. So now I'm on a mission to get the whole lot straightened out. I can't see the neighbours downstairs wanting to pay me as they're mainly rental properties. All in all I was at the property nearly 3 hours. I know I won't get paid for that time, which sticks in my craw! I know the builder should pay me, but I know if I charge him, I'll stop getting the nice jobs he puts my way. Even when I go back to change the flues, he'll want mates rates. Sometimes you just have to suck it up. I just finished a seven grand boiler install job for him, so I want to keep him onside.
Anyway next job I went to was installing two relays with a total of 12 connections. No wiring diagram came with the relays. They had been delivered to client from a website I had reccomended, which when I called them to check said they would arrive with wiring diagram. So said I will call them tommorow and return with a wiring diagram.
End result, loads of calls made and miles driven. End result in Danny's pocket? Sweet FA.
I get a call from a builder who provides me with around 30% of my work....though he does get a fairly good rate from me.
Anyway, he owns and lives in a top floor flat and the people who own the ground rent (as with flats) had organised an inspection of all the boilers in the property.
Anyway they're all Kestons (lovely right!!) and my client has been ordered to change one of his flues, (intake) as it was the wrong material. he has also been ordered to take out the mechanical couplings and change them to solvent.
He wanted me to do this as it would be cheaper than using the guy who did the inspection.
Anyway, I check his and see the mechanical connections. Fine, easy. However both flues are made from the same material. So alarms start to ring. Also to my horror there are two more sets of flues passing right through the customers property. All in a compartment. Worse still they're both made with the wrong material and even worse, one of them is sealed with silicon and not solvent welded. The silicon has failed and shrunk back in places.
So I had to knock on his neighbours doors below his flat, look at their boilers, some of them were shambolic. Silicon used in joints that should be solvent welded, and mechanical couplings to the boilers.
The compartment where these flues pass through is the storage cupboard to the most adorable little girls bedroom. So now I'm on a mission to get the whole lot straightened out. I can't see the neighbours downstairs wanting to pay me as they're mainly rental properties. All in all I was at the property nearly 3 hours. I know I won't get paid for that time, which sticks in my craw! I know the builder should pay me, but I know if I charge him, I'll stop getting the nice jobs he puts my way. Even when I go back to change the flues, he'll want mates rates. Sometimes you just have to suck it up. I just finished a seven grand boiler install job for him, so I want to keep him onside.
Anyway next job I went to was installing two relays with a total of 12 connections. No wiring diagram came with the relays. They had been delivered to client from a website I had reccomended, which when I called them to check said they would arrive with wiring diagram. So said I will call them tommorow and return with a wiring diagram.
End result, loads of calls made and miles driven. End result in Danny's pocket? Sweet FA.
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