I posted that I was trying to find an electrician on my other post, and thank you for the replies .
Ardek came to my property when I had a problem when I came back off holiday , and they absolutely fine . Ardek came out quickly to us and I was pleased with the service there.
But I needed some extra work done ( not related ) and unfortunately his quote was way out of my budget , ( but I must point out that when he came to my house in an emergency, his price was fair)
Now for my grumble , and local trades people please take note ...
FIVE .. yes, FIVE electricians I have had at my house , and all except one was local ( he lived in woodley) ... I wanted someone local , basically so that someone near to me could have the work .. my logic thinking that if you keep it local, word of mouth gets around and people get more local work ... or is it just me ?
Granted its not a big job, only a couple of hundred pounds worth of work .. but for the four out of five electricians who took the time to come to my house, who's time of mine they took up with looking at the work, and then giving me the spiel of " Yes I will give you a ring later with a price " and then never even bothered with a common courtesy phonecall to say either yes we want the work, or sorry, no we don't ... would I recommend any of you in the future ? .. its going to be a big fat no !
When someone asks me, like I have asked many people if they know an electrician, the answer will be, yes, I know plenty, but four out of five to my house I wouldn't even bother with , because they cant even manage a common courtesy phone call that would take them less than two minutes .
Is it me ? because my logic is, yes its only a small job, but I might need a much bigger job in the future doing, plus, although my job is small, someone I know might need a big job doing and surely local businesses custom is built on reputation , and building that reputation up ? ... Maybe its me, and all the local electricians in Marple, are far to busy to do my small job ( I'm feeling kinda small fry
) ... but one day they might be wishing they have small jobs to tide them over... and maybe they might wish that they had rang all the customers they didn't bother even giving a second thought again at the time .. because if they had, they might be busy .
On a slightly positive note ( and believe me its only slightly ) I phoned an electrician on Windlehurst road, and he told me there and then he couldn't do it ( so I guess you could call him electrician number six .. but we will let him off because he actually hasn't done anything wrong ) .
The last electrician who visited , came round when he said he would, and said he would ring me, but , he actually came back to the house , gave me a price ( similar to what others had "verbally quoted but would ring me back on " ) , dropped some equipment off and is ready when I am for the job to be done .... result
... I shall report back IF the job is completed .
That was electricians .... don't get me started on local plumbers ... BUT I did get a leaflet though my letterbox advertising a certain plumber ... so I might give him a ring ( every cloud eh ?? ) .... but I shall be building myself up and bracing myself to dare to ask him if he would even consider removing just one radiator and sealing it off ?
Grrrrrrrrrrr !!!
Rant over
