Room 101

[Angle Poise-Lamp]

I tend to use it when paying for a pint etc now. If someone nicks my bank card they can use it (at least until I've cancelled it), but unlocking the phone requires my finger (or thumb) print.

My phone needs my face to unlock and authorize payments and, I've also set a long passcode (unlike most things, I can remember numbers). If another man's face looks enough like mine to open it, he has my sympathy.

 

[GSV Ethics Gradient]

We've just had a pergola installed in the garden, and it's a lovely thing. But two of the roof louvres on one side are now sticking (after just a few days), and the supplier's response (after asking all sorts of questions about had we moved it etc) was that they will supply new parts, and we'll have to fit them. The third party installer won't do the job without being paid, which the manufacturer is not prepared to do. And this third party provides no warranty to their work beyond the time of installation. If we do the job, our warranty is not affected, they say. Given that it was pretty expensive, I'm pretty unhappy with this. Whether there's a trading standards angle, I don't know.

So if you are thinking of getting a Hygge pergola, or using SGK Distribution, you might want to bear this in mind...

 

[Cricketbat70]

We've just had a pergola installed in the garden, and it's a lovely thing. But two of the roof louvres on one side are now sticking (after just a few days), and the supplier's response (after asking all sorts of questions about had we moved it etc) was that they will supply new parts, and we'll have to fit them. The third party installer won't do the job without being paid, which the manufacturer is not prepared to do. And this third party provides no warranty to their work beyond the time of installation. If we do the job, our warranty is not affected, they say. Given that it was pretty expensive, I'm pretty unhappy with this. Whether there's a trading standards angle, I don't know.

So if you are thinking of getting a Hygge pergola, or using SGK Distribution, you might want to bear this in mind...

SGK yeah tell me about them. We use them for our two man deliveries and locations that would take our drivers too far off the beaten track. They are very good at damaging washing machines etc.

 

[GSV Ethics Gradient]

SGK yeah tell me about them. We use them for our two man deliveries and locations that would take our drivers too far off the beaten track. They are very good at damaging washing machines etc.

I've deleted my bad review of them - one of the slats has warped, but it's not an issue of how it was installed. Still deeply peeved with Hygge though. We'll see where it goes.

 

[Gray]

I spent yesterday installing electrics in a brand new garden shed - that they'd had installed by the supplier.

It wasn't cheap but you'd have to see the poor quality materials and construction to believe it - floor bending to reveal daylight as you stood on it - three sheets of glass glued in place as windows, already letting in rain water.
Nails only half banged in.
Many things now are only as good as they need to be, this particular shed can only be described as inadequate.
(It's got light and power now, but its made of matchwood and there's a real risk of it blowing away in the first storm).