When customers have offered to buy all the materials for a rough plumbing job, I've turned them down.
I would never expect to wait around for someone else to do my shopping.
When I do rough plumbing, I have enough on the truck to do enough work for a week or two. A homeowner isn't going to know what to buy when it comes to pipe and fittings.
A bad experience with the homeowner that didn't want to pay for what I pulled from my fitting trays, fitting buckets and pipe on my roof rack, was feeling that he should get those things for free, since I already had it on the truck.
I pay $7.28 for a 3/4 brass union. The job I'm talking about was a complete rough-in for a three bath home. The rough material came to thousands of dollars. I did finally make him realize that "every" customer pays for their own fittings, and there is no "free" stuff that "somebody else" has paid for out of the kindness of their heart. Do people really think that we overcharged the previous customer and had "left-over" material that's been paid for? That's just goofy. What we do have is material on the truck that we haven't sold yet. In retail, that's called inventory.
But like mentioned above, you're on shaky ground if you are changing the contract without conferring with the customer, either oral or written. And you can't go back and undo the work. Once installed, it's done.
In the original case here, I wouldn't have even started the job.
The plumber made a mistake by agreeing to do the work.
I would never expect to wait around for someone else to do my shopping.
When I do rough plumbing, I have enough on the truck to do enough work for a week or two. A homeowner isn't going to know what to buy when it comes to pipe and fittings.
A bad experience with the homeowner that didn't want to pay for what I pulled from my fitting trays, fitting buckets and pipe on my roof rack, was feeling that he should get those things for free, since I already had it on the truck.
I pay $7.28 for a 3/4 brass union. The job I'm talking about was a complete rough-in for a three bath home. The rough material came to thousands of dollars. I did finally make him realize that "every" customer pays for their own fittings, and there is no "free" stuff that "somebody else" has paid for out of the kindness of their heart. Do people really think that we overcharged the previous customer and had "left-over" material that's been paid for? That's just goofy. What we do have is material on the truck that we haven't sold yet. In retail, that's called inventory.
But like mentioned above, you're on shaky ground if you are changing the contract without conferring with the customer, either oral or written. And you can't go back and undo the work. Once installed, it's done.
In the original case here, I wouldn't have even started the job.
The plumber made a mistake by agreeing to do the work.
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