Not a complaint just genuinely wanna know. Every plumber I've contacted recently has a wait that surprises me. Wondering if it's a training pipeline thing, a regional thing or whether demand has just gone up in a way the trade hasn't kept up with yet.
Always painful when you realise your favourite song has become background noise because you played it 400 times.
I genuinely think some places put way too much sauce on and destroy the entire thing.
Everyone has read The Psychology of Money. Everyone has watched the same three YouTube channels. Looking for the thing that genuinely shifted something. A specific chapter, a paper, a post on a forum somewhere, a conversation that reframed a concept you thought you understood. The stuff that is harder to find than the obvious recommendations. What is yours and what specifically did it change?
Will go first. Logging the fault as a complete loss of service rather than degraded performance gets a different SLA and a faster engineer booking even if the actual experience of both is nearly identical. Found that out after six weeks of reporting slow speeds and getting nowhere. The moment the line dropped completely and I reported it differently the appointment came within 48 hours. What is yours because this sub has clearly got people who have learned the hard way.
Did not fix it. Did not explain what he did. Did not leave a receipt. Just said something about the pipework being old and that I should think about getting it all redone and then got in his van and drove away. The leak is still there. It is slightly different now which I suppose is technically a change but I am not sure it counts as progress. Is there any recourse here or do I just accept this as a lesson learned and find someone else to also not fix it 😩
Had a friend visit from outside the area recently. Said they had heard about it. Were not worried. Approached it. The face. I could not have scripted a better reaction. It genuinely does not look like it should work and yet it does and has for decades. Do locals actually find it confusing anymore or does it just become completely automatic after enough year.
Roles are taking longer to fill. Rates that were being offered without question a couple of years ago are now being negotiated down or the role just sits there. Clients who would have moved quickly are taking weeks to make decisions. And the number of contractors I know who have had gaps they did not expect is noticeably higher than it was. Is this a sector specific thing or are people across different specialisms seeing the same pattern and does anyone have a sense of whether it is temporary or structural.
Everyone knows Whitstable. A reasonable number of people know Broadstairs. But there are stretches of coast in this county that are genuinely beautiful and quiet and practically unknown outside of locals. Which bits do people here think are most underrated and which ones would you rather keep quiet about because they only work because nobody has found them yet.