On Tue, 10 Jun 2008 18:17:13 UTC, "nobby" top posted:
Almost as much of a scandal as Wayne Rooney...
On Tue, 10 Jun 2008 18:17:13 UTC, "nobby" top posted:
Almost as much of a scandal as Wayne Rooney...
Wayne Rooney probably knows more about gas fitting!
I think that in the real world, someone in plumbing/gas fitting would be extremely lucky to earn £400 any day, never mind 'most days'. £200 I could understand, though even then, it would not be common to earn that every working day. Alan.
that's silenced the majority of you fuckwits....or are you out delivering pizzas.
On Tue, 10 Jun 2008 21:02:56 UTC, "@@" top posted:
Well, it's obvious that the term 'CORGI engineer' is an oxymoron. And you're just a moron.
Yeah, we all dream of being CORGI fitters....
A typical CORGI fitter earns £100k? I think not.
None that I know of. However, I have heard many stories of cowboy corgis making large amounts by scamming people with unnecessary and vastly overpriced work - such as a £1,000 repair to a thermostat on a pensioners boiler reported in a local paper recently, but I have no evidence of such. Perhaps you do?
I think it would largely depend to what extent your moral code allowed you to rip off your customers.
Likely to make 400 a day you would have to be willing to frog-march little old ladies to the post office to withdraw their savings.
Mel.
That sounds about right. The £200 a day is the turn over not the take home. A small one man business would have £75+ per working day of overheads.
Is there such a thing as a 'CORGI engineer'? Do they actually train and certify? I thought CORGI were just a registration facility for people trained and certified elsewhere.
I think this thread has shown that people have little respect for CORGI or for tradesmen in general. That would be their won fault and not the publics. Bring back the apprenticeships I say - where 'tradesmen' actually learned their trade and took pride in doing a good job.
Mel.
unless you're one of the rip off cowboys who lie and cheat their way through the day
I had a customer last year who thought a CORGI had ripped him off by charging him for his own pcb
As luck would have it, it was a Baxi Solo (Mk1) and the older blue board hadn't been on sale for more than three years [1]
This is obviously how our man here makes his money
[1] which resulted in a prosecution following my writing a letter to the courtIn message , Bob Eager writes
I think you were way over his head there
That was my point...the term 'engineer' is much misused.
There are some good tradesmen around, who have to pay through the nose for their 'guild membership'.
In message , Astral Voyager writes
I explained earlier - maybe before your NG was x-posted to, that CORGIs are not allowed to engineer anything - that implies modification IYSWIM
They are only allowed to fit like for like parts (one after another until it works, normally ...)
So, to bring it back to my original question. When I replace this radiator myself, and I then sell the house, and the buyer asks (well his solicitor asks) "where's the paperwork for this", what do I tell them?
That there isn't any. If they really want the house they'll buy it anyway.
Sadly we dont have a word - apart from 'mechanic' 'electrician' ' or 'plumber' for someone who has passed some sort of trade exam, but is not what in France or Germany would be called an engineer: Namely someone with a professional academic degree in an engineering discipline.
The point was that there is no such thing as a 'CORGI engineer'. Even if you accept the term 'engineer' then CORGI has nothing to do with it. CORGI is merely a registration body who (I assume as a minimum) verify and confirm a certification issued by another body. So the term should be 'CORGI registered engineer'. Semantics maybe...but clarifies what CORGI's role actually is.
Mel.
What paper work? There isn't a requirement for any paper work to change a radiator. Your not going to tell them you changed the radiator are you, not unless they ask pretty specific questions about the heating system. Vagueness is all...
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