HALL of SHAME PHOTo`s

[Mike Jackson]

Okay had a call to a leak on a new installation last week. Repaired the leak but went back today to rectify the rest of the faults.

The job was a basin sat on a cupboard.


IMG_0107 by Mike Jackson1, on Flickr

When I say sat on, I mean sat on the basin had been placed on top of a piece of anti slip matting to hold it in place. Look at the amazing standard of workmanship where the waste hole is cut into the top. I may as well chuck my hole saws out.


IMG_0109 by Mike Jackson1, on Flickr

The waste was an amazing piece of work.


IMG_0101 by Mike Jackson1, on Flickr

When I took the waste pipe apart to run it properly I discovered how to join incompatible pipe sizes. I wish I'd known about this years ago, I could have saved a fortune on multifit connectors.


IMG_0110 by Mike Jackson1, on Flickr

This was the joint that was leaking. I had to open out the hole with the multimaster to get the armeg jawdropper on the bottom nut of the compression fitting. It really screams professionalism when someone uses a compression fitting when an endfeed one would be so much more appropriate.


IMG_0106 by Mike Jackson1, on Flickr

And a last view just showing the quality of the install.


IMG_0102 by Mike Jackson1, on Flickr

The customer has cancelled one cheque made out to the original "plumber" and is writing requesting he refund the cost of my remedial works.

 

[Ray Stafford]

Lord thats rough. Even by my dismal DIY standards, thats rough.

 

[galaxy_plumbing]

good job Mike 🙂 I mean good repair 😀

 

[Bunker]

That's fabulous, you sure previous bloke was a plumber and not a bricky?

 

[Leo21]

Does thar mean i'm not getting paid for yet another job?

 

[julesverne]

Window fitters shouldn't fit bathrooms picture of toilet waste

 

[lame plumber]

Don't really see the point of the plume elbow plus its pointed straight over the boundaryView attachment 15911

yet its still to close to the air vent!

 

[Crinkmeister]

A toilet waste?!! Isn't all that silicone likely to cause a blockage of the most undesirable kind?

 

[Toxic Ted]

Okay had a call to a leak on a new installation last week. Repaired the leak but went back today to rectify the rest of the faults.

The job was a basin sat on a cupboard.


IMG_0107 by Mike Jackson1, on Flickr

When I say sat on, I mean sat on the basin had been placed on top of a piece of anti slip matting to hold it in place. Look at the amazing standard of workmanship where the waste hole is cut into the top. I may as well chuck my hole saws out.


IMG_0109 by Mike Jackson1, on Flickr

The waste was an amazing piece of work.


IMG_0101 by Mike Jackson1, on Flickr

When I took the waste pipe apart to run it properly I discovered how to join incompatible pipe sizes. I wish I'd known about this years ago, I could have saved a fortune on multifit connectors.


IMG_0110 by Mike Jackson1, on Flickr

This was the joint that was leaking. I had to open out the hole with the multimaster to get the armeg jawdropper on the bottom nut of the compression fitting. It really screams professionalism when someone uses a compression fitting when an endfeed one would be so much more appropriate.


IMG_0106 by Mike Jackson1, on Flickr

And a last view just showing the quality of the install.


IMG_0102 by Mike Jackson1, on Flickr

The customer has cancelled one cheque made out to the original "plumber" and is writing requesting he refund the cost of my remedial works.

A monkey with a hammer would have made a better job....

 

[Destroyer2813]

yet its still to close to the air vent!

And that as well

 

[Leo21]

DIY heaven.

 

[Crinkmeister]

It's a flow restrictor....

 

[stevetheplumber]

That type of wall plate elbow is a water fitting and not tapered like a gas fitting if say

a female iron is a female iron whether its got fixing lugs fitted to it or not

 

[Kyle87]

a female iron is a female iron whether its got fixing lugs fitted to it or not

I was taught at college (I do question the tutors credibility to be fair) that gas female irons were tapered so if you screwed male in there would be a point of absolute closure

Whereas water female irons are parallel and the fitting does not taper inward.

He also said gas wing back fitting don't angle out from a wall they generally stay flush.

I stand humbly to be corrected I only know what I've been taught!!

 

[Kev the gas]

I have had 2 x local plumbers send me the same pic.

One of them initially put my name forward to price the job, an old floor standing Rs boiler on gravity with a split coil in the cylinder.

Rather than do a full convert to fully pumped the chosen installer has just put a pump on the returns and told the old girl to turn off the rads when she does'nt want them on :smug2:.

He did raise the expansion tank tho, which he thought might help the split coil in the cylinder !!!!!

Sorry cant make out the model of the new boiler but can it be fitted under a work top ??

 

[Ermintrude]

Raxi solo.

 

[Leo21]

Raxi solo.

Haven't heard of that particular brand, is it new?

 

[Kev the gas]

Raxi Solo !!

Ah the old he plus !

Yes to my own question it only needs 50 mm clearance at the bottom, fun emptying the condense drain then !

Next question What news paper was it ???

 

[Ermintrude]

Daily mirror?

 

[Chalked]

View attachment 16098

I have had 2 x local plumbers send me the same pic.

One of them initially put my name forward to price the job, an old floor standing Rs boiler on gravity with a split coil in the cylinder.

Rather than do a full convert to fully pumped the chosen installer has just put a pump on the returns and told the old girl to turn off the rads when she does'nt want them on :smug2:.

He did raise the expansion tank tho, which he thought might help the split coil in the cylinder !!!!!

Sorry cant make out the model of the new boiler but can it be fitted under a work top ??

is the bit of aluminium a heat shield for when the paper gets going.?