This business was contacted by the care team responsible for my elderly mother in law, whose full time carer had reported a failure of the domestic cold water supply.
An engineer attended the same day and replaced the ballcock in the cold water storage tank. All good. Then the invoice, with no breakdown of costs, other than specifying 2hrs labour………to change a ballcock?
Total charge, as the title says, £450.
Obviously I requested a more detailed invoice, nil response, requested again, got the original invoice again. I then raised a complaint with customer services re the invoice. Emails have subsequently been exchanged.
It was abundantly clear, from his responses, that the after sales manager, a Jake Hayley, did not read my emails.
He offered a partial refund by way of a "goodwill gesture," which has not been paid.
He then subsequently claimed the £450 cost was a fixed price charge and therefore a detailed invoice could not be provided. He included a newly made up invoice to support this claim, apparently forgetting that the original invoice was already in the email chain! The original is shown below.
It looks to me as though someone took the opportunity to grossly inflate the charge for a simple job and then when questioned, attempted to cover up after the fact.
On that basis I would suggest looking elsewhere for a plumber.
Update.
Following the review I had a request for more information from customer service……. A different representative this time. I directed her to the conversation with the first representative rather than repeat the whole saga again.
Guess what? Not a squeak in the subsequent month.