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Freewheeling / Re: Forumite spotting
« Last post by CrinklyLion on Today at 07:28:33 pm »
Kim, in between her timing-equipment-wrangling duties and some rushing-around-in-circles, at the BHPC race day in 'ull where we finally effected a transfer of the Trek she has had lodging in her living room for some time over to the EldestCub. Photographs were taken for comparison, and it would appear the boy is indeed now taller than her. And yes, she did persuade him into a couple of laps between races despite the fact that he was in his steel-toed work boots and was pretty achey due to suffering the after effects of spending half an hour this morning trying to bump start his flat-batteried motorbike - he was meant to be meeting some biker mates this morning for a brew before they went for a ride out and he came to collect me in his car to drive over to collect the Trek. I was delighted to see that despite his recent petrol-head tendencies, riding his bike still makes him grin the exact same grin he's worn on bike rides with Kim since the first one, 13 or 14 years ago.
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The Pub / Re: Quote for works v Works carried out
« Last post by toontra on Today at 07:26:41 pm »
Companies may build in a time/labour contingency to cover unforeseen circumstances.  I know I do.  Far better that way than coming back to the client asking for more time/money for "extras".

As others have said - if you are happy with the work I can't see a problem.
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Rides and Touring / Re: Have you been out today?
« Last post by De Sisti on Today at 07:26:40 pm »
42 miles (in constant drizzle) to Upon-on-Severn.
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The Pub / Re: Quote for works v Works carried out
« Last post by Beardy on Today at 07:18:31 pm »
Fixed price contract. If you were happy with the work done, you got what you contracted for.

Consider, if the task had taken three people over five days, would you still expect to pay what was quoted, or would you have been happy to pay more?

I would say though that the firm you contracted needs to do some work in its customer communication. The general rule is promise low and deliver high. Taking half the time with half the people you quoted is going to leave your customer feeling ripped off no matter how well well you delivered.
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The Sporting Life / Re: County Cricket 2024
« Last post by Peter on Today at 07:13:11 pm »
The Wisden link works for me, Wow.  Fascinating match.  There were over 50 no balls in it, though they are not shown against the bowlers although there is a column for that.  Wonder why so many?!

Durham v Essex finely poised, with the onus on Essex to provide a result, which will be hard with the forecast, as you say.
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The Sporting Life / Re: Southend Football
« Last post by Peter on Today at 07:02:32 pm »
Shades of Coventry v Manchester Unlimited.  Sorry for you, Bobb.
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Food & Drink / Re: A random thread for food things that don't really warrant a thread of their own
« Last post by Pingu on Today at 06:59:17 pm »
£8.29 for a cheese and ham toastie for lunch today  :o
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The Pub / Re: Quote for works v Works carried out
« Last post by robgul on Today at 06:57:51 pm »
I can see your point - but the "contract" was to carry out a task for a price.  It seems that happened and you're satisfied with the work - and happy with the price.  Not much to argue about.

We've had quite a bit of work done in the last 3 years or so (driveway, garage doors, landscaping, taking trees out, wood flooring, tiling)- it's all been fixed price . . . the labour was irrelevant as long as the job was done in the agreed time scale . . . none of the suppliers said it would be n men for n days - how they worked was up to them.
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Food & Drink / Re: A random thread for food things that don't really warrant a thread of their own
« Last post by Cudzoziemiec on Today at 06:51:34 pm »
You should get a discount for having to drink it from a plastic glass.
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Ctrl-Alt-Del / Re: Today's SPAM
« Last post by rogerzilla on Today at 06:50:58 pm »
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