Another reason why I hate Tradies

Our plumber was supposed to be working this week. We went out last weekend and bought the kitchen tap (with filters) that we wanted installed. Our site supervisor told us that it would be ok and that the plumber wouldn't charge us much extra as he was already being paid to install a normal mixer on our kitchen sink.

The plumbers were supposed to start on Monday, but in usual tradie fashion they didn't show up... I phoned the plumber and explained what we needed installed. He starts bullshitting me straight away and tells me that it will cost at least $250 extra to install because he has to do all this special stuff. BTW it is a DIY kit - so obviously can't be that hard. Plus it had a sticker on the box for another chain of plumbers that said that they will install it for $130.

I just can't believe how much tradies rip you off! They take one look at your house and the area that you are buidling in and then double their prices. I am SOOOOOOOOOO sick and tired of wankers that want to rip you off all the time. Might I remind you that this is the same plumber that told us that we needed to pay an extra $3000 for plumbing and then 'remembered' that he was already getting paid for part of that and promptly dropped the price by $1200.

GGGRRRRRRR! Just another couple of reasons why I hate tradies - plumbers are at the top of my list....

Plumbing Palaver Sorted!

How funny is this?

Once the Coral plumber discovered that we were looking at other plumbers to do the job (that he should have done in the first place!) he suddenly 'remembered' certain things that Coral was already paying him to do and dropped the price by $1200! Seriously, I am not in love with tradies at the moment - bunch of crooks!

Anyhoo......even though the other plumbers would have been cheaper, we decided to go with the Coral guy because we think that it will be easier in the end. Meaning that we only need one inspection from the council (instead of 2) and we know who to go back to if things go wrong. Didn't want to go with him, out of principle, but thought it would be easier in the end.

So, the plumbing went ahead as planned on Wednesday (30th Sept). Crossing our fingers that we don't have any other major oversights in the contract. Honestly you try to ask all of the right questions......

Here are some pics of the pretty plumbing (if you are into that sort of thing!)

The very expensive ($600) and ugly (but essential) first flush diverters on the water tank - they keep out all of the dust and yukky stuff when it rains.

This is the pipe that caused us so much grief!

Pretty cool because now we can see where our kitchen and bathrooms are going to be. Yipee!