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@fenwench @rushman1uk Registration is annual, ACS assessment which allows you to be Gas Safe registered is 5 yearly

@FranG52724134 @louisecoatesuk @Depheruk You’re not paying for the hour though, you’re paying for the van, tools, fuel, insurances, tax, labour and dare I say it, profit.

@louisecoatesuk @Depheruk £90 an hour! Ridiculous

@donaldave20051 @MichaelMassiah4 @Depheruk I’ll tell my son he can’t have his dinner tonight because I have an old lady a discount? What are you on about! We’ve got bills to pay and mouths to feed, we’re not all rip off merchants with £££££’s in the bank

@MichaelMassiah4 @Depheruk Elderly women are affected though since they are waspies - the women up until the 1970s didn’t work as much, they weren’t able to enough money for their pension. £450+ could be unaffordable to them. What the quotes should do is offer a concession discount. Like buses/theme parks

@CosyWarmPlumber Genuinely… an MP5 sub machine gun sat on top of a boiler. Funnily enough the fellas in prison now.

What is the best thing you have found at work

@CosyCatLtd @MrJosephValente There’s a company you can pay a fee to search for every company your details have ever been sold to and they will unsubscribe you, I can’t remember the name of it though

Is there genuinely a way to stop a company or person messaging you? I’ve been receiving once a week or twice weekly text messages from allegedly @MrJosephValente and I’ve blocked each one. It’s becoming harassing now. Can I remove myself from a list or something?

@lee84_swifty @GREEN_ELEC_UK @dcinet You got pipe tubes on Lee? Sometimes I think they’re a dead giveaway

@GREEN_ELEC_UK @dcinet My new van is unsigned pointless it’s just an advert to try and rob

@Depheruk A fully qualified and insured engineer supplying boiler, flue, filter, stat, pipe, consumables, labour, van, sick pay, phone, accountant, and profit? A half decent boiler alone is a £1000.

@Depheruk The work you do is great James, but to imply £2500 for a new boiler is a rip off is out of order.

Didn’t stand a chance

@Firefly15U @Depheruk This is a grey area in my opinion. Google says ‘Under Section 11 of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985, you have the right to expect your landlord to carry out repairs in a 'reasonable time'.However If parts are obsolete or hard to get,or a new boiler is required,it’ll take longer

@Depheruk Sorry to jump on this post but could you give me any information on the time scale a landlord has to fix a broken boiler with a 4 year old child in the house please?. Is there a time scale by law or just when ever he gets round to it?. Thanks in advance for any answers

@HappyGlove21 I love it mate, always have spare clothes and loads of gloves in the van but massively satisfying to service. I remember Shaun at Worcester telling me you can fault find with a stopwatch and it’s always stuck with me and simplified it for me.

@Blokey_Bloke @TanyaN090770 @Depheruk @pippadavies2 It is to be fair, and I’m first to acknowledge there are horrible unscrupulous cowboys in our industry

@TanyaN090770 @Blokey_Bloke @Depheruk @pippadavies2 To play devils advocate as someone who repairs a lot of boilers, cheap boilers tend to be more expensive to repair. Now obviously I don’t know what boiler they have, but it’s not unheard of for repairs to be ~£4/500, and I definitely don’t rip people off.

@Blokey_Bloke @Depheruk @pippadavies2 Realised they were ripped off and never asked a tradesmen into the house again, I should think.

@dlmgas I suppose when you’ve got self employed engineers willing to earn £200 a day subbing, I’d have thought that would have an effect on the stagnation of cards in jobs.

I have no intentions of giving up the company and going employed but I must admit I do check up on salaries some times. I was earning more, newly qualified, approx 18 years ago, as a gas engineer, than most job vacancies for the same job in 2022. What on earth?????

@MLiebreich This may shock you but I tend to agree with you. However, I also know that mrs smith pays my bills and most of the time all I can do is advise her. I feel the point you make is very valid, but I think some of the blame lies with the end user also.

@dsparrowgas That's exactly my point. Your industry has made no effort to explain to Mrs Smith that her boiling radiators, going on and off like belisha beacons, cost her hundreds of pounds a year. Worse: manufacturers and installers are actively misleading her, as I've shown. It's a scandal!

The UK gas boiler industry has misled consumers and mis-set their boilers on a heroic scale - wasting gas, wasting money, driving up emissions and driving funds into Mr Putin's pockets. This has to stop and has to stop now! Please read this thread, especially journalists.

@FranS199 @ParisDaguerre @Depheruk Is it a condensing combi boiler Fran?

@ParisDaguerre @Depheruk Thanks!

@Depheruk Are there any tips you can give us on the best way to use gas central heating in the home to maximize cost-saving efficiency at the same time as not having to be cold?

Anyone else notice when they take a few days off their knees start killing more than usual?

Adding points on this morning and got me thinking… who’s your highest points earner @vivasanitary?

@daleyplumbing If you have to buy your work, you’re doing something wrong

Lead generation companies have contributed to the lack of respect shown to tradespeople. It appears dictating your worth is fair game, and yet these companies allow this while charging you for the privilege. After fees, business expenses & tax this job isn't worth a ✊️💦