[shillelagh]

If you've read my blog you'd know that a couple of weeks ago my phone went dead and i had to agree to pay £116 if there was nothing wrong with my line for a call out charge. Well spuggie has had an experience yesterday and i asked if i could put it on here and he said yeah - he's still pretty mad about it. So here goes.

Spuggie Friday night washed up and poured the water down the sink like you do .......except it wouldnt drain away. He tried putting down the stuff like mr muscle thats supposed to clear drain blockages and it didnt work. As he lives in a council flat/house thing up there - he rang the council on Saturday morning to report it - as the pipe that was blocked was the main pipe out of the house and asked when a plumber could come round. The person on the phone said its a £50 call out fee .... when he said its a council flat/house she said to him because he's working he will get charged a call out fee of £50. He said its your property and where i think its blocked is where the central heating blokes put the connecting pipe in in May because the pipework was too short ... she said its a £50 call out fee. In otherwords he got nowhere. So after he finished work he went round to b & q and told them what was wrong and they sold him a snake like thing and some otherstuff like an aerosol kind of thing for £20 - and he came home and unblocked it himself. By the way if someone rings up and they are out of work and on benefits - they get theirs repaired for free!!!!

Now as far as i know if you have a council house/flat the council should come out and repair stuff like this without paying a call out fee .... He's going and complaining about it this week.