Incompetent or Dis-Interested Sparks of Today.

A job has just been given to me a couple of hours driving from home, which involves the roof being taken off a garage to build a new roof with lift shaft from the garage to a balcony above, installing a lift from the garage to the balcony, replacing the garage door with a self opening door, installing power supplies to the lift and door, adding lighting and provision for charging a mobility scooter with a new consumer unit.

Five years ago I would have turned the job down, but after four years of doing work all over the country there doesn’t seem anything odd about being asked to do this job, because it’s highly unlikely that a local electrician will be found who can or will do it within the timeframe.

Long term though things are going to have to change, because electricians and other tradespeople are not going to be so mobile in the future, unless electric vans are going to have a massive increase in their range.

The apparently inevitable restrictions on traveling for work will mean that in future more electricians and tradespeople will be working closer to home, but that doesn’t mean there will be enough of them.

A job has just been given to me a couple of hours driving from home, which involves the roof being taken off a garage to build a new roof with lift shaft from the garage to a balcony above, installing a lift from the garage to the balcony, replacing the garage door with a self opening door, installing power supplies to the lift and door, adding lighting and provision for charging a mobility scooter with a new consumer unit.

Five years ago I would have turned the job down, but after four years of doing work all over the country there doesn’t seem anything odd about being asked to do this job, because it’s highly unlikely that a local electrician will be found who can or will do it within the timeframe.

Long term though things are going to have to change, because electricians and other tradespeople are not going to be so mobile in the future, unless electric vans are going to have a massive increase in their range.

The apparently inevitable restrictions on traveling for work will mean that in future more electricians and tradespeople will be working closer to home, but that doesn’t mean there will be enough of them.