HALL of SHAME PHOTo`s

[plumben]

Good lad I can move it up and down about 4 inches 😀 only just been serviced lol

Might as well rule out the service if they didn't spot that

 

[Howsie]

I've just seen this on twitter! It's got everything you could ask for.

 

[Howsie]

I've just seen this on twitter! It's got everything you could ask for.

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[Best]

I've just seen this on twitter! It's got everything you could ask for.

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I don't think that can be beat! :grin: Only thing good you could say is it isn't a danger!
Ptfe tape on threads does point to what wise person did it all.

 

[1Steven]

Gauge could be in a better position, wonder if it steams up when used?

 

[Howsie]

 

[ShaunCorbs]

First one on gas ?

 

[Howsie]

Yup.

 

[ShaunCorbs]

Yup.

Socket to close as well

 

[PlumbBobBob]

second one stopcock for outside tap lol

 

[PhoenixServices]

And the waste pipe ha

 

[Riley]

It might just be the picture but on that gas one it also looks like the top corner of the socket has been beaten out to accommodate tHe hob pipework

 

[Howsie]

 

[IND_Nick]

How lazy can people be!

 

[Riley]

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Little pan wobble was it

 

[oz-plumber]

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Is that how you guys change a standard pan into a care pan?

 

[oz-plumber]

How lazy can people be!

The scary part is that someone actually put some thought into doing that.

Would it not have been considerably cheaper to run some copper?

 

[PriestyUK]

Doing a refurb at a well known fast food chain in Chancery Lane and the main contractor does this, told my boss and got shouted down and told not to get involved! As were not there to touch the gas just the plumbing on this one.

 

[Paulplumb]

Restricted access to ecv?

 

[PriestyUK]

Yep

 

[macackau]

Came across this. Garden hose for a PRV pipe off a combi boiler. Jesus wept.

 

[Best]

Why bother moving the copper radiator pipes to the proper place nice and neat?
Just get a builder to do your bathroom and leave the existing copper pipes and do this, -

 

[AlexGas]

Why bother moving the copper radiator pipes to the proper place nice and neat?
Just get a builder to do your bathroom and leave the existing copper pipes and do this, -
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Nuts!

 

[Best]

Nuts!

Yes. Rest of job (plastic wall paneling etc) looks okay. Surely a little effort would have moved the microbore pipes below the floor and brought up copper 15mm neatly and directly to towel rail. I didn't need to ask who recently did the bathroom. Had to be a builder.

 

[ShaunCorbs]

Hahaha that's a cracker 🙂

 

[Best]

Pressure reducing valve has been fitted on lower floor. Going to be fun servicing it. :smile: Relief valve obviously wrong place also. Whoever did this work definitely is capable of doing copper pipes and soldering neat, but I can't understand why they have the heating pipes to coil just straight out from connections taking a lot of space up.

 

[Sharp Point]

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Pressure reducing valve has been fitted on lower floor. Going to be fun servicing it. :smile: Relief valve obviously wrong place also. Whoever did this work definitely is capable of doing copper pipes and soldering neat, but I can't understand why they have the heating pipes to coil just straight out from connections taking a lot of space up.

wheres the expansion vessel?

 

[macackau]

Think that's a megaflo so it's got the internal one

 

[Best]

Think that's a megaflo so it's got the internal one

Yes, it is indeed a Megaflow, so as you say, it has an internal air gap.
Workmanship not really deserving of Hall of Shame, but pity the plumbers couldn't have done it better and to proper unvented rules. The combination valve shouldn't be elsewhere and the separate pressure relief valve and its d1 needed above and dropping into tundish

 

[ShaunCorbs]

sorry for bad light the sun was out 😀









😀

mastic every where holding the flue onto the unit and holding the bricks inplace

 

[ShaunCorbs]

Thoughts

 

[ShaunCorbs]

Thoughts



Ffs wrong way

 

[stani]

Can you not get inside to see where they put the boiler,

 

[ShaunCorbs]

Can you not get inside to see where they put the boiler,

No sorry as was walking past

 

[IND_Nick]

Thoughts

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Ffs wrong way

How do they get away with this! It always makes me wonder how bad everything else must be inside.

 

[WaterTight]

I've just seen this on twitter! It's got everything you could ask for.

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I've never see it's equal.

 

[tamz]

That made me laugh lol

 

[plumben]

Not my picture (taken off On the Tools)

BUT never mind the drill bit look at that pipe work

 

[plumben]

Not my picture (taken off On the Tools)

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[Best]

I was sent this photo.
I hope the air vent is on the right hand side.

 

[Stigster]

I was sent this photo.
I hope the air vent is on the right hand side.
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I think the rad is correct and some spud has built the stairs wrong.

 

[Best]

Always try to use short pieces of chromed pipe from chrome towel rails valves to keep the finish professional

 

[Best]

Soil stacks really aren't that important to do properly

 

[Best]

 

[Spanish]

Always try to use short pieces of chromed pipe from chrome towel rails valves to keep the finish professional
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not liking all of the unnecessary chrome, could do with more expensive plastic to give it that classy finish

why, just, why?

 

[Spanish]

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honestly this is just like the one in one of the properties I look after (think it was done end 14 beginning of 15) I saw it and asked some questions, like WTF? guess how much it cost?
answers on a postcard


£600 is the answer!

 

[Spanish]

I bet those bends were off of the original system, have to admit the bloke must have known what he was doing (if it works) because I get travel sick just trying to trace it!

 

[1Steven]

Before you ask, no I didn't. That was the colour of the water coming out of the tap!

 

[plumben]

Soil stacks really aren't that important to do properly
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Builders for you, do a lovely job then budge the plumbing

 

[Stoney Ground]

Soil stacks really aren't that important to do properly
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Builder-Got any 4" fittings on the van?
Plumber - got a few odd and sods.
Builder-couldn't let us have some?
Plumber thinks - thought I'd never get rid of those old bits.
Builder- Doesn't look to bad does it?

 

[Best]

Builder-Got any 4" fittings on the van?
Plumber - got a few odd and sods.
Builder-couldn't let us have some?
Plumber thinks - thought I'd never get rid of those old bits.
Builder- Doesn't look to bad does it?

Also, -
Builder, - "Sure the home owner will be painting it anyhow!"

 

[AlexGas]

Bish, bash, bosh...

 

[Spanish]

Bish, bash, bosh...

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Jeez! it wouldn't have taken much to actually get it in the tub, that way you could have long baths without having to refill!

 

[leesparkykent]

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[AlexGas]

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That's just brainless!

 

[rpm]

Ignore

 

[Chalked]

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Fancy fitting a socket behind that gas pipe... ,!:waving:

 

[Riley]

hmmmmm

 

[IND_Nick]

That's a notch! What a way to start a Monday morning, new joists all round!

 

[IND_Nick]

Same house as above, flue held up with plastic gutter brackets! We were not popular, new floor and flue to be redone. Let's see what we find tomorrow!

 

[ShaunCorbs]

Same house as above, flue held up with plastic gutter brackets! We were not popular, new floor and flue to be redone. Let's see what we find tomorrow!

No screws either and need more clips 😀

 

[Best]

Installing a new stopcock? Allegedly not much up and down movement on pipework?
Why not do this, if you are a kitchen fitter?

 

[PlumbBobBob]

jeez at least use the same make for all of it

 

[Gray0689]

Thoughts

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Ffs wrong way

Not much left of the lintel

 

[ShaunCorbs]

Not much left of the lintel

Nope bet they had fun drilling it

 

[ShaunCorbs]

non gas safe eng decides to pipe up his new boiler

now with the exact kit hes got what would you of done

i would of dropped the boiler and re cored the flue and made things nice and fit the kit vertical

 

[Whyme]

God that'll take some boxing in [emoji33]

 

[Stoney Ground]

non gas safe eng decides to pipe up his new boiler

now with the exact kit hes got what would you of done


i would of dropped the boiler and re cored the flue and made things nice and fit the kit vertical

Can't believe he's put a bracket up for the curtain rail. You could rest it on the pipe from the PRV.

 

[plumben]

non gas safe eng decides to pipe up his new boiler

now with the exact kit hes got what would you of done

i would of dropped the boiler and re cored the flue and made things nice and fit the kit vertical

If it was me i'd of moved the boiler down and to the right, and ran all the pipework next to the corner boxing, easier to box in with a simple wall unit and panel, lots of access

 

[IND_Nick]

I had to stop and snap this beauty!

 

[Alex Knight]

 

[Howsie]

Stinky sinky!

 

[rpm]

Is that hose that drops and rises from the overflow?

 

[rpm]

Fear somebody I know is in for the same, showed me their new sink and waste from Ikea. All rather strange as various bits rotate and extend, all sealed (apparently) with tiny rubber rings.

 

[Best]

Is that hose that drops and rises from the overflow?

At least that means accidently the overflow has its own trap. :smile:

 

[IND_Nick]

Who does this! It is too close to new kitchen unit you cannot turn it off by hand. Made me laugh though.

 

[ShaunCorbs]

But better than in a concrete floor 😉 and least you can still see it 😀

 

[Stoney Ground]

Unusual cylinder connection, but held up for many years

 

[ShaunCorbs]

You only need one hole when installing a kitchen extractor

 

[Riley]

Surely that's a wind up???? Someone seriously did that??? Where was that

 

[AlexGas]

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You only need one hole when installing a kitchen extractor

I bet it'll the winner in the GSR mag.

 

[ShaunCorbs]

Surely that's a wind up???? Someone seriously did that??? Where was that

No not a wind up mate sent it me said the kitchen fitters broke the boiler 😀

 

[Riley]

Kitchen fitters?? Surely not. Normally such a conscientious bunch

 

[Alex Knight]

Wonder how greasy the burner is haha

 

[Billy Bob Bob]

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You only need one hole when installing a kitchen extractor

sure to god thats not real????

 

[ShaunCorbs]

sure to god thats not real????

yep and its not the first one i have seen

 

[AlexGas]

yep and its not the first one i have seen

Did you have a chance to get your GFA on this one!?

 

[ShaunCorbs]

Did you have a chance to get your GFA on this one!?

no was sent it by a mate

 

[AlexGas]

That's nuts!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks God, a stink pipe haven't been hooked up to it!!!

 

[voivod]

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You only need one hole when installing a kitchen extractor

no fn way...tell me thats a joke

 

[Last Plumber]

If that's real, I'll eat my RIDDOR report forms !

 

[Riley]

In retrospect I guarantee it's real I've seen some kitchen fitters do some bloody stupid things like this for example

 

[Riley]

Sorry the pictures on its side

 

[ShaunCorbs]

Sorry the pictures on its side

 

[Riley]

Cheers Shaun

 

[stani]

Resurrecting this but nicer day, better picture.

 

[stani]

pressed it twice

 

[voivod]

Resurrecting this but nicer day, better picture.
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Is that on the teletubbies house?

 

[Stigster]

Is that on the teletubbies house?

Either that or it's a prototype of the UK's replacement nuclear submarines.

 

[Stoney Ground]

Either that or it's a prototype of the UK's replacement nuclear submarines.

Honest officer, I didn't realise I could see through in to next doors bathroom until you showed me.