What we all working on this week ?

[king of pipes]

I have a insurance job to try and rescue a poorly installed quad shower the customer wants to save the tiling if possible and has a few spare so fingers crossed it may work , the loss adjuster allowed em £1500 that will just about cover materials. Kop

 

[EvilDrPorkChop]

Well smart that one bud looking forward to the finished pictures. Regards kop

Was hoping to be finished Monday, but towel rail is damaged and his mirror over the sink won't land till mid Feb apparently! But will be nearly there.

 

[king of pipes]

Bit of a mixed bag for me over the last couple of weeks I took on a kitchen refit me and a couple of chippies got it nearly done in 7 days decorators are now in , got the heating and hot water upgrade done few more jobs to kitchen and utility first fix , shower doors replaced .
Today's was a insurance Job replacing some pipes in a floor they had a oil leak under the floor and it's made a right old mess so we replaced what we could but the downstairs pipework is all in the screed with little or no protection 🫣🫣.

 

[Scott_D]

Boilers and Water heaters in nursing/care homes for next few week.
With all due respect to these places, I hope i'm not seeing a glimpse into my own future.

I imagine myself old, frustrated and trying to gain access to a plant room.


Hang on.............!

Horrible places to be

 

[SimonG]

****, well maybe it's not the stop tap but the steel incoming main.

 

[SimonG]

****, well maybe it's not the stop tap but the steel incoming main.

Wasn't the stop tap, they're going to need a new incoming supply. Luckily they have a cellar.

 

[Last Plumber]

Horrible places to be

They can be. Fortunately these aren't too bad and I'm away from folk mostly.

 

[SimonG]

Bit different today. 3 curtain poles and a shower pole.

 

[cjg]

going dancing now are we?

 

[king of pipes]

Got the kitchen finished off moving on to a fancy bathroom upgrade Monday have a restful weekend chaps . Kop

 

[SimonG]

End of life Camray. Farewell old girl.

 

[SimonG]

And whilst I'm on, is everybody else run ragged with work?

 

[ShaunCorbs]

Yep put a few prices in recently and thought they might get one done all three have come back go ahead

 

[Deleted member 120897]

And whilst I'm on, is everybody else run ragged with work?

Nope, paye and social housing 😱

 

[king of pipes]

End of life Camray. Farewell old girl.

What you replacing it with Simon ?

 

[SimonG]

What you replacing it with Simon ?

A nice new slimline firebird combi.

 

[SimonG]

the walls are a nightmare, 1/2 a shift just to get the flue through.

 

[EvilDrPorkChop]

Fit a MegaFlo (Which leaked on the probe pocket from factory) sorry for poor pics, was a really tight squeeze! Bit of servicing, back to finish off that big bathroom on Monday (Mirror, Towel Rail) then start another bathroom Tuesday.

 

[SimonG]

Nearly done, but pub was calling.

Builders in at a later date to sort walls out.

 

[Keefy]

Just been to unblock a WC for a friend of the missus. She's flushed down one of those plastic fresheners that clip over the rim of the pan.

I undo the cold feed round the back, take out the screw from one side of the pan and realise the other one is hidden by tiles/boxing-in. Tell her I'll have to remove the obstruction to get access. After she makes a quick call to someone she says she doesn't want me to do that so I put everything back as it was and charge her £30.

She's still got a blocked WC and it's the only one in the house. She seems to think she can get someone else who can do it without breaking her precious tile which, by the way, she has spares of.

All I needed to do was remove the other fixing screw, pull the pan out and reach in to remove the obstruction. As I was leaving she had a plunger in her hand.

Sunday night favours eh?

Edit: £30 has just landed in my account.

 

[Deleted member 120897]

Just been to unblock a WC for a friend of the missus. She's flushed down one of those plastic fresheners that clip over the rim of the pan.

I undo the cold feed round the back, take out the screw from one side of the pan and realise the other one is hidden by tiles/boxing-in. Tell her I'll have to remove the obstruction to get access. After she makes a quick call to someone she says she doesn't want me to do that so I put everything back as it was and charge her £30.

She's still got a blocked WC and it's the only one in the house. She seems to think she can get someone else who can do it without breaking her precious tile which, by the way, she has spares of.

All I needed to do was remove the other fixing screw, pull the pan out and reach in to remove the obstruction. As I was leaving she had a plunger in her hand.

Sunday night favours eh?

Edit: £30 has just landed in my account.

At least you got the £30 though.

 

[ShaunCorbs]

Nothing weirder than folk

 

[king of pipes]

Another bathroom job started all the old stuff is out the damaged walls and ceiling have been reboarded and skimmed, now putting it back together a split stone wall and floating furniture was a challenge on a metal stud plaster board wall 🫣. Kop

 

[Deleted member 120897]

Not doing much this week as it’s my time for coronavirus 😩. Not a great experience, wife seems worse than me with it.

 

[SimonG]

Not doing much this week as it’s my time for coronavirus 😩. Not a great experience, wife seems worse than me with it.

Take it easy, hope you both recover quickly.

 

[SimonG]

Quiet one today. Thankful for it, last week was heavy with that install.

Control box and magic eye on a mectron burner. Look at a job to install 6 designer rads, want pipes out of wall. Wayrock floors.
And.
Swap out knackered trv on a sealed system.

Then van turned poorly, rear pads, couldn't get it in till next week so managed to pick up a set and swapped them over. Real value for money on the old ones and lucky not to mess the discs up.

 

[king of pipes]

Not doing much this week as it’s my time for coronavirus 😩. Not a great experience, wife seems worse than me with it.

Get well soon Chris 😉

 

[king of pipes]

Got the lights and fan done a absolute mare with blown in insulation I had to remove it all fit hoods over the new lights to keep it away I'll lay more insulation over the flex to help avoid condensation 🙁 kop

 

[ShaunCorbs]

Busy few weeks doing and old farm house up new rads, kitchen and bathroom also f the last installer who installs drain offs in a floor void I’m guessing someone ran out of caps

Also running a new 35,22,22 supplies as the old ones burst in the cold spell found out why someone’s cut the insulation to fit the timbers 😀 and 4 main cables in there 4x70mm 3 phase and two 3x25mm and a 25mm earth spent a week cable managing them as there like waves and in the way

 

[king of pipes]

Bit more done I got the boxing in completed first fixed the bath shower mixer, tanking and tiling well on the way the niche took a bit of time 🙁 . Kop

 

[Scott_D]

Extending prvs for external wall insulation

 

[king of pipes]

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Extending prvs for external wall insulation

What they using on the outside Scott I'm toying with the idea of doing some on my place ? Kop

 

[Scott_D]

What they using on the outside Scott I'm toying with the idea of doing some on my place ? Kop

Rockwall insulation slabs that are stuck with adhesive and plastic pins then mesh and render.

 

[king of pipes]

Grouting up today before fitting the bath tomorrow , a shower door to swap over pm today . Kop

 

[king of pipes]

Getting there on this one but over commited so means not there today I am fitting a Home boost pump and Saturday is now another work day fitting a brushed brass fancy shower door that's taken 6 week to arrive 😕 kop

 

[king of pipes]

Finally done this one took 6 weeks for shower doors to arrive have a restful weekend chaps .
👍😉 Kop

 

[king of pipes]

Cracking on with this one this week my work load is off the scale are you all insanely busy ? the phone hasn't stopped I'm leaving it now on answer phone and deal with it at the end of the working day . 😉👍 Kop

 

[Deleted member 120897]

Cracking on with this one this week my work load is off the scale are you all insanely busy ? the phone hasn't stopped I'm leaving it now on answer phone and deal with it at the end of the working day . 😉👍 Kop

Not insanely busy in social housing mate. Does that bath waste run uphill?

 

[SimonG]

In the bear hole. That cold last night the self leveller didn't go off 😲😲

 

[king of pipes]

All change for toilet cistern boxing in 🙁 which is a pita messed my tiling up sure I can work something out but annoying, I didn't have the cistern till Tuesday the flush pipe is not cut able so needed to get creative 😉👍. Kop

 

[king of pipes]

Sorted out now with a little cheat 🤭 on track for floorlayer to get in

 

[EvilDrPorkChop]

Finished another bathroom, heat only to System boiler and new rads (system was corroding like mad, had a 4 year old rad blow on pressurising) bits of servicing and jobs.

 

[Scott_D]

Finished another bathroom, heat only to System boiler and new rads (system was corroding like mad, had a 4 year old rad blow on pressurising) bits of servicing and jobs.

What brand is the bath mixer/shower?

 

[EvilDrPorkChop]

What brand is the bath mixer/shower?

HansGrohe Crometta S with Bath Mixer

hansgrohe Shower pipes: Crometta S, 1 spray mode, Item No. 27320000

Showerpipe 240 1jet with thermostatic bath mixer. Click for More!

www.hansgrohe.co.uk

I'll only fit Hansgrohe these days.

 

[Scott_D]

Gas run through a bungalow loft

 

[Scott_D]

HansGrohe Crometta S with Bath Mixer

hansgrohe Shower pipes: Crometta S, 1 spray mode, Item No. 27320000

Showerpipe 240 1jet with thermostatic bath mixer. Click for More!

www.hansgrohe.co.uk

I'll only fit Hansgrohe these days.

Looks like a nice shower but pretty pricey

 

[ShaunCorbs]

Looks like a nice shower but pretty pricey

Not too Bad

 

[EvilDrPorkChop]

Looks like a nice shower but pretty pricey

They're about £415+VAT trade. When you think you don't need a shower + taps it ain't bad.

 

[EvilDrPorkChop]

Not too Bad

That's not the one with the bath filler, about another £100 on top.

 

[ShaunCorbs]

That's not the one with the bath filler, about another £100 on top.

For some reason the wrong link inserted meant to do this One

 

[Scott_D]

Mlcp spaghetti

 

[ShaunCorbs]

Wavin ?

 

[SimonG]

Finally out the bear cave, just the custom glass screen to go in.

 

[ShaunCorbs]

Still finding frost damage

Little tsat took me a full day to find this little fecker was loosing air pressure but couldn’t find where had to turn the water on
And wait an hour

 

[king of pipes]

Another bathroom upgrade started this week splash panels on two walls for a large shower cubical , it all stripped out and patching up well under way , a new floor going down plasterer due early doors next week 👍. Kop

 

[Ric2013]

Are you able to drill a 6" hole in a wall for me? This became fit and wire a heat-recovery extract fan. Seemed decent quality, but not installer-friendly. I have suspicions the plate heat exchanger is too small to do a lot, but customer supplied it, so ho hum.

 

[SimonG]

Not work, but cracking night.

 

[ShaunCorbs]

My day being a spark and look no rubbish 😀

 

[king of pipes]

Tidy job Shaun should avoid any future drama's.
😉👍 Kop

 

[king of pipes]

Not work, but cracking night.

What was the occasion bud ??

 

[SimonG]

What was the occasion bud ??

One of the lads had 4 tickets for the Premier darts as a Christmas present. 3 two posters and a diet coke £53

 

[king of pipes]

Bathroom is coming on first fix electrics done , the plastering is completed, Dura panel shower boards fitted . Kop

 

[Deleted member 120897]

Still same old same old for me, breakdowns slowing down for various reasons so safety checks to fill the rest of my time - Sooooo mundane.

 

[king of pipes]

Pushing to get this completed may happen ?? Shower glass tomorrow then just units to sort out toilet, basin and wall 😉👍

 

[king of pipes]

Damages and missing parts put pay to finishing today kin B&Q at least the showers complete and working customer is sound about it.
Have a great bank holiday chaps the weather forecast is descent so hopefully we can get out and about. Kop

 

[Scott_D]

Vaillant 832, system conversion to combi and boiler moved to the loft.
I used Tesla flex to get the gas supply to the boiler.

 

[SimonG]

Was at work this morning finishing off. Now in my garden lopping 4 foot off the green house

 

[Deleted member 120897]

Was at work this morning finishing off. Now in my garden lopping 4 foot off the green house

Is that another way of saying you’re taking it down?

 

[Deleted member 120897]

Vaillant 832, system conversion to combi and boiler moved to the loft.
I used Tesla flex to get the gas supply to the boiler.View attachment 82690View attachment 82691
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Is the toilet video you draining the heating or have you just unblocked a bog?

 

[SimonG]

Is that another way of saying you’re taking it down?

No, currently 12' x 8', so taking 4' off the end to leave it 8' square. was a bit too big and be nice to get some of the patio back.

 

[Scott_D]

Is the toilet video you draining the heating or have you just unblocked a bog?

I did a mainsa flush and was getting lots of big flakes of metal

 

[Deleted member 120897]

1st day back after having last week off, got lumbered with a fault “boiler tripping electrics and blowing fuses” after carrying out basic electrical checks, I managed (after an hour or so) to trace the fault to a 240vac thermostat - customer had hung an air freshener and just have punctured the cable slightly 🙄

 

[SimonG]

Started the post easter season with a syphon change, rusted cistern nuts real tip. Moved onto taking a customer through last week's changes to heating system and collecting the £2.5k. Finished off with a nice outside tap washer change and a sort out of the under sink waste plumbing. Followed by the whilst you're here can you tell me if I can split my bathroom in two adding an extra toilet and basin.

Nice easy finishing off new water supply to replace old steel feed tomorrow, as long as Northumbrian Water turn up. Looking for a short day.


Thursday cancelled today as they've just booked up to go away for a week from tomorrow. So looking at pulling the three jobs from Friday into Thursday and having another long weekend.

 

[SimonG]

The long weekend is on, Northumbrian Water didn't turn up. So extra busy tomorrow.

Then 3 days off, or as swmbo says, tome to work in the house.

 

[king of pipes]

Well just about done hear just flooring to go down and damaged parts to replace when they arrive . Kop

 

[SimonG]

Welcome to the chit hole. Damp got nothing on this. Both boss's behind wall been leaking, overflow from toilet just on the floor in the void and light doesn't work.
Soon make something of it.

 

[Scott_D]

Ecotec pro 28 replacing a turbomax

 

[king of pipes]

Shower room finished off customer getting his own flooring done , I had to swap the door around which was a pita want that little bit more room to get in and out ?? Regards kop

 

[king of pipes]

Previous bathroom now finished and dressed 😉👍

 

[SimonG]

Going to have a look at this. I installed it about 6 years ago. Apparently wheelie bin went up in flames at 1.00 this morning.

 

[king of pipes]

Going to have a look at this. I installed it about 6 years ago. Apparently wheelie bin went up in flames at 1.00 this morning.

Oh dear that looks nasty mate hope you get em sorted out. 😉👍

 

[SimonG]

Thought it might be salvageable, but damage too severe. Insurance job so new boiler. Fire investigator was there when I called in. No accelerants, didn't start from boiler or oil line, possibly a lithium battery in wheelie bin but cause is officially unexplained. Luckily the boiler stopped the propane tanks exploding.

 

[king of pipes]

Thought it might be salvageable, but damage too severe. Insurance job so new boiler. Fire investigator was there when I called in. No accelerants, didn't start from boiler or oil line, possibly a lithium battery in wheelie bin but cause is officially unexplained. Luckily the boiler stopped the propane tanks exploding.

Ooh it could of been a whole lot worse then mate 😕

 

[SimonG]

Ooh it could of been a whole lot worse then mate 😕

Other than the cracked glass in the kitchen window nothing inside and nobody hurt.

 

[SimonG]

Well there's an hour I won't get back.
Asked to have a look at first fixing for a bathroom and en-suite.
No hot, cold, waste or soil pipework upstairs.
Saniflo for ensuite.
Hot and cold to be picked up from by the boiler and ran through pitched single storey roof space, tee off into ensuite and then into bathroom.
En-suite has thermo shower, basin and wc.
Bathroom has bath, electric shower over, basin and wc.
New 4" soil from wc in bathroom drop into roof space, drop through ceiling, run just below ceiling, core through external wall, tee, new stack only 1 story and connect into existing stack 2m away.
Plus waste pipes for above and connection and pipe for saniflow.
Gives me the plan, attached, then tells me he has a price already. £1,350.00. I told him to snap his hand off.

 

[ShaunCorbs]

Including materials?

 

[SimonG]

Including materials?

Supposedly.

 

[SimonG]

I've just sent him my price. £2575. Hopefully I won't hear back. Too much work out there to be grafting for nothing.

 

[ShaunCorbs]

Second fixing week

 

[SimonG]

Happy Star Wars day.

Today I'm in court trying to get paid. Not looking good when the other side have Sir Peter Smith KC. Ah well fingers crossed.

 

[king of pipes]

Happy Star Wars day.

Today I'm in court trying to get paid. Not looking good when the other side have Sir Peter Smith KC. Ah well fingers crossed.

Best of luck mate hope it goes your way 👍

 

[SimonG]

Cheers.

List 2 cases for 10.00 and mines the second, typical. Turned up in my work gear as well to hopefully move things along 😀
Their rep requested a private meeting with mine to discuss settlement. I said nope.
I've paid for the hearing, there offering less than 50%.

 

[SimonG]

Well it was a win, not the full win but enough to be happy about it. Found in my favour. At one point though I thought I was getting the death penalty, the barrister was a right obstreperous thomas watt.

 

[Deleted member 120897]

Well it was a win, not the full win but enough to be happy about it. Found in my favour. At one point though I thought I was getting the death penalty, the barrister was a right obstreperous thomas watt.

Glad my parents decided against naming me anything starting with the letter T.

 

[ShaunCorbs]

Started and Finished this one off this week I hate old hair plastered walls had to re do them with minimal mess 😂

 

[king of pipes]

Happy customer forwarded the finished shower pictures over does look good now dress and flooring down 😉👍 kop

 

[SimonG]

Bathroom refurb, first of a few for same customer. Once this one's done its downstairs for a new ensuite.
Strange 15mm mlcp pipe been used previously, all with brass push fits.

 

[ShaunCorbs]

Tectite mlcp

 

[ShaunCorbs]

Just finished this off today

 

[ShaunCorbs]

Did you spot anything @ChrisB1982 😀

 

[Deleted member 120897]

Did you spot anything @ChrisB1982 😀

Can’t say I did, I haven’t done unvented since college, so as a guess the hot water draw off valve?