Post by rocketmanbkk on Oct 30, 2022 15:43:30 GMT
I’ve just been to my rented flat today as the tenants moved out & new one want to get in:
Internal stop cock was dripping & must’ve been dripping for a year or more, absolutely disgusting in the cupboard but I wasn’t made aware.
So I found the stopcock to the flat in a cupboard in the communal hallway. Turned of the one numbered 36. As my flat is 36. Nothing, water still gushing out of the taps so I think it’s not working & make a note to ring the management company tomorrow.
As I leave a big woman comes out & starts going off at me. She then tells me the plumber, standing there has charged her £168. He pipes up, ‘I’ve been here an hour’. She didn’t have any water to her flat!!!! Mmmmmm…..
So, I open the cupboard with a triangle key, that the other plumber didn’t have so he couldn’t look in the cupboard & turn number 36 back on. Hey presto she now has water.
She then ‘demands’ I pay the £168 to which I respond by saying that’s not going to happen.
I said why didn’t you knock on the other flats to see if they had water as maybe Thames Water had shut it off. To that I got no reply.
I then say to the plumber, ‘£168 for an hours work?’ He says yep.
I then said so if you had a key to the cupboard & you turned the stopcock back on within 5 minutes do you still charge the hour? ‘Yes, £168’.
I said to him that he should order a triangular key like I had to do last week as it would’ve saved him 55 minutes!
I look at the woman. She looks at me fuming.
I laugh & leave.
She ain’t getting nowt out of this southerner. I’m tighter than Branston pickle jar top.
£168 an hour
I might start advertising Sunday call outs if people are paying that.
£168 an hour. I still can’t get over it.
Cheers all
Internal stop cock was dripping & must’ve been dripping for a year or more, absolutely disgusting in the cupboard but I wasn’t made aware.
So I found the stopcock to the flat in a cupboard in the communal hallway. Turned of the one numbered 36. As my flat is 36. Nothing, water still gushing out of the taps so I think it’s not working & make a note to ring the management company tomorrow.
As I leave a big woman comes out & starts going off at me. She then tells me the plumber, standing there has charged her £168. He pipes up, ‘I’ve been here an hour’. She didn’t have any water to her flat!!!! Mmmmmm…..
So, I open the cupboard with a triangle key, that the other plumber didn’t have so he couldn’t look in the cupboard & turn number 36 back on. Hey presto she now has water.
She then ‘demands’ I pay the £168 to which I respond by saying that’s not going to happen.
I said why didn’t you knock on the other flats to see if they had water as maybe Thames Water had shut it off. To that I got no reply.
I then say to the plumber, ‘£168 for an hours work?’ He says yep.
I then said so if you had a key to the cupboard & you turned the stopcock back on within 5 minutes do you still charge the hour? ‘Yes, £168’.
I said to him that he should order a triangular key like I had to do last week as it would’ve saved him 55 minutes!
I look at the woman. She looks at me fuming.
I laugh & leave.
She ain’t getting nowt out of this southerner. I’m tighter than Branston pickle jar top.
£168 an hour
I might start advertising Sunday call outs if people are paying that.
£168 an hour. I still can’t get over it.
Cheers all