scrubbedexpat141

200dhs

100 call out
100 per 1/2 hour

mikewot

Blimey! Thats excellent. I was told there would be a fee of 250/350 as I didn't have a contract. Hitches & Glitches had the same policy. I wonder if they've relaxed it now.

scrubbedexpat141

I rang their 800 number and spoke to a bloke called Colin...had a slot yesterday afternoon and the guys came round and were seriously quick.

Will use again if I need to.

Meow

That's good service & something worth paying a little extra for IMO.

scrubbedexpat141

Indeed.

My drill struggled, they just chuckled and the picture (the one Mr Meow sorted) was hung properly and securely within about 4 minutes.

shiva

You must now hand in your man card and cannot get it back until you own a proper tool kit and can use it all on your own

scrubbedexpat141

More than happy to conform to that.

You can drill into walls, get sweaty and frustrated, spend time in Ace asking an assistant which raw plug will best suit the concrete in your walls, yell at the wife for help passing you a smaller drillbit because you've ****ed up the first hole etc etc etc etc.

I made one phone call, paid 200dibs, sat and had a beer with the footie on. 25 minutes later the job was finished.

Brains over 'brawn' any day of the week.

shiva

Rule 1: NO job is too big to tackle yourself
Rule2: Never ask for assistance when choosing your tools, you are a man and are born with this knowledge, remember also the people in ACE don't know shit. and go to Speedex not ace
Rule3: You did not **** up the first hole, it was deliberate and part of the plan
Rule 4: Never ever ever call a man to assist you, if you've ****ed it up badly enough wait and the wife will call one thus relieving you of the admission of failure.

To be fair the walls here are a bitch so buy a better drill and use oversized bolts and wall plugs to hang anything heavy. For small pictures there are these things

mikewot

Scamps you really don't get the whole 'being a man' thing do you?

Millhouse

You speak a lot of sense.

Scamp - a man who goes to Ace (which is as shit as homebase) to ask what type of raw plug he needs has already failed. Speedex or a proper building shop in Satwa.

It it is heavy/ valuable use a 6mm SDS drill, fisher plugs and decent screws. Otherwise use the little plastic things and get the misses to do it.

scrubbedexpat141

I'd definitely call the AA before changing my own tyre. Why do something to please someone else when you can get someone else to do it?

mikewot

Got it now, you're a gayer. Right?

shiva

your man card is hereby revoked indefinitely


its also not about pleasing someone else its about being self reliant. kids these days FFS

scrubbedexpat141

Not to the likes of you it's not. It's a macho pissing contest.

If you're confident enough in yourself and your ability to do things yourself then you don't need to shout about doing them, nor always feel the need to actually do them.

mikewot

I think Shiva is coming from the same place as me. I have never even had the thought cross my mind of calling the AA to change a tyre. Car has the tools required and I'll do it before they even got there. I also cook, wash up, do the washing etc. I wouldn't feel like a man if I was unable to operate fully independant and need 'someone else' to do things for me.