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Discuss I just spent 8 hours swapping a pedestal basin for a vanity unit basin. in the Plumbing Jobs | The Job-board area at PlumbersForums.net
Totally agree. Mcalpine seal first time, don't cross thread and can stand high water temps, while the Floplast ones leak, cross thread and CAN'T stand high water temps and the seals expand and leak. The worst ones are the shallow seal bath traps, the ones with the rodding eye (why they put that on I don't know) as the rodding eye leaks everytime unless horsed up tight.I know we cant always help it, but is there sometimes things we can do to help prevent such days.
the big one for me is Mcalpine traps, whenever I buy screwfix ones, i spend days trying to get them to seal, they seal and an hour later they leak, ahhhhh
Fail.
I would always try to strangle my oppo when he said 'we'll be done in another hour'.
Kiss of death in my experience.
Better to have a happy customer and a good end result, than a slap and dash with an unhappy one. No matter how long it takes you, you are paid for your knowlege and skill so as long as the jobs a good one thats what counts. Unforseen problems can always arrise, and im sure any customer would apreciate you working with these problems to get the job right first time, they tend to see an end product and pay more attention to the lovely bit of kit they have had fitted.
Ive never heard a customer praise a quick job as such, but they always mention a neat one when they have a lovely suite fitted or you have pulled them out of a sticky situation.
Another thing with plumbing, with alot of things in life.... You never stop learning theres always something that crops up that you have never seen before so it takes time to take it in so you dont balls anything up, sometimes we do have mishaps its human nature it's our mark up so we remember and hopefully don't repeat the same errors again.
Amateur :74:
Today, I had to re-light a pilot light for an old dear a good customer of mine, an hour later she called that it had gone out again, she tried turning up the thermostat to test it but it hadn't worked. Returned and it was still alight, she turned the thermostat up to 20 degrees.......
Second job, I had previously installed a new set of kitchen taps and turned (apparently) the o/s tap off via an isolator. Turned up, turned the o/s tap on and went to the hose, turned the nozzle and it worked!
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