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Mine doesn’t either, but she’s delegated peeling spuds and other veg. to me.The Boss never breaks down.
Bob
Thank Gawd the boss has not learned to delegate yet.Mine doesn’t either, but she’s delegated peeling spuds and other veg. to me.
Bob
TobyC
Patriot
Wash 'em and eat the skins too.
Bloody Apple. The one thing that I absolutely effing *hate* about iThings is how needlessly complicated managing music is on them. My iPhone has decided that I need two copies of any music I've bought through the iTunes store. Only one copy appears on my computer. Syncing does not fix the problem. Android - you have a music folder on the phone, copy your stuff into it, job done.
Naffing Apple, I've been beating my head against the wall for an hour trying to get the bloody thing to erase all music from my phone and re-sync, hopefully this time just the once and I still can't do it, I work in bleeding IT and it's still beating me. All searching the internet turns up is people with the same problem and no solution. iTunes the app might have been terrible but it was better than trying to integrate it into the OS like they have now.
"It just works" my left butt cheek, it just works unless you want to listen to music on your phone.
Naffing Apple, I've been beating my head against the wall for an hour trying to get the bloody thing to erase all music from my phone and re-sync, hopefully this time just the once and I still can't do it, I work in bleeding IT and it's still beating me. All searching the internet turns up is people with the same problem and no solution. iTunes the app might have been terrible but it was better than trying to integrate it into the OS like they have now.
"It just works" my left butt cheek, it just works unless you want to listen to music on your phone.
MPF9
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As a problem has developed in my old Electricity meter, I have no alternative but to accept that it needs to be replaced by a Smart Meter.
Not at all keen but as RTS signals will be switched off around June 2025, the switch would have to happen anyway. Just hope we don't
encounter the problems that Smart meters are known to cause.
Not at all keen but as RTS signals will be switched off around June 2025, the switch would have to happen anyway. Just hope we don't
encounter the problems that Smart meters are known to cause.
Smiffy
Forum GOD!
My sole Piece of advice based on my neighbours account is to take date stamped photographs of the meter and serial number before it is removed.
My neighbour has an annual energy bill of around £1500, he thought he would keep up to date by having a Smart meter and he changed supplier at the same time. Within a month he was given a bill for a little north of £6000 for the quarter from the new supplier. He argued for months the new company said that they had billed him based on what the old supplier had told them. The old supplier said that the figures were based on what they had been told at the time of the old meter being removed, but it wasn't their problem so Foxtrot Oscar.
No real resolution to this issue but it would have helped him to have had good photo evidence.
Smiffy
Forum GOD!
The cynic in me makes me think that these clerical errors might not be entirely accidental.
That’s very good advice. We’ve had s few occasions when a photo would have helped a great deal. We have learnt from past experience, however.
We rent our hot water heater from the local gas utility. They were in yesterday servicing the heater and the technician drew my attention to the expansion tank next to the heater, which had been installed by our plumber last July: it was unsupported and thus was not in compliance with the local building code; and this was noted by the technician in his call report. I called the plumber immediately and one of his lads is here now repositioning the tank so that it can be properly supported; it seems the tank was installed in the spot that was easiest for the plumber. No apology or explicit acknowledgement of the error were given by the plumbing company, but the speed of the response clearly tells me they know they are in the wrong and vulnerable. We have used this plumbing company for the last 8 years and have recommended them to some of our friends and neighbours. It’s an independent, locally owned operation, but this incident gives me pause on whether to continue using them.
chazt
shave
Was the expansion tank originally installed by a longtime, experienced technician or a newb? If it was an inexperienced person, It should be standard operating procedure for a supervisor to accompany him to the job, or follow up within a few hours to inspect, and if necessary redo the job properly. You’d think that the owner of the company, would understand that his reputation is on the line and would be sure to make every customer is taken care of as he wants to be. It’s the golden rule of sole proprietorship.