Funny Clients

Afford-Handyman

After 5 years in the handyman business I heard the most funny and dumb question from my clients all the time .Without offense mostly women.

Pay attention to this one.

I went to do some repair work for a young lady probably in her 20's

Nice loft .... windows from top to bottom with a view to the entire city , concrete ceilings everywhere.

She wanted to install recessed lightning in her kitchen.


Any suggestion about pricing ???? lololololololololol

I just cant stop laughing in the face of the client.

jmic

Well don't laugh at her, just explain that you would have to do a dropped ceiling in order to do the recessed lights ( providing the height is there) give her a quote, then take her out to dinner.

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Joe

Woz the Painter

Get a jackhammer and hammer away...

cmwacasey

That kind of job is my favorite.Seperates the men from the boys.See if she wants to fly me to chicago.

dougchips

Good maybe you can post some pic's from your last few of these types of jobs and help the poor "boy" out. I am sort of interested in how it can be done. How do you figure the thickness of the concrete to determine if the cans have enough room to recess? Do you use conduit or find a way to bury the wires in the concrete and patch the concrete so nobody will notice.

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cmwacasey

doug i have worked in highrises and like other jobs they are all different.not trying to be arrogant but if I was in chicago I would find a way to do the job,if asked.Just remember the guy that said it could not be done got run over by the guy doing it. I would love to post some pics of my work if I knew how.I am a construction guy not a computer guy.I will try to learn.

dirt diggler

ANYTHING can be done ...

Afford-Handyman

hey guys ... For me this was just a stupid question from the lady.
I think some of you got serious about it. I dont think this can be done.
First. the building association will not let you touch the concrete at all.
Second. The lady probably did a stupid question because she didnt have idea about what recessed lights are, but If she lives in a millon dollar unit I dont think she is stupid enough to spent big money in something like this when you can solve the lighting matter with a nice track lighting system ( the expensive ones if she wants)

I did like JOE idea about droping the ceiling.

macmikeman

Drop the ceiling. I just did one. 114 recess lights in a formerly concrete ceiling. Has square cascading insets also with a cove all around that I put rope lights in, and new fans in the center of each inset. This place overhangs the ocean right next to Diamond Head. It is so jazzy now , Frank Sinatra could have lived there.

robertc65

Did She know the ceiling was concrete.

Rob

Double-A

I had a client once that called about a kitchen faucet problem. I went out and nearly burned myself when I started grabbing the metal parts to pull it apart.

I turned the water back on, and took the water temp of the hot side. It was 190 degrees.

Now, this woman was in her 60's and knocking on 70's door hard. I explained the water temperature was extremely high and dangerous, especially for someone over about 55 years of age. As we age, we lose a protective fatty layer under the skin that helps prevent scald injuries.

She said she had it turned up so high so her dishwasher would work better. I mentioned that her dish washer had a water heating element in it and was capable of heating its own water. It didn't need water that hot. She wasn't sure, as the guy on the TV said it would work better with hotter water and would save her money in the long run.

She lived alone, ran the dishwasher once a week and had a 50 gallon water heater. But, she heard it on the TV and I wouldn't hear of turning the heater down to a safer range, or installing a tempering valve to mix the hot and cold down to a safer temperature.

You just can't convince some folks.

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