{"id":21161,"date":"2023-05-13T22:58:13","date_gmt":"2023-05-13T20:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=21161"},"modified":"2023-05-14T11:50:40","modified_gmt":"2023-05-14T09:50:40","slug":"plans-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/plans-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Plans change"},"content":{"rendered":"

My intention was to spend this week-end putting up the ceiling coving in my living room and corridor but when I checked an email that I’d received from Brico-Depot I found that they were offering ‘10% off all purchases’ today in the form of ‘Bons d’Achat’ (vouchers) against store loyalty cards. So as I intended to spend around 2000\u20ac on kitchen units and furniture it seemed like a good idea to make the purchase today, bring all of the units back to the house and store them in the main bedroom with the other stuff I’ve dropped in there.<\/p>\n

I haven’t finished repairing my large trailer yet and both wings were only held on by two out of their four bolts, but I had no choice but to go with it as it was. I thought that if I took it easy it would be OK, and it would have been if one of the guys who helped me load the trailer hadn’t leant too hard on the weakest of the two and snapped one of its two remaining securing bolts out of the metal that was holding it on. So on top of everything else I had to do an emergency repair to get me home without the wing detaching completely.<\/p>\n

Here’s everything that I bought loaded on the trailer ready for the drive home. In fact compared to what I’ve carried previously it wasn’t all that much really.<\/p>\n

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Here’s the emergency repair that I made to the wing. In fact I had to re-do it a couple of times on the way home because the ropes came loose and allowed the wing to drop down onto the tyre.<\/p>\n

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I had help loading the trailer at Brico-Depot from a couple of young guys, one of whom I think was another customer, so I was very grateful for that. The worst part though was unloading everything by myself at the house, especially the two 300cm worktops that were very heavy for just one person. But having damaged a long worktop at my hold house as a result of carrying it single-handed I took extra care and managed to get them into the bedroom without damaging them.<\/p>\n

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I had one disappointment when I received my ‘Bons d’Achat’ from Brico Depot after making my purchase. I expected to receive 200\u20ac worth but the total only came to 100\u20ac. When I queried this I was told that this was the maximum per card no matter if the total purchase was more than 1000\u20ac and sure enough, when I checked the email that I’d received there was some very small print saying as such, which I regard as very sneaky.<\/p>\n

And in fact Brico-Depot won’t be giving too much away because there’s also a time-limit in which the ‘Bons’ have to be spent. I’ll spend all mine as there are lots of things that I need for the house, but I bet a lot of customers will not have read the small print and will allow their ‘Bons’ to lapse. Although the 100\u20ac that I’ve received is nice I think that this Brico-Depot ‘promotion’ is a bit petty and very sneaky and for me it hasn’t enhanced their image one jot \ud83d\ude10<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My intention was to spend this week-end putting up the ceiling coving in my living room and corridor but when I checked an email that I’d received from Brico-Depot I found that they were offering ‘10% off all purchases’ today in the form of ‘Bons d’Achat’ (vouchers) against store loyalty cards. So as I intended … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21161"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21167,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21161\/revisions\/21167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}