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Post by wetfinger on Mar 14, 2021 19:04:26 GMT
Shit sandwich for me today...
Worked 7 hours today to try and catch up, went to one job and fitted a toilet, basin tap and waste in a corner sink, total bleeding knuckles slog but got it done, then down the road to another job, kitchen tap running and toilet running.
Stoptap in vanity unit in downstairs toilet (I fitted the vanity unit in 2018), I turned off the water and flipped up the handle on the mixertap and went straight upstairs to fix the toilet, came back down to hear the water still running out of the basin tap and forgot the hot was gravity which was running into the polymarble basin. I shut the tap and CRACK!! the fucking basin cracked right in front of my eyes. I died silently inside and calmly fixed the kitchen tap before going in the lounge and saying..."errrr do you know that vanity unit I fitted? I've gone and cracked it"
I'll get a new one and fit it for free of course, they were okay about it.
Cylinder stat on 50 but I will get my thermometer out when I go back as its scorching that water.
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Post by battle1066 on Mar 14, 2021 19:58:53 GMT
When I have tough day I always cast my mind back to others jobs which have went well.
Aithough it's days like that which remind us just to give ourselves a fair crack of the whip cause hardwork breaks machines!
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Post by dickpuller on Mar 15, 2021 6:36:36 GMT
Charge plenty on the good days to make up for the bad ones👍👍👍
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Post by crowsfoot on Mar 15, 2021 7:10:31 GMT
It's not the easy jobs that test your metal - it's these type of situations that spring up without warning and how you keep going when disaster strikes.
Must've been a horror moment when that basin broke.
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Post by wetfinger on Mar 15, 2021 7:48:37 GMT
Yes it was, its all the fault of these stupid bathroom fitting designers making stuff not fit for purpose, it you can't run a hot tap in a basin there is something wrong.
You go into a house, keep your swinging toolbox well away from the walls, wear shoe covers, use cloths and mats to protect everything and end up cracking a basin in half just by turning on the tap!
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Post by DIYDafty on Mar 15, 2021 13:54:45 GMT
I don't get it. How did it crack?
And of course the customer would be happy since you said you'd sort it all out at no expensive to them. Whether or not its your fault I can kind of see why you'd just take it on the chin and do it. In a previous life I used to run a website with customers buying stuff. Occasionally something would go wrong and it could drag on and on and on. Drag your time and drag you down with it. Pay/work and get shot of the problem.
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Post by wetfinger on Mar 15, 2021 22:30:47 GMT
The heat just cracked it, like when I use a tile cut off to shove behind a pipe to solder it and it cracks, from waste to overflow.
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