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on31ll
Whos going to the contractor forum ?
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haha - There's a Cafe. A "Contractors Cafe". But we'll make a bar too as soon as it takes off a bit. Might even have a vote for an actual pub name this time too.
As for the threads being dead since 2009, it was launched in 2009, had an influx in members as we advertised it, and then I never did anything with it so they slowly dwindled back to our usual forums which is fair enough.
I've been working on it for a couple of days and thought I'd give it another go with some different software. Seems a lot prefer it to be honest but it is different and some people get used to what they know - also fair enough.
It's trade-only, so no DIY. And if guys don't run a business, or it looks like they're asking DIY-questions, they'll be banned and posts removed. It doesn't take long to clock a DIYer.
It's not in competition with our existing forums, it'll be a nice side-line. In the future, we'll have members register to it that wont be on our main trade forums, and we'll cross-promote those eventually and you'll end up with a few heads because of it, hopefully. So it's swings and roundabouts.
To those that have registered: thanks.
To those that haven't: no worries. Hope you still stay put here on UKPF.
As for the threads being dead since 2009, it was launched in 2009, had an influx in members as we advertised it, and then I never did anything with it so they slowly dwindled back to our usual forums which is fair enough.
I've been working on it for a couple of days and thought I'd give it another go with some different software. Seems a lot prefer it to be honest but it is different and some people get used to what they know - also fair enough.
It's trade-only, so no DIY. And if guys don't run a business, or it looks like they're asking DIY-questions, they'll be banned and posts removed. It doesn't take long to clock a DIYer.
It's not in competition with our existing forums, it'll be a nice side-line. In the future, we'll have members register to it that wont be on our main trade forums, and we'll cross-promote those eventually and you'll end up with a few heads because of it, hopefully. So it's swings and roundabouts.
To those that have registered: thanks.
To those that haven't: no worries. Hope you still stay put here on UKPF.
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To be fair, I don't like change myself.
As daft as this might sound, you can imagine me changing all my forums to green and red or something, I bet you 50% wouldn't come back. Yet it's the exact same forum, just a colour change. So I can understand if even the forum changed a bit. Sidebar on the left and not the right or something daft, another 10% would go. Wouldn't take too many small changes to lose 99%. I still get my 1% that wont go no matter how hard I try to get them to though lol
As daft as this might sound, you can imagine me changing all my forums to green and red or something, I bet you 50% wouldn't come back. Yet it's the exact same forum, just a colour change. So I can understand if even the forum changed a bit. Sidebar on the left and not the right or something daft, another 10% would go. Wouldn't take too many small changes to lose 99%. I still get my 1% that wont go no matter how hard I try to get them to though lol
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NO!
And if you can link me to those threads (which I'm guessing are old?) I'll remove them and PM the member(s).
Are they 100% builders, and not gas engineers?
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Guest123
Contact me over there and I'll get it deleted. I'll have a thorough look through all the old threads tomorrow and delete these threads and post up our gsr advice.
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Found it. I've closed the thread and have replied saying why. To be fair, the thread was started in November 2009, and I don't think we even were too strict back then on UKPF too to be honest.
I'll make a rules thread for the forum so people are clear about it.
I'll make a rules thread for the forum so people are clear about it.
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on31ll
but nothing gas was mentioned ! it was frost stat and lagging ! its going to be stupid if you cant even mention the word boiler if sombodys throwing GSR at you or closing threads ! yes i understand the rules and i hate DIY gas ! i dont do it myself but sometimes just to much !
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I don't think it's too much at all really. It's taken a long time and a lot of hard work by many on here to get to the point this forum is at. I think it will undermine all that has been done on here if it isn't mirrored on there.
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on31ll
thats not my point though. i understand that it does take time and alot of money for lads to get there quals etc but if i read the thread rightly no gas was mentioned or the actult placement of boiler etc it was litrally lagging and pipestat ! and if you need to be GSR to lag a pipe then ill give up plumbing now !
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The good thing about the contractor forum is that you don't have to listen to muppet customers droning on about how is oil boiler is tripping the electric or matey who has an axe to grind with WB cos they serviced his boiler in 20 minutes.
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Will have a peep then cos of what you have said
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It's an alright forum to be fair. It wont be everybody's cup of tea, but it sure is a cool forum software-wise and idea-wise. Hopefully it takes off, and we will be sending some plumbing contractors over this way when they want to delve deeper into the plumbers minds!!!! OOoOooOooOoooooOoo *Derren Brown voice there*.
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