Friends and family often recommend dishes to try, stores to shop from and DIY handymen and engineers to hire for domestic jobs. When it comes to installing gas hob although their recommendations mean well it\u2019s often not a good idea to take the recommendation of an acquaintance who\u2019s referral includes a \u2018low cost\u2019 engineer. This is because \u2018low cost\u2019 engineers are typically unqualified when it comes to installing gas hob.<\/p>\n
Additionally in this modern age websites also have begun to offer referrals but these sources cannot always be trusted either. In an online forum a member named \u2018cuberider\u2019 shares his experience of installing gas hob. He initially found an engineer on a website that recommends tradesmen.<\/p>\n
He found an engineer who claimed that he would give him a free quotation on site. I\u2019m sure we could all agree that this is a great offer however there was a cost to this free deal. Once the engineer arrived, cuberiders’ \u2018great deal’ began to falter. He writes that: \u201cHe turned up the next day. Looked at the boiler and quoted \u00a3309 for the PCB with \u00a390 for fitting vat inclusive. Sounded high so I said I would consider it and get another quote. The story changed and I was pushed into paying \u00a330 for ‘diagnosing the problem’. I demanded a VAT receipt which he couldn’t supply – just a scrappy bit of paper with cost and job.\u201d
\nCuberider\u2019s negative experience highlights the risks and scams involved with accepting online recommendations offering cheap deals. You may have heard the saying \u2018It\u2019s too good to be true.\u2019 In most cases when it comes to cheap offers for installing gas hob it is.<\/p>\n
At Fitting a Cooker all of our engineers are Gas Safe registered and carry their identification cards with them at all times. Whilst the cost may seemingly be more than that of an unqualified engineer it is important to note that scammer engineers may end up giving you unrealistic quotations as in the case of cuberider. So why waste your time and money on scammers?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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