Thursday - Third time's a charm, fingers crossed!!

The repair man arranged to come back before I went off to work. “I wonder what he is going to do this time,” I thought to myself. He was only here for about 5 minutes last time. I had arranged for him to come early (8 to 8:30) as I was going to have to be at work for 10 today. I hope his time-keeping is better than last time.

Sure enough 8 came and went. 0830 came and went. I was about ready to give up as a bad job, and leave to work when low and behold, a knock at the door. He arrived, clutching some spare parts. He’s good, I thought, as he didn’t test any of the parts last time he was here, so how does he know that he will need either of those parts.

I pointed him in the direction of the oven, and he set to and took it apart. After about 5 minutes, and some banging, and looking inquisitively at a multi-tester, he stood up and announced that he had been supplied the wrong part, and it wasn’t the on/off switch that is the problem. (Surprise surprise – I had told him that the switch actually was working last time he came around, and it was the oven that doesn’t heat up, even though the light comes on, the timer works, and the grill works) Maybe if he had used his multi-tester or even his Mark 1 Ears last time, he wouldn’t be struggling with the plug this time.

Next he turned his attention to the dishwasher. Another 3 or 4 minutes he actually managed to fit the part he brought with him, and it did work (but not correctly). I don’t think that he has a dishwasher at home, as he didn’t really know how the soap dispenser worked. (He had assembled the part without fitting the vital spring that came with part.)

I was going to be late to work, and so arranged for him to come back another time. He’s going to bring the right part for the oven on Saturday morning. I told him not to worry about the dishwasher, as I’m sure it will work, and then after work, it took me about 1 minute to take the soap dispenser off, and fit the spring that should have been in there, and it is working fine now. Maybe I’ll put a bill in to the estate agents for some labour charges as well.

I’m glad I don’t have to pay the call out charges for this guy. Hopefully when he comes back on Saturday, he’ll have gotten the right part for the oven. I won’t hold my breath though.