Emergency Plumber. Out of hours.

[moonlight]

I dont think the person who did this should call themselves a Plumber

No wonder the toilet kept running . Nice new valve fitted.

Trading standards now involved.

 

[Best]

The plumber surely didn't charge anything for that bodge?

 

[moonlight]

You wouldn't believe me, he also fitted the cheapest mono block tap possible and charged her £400

 

[turnpin]

Are they gold screws? at that price they should be..regards Turnpin

 

[Best]

He has got a weeks wages from her, for what should have been a couple hours work probably maximum.

 

[Harvest Fields]

Too many rip off merchants out there. I get stuff like this sometimes. It winds me up.

 

[moonlight]

Obviously the cistern was still running, she contacted the emergency plumbing company asking for it to be put right. No joy. Trading standards now involved. Good job I kept the picture will be used as evidence too.

I hate shoddy work. Call themselves Plumbers. Disgusting.

 

[Best]

It would have been a disgustingly high price even if the work had have been professionally done!

 

[ShaunCorbs]

thats the best one ive seen in a long while

 

[Chuck]

The painful thing about this one is that the guy who did it was clearly not stupid. They had a replacement float valve but it was too big to fit in the cistern. Okay, they modified it and even used two screws to make sure the join was strong. But it was jamming because the float was touching the back of the cistern. The spare low (? red, anyway) pressure seating came to the rescue as a sliding spacer keeping the float away from the back. This works because it's been positioned it close to the hinge where the mechanical advantage can overcome the friction.

 

[moonlight]

If he had put a bracket across both sides of the arm, would have been temporarily fixed. It dips in the middle. If he is not that stupid why didn't he just take the diaphragm out of the new one and repair the old one, or even take the arm off the old one. Most definitely stupid.

 

[WaterTight]

Depending just how out-of-ours the job was I could see it being a £300 ish job (with monobloc tap supply/fit inc too.) But presuming not 3am in London, yes, a rip-off.

If you keep no more than 7 or 8 different float/inlet valves on the van then you will have one for every situation.

Looks like good situation for one of these (but they are pricey.)

http://www.NoLinkingToThis/p/thomas...bottom-inlet-fill-valve-with-delay-fill/4777r

 

[moonlight]

That's what it has now, should have posted the after picture too.

 

[Old Account]

The plumber surely didn't charge anything for that bodge?

You'll be surprised what people charge. Some of them they are that cheeky to charge a fortune

 

[Callsimon55]

Well you have all missed the point. You can not know the circumstances relaling to this clever fix . But please understand that the only way you can sensibly deal with these old cistern parts is to change them all. I do, and charge £68 plus vat with three year warranty..... maybe misguided but he did try!

 

[moonlight]

Well you have all missed the point. You can not know the circumstances relaling to this clever fix . But please understand that the only way you can sensibly deal with these old cistern parts is to change them all. I do, and charge £68 plus vat with three year warranty... maybe misguided but he did try!

If he didn't have the correct part he should have isolated the supply. Very poor workmanship. This will never stop filling. Far from clever. Take a good look at the picture. I went to repair the mess he left.