HALL of SHAME PHOTo`s

[Billy Bob Bob]

Seriously ? Big thing missing out of top

flues missing ? not a balanced flue i take it

 

[Barry98]

flues missing ? not a balanced flue i take it

No MIs clearly state flue to be fitted

 

[Barry98]

Spoke with fitter from last year not cmc qualified didn't think it needs it with it been a trailer

 

[IDCHAPPY]

Spoke with fitter from last year not cmc qualified didn't think it needs it with it been a trailer

That's encouraging.....

 

[IDCHAPPY]

found the 2 mb leak

sheesh...

 

[stevetheplumber]

Seriously ? Big thing missing out of top

you had a better view i assumed it was balanced or rear exit flue not familiar with the model amazed theres not a big black mark up the wall then

 

[Ermintrude]

Well. What a lovely day.

Rads won't Heaton first floor and they take a very long time

They have had a "specialist" in. So the called the "special" ones.

Heating load 700m2 open office and production area canteen and reception ...... 12kw? Yeh ok

The header is below top of rads.

Boilers been in for 3 years....

Couldn't work out why the water heater in kitchen and loo kept tripping out, they replaced immersion and stat?

40mm push fit waste nice clips

Fitted unvented

Identified that no inserts used anywhere!

 

[Paulplumb]

That is absolutely effin mega! I love the pump that just makes me chuckle. Funts lol

 

[IDCHAPPY]

I've said it before, you get all the stonkers dude :lol:

 

[stevetheplumber]

how the feck do they get paid i cant get paid when its done well

 

[happyflyer]

found the 2 mb leak

I would ban gas hobs, get a induction much more efficient and hyper safe.

Gas Hob

Smells
Goes out in the wind on low flame
more heat on the handle of the pan than the bottom
mess when pan boils over
more moisture in kitchen

hell they have nothing going for them

 

[Ermintrude]

I remember when gas was new, my aunt in big town had gas oven food always tasted different, we had and still have Rayburn on solid fuel.

 

[Ermintrude]

how the feck do they get paid i cant get paid when its done well

You don't have gift of gabb. Some people talk a good job

 

[happyflyer]

how the feck do they get paid i cant get paid when its done well

Re-brand yourself "Stevethejoiner" does plumbing

 

[Ermintrude]

On a holiday let

 

[lame plumber]

if only they had cored it 6inches to the left

 

[Ermintrude]

Look close at the flue or lack of it at wall junction

 

[happyflyer]

If this is a holiday let should there not be paperwork for it GSR, there may not be the original Benchmark returned to the manufacture
but surely the LL, was that wall ever cored drill, I think it would have fallen apart with the hammer on, the overflow above the flue if that goes off the boiler will be going into condensing mode OK , if this is the outside what's inside like, The Greasy Carpet Brigade.

Looks like part of Hadrians Wall

 

[LPC]

Got a call from a landlady to go to one of her properties to see about a system where the heating is coming on when they put the water on. She meets me there and takes me straight up to the cylinder cupboard. I said it's probably the 3-port and then I ask where the boiler is?

'What boiler, there isn't one'.

Hmmm. Explain to her that there has to be a boiler otherwise why is there a coil and a 3-port valve and the immersion heater has no plug on the end.....after a few minutes of odd conversation, the tenant overhears and says 'what about the backboiler downstairs'.

I go downstairs, she points at this. I already know what's coming.

Been in use like this since the tenant moved in many years ago. Obv no certificates ever done. Landlady swears a gas engineer did it, but oddly, couldn't remember his name.

 

[Paulplumb]

What boiler? lol

 

[chris watkins]

& the public wonder how it is that people are still dying of CO from gas appliances !!
OMG

 

[LPC]

I made it clear to her how unbelievably dangerous this was. No way a gas engineer did that.

3 young kids in the house too.

I should add the cap on the gas is obviously what I did. This boiler was fully in use.

 

[IDCHAPPY]

Blimey,

 

[Ermintrude]

Have a similar one. One of our lads went to friends house she's got kids bbu been off for 6 weeks or so. LL trying to get her try for green steal. He went as he offered to replace thermocouple FOC. He called me as he was a little confused how the fire worked, it was flue less on front of Bermuda. Bbu failed spillage told him to cap and leave . No cp12 and now LL man is going tomorrow to reconnect. ......... Told Tennant to record him doing it as he said it's fine.

 

[IDCHAPPY]

You see some horrors oO

 

[Toxic Ted]

Have a similar one. One of our lads went to friends house she's got kids bbu been off for 6 weeks or so. LL trying to get her try for green steal. He went as he offered to replace thermocouple FOC. He called me as he was a little confused how the fire worked, it was flue less on front of Bermuda. Bbu failed spillage told him to cap and leave . No cp12 and now LL man is going tomorrow to reconnect. ......... Told Tennant to record him doing it as he said it's fine.

Watching with interest.

 

[Ermintrude]

I'm actually inspector for HSE

 

[Mike Jackson]

Came across this beauty today.

Not sure how the thermostat works with just one wire to it. Seems to be a two port missing as well. So that's 3 safety devices missing/not connected then. Temperature can only be set by the boiler stat.

IMG_20140912_134854170 by Mike Jackson1, on Flickr

Well that looks safe then. The single wire coming off goes to the stat on the cylinder. Not entirely sure what it achieves.

IMG_20140912_134858640 by Mike Jackson1, on Flickr

Yes that speedfit is D1, the discharge from the prv on the heating tees into this as well. There is no tundish and this pipe rises before discharging through the fascia board at high level. Guess as there's no D2 a fall isn't required.

IMG_20140912_134909794 by Mike Jackson1, on Flickr

IMG_20140912_134914948 by Mike Jackson1, on Flickr

IMG_20140912_134928757 by Mike Jackson1, on Flickr

This has got to be the worst unvented installation I've seen in a long time. Called out because it was tripping the electrics. This was due to the pump leaking but I refused to just change the pump. Going back tomorrow to discuss options with the house holder. Going to be serious money to put this right, looking like a couple of days time I've flushed the system as well.

 

[kris]

Hey mike that's a beezer of install that. I've seen the odd single cable like that only when sparks don't have 3core n earth so the put in 2 core n earth and a single . But that must be a new model stat with a bi directional cable lol ... its a good job you attended as youl sort the mess.

 

[happyflyer]

Mike,

This is where push-fit has brought us, its made joiner and plasters think they are plumbers of joe public
please tell me a plumber didn't do that above, where will it all end

 

[Mike Jackson]

Mike,

This is where push-fit has brought us, its made joiner and plasters think they are plumbers of joe public
please tell me a plumber didn't do that above, where will it all end

I can't do that I'm afraid. This install was done by a local gas safe registered guy. I assume the condense pipe from the boiler in the kitchen just discharging onto the concrete was down to him as well.

 

[stevetheplumber]

ive said this before the three downfalls of this industry were plastic waste n soil ,combi boilers and pushfit

 

[happyflyer]

ive said this before the three downfalls of this industry were plastic waste n soil ,combi boilers and pushfit

Mike,

I agree with you all the way except the soil pipe, the cast iron alternative is too awesome to even consider, just imagine going to the merchants in your van and putting the soil fitting in for half a dozen houses you would need two trips, I know what you mean anyway, I once went up a triple extension ladder with a ladle of molten lead and a blow lamp to keep the lead liquid and poured it into a CI offset past a gutter, only on a listed building would you do this today, but no ladder, softies need a scaffold, these guys today don't have a clue what went on, three points of contact my bum, I am still here to tell the tale, I will write a book one day and burn it.

The Combi boiler and push fit, burn them with my book

Old Baldy Git

 

[Chris F]

Jeeeeeezus that's awful

 

[solutions]

ive said this before the three downfalls of this industry were plastic waste n soil ,combi boilers and pushfit

I am not convinced the downfall of the industry is down to new materiala and techniques I would attribute it to the fact that it is known who put the abomination in but they are still out there aloud to do it again. He should be struck off and have his qualifications / registrations revoked.