You could sub it, we have quiet members on here, NOT ME, sorry!
Anyone had dealings with Homefix?
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Just had a call from homefix, they were looking for a spark to replace their 'usual' one as he had just retired. They were looking for someone to cover the wrexham area (north wales). When i mentioned that i covered other areas they werent in the slightest bit interested, they just wanted someone for that postcode.
Googled homefix and it would appear that they are expanding rapidly which sort of suggests that they are getting a lot of tradesmen to sign up which will dilute what little work there is.
They are going to send me an email detailing how much they are going to try and fleece me.
Googled homefix and it would appear that they are expanding rapidly which sort of suggests that they are getting a lot of tradesmen to sign up which will dilute what little work there is.
They are going to send me an email detailing how much they are going to try and fleece me.
Seems to be a reccuring theme story jackanory:O
if it's a
just received the email from them, guess what? in the last 7 days they have had 9 emergency call outs! They have 320,000 customers nationwide and 33 years experience. How much for this fantastic opertunity i hear you ask. Its yours for the princely sum of
yeah you could sub it to kme if you feel like making a good impression and judging from your poor score on rep points a good turn may earn you some browny points on here with members.
I'm sure KME would make a good impression but I doubt no more than me and my merry men do that's for sure. Also rep points on a forum don't mean jack in the real world but hey you keep plugging away Badger and I'm sure you'll get there...and just so you know how come I got em, for saying what I bloody well think of the shoddiness of work I come across and speaking my mind about it... Oh and also calling Admin3 pal, I'm guessing she was one of them cos she threatened me with it... So, that all adds up to making me a bad spark.....
Just advise me out of curiosity how come you done one of them 5 day DISQ to get ya DI???
Just advise me out of curiosity how come you done one of them 5 day DISQ to get ya DI???
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Posts like this are WHY your in the red i think youll find.
shed, not having a go at you mate, can I call you mate?
but if you are so good , efficient , cost effective and productive,
how come you need to ask basic questions like how to price up a job?
basic question time, how do I make my business financially viable?
but if you are so good , efficient , cost effective and productive,
how come you need to ask basic questions like how to price up a job?
basic question time, how do I make my business financially viable?
Well for starters steps, Badger and Jono have both posted meaningless, pointless posts, unprovoked I might add.... Jono jumped straight on the back of Badger like a numpty.... Now I don't mind a bit of constructive and/or banter, however their posts are neither , just my opinion.... I was under the impression this forum was a friendly kinda place, maybe I'm mistaken.....
As for your comment, we've had pretty much non argumentative and to a point a good amount of agreement on most subjects, however, I understand there is a clicky group of people on here for whatever reason - and I'm not for one minute, honestly, saying you are just because you have been on here a good amount of time, I respect a lot of your posts... So to answer your question - I have been in the game for a long time and had a very good apprenticeship too with a very big company that I experienced all kinds of aspects of work, prisons, hospitals, offices, industrial sites, and learnt a lot of stuff in the process.. And to add to it a lot of lads are learning with companies that have 6-7 lads on board and think they work for a big company... No - they don't as most of them are crap to put it bluntly.... But back to the point about my earlier post, I know how to carry out work but sometimes it can be difficult to work out a price with a view to winning a job when it comes to pricing up EICR's , do you not agree? I find it very difficult to win this kind of work as I charge what I deem to be the going price, BUT, there are cheaper and my question was asking what the experienced guys like myself charge, just to get a better understanding of what we are up against..... I ask this because my win rate in this area is not good, but at the same time it doesn't affect my business if I'm winning it at a poor price...
I was a little disappointed with your comment and link though steps to be honest....
And to finish, this forum, in my short time since I've been on here, is very harsh on members that don't have 1000's of posts..... It doesn't mean they aren't competent electricians, it just means that maybe they are new to this forum......
As for your comment, we've had pretty much non argumentative and to a point a good amount of agreement on most subjects, however, I understand there is a clicky group of people on here for whatever reason - and I'm not for one minute, honestly, saying you are just because you have been on here a good amount of time, I respect a lot of your posts... So to answer your question - I have been in the game for a long time and had a very good apprenticeship too with a very big company that I experienced all kinds of aspects of work, prisons, hospitals, offices, industrial sites, and learnt a lot of stuff in the process.. And to add to it a lot of lads are learning with companies that have 6-7 lads on board and think they work for a big company... No - they don't as most of them are crap to put it bluntly.... But back to the point about my earlier post, I know how to carry out work but sometimes it can be difficult to work out a price with a view to winning a job when it comes to pricing up EICR's , do you not agree? I find it very difficult to win this kind of work as I charge what I deem to be the going price, BUT, there are cheaper and my question was asking what the experienced guys like myself charge, just to get a better understanding of what we are up against..... I ask this because my win rate in this area is not good, but at the same time it doesn't affect my business if I'm winning it at a poor price...
I was a little disappointed with your comment and link though steps to be honest....
And to finish, this forum, in my short time since I've been on here, is very harsh on members that don't have 1000's of posts..... It doesn't mean they aren't competent electricians, it just means that maybe they are new to this forum......
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I am disappointed with some of the comments I read here Shed69. Can I just point out for the record the following: Any forum that is as open as this one, namely: (1) Members post are not pre moderated. (2) The content of post may be technically accurate or inaccurate. (3) It relies on all members to respect other members as they still comment on other posts in agreement or disagreement. (4) Not all members joined at the same date. (5) Not all members contribute the same amount of posts per day. (6) Not all members have the same years of experience in the trade. (7) Some members are clearly out of their depth. (8) Some members ask questions, but are not really wanting truthful answers, only answers they agree with. Stands the risk of having some members disappointed.
Reputation points can be freely given or deducted by any member when they consider a post helpful & constructive or unhelpful & destructive. As you say reputation points may well mean jack in the real world, but here we are on a forum! Your negative reputation points imply that your peers do not consider some aspects of your forum behavior to be helpful or appropriate. Typically an inability to respect the forum, its member, post accurate information, control language are all areas that reputation can be lost. As is often the case with members who have only been here a very short time, misconceptions can arise about how or why other members have higher reputation points. the number of posts a member has made has no relevance on how any other member is treated. It is normally their post content that judges how posts are answered.
We have other members who previously had red negative reputation points (possibly due to bad language, poor advice or chip on the shoulder attitudes), but they are now within the top 50 reputation with multiple 'green dot' points for the quality of their posts. I think you are both mistaken and factually incorrect with some of your assessments of this forum. A deeper trawl in the archives will show many of the members with higher reputation and/or post count have put a great deal of their own time, effort & experience into sharing some of the knowledge they have learned to help others. To imply they do not respect other members purely on a post count scale is about as far from the truth as you can get.
It may not be perfect, no forum is perfect as it is used by people, But unfortunately as with all walks of life time and experience only comes with time and experience. If you can stay around the forum for another two years, possibly then you will have a more accurate impression of how its runs. Please give it a bit longer before you start judging how the forum operates. A bit more of a positive attitude may get your reds dots turned to green.
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Doc I think you need to read post 26 & 28,29 again to see why this started and maybe make a comment on their posts instead of jumping on mine, I was simply standing up for myself...
I like this forum as it can be helpful - my point is I won't just sit back and ignore needless comments from people I don't even know.... Why would I? As I'm sure you wouldn't Doc.... However as I have a red dot and they haven't you jump on me!!!
I like this forum as it can be helpful - my point is I won't just sit back and ignore needless comments from people I don't even know.... Why would I? As I'm sure you wouldn't Doc.... However as I have a red dot and they haven't you jump on me!!!
ill have you know im not a 5 day/week wonder i have actually been in the industrry 10 years and went to college for 4 years from school, did c and g 2360 and passed first time, im old school trained not these new nvq 5 days/week wonders probably like your self. i have my quals to prove i went the right route, im not saying the bad workmanship in the field should not be shown and discussed but slating a qulaified sparky being in the trade 10 years and qulaified for 10 years after serving a 4 year apprentiship as well. i would say you are out of order, no wonder people here dislike your attitude, as you show no respect to our long standing members at all. reputation points dont mean anything in a forum sense in the real! world but the pictures of what ive ripped out and work ive done does stand for something called quality, take a lookback at my posts and the comments by the posts/threads ive started and make a dudgement on what people say about me in the real worl. funny tho all the repp points i have say something good, unlike you where you are thought of as arrogent and stuck up in mho.
1. I haven't slated you....
2. I was simply asking about the DISQ, I haven't heard of it...
3. I know your not a 5 weeker as I have seen your website, which is where I also saw the DISQ thing along with your apprenticeship so that's how I know...
4. I am not a 5 week wonder but don't feel the need to state it in the manner you have which could be deemed as been arrogant yourself... Especially by a 5week wonder... They are not all bad ...
5. Stuck up??? Are you having a giraffe or what!!! You have a very special talent if you can work out people from a post!!! Maybe you could make a career out of your Mystic Meg like talent... (Joke by the way)
2. I was simply asking about the DISQ, I haven't heard of it...
3. I know your not a 5 weeker as I have seen your website, which is where I also saw the DISQ thing along with your apprenticeship so that's how I know...
4. I am not a 5 week wonder but don't feel the need to state it in the manner you have which could be deemed as been arrogant yourself... Especially by a 5week wonder... They are not all bad ...
5. Stuck up??? Are you having a giraffe or what!!! You have a very special talent if you can work out people from a post!!! Maybe you could make a career out of your Mystic Meg like talent... (Joke by the way)
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Free fortune telling with every new CU?
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I think you need to re-read post 31, no one was jumping on anyone (irrespective of how many posts or reputation point anyone has). I was merely replying to your incorrect assumptions about how the forum works and commenting on how reputation points are awarded. Clearly as you have said you like to speak your mind and the forum encourages healthy debate, you will also have to accept others are free to speak their mind about your comments as well. discussion is a two transaction. I will clarify again, You have a negative forum reputation because equally, (or more), experienced persons working within your trade sector, consider some of your input to the forum to be poor either by content or attitude.
As I said in my previous post the forum may not be perfect, no forum is perfect as it is used by people, But unfortunately as with all walks of life time and experience only comes with time and experience. If you can stay around the forum for another two years, possibly then you will have a more accurate impression of how its runs. Please give it a bit longer before you start judging how the forum operates. A bit more of a positive attitude may get your reds dots turned to green.
Your statement that "this forum is very harsh on members that don't have 1000's of posts" is factually incorrect and can be verified by reading many of the posts over the years it has be operational. In answer to your question. No, myself the other moderators or Admin will not just sit back and ignore needless comments about how the forum runs from anyone who clearly has limited experience of the overall content of the forum and its 18,000+ threads, 256,000+ posts and 19,000 members. When someone makes comment about another members posts it is not jumping on anything. It is called 'replying'. I am not sure how you expect answers and discussion without members replying to others posts?
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Be careful or you'll wake he who shall not be named up!!!
We don't want that do we!
We don't want that do we!
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Nobody, and I MEAN nobody speaks their mind the way I do - NAPIT, NICEIC/ESC, ECA and IET all know what they will get from me if they show disrespect to the Trade. I`ve had senior scheme employees purple with rage, red with embarrassment and white with fear when faced with what they are up to - and it doesn`t matter how senior they are - if they have been on the fiddle (which they always are) they get it both barrels.
But I still try and be polite .... ROTFWL
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Get these people ring me every now and then, if they need someone urgent then get a job off them charge for it then give them a cut of the money but as soon as they want a fee up front then that sound like they are just a SCAM
Would not touch them Matey !!!
Would not touch them Matey !!!
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