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Just seen the new british gas tv add ! The one with the a team music ! Just wondering if your customers are over the moon when you give the boiler case a bang with your elbow to close it ?
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How long will it take before people figure out BG is a big con ?
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Alot of people think they are the bees knees ,i will never forget on a landlord service i had done revealed they had a gas leak on the boiler the same boiler bg serviced the day before lol
Friends of my parents have a contract with them, they noticed they had a gas leak weeks ago but thought they were imagining it till it got too strong bg man came out did a tt it failed so he capped off the meter and left it said they'd have to go back to bg and they'd send out someone to sort it any 2days later they came out and worked out it was the cooker which the old boy said the smell was coming from there, told them to ring bg again and they'd some one out to fix that,guy comes out says it needs new part three weeks later they still don't have a cooker, they say having difficulty getting the part it's a 3 year old rangemaster can't see it being too difficult
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One of their fitters said to me: "I know BG is not very good, but all the other big companies are even worse!"
Which could perhaps launch a new slogan: "We may be the biggest, but we're definitely not the worst!" :dizzy2:
A small company would never get away with selling so many broken promises.
How long will it take for people to get bored of these types of threads.
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It's not a case of liking or not liking it really. People will always get on the back of the big boys like BG eon etc. And every mistake they make will be amplified to a greater extent, but its unfair to judge them by these things. If we all believed what we heard then we wouldn't trust any gas fitter.
Look at watchdog on the bbc, they are always picking on one man bands within our trade, now if everyone saw this and acted the way people do on here about BG then no one would trust any gas fitter.
Of course BG make mistakes, as does anyone, but from what I've seen they do a great job in the main but people just choose to notice the bad.
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its in everyway fair to judge them by there mistakes as they fail to deliver on a consistent basis .they consistently con the public into power flushes blatantly rip off on boiler upgrade prices as well as a shocking service policy .If you claim to be biggest best then youd expect the best service.the good side im affrais is way over shadowed by the shocking performance they are consistent on giving
Do you get all this information courtesy of the bloke down the pub? I've contracted there for years now and I've never seen any of these things you speak of. The only thing I'd slightly agree with you on is the cost of a boiler install, but there is no crime in being expensive.
Ive never seen a powerflush missold, you'd get in a lot of trouble or misselling anything.
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Nope all comes from custards and friends where i have followed to price works for magnaclean install or boiler upgrades .over £300 ti install magna clean ,,,yeah right !!! power flushes that are not needed is another classic services of obsolete boilers and they tend not to mention to custards that parts are obsolete . they are a shocking outfit that are now just another large company out to make as much money as possible to pay the dividends for the board.
i would say nearly every week i come across a bg classic bodge which is a shame as they have some genuine workers
i would say nearly every week i come across a bg classic bodge which is a shame as they have some genuine workers
They tell everyone if parts are obsolete for their boiler it's part of the service sheet list. So I don't know where you heard that from. Like I said before on the expense issue, it's not a crime to be expensive.
Youll have your opinion on them, and I'll have mine, I'm not on here to argue with people an mean no offence to anyone with any comments I make. But I have seen first hand what they do and offer to customers and I think there ok. We'll just have to agree to disagree on this one.
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Villa, I have to agree with h4s although there are good engineers within bg the minority let them down. This is from experience where I have had to riddor bg 3 separate times for gas leaks one of whom was a manger!!
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your wrong they maybe supposed to inform customer that they have an obsolete boiler but they dont as have a familly member whom that happened to .opened up a service plan with bg and for couple years serviced boiler (supposedly) and when it went pop they were told the parts been obsolete for a few years classic bg sting!!
A difference to be expensive and clearly ripping off people
You can agree to whatever as you work for them but i also see on an everyday basis what a pile of pap they actually are
A difference to be expensive and clearly ripping off people
You can agree to whatever as you work for them but i also see on an everyday basis what a pile of pap they actually are
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Where i disagree with you Tom 83 year old lady needs new pump old 20 years old, yes love pumps failed cos of debris in system you need a powerflush. I inspected the water and a couple of rads of water hardly nothing particle wise and the water was almost as clean as tap water
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