£60 just for gasfitter to come out and LOOK at the job! :(

[Pabamella]

then prices start at £50 to actully do anything

We only want a gas valve shutting off!!

dont want to pay £110 for that

oh and BTW, it says 'free quotes and advice' on his advert, but I asked DP to ring and check, but its £60 for him to come and give a quote - surely thats not right?>!

where are you?

Probably means free quotes & advice over the phone, when they actually come out they start to charge i think..

Manchester,

hes literally 10 mins down thwe road and he says it'll cost more thann the usual £50 callout as were not local to him!!

Im glad DP rang tho, he was coming tomorrow AM, wouldve been so embarresing him asking for £60for doing nothing and me refusing!

what type of valve is it

a screw thing? what is it for??

is it like a tap with a lever on top or do you need a screwdriver to do something to it

either way you dont need a engineer to do that

you can do it yourself says my boiler engineer dh

noone needs to be corgi registered to shut something off

or am I misuderstanding what your tyring to do

sorry

its just a pipe going from under the floor to the gas fire, the connection needs to be stopped and a cap or something put on to make sure no gas leaks.

My dh can do the rest - remove the old gas fire once there so supply and fit the new electric one.

Surely if its gas its best to get someoone in to do it?

Isnt it illegal to do that sort of stuff yourself ... got to be corgi registered to mess about with gas supplies and all that?

right yeah
if its a pipe that needs to be opened at a joint and then capped then yes you need a corgi reg. man

if you were just shutting off a tap then you can do that yourself

you probaly dont want to hear this but dh said if you lived up here he'd do it for you for a tenner

sorry

ohhhh whyyy dont you live near me!!

Where in Manchester? I can recommend someone in Stockport...came out and fixed our boiler on New Year's Eve for £40

not far from stockport - in Withington,

could we have the number please?

That would be fab

email ..

[email protected]

Thats not right at all!!!
We had a gas fitter come out and cap off a pipe, repipe and cap off a water pipe and re pipe and it was £120 all in!. He is coming back to replumb our dishwasher and move washing machine taps etc and said it shouldnt cost more than £40

Have just emailed you. He's actually in Withington, have just noticed God, hope he's not going to be a letdown now...

fabulous

i love tinker, lol

fabulous

i love tinker, lol

oops, so much i posted it twice, lol

Hiya, just rang him tinker and hes coming over within the hour and its £20!!!

thanks tinker

yay
glad you got it sorted

Hooray

You should call the original guy back and let him know that you have got someone coming round for £20, and I would complain to the Fair trading people as he is advertising as a free call out but then charging, that is misleading and these people should not ba allowed to get away with it.
I got massively ripped off once paid £700 to have someone come out and clear my blocked drains in an emergency. Looking back I can see all the mistakes I made. It Still ranks with me and will do until the day I die I expect.

We wouldn't quote for a teeny job like that. We give free quotes for things like a new boiler, installing central heating etc.

Shutting off a valve would be a £60 plus VAT call out jobby.