Is anytime between 08:00 and 20:00 "convenient" ... ?

[T i m]

Hi All,

I have just had a letter from British Bas suggesting that Siemens would like to come round on a date (specified) soon to change our gas meter (they did the lekky one a while back).

Thay have given me a time range between 08:00 and 20:00, is that right?

They also add it should only take about 30 mins so you would have thought they could pin it down closer than 'sometime' over a 12 hour period!

If that is right the, 'book' re when they will turn up looks like this so far:

25:1 When I've popped down the garage to get something ..

10:1 When we are half way through cooking dinner ..

4:1 When I've *just* got through to customer services ..

Odds on: As I step into the shower ..

The odds are much logner against being disturbed whilst being 'intimate' with the missus (I didn't know what sleeping on my own was like till I got married) ;-(

(others?)

All the best ..

T i m ;-)

Mind you, if she is as nice as the lady who changed the lekky meter ... ;-)

[Tony Bryer]

like this

Odds on they just don't turn up at all. Which they didn't for me so I got on to them and told them that I wasn't staying in for another full day. So they confirmed a new date 0800-1200 ... and left their card at 1400. Old meter still in place and they seem to have forgotten about it.

[Char]

Hi,

I had letter like this last year...

Worked from home on the specified day.... They didn't turn up..

Got a letter in the post the next day saying it was being rearranged for

2 weeks later....

When they did turn up... It didn't take very long.. (15-20 mins)

Hope it goes well for you..

Regards...

[Charlie]

Just had this done. They called at 10am on the day booked to say there was 'van trouble' and could they rearrange it for three days afterwards. OK by me as I work from home. On the new day they turned up at 12.30 exactly (it was a p.m. slot) and started work.

Trouble was, when the Transco bloke came round later to change the isolating handle, he pointed out they'd fitted the meter skewiff, with rawlplugs into soft mortar, hadn't filled out the front label at all, and he also pointed out the Siemens guy had dropped the blanking caps for the meter on my front drive. Not impressed personally....luckily the Transco guy was a star and refitted the meter properly.

C

[MatSav]

Siemens came *twice* to change my gas meter. *Twice* they looked at it and said "Oh dear. It's a very old meter, with lead pipes, and we can't touch it. That's a specialist job." :-(

A friend of mine had a scruffy young oik (TM) from Siemens arrange to call and carry out a "safety inspection" on the replacement boiler (CORGI installed, of course!) in her council-owned flat. He called a week early(!), and also *tried* to check all of the other gas installations, including a cooker - at which point he was asked to leave! However, he did leave a copy of the inspection note, which said something like "cooker not fixed to wall". It wasn't fixed to the wall, because he removed the chain, to move the cooker out and inspect the fittings!

On leaving, he asked for directions to "number 17". One week later, the same scruffy young oik called again - "I've come to inspect your boiler..." - sent away with a flea in his ear, and a copy of the previous week's inspection - and once again, he asked for directions to "number 17"!

[T i m]

Snap!

Well, apart from the school run I was in all day and I would have thought they'd have left a card ..

Which they didn't for me

Sweet .. ;-(

Old meter still in place and they seem

Blessem .. ;-)

All the best ..

T i m