02-03-2014, 08:48 AM
(This post was last modified: 02-03-2014, 08:56 AM by Radio Fixer.)
Whoops !! stay away from household insurance then. Just for the record, in all the years, we have had one successful claim and that was for a new lounge and dinning room carpet that got badly red wine stained. Of course the premiums went up the following year!
As said it would have been cheaper, adding up all the money we have paid in over decades, to have sorted it out ourselves. But I doubt I could persuade SWMBO to cancel it and she deals with all that stuff ... and I need a quite life
We don't take out any extra insurance on appliances.
I used to do boiler service and some repairs but now they have made it Gas Safe Engineer only I leave it to someone else. We have at last found an engineer who seems competent, fair and honest.
I remember the Colourtune device Refugge and very good it was to ... takes me back to days when cars were simple and I did it myself. But I wouldn't want one again.
Electricians having to be London Authority approved, with the power to do the work and also the inspection, seems unfair to the customer to me. It should be like building regulations really, else being ripped off is likely to happen. They all seem to be doing very well and the prices are high, for the time spent, compared to say a kitchen fitter. Recent experience would indicate by a factor of two ! Not certain yet as the job isn't completed but that's what it looks like. Yes! the fitter doesn't supply anything but had fantastic tools costing thousands.
Sorry to have included you with the "nuts" Colin 2, you have taken sensible precautions. No offence intended.
Gary
As said it would have been cheaper, adding up all the money we have paid in over decades, to have sorted it out ourselves. But I doubt I could persuade SWMBO to cancel it and she deals with all that stuff ... and I need a quite life
We don't take out any extra insurance on appliances.
I used to do boiler service and some repairs but now they have made it Gas Safe Engineer only I leave it to someone else. We have at last found an engineer who seems competent, fair and honest.
I remember the Colourtune device Refugge and very good it was to ... takes me back to days when cars were simple and I did it myself. But I wouldn't want one again.
Electricians having to be London Authority approved, with the power to do the work and also the inspection, seems unfair to the customer to me. It should be like building regulations really, else being ripped off is likely to happen. They all seem to be doing very well and the prices are high, for the time spent, compared to say a kitchen fitter. Recent experience would indicate by a factor of two ! Not certain yet as the job isn't completed but that's what it looks like. Yes! the fitter doesn't supply anything but had fantastic tools costing thousands.
Sorry to have included you with the "nuts" Colin 2, you have taken sensible precautions. No offence intended.
Gary
