How you spend two weeks waiting for tradesmen
If you're reading this as you wait for a plumber to arrive, you are not alone. Brits spend more than two weeks of their life - waiting for tradesmen, it has been found.
Over the course of a year, the average Brit has to wait in for three different tradesmen for a total of six hours and three minutes.
That's a total of 366 hours - equivalent to 15 days - waiting for workmen to arrive over the average adult lifetime.
The survey of 3,000 people also found 82 percent said a contractor turned up late, while more than a third said they arrived on a completely different day to what was agreed.
Plumbers were named as the worst tradesmen for keeping people waiting followed by heating engineers and then electricians -- and they all wanted a cup of tea before they started work.
60 percent of people even said they'd spent an entire day waiting in for a tradesman who failed to show up at all.
A spokesperson for TrustMark which carried out the poll said: "Many businesses aren't able to give specific times of arrival for tradesman, so instead you are normally only given a vague window.
"But this can be a nightmare for homeowners who have work and other responsibilities as they have to spend ages waiting for tradesmen to arrive, sometimes to do a job that's only a few minutes long.
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A spokesperson for TrustMark which carried out the poll said: "Many businesses aren't able to give specific times of arrival for tradesman, so instead you are normally only given a vague window.
"But this can be a nightmare for homeowners who have work and other responsibilities as they have to spend ages waiting for tradesmen to arrive, sometimes to do a job that's only a few minutes long.
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