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Paul S_3

a few jobs that i lost.....this is one customer with a few properties that i maintain and provide service too....i replaced one steam boiler for this customer a few years back....really nice install but the customer said my prices are too high....this is what he gets and i have to maintain this......on the hot water job i dont what this guy was trying to do....and the weil mclain steam boiler job has water hammer like crazy since the install the tenants tell me.

Steamhead

You don't HAVE to maintain those disasters......................

ratio

Boy, those installs look like they were nice and cheap!

Too bad you got stuck maintaining them, but as least you've got steady income.

Paul S_3

i dont mind maintaining them ill charge accordingly....i performed a combustion analysis on all of them....one had high CO around 500PPm....gas pressure was off....and the williamson steamer when i started it up the horizontal unions were leaking....i tightened them but itll happen again

BobC

Is he is too stupid to realize he will pay you more to maintain those than he would have if you had done the install correctly?

Penny wise and pound foolish,

Bob

ratio

I'd hazard a guess and say yes. I don't understand it myself. If you can't afford something, it means that you...can't...afford...it...

Don't know why people think that what they can afford will be exactly what they can't afford.

Fred

The odd thing is, judging from these pictures, paying for what they "can afford" probably cost them about as much as it would have cost them to pay for what they "can't afford" ???

ratio

They want to get a Cadillac, spend for a Yugo, & expect it to perform like a lamborghini.

Abracadabra

You aren't charging him enough to maintain them. That's why you are maintaining them and not the cheap guy who installed them.

bruce_21

Raise your maintenance rate 10% every time the guy calls you and don't forget to include the travel time. You need to get back the money you lost estimating those jobs.