Does Your Mower Need Fixing? Can You Afford the Work? You're Not Alone!
The cost of fixing small engines like lawnmowers and chainsaws causes people to learn how to handle these jobs themselves. If you're not handy enough to follow along with the videos posted on YouTube (don't worry... I'm not either) then you have to hire the work out.
Be Careful When Hiring a Handyman
Sometimes hiring an amateur can be 10x more expensive than going to the most expensive shop in town. Case in point, our friends were moving and hired a company to clean their carpets after they'd moved into their new home. They found the company on Facebook and the owners seemed nice. Unfortunately when the cleaners went to their home, they somehow turned the heat off when they left. As expected for the dead of winter in the Midwest, their pipes burst, and when people came to look at the house and turned on a tap, hundreds of gallons of water soaked through their insulation, walls and ceiling before the realtor realized the water WAS running ... just not out the faucet!
This resulted in tens of thousands of dollars in damage, and do you think this fly-by-night had any insurance? Do you think the people who started this company had enough assets to bother suing them to cover it? The damages weren't covered by their own homeowner's policy because the heat was shut off, so they had to eat those costs.
All that from a carpet cleaning.
So while it might seem okay to hire just anybody off Craigslist or Facebook or a service provider website, it is important that you make sure the person is insured at a minimum. It doesn't matter how nice the person is. A good personality won't pay your repair bills.
Paid Directories Have Higher Standards
It's completely free to start a page on Facebook, so there are many businesses that have no business providing services available on that and other social media sites. They might look official, but you have to ask for proof.
There are service directories people have to pay to join which can help separate good and bad mower repair providers, but you have to be careful here too. Just because someone looks legitimate, doesn't mean they are. If you ask for proof of insurance, be sure you check to make sure it's valid.
Trustworthy sites list the names of people in your area performing all kinds of small engine repair services. Some will perform it on-site, while others require you take it to them. Some will have a source for used parts, and others will expect you to buy new parts for repairs to happen.
Find out more about cheap lawn mower repair today.
Trustworthy sites list the names of people in your area performing all kinds of small engine repair services. Some will perform it on-site, while others require you take it to them. Some will have a source for used parts, and others will expect you to buy new parts for repairs to happen.
Find out more about cheap lawn mower repair today.
