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#2908260 29-Apr-2022 12:27

Services do seem to be very poor here. I am in a similar situation. Power lines across private land, overgrown trees and vines, some power poles need replacing, lines company won't do it because they only service roadsides, private companies don't reply or say they are too busy to take on new customers. What the hell are we supposed to do? I keep waiting for the power to go out. Will they come then? I doubt it.

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#2908323 29-Apr-2022 13:14

martyyn:

I also want some work done on retrimming my car. I will pay top dollar for someone to take the time to do it properly with the right materials and I've said that to every place I've been to. But four places who all advertise they can do absolutely anything have all said "oh I dont know about that, this will be tricky, that might need some work, I don't know how we will do that". It's retrimming some door cards for gods sake. Why can't someone just say "yes we can do that, it will take time and will cost $x, but we're prepared to do it properly if you're happy to wait and pay".

So we end up doing nothing :(

Yeah I have similar projects where I've done everything I can. I have the money aside, got all the parts etc. Just a wait for certifier to sign the car off, I think the hardest thing is there is just no timeline. I also have a project mountain-bike that is basically done, just need one final thing sent to me. Hard part was finding it.

I do find myself losing interest in them a bit. The project car has been at the panelbeater for six months and three days now, which is good in one way as I don't have to have it in the garage but I can't do any work on it!

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#2908329 29-Apr-2022 13:22

Rikkitic:

Services do seem to be very poor here. I am in a similar situation. Power lines across private land, overgrown trees and vines, some power poles need replacing, lines company won't do it because they only service roadsides, private companies don't reply or say they are too busy to take on new customers. What the hell are we supposed to do? I keep waiting for the power to go out. Will they come then? I doubt it.

We have a similar scenario. Our neighbour cut all her trees down a few years ago except for the one on our joint fence line which was near our power line. The cheap FB joker she got to do the others wouldn't go near it and at the time the power company wouldn't take care of it because it wasn't within 1m of the line.

Move on a few years and it's now completely surrounding the line to our place with huge branches directly above it.

The cheap local tradies don't want to go near it, she says she can't afford to engage a professional and the power company (who would apparantly do it for free) won't come out to check it.

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#2908332 29-Apr-2022 13:28

And now Paypal. Do you think I can enter an ANZ bank account after transferring the ownership of an account from one client to another ?

Plenty of people appear to have had the same problem since 2016, but none of the suggested solutions work. Whenever I've called their support in the past they have made me jump through hoops to prove who I am but then failed to provide a solution to the problem.

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#2908430 29-Apr-2022 20:13

Behodar:
Yesterday that changed, and Apple made first-party parts available to order by anyone. The advocates are now whining that Apple's forcing the use of first-party parts and making it too difficult to use third-party ones.

That's the whole idea, and people are justified in complaining. Apple and John Deere are the two poster children for outrageously-priced products that are designed to be impossible to repair by anyone other than authori$$$ed dealer$$$$. And I don't meant not repair-friendly, I mean with extensive design effort put into making them impossible to service by third parties via various DRM mechanisms.

Faced with looming government regulation, Apple engaged in a preemptive strike to short-circuit any attempts at regulation by allowing the pretense of third-party repair while ensuring that while it was theoretically possible, it wasn't really practically possible.

This is a political move, not a technical one, they hope to avoid government regulation by making it seem as if they're allowing third-party repair when in practice they're not.

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#2908431 29-Apr-2022 20:23

martyyn:
But past experiences have not been great when we've done that.

Unfortunately now, and more generally the last year or so, is just the worst possible time to get tradespeople in to do anything at all unless they're ones you've got an existing relationship with that you can call on. For work at the Casa we've had people working after hours during the week and on Saturdays and Sundays because that's the only time they've got available, and been generous with... dispensations for people who've come to do work in what should have been their free time. For some smaller jobs you just can't get anyone to respond because they're booked solid for the next six months and will either quote an outrageous amount to avoid the work or never get back to you.

If the work isn't specialised, try looking for local handymen on Nocowboys, they usually jump from one short-term job to another so there's more chance of getting one to respond.

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#2908446 29-Apr-2022 22:09

Rikkitic:

Services do seem to be very poor here. I am in a similar situation. Power lines across private land, overgrown trees and vines, some power poles need replacing, lines company won't do it because they only service roadsides, private companies don't reply or say they are too busy to take on new customers. What the hell are we supposed to do? I keep waiting for the power to go out. Will they come then? I doubt it.

I suspect that it is at least partly because the European idea of actually penalising service companies like this when they take too long to do what they are supposed to do has yet to take off.

I used to work for a large water and sewage company in the UK. Every 5 years the Regulator, OFWAT would require a new set of proposals from every water and sewage company (same for phones, electric etc but with their own Regulator). The company would submit the proposals (such as how many cubic metres of leaks they would reduce over the next 5 years, what engineering improvements and network development they would be doing, how quickly they would fix burst pipes, how soon they would answer customer phone calls and so on - huge detail, running to hundreds of pages in several volumes).

OFWAT then looked at them, inevitably tightened the targets and reduced the proposed charges and told them to get on with it. Every significant failure cost money in compensation to the affected party.

We need the Regulators to hit these companies in the pocket when they fail to do what they are supposed to do instead of mumbling "Yeah, nah - sorry about that" and letting it continue.

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#2908478 30-Apr-2022 09:15

@martyyn

I feel your pain. In our house, DIY stands for Don’t Involve Yourself.

I get professionals in to do everything - even hanging our art collection. The delays, poor service and slack attitudes we have encountered would fill a book.

As to pricing, when I go out to get quotes and report back to the Finance Minister, she always replies “1,2,5 or 10?” being the round number of thousands it usually is!!

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#2908484 30-Apr-2022 10:16

martyyn:
We have a similar scenario. Our neighbour cut all her trees down a few years ago except for the one on our joint fence line which was near our power line. The cheap FB joker she got to do the others wouldn't go near it and at the time the power company wouldn't take care of it because it wasn't within 1m of the line.

Move on a few years and it's now completely surrounding the line to our place with huge branches directly above it.

The cheap local tradies don't want to go near it, she says she can't afford to engage a professional and the power company (who would apparantly do it for free) won't come out to check it.

If it is your service line that is in the trees I doubt that the power company will do it. They will disconnect the power while your arborist does it. Only arborists approved by the power company can work near the power lines on the street.

Is it clearly her tree? Some fenceline trees straddling the boundary can end up being joint responsibility.

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#2908498 30-Apr-2022 10:47

Bung:
martyyn:
We have a similar scenario. Our neighbour cut all her trees down a few years ago except for the one on our joint fence line which was near our power line. The cheap FB joker she got to do the others wouldn't go near it and at the time the power company wouldn't take care of it because it wasn't within 1m of the line.

Move on a few years and it's now completely surrounding the line to our place with huge branches directly above it.

The cheap local tradies don't want to go near it, she says she can't afford to engage a professional and the power company (who would apparantly do it for free) won't come out to check it.

If it is your service line that is in the trees I doubt that the power company will do it. They will disconnect the power while your arborist does it. Only arborists approved by the power company can work near the power lines on the street.

Is it clearly her tree? Some fenceline trees straddling the boundary can end up being joint responsibility.

We had that issue.

Powerco will do it the first time it’s an issue. Personally I think keeping the easements for their equipment clear ought to be their responsibility not the landowner’s.

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#2908508 30-Apr-2022 11:12

"The power lines between the power pole and your home, are owned by you (the homeowner). This means that if there is any problem with the power line between the power pole and your property, you will be responsible for their maintenance." - Citizen's Advice Bureau

This is unlike telco lines that are network up to the house.

That said for some reason the power lines co in Wellington seem to maintain the line up to my sister's house even though about 100m of it and several poles are on her property.

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#2908637 30-Apr-2022 16:04

Clicking on the zoom on an image on a web page to inspect the larger result and finding its the same size as the original.

“The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.” -John Kenneth Galbraith

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#2908639 30-Apr-2022 16:06

And reading customer reviews for decking oils. There's millions of decking oils and all the reviews vary between best thing since sliced bread and utter crap. Might as well print out a list and throw darts at it.

“The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.” -John Kenneth Galbraith

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#2908684 30-Apr-2022 16:56

I'm annoyed by CrazyDomains applying a spam filter and blocking some incoming emails despite SpamAssassin having auto-delete disabled. One was a verification email I needed to respond to.

The Delivery Event Details in cpanel's Track Delivery function includes the following: Result: ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:256 CV=yes: SMTP error from remote mail server after end of data: 550 5.7.1 This forwarded message was detected as spam

The chat for support initially had the person trying to make sure emails sent by me would not get bounced. He then suggested whitelisting the sender's email, which made no difference. I could see some other false positives had also been blocked.

All I want them to do is stop bounding emails they identify as spam. That is what the SpamAssassin settings are supposed to do.

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#2908692 30-Apr-2022 17:15

rb99:
And reading customer reviews for decking oils. There's millions of decking oils and all the reviews vary between best thing since sliced bread and utter crap. Might as well print out a list and throw darts at it.

Some are particularly bad, and for others you have to check how they've applied it. For example for the Cabots that we used you have to totally ignore their recoat instructions, put on thinnish coats (not with the recommended lamb's wool applicator), and leave several days, preferably a week, to dry between coats. If you follow the Cabots instructions you get a tacky, never-drying surface. OTOH if you fastidiously ignore them you get OK results, except that their neutral oil is actually more like kwila so after several coats you've got a deck that Trump could use for camouflage.

This is why we went with composite decking during the rebuild, all that ever needs is an occasional wipe-down.

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