My local independent GS person will not underwrite any repairs he does, he even charges for labour to fit a part that is replaced under guarantee when he sold and fitted the original part.
As a landlord I now have 4 boilers in the area, by this time next year I will be up to closer to 10.
I will keep using him for installing boilers and doing the gas safety checks, however he is in danger along with most other independent GS people of losing customers due to not being willing to give a fixed price up front for a guaranteed fix.
Fault finding take a very high level of skill, a lot more then installing new boilers, I have no way of knowing how good a trade person is at fault finding before spending lots of money – I just don’t like having to write blank cheques.
My car is getting the some issue as the level of skill needed to fault find on a modem engine is very high, and due to the low number of engine sensor faults, most mechanics are dealing with only a few each month. (In my one experience the main dealers was no better for engine sensor faults, hence I changed make of car.)
As a landlord I now have 4 boilers in the area, by this time next year I will be up to closer to 10.
I will keep using him for installing boilers and doing the gas safety checks, however he is in danger along with most other independent GS people of losing customers due to not being willing to give a fixed price up front for a guaranteed fix.
Fault finding take a very high level of skill, a lot more then installing new boilers, I have no way of knowing how good a trade person is at fault finding before spending lots of money – I just don’t like having to write blank cheques.
My car is getting the some issue as the level of skill needed to fault find on a modem engine is very high, and due to the low number of engine sensor faults, most mechanics are dealing with only a few each month. (In my one experience the main dealers was no better for engine sensor faults, hence I changed make of car.)