A big thank you

[Destroyer2813]

I would just like to say a big thank you to the so called plumber who visited the job previous to me. Left me cutting out a load of scrap a cylinder, a negative head pump and two aqualisa pumps for spares.

This all came about after he had pumped the whole house including the processer units, capped the vent of the cylinder and put a surrey flange in with a auto air vent in the top of it causing the cylinder to bow to the point of only the rear wall off the airing cupbord stopping it falling over. Makes you wonder what ideas go through peoples heads.

 

[Guest123]

It always amazes me what I find every day in peoples plumbing systems. Worst thing is if I ever tried to do something as daft/dangerous as that I'd not get away with it, not that I'd ever want to in the first place. Some jammy muppets out there get away with bloody murder.

 

[Destroyer2813]

Oh and forgot to mention she said to me the boiler keeps locking out on the over heat we then discovered on changing the three port to 2x two ports some plank had put the pump in the wrong way round, and it werent the same bloke as did the cylinder :63:

 

[Barry98]

wonder where they trained

 

[Guest123]

wonder where they trained

poland

 

[Destroyer2813]

And there was so much compresion fittings it resembeled a merchants, but now my vans stocks go up quite a bit :smile:

 

[ecowarm]

Wonder plumber from the 2 month intensive school of plumbing

 

[Nostrum]

well on his way to £50k a year no doubt... minus £48k in compression fittings

 

[WaterTight]

I did my best god dammit.

 

[Destroyer2813]

Got £ 106 for scrap and salvaged a surrey flange, 9 x 22mm compression elbows, 4 x couplings, 1 ballofix, 4x 28 comp coup 1x 28 comp tee 2x 15 comp 90 and four 35mm comp coup. Oh and for got to say all the pushfit in the loft had no liners in it

 

[PlumbersMate]

And I bet the bloke is stacked out with work

 

[Dannypipe]

Sounds like a nice job. Anything you do will shine compared to the rubbish the other guy put in.

As I said on another thread, don't fear the fast track plumbers, they leave a wake of bodged work behind them.

It would be better if things went back to the old ways of a four year apprenticeship, but its not going to happen any time soon.

People should do more research before letting people loose in their homes.

The next two jobs I have to price have come from a reccomendation, and they've actually been to my last job and looked at the work we did. So they know we do quality work.

It makes me wonder where these people get there work from?

 

[GQuigley67]

did the compression fittings threads have ptfe and plumbers mait on it ? lol

came across a bit of old black alkatheyne the other day which was connected to the main stopcock with no insert, i done a bit of alteration and didnt have any inserts so i though hmmm i wonder if i will get away with this since it has held for all these years(20-30) I did for a few days until someone disturbed it and bang it blew off lol. We had to replace it with imperial pipe as it was an imperial stock cock, turns out the mains used to be less than 1bar, now they have been increased to 3 or more bar recently

now i have learned that you can use a bit of 15mm copper for an insert if you dont have one, everyday is a school day !

 

[secret squirrel]

Wonder plumber from the 2 month intensive school of plumbing

Way toooo obvious an answer,

How's this for an answer.

'time served plumber who spent the first 2 years making t and sweeping up, with an untrained, unqualified plumber who learnt from his dad, who learnt it from his dad and can trace his family plumbing roots back to the roman aquaduct system'

 

[Dannypipe]

Way toooo obvious an answer,

How's this for an answer.

'time served plumber who spent the first 2 years making t and sweeping up, with an untrained, unqualified plumber who learnt from his dad, who learnt it from his dad and can trace his family plumbing roots back to the roman aquaduct system'

I learnt from my Dad. Spent my first two years sweeping up and making tea. Oh no!!

My Dad is a trained/qualified plumber though. His dad on the other hand was an alcoholic sailor. So my plumbing family tree only goes back to the late 60's.

I've been to college too obviously.