First electrician who turned up for the wiring of my bathroom extension and a fair few other jobs that we were having done at same time during recent house renos, basically said, go put the kettle on sonny....
Sits down and has his coffee the wife made,
any biscuits there lovey, he says to my wife while learing at her.
Did what he could, paid him up, even for the time while he turned up an proceeded to unpack his van and re-arrange everything on my driveway, while he had his coffee and while he drove off because he had to do something that 'just came up'.
Wouldnt reccomend or phone that guy again.
Got a 2nd electrician in had this electrician put a hole in my ceiling when wiring new sockets and oven for my kitchen renos, a laugh and a shrig of the shoulder and half a days work for me to repair and put right after he left.
I paid him what he was owed, labour and materials and sent him on his way.
Wouldnt reccomend or phone that guy again. Worse part, $20 an hour for the 'young guy' with him. Gave impression was 2nd year apprentice or such. No worries, agreed, that was on top of the hourly price that he quoted me for himself.
Turns out the kid was on work experience............!!!
WTF
Called next electrician,
Turned up to see the job, stopped in on way home, lives up past our place.
Gave his hourly rate and said great, when can you do it.
Turned up next day, did an hour. Didnt see him for another week, came in did half hour.
Kept making excuses,
turned up, phone rings, apparently his wife wants him home, so off he went.
Waited, still, still, to come back and finish off wiring up the new circuit breaker/rcd required for the new stove and hotplate wiring that already to the back of the switch panel.
Never came back.
Drives past my house everyday on his way home.
I'm being held to ransom here mate.
I'm literally seeing him driving up my road and waving him down, pleading with him to come back and finish my wiring up so my wife can use her new stove.
Phoned many others, you ever tried to get another electrician to come in just to wire up the circuit breakers to the cable behind the switch board? No chance mate.
Managed to find one old retired guy, turned up on time as agreed, gave a fair price that was well within acceptable and proceeded to get on with it. Finished wiring it up and said it was quicker than he thought and cut the price down.
Offered him a coffee when he finished, looked at his watch and said yep, and then said as above, quicker than first thought and asked for less than the agreed price.
Apparently the 3rd guy, the one before, had the wrong circuit breakers in place, whether right or worng I dont know, but put some trust into this guy who is expected to be a professional and certified/qualified in a field I am not.
He said he gets alot of these types of jobs, going in to fix up other so called tradies stuff ups. wish I'd called this guy first.
Likewise, when I paid my concreter who I was extremely happy with when the job was finished, he gave me his final invoice on finishing up. I was happy with the job, quote/price and such, paid him that night via bank transfer once online.
Wouldnt think of waiting 30 days to pay him.
