Re: Grrrrrr
Originally Posted by
Judd
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Not all tradesmen. I'm honest as the day is long and have never ripped anyone off in my 50 years as a Sparky. You don't get work if word gets around that you are a rip-off merchant and can't be trusted.
I wish I'd known you were a sparky, I've just had one in last week to put two 3 way lights up in my living room.
When we moved both lights worked then for some reason one stopped working. My ex nephew in law came to look (he wasn't an electrician) and he didn't know what was wrong with it and we ended up with both lights not working after he had finished faffing about. We've had no lights in living room for quite a while but we had plenty of light with standard lamps and little lamps throwing out light.
We had been talking for ages of getting someone in to look at it and replace the ugly light fittings that were up. Bought some new modern ones from Argos and got a Sparky in, we were really worried about being ripped off which is the reason we never got anyone in sooner. My friend recommended this bloke, he came, he fixed whatever was wrong and now I have two lovely new lights up in my house.
I don't know the going rate but he quoted me £72 so we decided to go with him, the bill ended up £90 odd because he hadn't quoted for VAT. He wasn't at my house long at all but I don't feel like we were ripped off.
We he a good price?