Unfair charging
Now part of JCW Energy Services. I rang them on 9th Feb to asked for an engineeer to look at my boiler which would not turn off, and was told the cost would be £90 for the first hour and £45 per hour there after, to which I agreed. The first available slot was 8 days later on 17th Feb. The engineer arrived on time, but left after about 15 minutes on site, to get some parts for a valve, and did NOT return. I later phoned the office to find out where he was, and was told he had been called away on an emergency job. Fair enough, I thought, mine was not an emergency. However the company still invoiced me for the full £90, saying it was a call-out fee, which is not what they originally said on the phone. I wrote to ask them to reconsider their invoice considering it was they who had called the engineer away part way through the job and after only a short time on site. They declined to make any amendment to the invoice which is a) not fair and b) not good business. The job was completed 5 days later and fully invoiced, with no deduction for the aborted initial callout.








