Tricky-Ricky Posted November 7, 2015 Share Posted November 7, 2015 I hate unprofessional and rude trades people, the misses booked a local heating engineer to service our 3 year old external oil fired boiler, nothing special just the usual nozzle replace, clean and combustion check, I will be doing it once the five year warranty runs out. Anyway today its raining and not very nice, however the misses sees the van arrive but looks like he cant see the house number, so the wife nips out to verify, ( I think he was already looking for an excuse to leave before he started) Right from the start he was looking for a reason not to do the job to the extent that he was making obstacles and being just downright unprofessional and rude to extent where the wife called me and I said his attitude sucked, at which point he fooked off! He basically dint want to do the job that he booked in the rain, now after going around the side of the house to look at the boiler he took the hose reel off the wall and chucked it on the ground, then proceeded to tell the wife that his gazebo would "crush the plants", and "you will be suing me because your boiler electrics get wet" fair point but but why not either just ring and cancel the job politely because of the rain, or just turn up and say sorry to let you down etc etc, but instead he is a complete knob end! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wile e coyote Posted November 7, 2015 Share Posted November 7, 2015 Check out Checker trade .com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hitbox Junkie Posted November 7, 2015 Share Posted November 7, 2015 some people have off days but you still need to maintain a professional out look.. Just sounds as if he was a complete A$$. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mondo HnS Posted November 7, 2015 Share Posted November 7, 2015 I've just read this exact rant over on the 350Z forum! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Wilson Posted November 7, 2015 Share Posted November 7, 2015 Be sensible, you can't expect a "heating engineer" to rip you off in the rain, they need balmy, dry tranquil conditions to ponder how far to push it as they make up what's wrong with it The poor love must have been traumatised, no where for his gazebo, drizzling, in November. Jeez... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graham1984 Posted November 8, 2015 Share Posted November 8, 2015 I wouldn't put too much faith into Checkatrade either. The guy I work for is on there and to be fair he's not a massive fan of it either. You can be the best out there, but if people don't fill in a review sheet you just slip down the list as people who have more recent feedback climb list when you search an area. You could easily manipulate your rating on there too by getting friends and family to rate you high, all you need is a mobile number to 'verify' you left that feedback- plus you're not going to give a feedback sheet out if the job wasn't as smooth as it could of been, as the lower rating would cripple your average score- hence all the 9.9 ratings etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dnk Posted November 8, 2015 Share Posted November 8, 2015 Tried checkatrade once and wont bother again Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graham1984 Posted November 8, 2015 Share Posted November 8, 2015 Tried checkatrade once and wont bother again To be fair nothing beats trusting peoples opinions and word of mouth. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Wilson Posted November 8, 2015 Share Posted November 8, 2015 Wasn't Checkatrade the subject of some TV investigative programme showing it to be biased in favour of the tradespeople who finance it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wile e coyote Posted November 9, 2015 Share Posted November 9, 2015 Checkatade is one of the better ones Watch dog looked into some others Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adnanshah247 Posted November 9, 2015 Share Posted November 9, 2015 Be sensible, you can't expect a "heating engineer" to rip you off in the rain, they need balmy, dry tranquil conditions to ponder how far to push it as they make up what's wrong with it The poor love must have been traumatised, no where for his gazebo, drizzling, in November. Jeez... lol! great post Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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