How much for a clock clean and service ?

ERICS_MUM

if you can't afford to pay it al at once perhaps they'll let you pay in installments - on tick so to speak !

nickcc

We paid £350 about 5 years ago to have our grandfather clocks workings overhauled. We were shocked at the time as we didn't ask for an estimate but reading this thread it seems as if we had a good deal.

Leif

ERICS_MUM wrote: »

if you can't afford to pay it al at once perhaps they'll let you pay in installments - on tick so to speak !

They do say the secret of good humour is the timing.

Biggles

itch_for_a_glitch wrote: »

Trouble is I wouldnt know where to squirt!

Nowhere, if you value your clock.

A very tiny dab of proper clock oil in the right place would be OK but, as you say, you don't know the right place.

A good clockmaker might give you an idea of the problem and cost of remedial work for nothing, no harm asking.

leveller2911

Biggles wrote: »

Cute story, but stopping the pendulum would have no effect on the striking mechanism.....

"Cute story" sounds like you doubt my honesty..... I did say "I stopped the pendullum etc" and I'm no clock expert so I stopped the pendullum and moved the hands on 1 hr and it stopped which was what I wanted.

itch_for_a_glitch

Biggles wrote: »

Nowhere, if you value your clock.

A very tiny dab of proper clock oil in the right place would be OK but, as you say, you don't know the right place.

A good clockmaker might give you an idea of the problem and cost of remedial work for nothing, no harm asking.

I got a quote of a professional £200+
Well, I watched some youtube videos, bought some clock oil off ebay, and decided to have a go myself.
At first the clock continued to run !!!!!!, but now, after a couple of months, although the regulator is fully used, the clock is keeping perfect time.

robatwork

Did time stop for a year while the clock was unserviced?