Get 3 quotes and go with the middle one. Not the cheapest.
Boiler moved by a guy that isn't Gas Safe registered.
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Agreed but it still doesn't guarantee the installer is kosher.
Recommendations are still the best in that respect.
All the years I held a Corgi card, not once did I get asked for it, same with the G3 card.
Isn't that why we call them icescrapers?
The few people I have come across who pretend to be registered, most assume the name of the registered person.
Sometimes they "borrow" the details from a van they have seen.
In one case it was his uncle's name and number they were using. The uncle had complained to CORGI but they did nothing about it.
Another seemed to be picked from the register from about 20 miles away. He was quite upset when I told him about it.
Another was in London using the details of someone in Wolverhampton! They guy in Wolverhampton seemed to think it was quite amusing!
Tony
Sometimes they "borrow" the details from a van they have seen.
In one case it was his uncle's name and number they were using. The uncle had complained to CORGI but they did nothing about it.
Another seemed to be picked from the register from about 20 miles away. He was quite upset when I told him about it.
Another was in London using the details of someone in Wolverhampton! They guy in Wolverhampton seemed to think it was quite amusing!
Tony
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A chippy friend got a string of parking and other offences, the only reason he got off after months of nasty letters, was his car in Kent was slightly different to the lorry in London with the same number plate getting all the tickets.
Or rather the public should insist on seeing the cards with the correct photo on them and checking.
Then people like me will start remembering to take the damn things to work in the morning instead of leaving it on the desk for two years..
Then people like me will start remembering to take the damn things to work in the morning instead of leaving it on the desk for two years.
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If by that you mean I don't advertise and my work is nearly all by referral - then I agree.
Last week did a boiler, next week doing one for the customers friend. Week after is a customer we have had for 15 years - in fact the boiler coming out is one of my first (remember that one pipe thread I started in the CC?).
Week after that is my regular developer in Barnes.
Week after that is a friend of the family.
Week after that is the aunt of another regular of nearly 15 years.
Week after that is catch up week - or maybe the removal of a nasty Keston for another of the Barnes guy's clients.
Then after that is the removal of a dual Keston abomination for the friends of another 3rd tier referral (friends of a customer, who was friends with another customer).
As long as nothing goes t!ts up everything should be rosey - only one i am stressing over is the one pipe one - and only because I know it will be a race against time and we will end up having to add a second pipe in there some how.
In fact thinking about it - a good half of my current active customers date back from before I ran the business.
Still mustn't grumble in this economic climate
Last week did a boiler, next week doing one for the customers friend. Week after is a customer we have had for 15 years - in fact the boiler coming out is one of my first (remember that one pipe thread I started in the CC?).
Week after that is my regular developer in Barnes.
Week after that is a friend of the family.
Week after that is the aunt of another regular of nearly 15 years.
Week after that is catch up week - or maybe the removal of a nasty Keston for another of the Barnes guy's clients.
Then after that is the removal of a dual Keston abomination for the friends of another 3rd tier referral (friends of a customer, who was friends with another customer).
As long as nothing goes t!ts up everything should be rosey - only one i am stressing over is the one pipe one - and only because I know it will be a race against time and we will end up having to add a second pipe in there some how.
In fact thinking about it - a good half of my current active customers date back from before I ran the business.
Still mustn't grumble in this economic climate
Its so easy for a customer to check a gas safe reg on their web site and look at the photo.
I don't always carry my card but was once asked for it by a tenant who took it and slammed the door in my face.
She came back about 10 minutes later and I was very annoyed at having to wait so long. There was no explanation but I suspect she was checking it on the internet.
I really cannot understand those guys who don't like to give their reg number. But its up to the customers to ask and to check it on the internet. A card can be forged.
Tony
I don't always carry my card but was once asked for it by a tenant who took it and slammed the door in my face.
She came back about 10 minutes later and I was very annoyed at having to wait so long. There was no explanation but I suspect she was checking it on the internet.
I really cannot understand those guys who don't like to give their reg number. But its up to the customers to ask and to check it on the internet. A card can be forged.
Tony
I've already addressed this point in a previous reply. I suggest you read the entire thread.
Again, I've already addressed this point in a previous reply. But I'll repeat myself...
If there is only a difference of £50 between the cheapest and the middle quote (the highest is over double the middle), but the cheapest is a recommendation, whereas the middle guy is a random out of the yellow pages - who do you choose?
For those of us who have read an digested your thread. Please do keep us posted with the progress.
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