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HANDYMEN

We seem to have emerged from ice-maker hell.

The guy came for his third visit and did the whole deal (still bitching all along about how the water line wasn't right—not his territory).

I think that, fundamentally, he is an asshole and we will not have him back again.

Alex.

I am loathe to complain at this point beyond that.

I vote with my feet.

He apparently did a good job though. He retubed the whole thing, put in a new valve. Like that.

It is making ice.

It was disappointing because I had so liked this appliance service company.

If I have this problem again, my dentist told me about another outfit here in the valley.

Handymen are another problem.

We have various small chores around here which we are not up to either physically or from expertise.

You cannot get anyone to come and take care of them. Not big enough or they attract the ne'er do-well to this type of job.

My father-in-law called them 'hatchet carpenters'.

I have been aware of franchised handyman businesses that have all the bells and whistles; licenses, liability insurance, guarantees, reasonable rates. That kind of thing.

So, we got to one through an on-line clearing house. Yet another level of insurance and assurance.

It is a branch of an outfit called Handyman Matters.

We needed someone to seal the skylights over the living room.

So I put in a call.

The guy called right back and we had a man here the next morning; prompt at 8AM.

Prompt is a big thing with us. Remember the mason we fired the day he didn't show at the appointed time?

And, as far as we can tell, he did the job very nicely. It was a bit complicated and he was not cowed by it.

So we will call them for other small stuff.

Labels: appliances, repairs