Why don't they give the whole story, how much of the overtime is event cover, how much is to cover short notice absences, or would they rather we were crews down?

Only a few years behind you.

I did the City & Guilds 236 Pt 1&2 along time ago

My approved electrician grade card expired about 25 years ago. Found the Scottish Ambulance Service and never looked back.

Not sure how many are claiming to be an electrician now when they are not, used to be a thing when I was on the tools a long time ago.

Sapphire & Steel scared the shit out of me as a child..

Is that the one where the guy has no face.

Hope you mange to get it sorted and some of your money back, if you were closer would have offered to look at it for you.

Hopefully from that clip those are isolation valves on the ends of the white pipes, something like these. I would tread carefully as it doesn’t look too clever. The isolation valve only needs a quarter turn to isolate the water.

If you are lucky there will shut off valves under the sink 🤞

If it’s a modern mixer tap then the bottom should look something like this. Tap is held in place by the long nut on the threaded rod and the water is connected via the flexible taptails, if you have the right tools and confident of not causing a leak then shouldn’t be difficult.

Been off the tools for a long time now, these kind of people have always given decent tradespeople a bad name, hope you manage to get it sorted, unless he has properly screwed it up turning the tap around shouldn't be that difficult.

See when the time comes

Indy is not a red line for them so wont get my vote.

Then the SNP must open up to the idea of SNP 1 and another Indy party 2.

Pity they are shafting the staff by reneging on part of last years pay deal.