total filth

[REDSAW]

for all those wannabe plumbers and those who have seen it all before!!!.
todays job, i could smell the house before the door was opened.
the woman said sorry about the mess but i am tidying up.....this is when the alarm bells go off through experience as the door opened.
dog faeces smudged all over the floor throughout down stairs.

these pictures dont really show all but in real life its 10 times worse.
try zooming in, the floor had been cleaned for me to get to the sink, the cooker is swimming in 1/2'' of 'liquid' and the toilet floor is 1/2'' in pee. that on the toilet base and seat is smeared poo!! (realised after i put my tools there.lol), first time i had to sanitise my tools after a job..

outside, there is dog poo with furry fungus on them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.

utter filth.


how many of you would tell them to sod off?.

 

[bennygas]

if i'd have known you were coming round, I'd have cooked....

 

[Roger Welton]

Urgh, rather you than me! Luckily haven't been to anywhere nasty for ages, always worth keeping a small pot of vics on the van for such occasions

 

[zzzjim]

Cat fur on the counter tops is another no no !

For fancying a cup of tea (X-CBer experience)

 

[Veggie Dave]

Ooh, that reminds me ... I bought some Nutella earlier! :smart:

Nom nom nom...

 

[tamz]

You get some choice places of work Martin :lol:

 

[Best]

Definitely that toilet would have needed new parts that I didn't have & I would have to see if any merchants could order them... then I would drive away! Would ring later to say I was unable to get parts & too busy! Lol!

I take it that you didn't accept any tea or coffee & a sandwich? :grin:
"....no, thanks but I just had food on my last job! "

 

[JCplumb]

Whatever you got paid for that job.
It wasn't enough...

 

[jtsplumbing]

Kids stuff !! doing jobbing work for council have had ; dead cats in bath, buckets of Urine in bedroom, been their for weeks with crust on top, Holes cut thorough wall behind sink unit so tennent could let chickens in at night, bags of excrement thrown into loft along with dead cats & dogs, Places & People so dirty that had to call in Council cleaning team who turn up with large van strip off tennent then clean them up and burn everything in house, this place would be classed as posh, bet they had 50" tv new X-Box ect maybe even new car !!

 

[WaterTight]

i've never been anywhere that looks like that. which probably means i wouldn't be prepared with excuses and would find myself doing the work and then going home and breathing into a paper bag to calm down.

 

[glenno1]

Hope you wiped your feet(on the way out)

 

[Guest123]

Absolutely disgusting.....a PJH toilet out of B&Q. How do people live with things like that.

 

[installer_dave]

Hope you were well compensated!!

 

[Nostrum]

Kids stuff !! doing jobbing work for council have had ; dead cats in bath, buckets of Urine in bedroom, been their for weeks with crust on top, Holes cut thorough wall behind sink unit so tennent could let chickens in at night, bags of excrement thrown into loft along with dead cats & dogs, Places & People so dirty that had to call in Council cleaning team who turn up with large van strip off tennent then clean them up and burn everything in house, this place would be classed as posh, bet they had 50" tv new X-Box ect maybe even new car !!

Was this P.C.C?

Been in some dumps before when doing warmfront stuff but probably not as bad as that. I would refuse to work in a place like that end of.

 

[Pipes Plumbing]

Euuuurgh.... I don't envy you there!

Was surprised by one 2 weeks ago, turned up at a pretty little cottage with a beautiful well kept garden full of flowers.
When they opened the door the smell hit me, the place was absolutley vile inside!
Never seen so much mould on walls and carpets, the place was hanging and stunk of cats...

No wonder they spent so much time in the garden, whatever the weather it would have been nicer than inside the house!

 

[christian1985]

That is discusting, surely you were not paid enough to do this job lol i wouldnt have done it, i would have walked in then straight back out :sick:

 

[Puddle]

A lot of you must be upper end plumbers,us poor end,see some right stuff,a friend of mine,in the eighties, used to have a washing set up in his shed ,so when he came home from a really bad job,he would strip off,stick his clothes in a large bucket of water and wash down and change (into a .... shell suit....remember them)before he went indoors !

Now a days if it is to bad,one good thing about H&S,you could refuse to work there

If you have never experienced this,you would be surprised how some people live,more than you think!!

 

[ecowarm]

Reminds of an oil boiler service I did a couple of years ago, about 10 St Bernards in the garden and about 20 cats in the house

1" of fluff on kitchen worktops, "want a cuppa love?" erm no just had one.

Any way servicing the boiler popped outside to change filter, back to boiler, smell of DOGGIE DO looking around cant see anything, working away smell seems to be getting worse.

Customer says " you have stood in something and then knelt down its gone all up the back of your trousers" its not from my dogs I clear it up every day.

Yeh right garden full of mountains of POO and I'd managed to get both feet in it. I'm off home to get changed and be sick, see ya.............................

 

[WaterTight]

This thread is far less sexy than I was anticipating.

 

[bantamgas]

This thread is far less sexy than I was anticipating.

I must admit,I was expecting pictures of a "different nature".Thumbs down from me too.

 

[WaterTight]

Is your company called Bantam Gas? If it is you should sign-write your van in stick on letters. Then when you're feeling heroic change it to say Batman Gas.

 

[bantamgas]

Is your company called Bantam Gas? If it is you should sign-write your van in stick on letters. Then when you're feeling heroic change it to say Batman Gas.

No,its not mate.Perhaps I should have thought about it though.Like your train of thought.

 

[DIYBlues]

Ugh! I would buy a Type 1 Hazmat suit, include it in to the price of the job... Then I would subcontract the job to someone else :smilielol5:

 

[jtsplumbing]

Hi sambotc, Yes it was P.C.C back in the eighties you probley know what estate !!

 

[Hardy1]

how the bleeeming helllll did that happen, bloody disgustingg..

 

[PlumbersMate]

looks like the kitchens you work in doing some council refurbs in london, HORRIFIC. Funnily enough they all had 50" TV's aswell

 

[Hybrid]

how many of you would tell them to sod off?.

I would definitely tell them to jog on, it's not worth the health risks and I'm not that desperate for the work.
I've done work for local authority so i've worked in some manky houses so no stranger to grime but that's truly filthy.

 

[Noxer]

unlucky mate, i wouldnt even have had my grips on the toilet i would of said brb at the door and not come back

 

[mountainman]

Been in a few like that over the years working for housing associations, thankfully not many.
On the flip side though I've worked in many HA properties that have been superb and of course everything in between.

Funny thing tho, you go into a house gagging and after a few minutes get used to the smell.
Just hope that nothing else is needed from the van before the job is done.

 

[bob the plumber]

I put a boiler in for a customer a couple of years ago with a similily filthy house, before he left he said make yourself a brew, when i picked up the kettle it was coated in cooking fat. Had to run a new 22mm gas pipe to the boiler, it had to go through his bedroom, when moving the guys tv and video case i noticed he had a mixture of hardcore ****os inbetween a collection of disney videos (for example...weapons of a55 destruction next to snow white and the 7 dwarfs) never felt so uncomfortable in my life, very odd