My Bosch washing machine has got a stuck drainage filter
I don't want to pay the £99 Bosch will charge.
Anyone know a good local washing machine engineer. Preferably cheap!!
Please.
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My Bosch washing machine has got a stuck drainage filter
I don't want to pay the £99 Bosch will charge.
Anyone know a good local washing machine engineer. Preferably cheap!!
Please.
If a ‘good’ local washing machine engineer (who isn’t family or a close family friend) is willing to call out for a lot less than £99 I’d question if he was ‘good’. Pay the £99 to Bosch for piece of mind re. Possible further problems. £99 seems reasonable to me, very reasonable.
Buy a new f ucker, preferably not Bosch
Can you not do it yourself? It's usually in the bottom right and will likely be a coin or bra wire (if that's your sort of thing).
They're almost always subbies. No pension, holiday pay, sick pay. People need to realise that he or she has to factor that into their price and they have to pay. Add to that personal insurance, business insurance, public liability, shit loads of travelling and then your van breaks down, and if there's a problem it's you getting the phone call at 9pm
Thinly veiled I don't have a Curry's own brand.
Look it up on YouTube. You can do it yourself.
Are people always like this on here?
Correct, self employed Jeff will pay 20% tax, probably get away with minimum contribution to NI monthly and won’t have holiday pay but that’s WHY they earn at a higher rate.
There usually are people who can come round for a lot less than these big companies quote and STILL make a bit of money.
Is everyone ****ing perfect on here or what?
The thing is, sometimes even the trademen themselves don't really get it.
We had a bedroom carpet fitted a few years ago. I used a local company who sent out a fitter. I paid the company for the carpet, and £35 to the two fitters who came to put it down, arranged by the company. The fitters did a decent job and were tidy so I asked them if they did private work. They did. I ordered carpet for hall stairs and landing. Including the supply of the rods he quoted £55 to fit. I asked him how long it would take to do the hall stairs and landing. It would take two of them half a day, at least. I questioned why the cost wasn't more. He just said that's what he gets paid by the carpet companies so that's what he charges for private work.
Absolutely bonkers. £55 for a day's work?! I paid him £120. Still saved me a fortune as I could get hold of carpet and decent underlay a lot cheaper online, and he gets to earn a fair fee. He did admit afterwards that he was just starting out on private work and hadn't really thought about pricing much, but when I got him back in to quote a few years later for something else he did remember me and said he'd upped his charging and was still busy.
that is the problem, people just starting out, they feel they have to price low to get work
I see it all the time, people starting out in whatever business, as people know i am a ex-carpenter / foreman / site agent who now earns maybe 60% of my income from window cleaning ( i still project manage building jobs for people )
2 recent examples
window cleaning, a company quote for a job to do, they ask the company how much i charge, Company boss decides to have a bit of a laugh, the job is £450, he tell them " £150 ", they come back to him with a £120 quote 120 quid, it takes me a day and a bit, maybe 10 hours, so this company are happy with £12 a hour, its just not enough, but could well have driven the price down so much that it wasnt worth doing
Building, someone i know has started out doing groundwork and landscape gardening, i had a job that needed a patio doing after a extension was built, guy says " if you buy the materials I will charge you day rates , now i was expecting £200 - £250 a day for him and his labourer, Nope £150 a day, i told him he needs to charge more, his response was " oh i used to earn £100 a day working for someone, so I am happy with that and £50 for the lad ", i then explained holiday pay, days when you cannot work, ill or rain, fuel and van costs, tool costs, the guy still invoiced me for £150 a day
Alot of people who are self employed end up doing so because there isn't much alternative. I was for 25 years, in the building trade. We don't charge more, if you end up on site then the contractor usually sets the price, or the market if you like, and the market isn't really set up for those who actually put the work in. If you've been self employed then you'll know how much work you have to put in for free, like pricing up jobs, paperwork etc. when all taken into account you can end up working 80-90 hours a week. I'm sure that Elwood will find someone cheaper, there's always somebody cheaper, although that doesn't always constitute value for money in the same way as paying top dollar always doesn't. He's got a problem that he can't fix, he doesn't have the knowledge or the skills, i'd say that £99 is reasonable enough.
The thing is though Bosch have quoted you £99 I presume without seeing what’s required and they may honour that if it gets a bit more complicated, the lad who’s sent out may be a self employed contractor who works constantly for them and can take a hit on the odd repair as a ‘swings & roundabouts’ situation. The scenario you want is a one man band taking the job on for say £75, which after his overheads (van, tools, insurances, lack of benefits etc) would mean it may come down to the fifty quid mark say. The latter operative’s nightmare is that the job escalates, as they very often do, and he has to approach you for more money, situations like this on occasions become a bit messy. £99 for Bosch to do it is a small price to pay just for their bill headed paperwork alone.
If only life on here was that simple.
The OP was only asking if anyone knew a local domestic engineer Or handyman who would sort his problem out for a cash in hand hobble, or less than £99.
You’d think that only someone who knew somebody who’d be interested would reply.
No danger! You get pissed up goons advising him to get a new machine to Harry Enfield character “you don’t want to be doing that” to financial experts who give a fiscal breakdown of a call out.
You gotta love it on here 😁
I do have the knowledge, I do probably have(or did have the skills)but if you had bothered reading my response above I have problems getting down to the work due to my legs Oh and my hands are getting a bit stiff as well.
All I am trying to do is make my pension stretch a bit further by putting a bit of work in the way of a decent local tradesman
And perhaps I should have said cheaper rather than cheap.
When I have seen similar threads before usually people have provided a name some helpful advice
I get people who seem to think I am trying to fleece the working and should.think I should be grateful for paying a hundred quid for a 15 to 20 minute job with no parts needed.
That doesn't apply to all of you of course.