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Darn customers

#1

PTmowerMech

PTmowerMech

A guy delivers an older pressure washer a few days ago. Says he wants me to check it out and make ready. Today, I go to hook up the waterhose to it, and it's got a male connection on both sides. Like what the heck happened to the female connection. I call him and asks if he has the female connection. And of course he has no clue as to what I'm talking about. I'm like "the place where you screw the water hose into has to have a female connection."
He starts giving this stuff about genders.. And I'm trying to tell him that a water hose has a male and female end. So do pressure washers.
So I send him a picture of the male end, and texts back, "That's where you screw the water hose into."

I'm thinking about tacking on an extra $25 frustration fee.

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#2

M

MParr

They walk among us. 🤦‍♂️


#3

TonyPrin

TonyPrin

PT, be thankful not everyone is as knowledgeable as you. Personally, I'm more frustrated by those who think they know more, rather than less.


#4

StarTech

StarTech

Now come on PT you darn well there are hoses two female ends. Your washing machine is one of them that uses them. But you not most garden hoses are has a male and female ends. This why I require my pressure washer customers to bring in the wand and hose. but not the water inlet side. Maybe that has to a requirement now.

Probably what happen here the female 3/4 hose connector adapter got screwed off.

Now however with all the mixed sex stuff going around who knows what was installed. It got to be a He, SHe or an IT (Quickly say all three at once with the "or" you up with a dirty two word phrase).


#5

willys55

willys55

Sounds like a $50 aggravation charge should be added to the invoice.


#6

StarTech

StarTech

Well I got a barred customer from 8 yrs to come by. He flat out lied to me about he not the one that stuck me with a repair bill. Well Sunday I rode by his place just to verify he was the right one. And of the F510 is sitting on his front lawn and his with vehicle sitting by it.

So he just made things worst for himself as if he brings in the mower I will just add the previous bill to the current one and refuse to let out without paying cash this time. Or just tell him to go somewhere else.

I can't stand liars and con artists.


#7

I

ILENGINE

StarTech said:
Now come on PT you darn well there are hoses two female ends. Your washing machine is one of them that uses them. But you not most garden hoses are has a male and female ends. This why I require my pressure washer customers to bring in the wand and hose. but not the water inlet side. Maybe that has to a requirement now.

Probably what happen here the female 3/4 hose connector adapter got screwed off.

Now however with all the mixed sex stuff going around who knows what was installed. It got to be a He, SHe or an IT (Quickly say all three at once with the "or" you up with a dirty two word phrase).
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I kept a couple of the double ended female connectors off of old washers just for that reason.


#8

StarTech

StarTech

There you go using your head again...:giggle:


#9

Hammermechanicman

Hammermechanicman

When he stole it out of the guys pickup truck he didn't check the hose fittings. He wants you to fix it up so he can sell it for a better price for it.


#10

PTmowerMech

PTmowerMech

Thanks for the reminder. I just found two washing machine hoses. They're smaller than a water hose. But should provide enough water to keep the pump from overheating.


#11

PTmowerMech

PTmowerMech

TonyPrin said:
PT, be thankful not everyone is as knowledgeable as you. Personally, I'm more frustrated by those who think they know more, rather than less.
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If folks were only as knowledgeable as me, we'd all be in a world of hurt. Imagine, I was less than 10ft away from an extra washing machine hose, trying to think of a way to hook the garden hose to the pressure washer. :unsure::unsure::unsure:


#12

O

OldDiyer

PT if you go to Ace Hardware you can get an adaptor to do what you need, I had to get one when I used wash machine flexable metal hose on my garden hose box.


#13

Tiger Small Engine

Tiger Small Engine

OldDiyer said:
PT if you go to Ace Hardware you can get an adaptor to do what you need, I had to get one when I used wash machine flexable metal hose on my garden hose box.
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Not only do most people not know (about the basics), they do not want to know or learn. I complain to my wife about it, and she says that is why they have people like me.


#14

Hammermechanicman

Hammermechanicman

What's that old saying?
"I'm not that smart. Everybody else is just that stupid."


#15

upupandaway

upupandaway

When you explained, did u get a Gilda Radner "Never mind." ?


#16

PTmowerMech

PTmowerMech

OldDiyer said:
PT if you go to Ace Hardware you can get an adaptor to do what you need, I had to get one when I used wash machine flexable metal hose on my garden hose box.
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I got a double female connection coming. LoL.. It was ordered before I found the washing machine hose.

The funny thing about this is, when it gets back to the customer, he'll use it once or twice, then store it. Then it'll get covered over and forgotten about for a couple of years. And then brought back because the carb is clogged up.

But that's job security, I suppose. right?


#17

Hammermechanicman

Hammermechanicman

PTmowerMech said:
The funny thing about this is, when it gets back to the customer, he'll use it once or twice, then store it. Then it'll get covered over and forgotten about for a couple of years. And then brought back because the carb is clogged up.

But that's job security, I suppose. right?
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That's pretty much every tiller, generator and pressure washer.


#18

Tiger Small Engine

Tiger Small Engine

Hammermechanicman said:
That's pretty much every tiller, generator and pressure washer.
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Put a fuel shut off on it, if space allows, and educate the customer on using it to eliminate most carburetor cleaning issues.


#19

J

jviews12

I have had female-female connectors in the past. Inside diameter uncertain. They exist.


#20

StarTech

StarTech

PTmowerMech said:
I got a double female connection coming. LoL.. It was ordered before I found the washing machine hose.

The funny thing about this is, when it gets back to the customer, he'll use it once or twice, then store it. Then it'll get covered over and forgotten about for a couple of years. And then brought back because the carb is clogged up.

But that's job security, I suppose. right?
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Yes it is job security per say but it is still frustrating. I am just as guilty on the generator front. It been sitting in the barn now for 8 yrs unused. I actually tried to sell it 8 yrs ago and no one wanted it. But do expect it not to work at all.

Repairs are what we do for a living and if everyone took good care of their equipment I would be out of a job.

Besides none of us can know everything. This is why there is so many different types of jobs. I would not want a plumber doing my heart surgery or vice versa.


#21

Hammermechanicman

Hammermechanicman

Tiger Small Engine said:
Put a fuel shut off on it, if space allows, and educate the customer on using it to eliminate most carburetor cleaning issues.
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