Recently it got a rip in it so it started leaking from the bottom of the door (the cat is a suspect LOL). Anyway, unusually for me I decided to get a quote from a local (checkatrade) trader. He wanted £130 and as one can get a new one for about £25 mrs decided he was having a larf and told me to get on with it. Looked at Paul Charmbury's videos for half an hour and got on with it. It's a bit of a wrestle getting the retaining springs back on but in the end got the whole job done in about an hour. Conclusion, don't rely on checkatrade suggestions, some of their members are rip off merchants. Thing is, if he had asked for a sensible price, say £50/60, I would probably have given it to him.
BEKO washing machine gasket
- Thread starter Eccles
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How can that in any way be a sensible price?
The part is £25, so you honestly expect someone to wrestle with a washing machine door seal for an hour or two for a measly £25 ?
They would end up with less than minimum wage.
Ahem, it took me less than an hour and I am not a "tradesman" in fact a decent tradesman who I watched on Youtube took about 15 minutes. As it happens my local garage charges £52/hour and they do a lot more than washing machines. This bloke was trying to charge me £100 for an hour's work tops, that's double what my garage charges therefore he was trying to rip me off. Guess what, I will never call him again.