need to confess

[ambrosia]

saturday I was totally feed up with my company making me work yet another weekend, its my 4th in a row

got sent to a leak that was coming through a ceiling.
knocked on the door of this massive house which answered by an extremely posh bullingdon club reject who i took an immediate dislike to as he asked me to take my shoes off dispite he was wearing his indoors and so were all his kids

he was convinced that the leak was coming from one of the many ensuite showers they had. This particular ensuite was part of the master bedroom, extremely expensive looking and finished in tiles which obviously cost a fortune.
as usuall there was no access to the shower trap and so i explained to the customer that i would have to remove the tiles and there was a high chance that the tiles would get broken. He said its got to be done and signed the disclamer and i set to work on destroying his bathroom.
when i finally got access to under the shower i found it was bone dry. So looking around the bathroom i started investigating, on the other side was a toilet and in full view if i'd taken the time to look was the leak on the tap connector as it joined the plastic under the cistern. peering inside the boxing surrounding the toilet this was clearly the cause of the damp patch on the ceiling.

I had been there 2 hours and destroyed a bathroom all for nothing.
I of course lied about it, said i'd repaired the leak which i had, sweeped his bathroom up, put it in a black rubble bag, gave him the invoice and left

i'm sure karma will catch up with me eventually, but in the mean time i felt the need to confess in a private forum

 

[rpm]

Trust you sprinkled water on the dry area to back you up.

 

[Ermintrude]

Ha ha ha always nice when it's like that.

 

[Millsy 82]

A few months ago I went out to a leak coming through a downstairs flat ceiling. Check all the fittings I could get to nothing. I said wooden floor has to come up get a floor layer in to take it up £3000.00 wooden floor ruined not 1 joint under the floor so traced where the water was coming from and on the other side of the room was the boiler.

Took the kitchen unit out from under the boiler (took 2 minutes) cut a bit of the floor board up and there it was! I phoned the letting agency and let them know leak was sorted and it was a good job that we removed all the wooden floor as all the insulation, fire boarding etc was absolutely soaking and needed replacing.

I didn't tell them that had I actually thought a bit harder I could of fixed the leak in about an hour and not touched the expensive wooden floor.

 

[ambrosia]

Millsy we should never work together, that would be too dangerous, people and property would get hurt empires would fall

 

[Best]

I went to a brand new house to service their oil boiler & the guy told me that after the place was finished water started to appear up through the lovely tiled solid floors in their kitchen/dining area.
The builder who built the house decided floor had to be lifted & his men arrived & cut large tracks all through the tiled floors with breaker hammers to try to find the leak. After wrecking the tiled floor, a plumber came one day & cut all the network of pipes out from below the kitchen sink & through it all out in one mass on the back garden & repiped it. Obviously a leak had been running down a pipe inside the sink unit & travelled along the pipe insulation below the floors. Idiots. :smile:

 

[kris]

We're only human and we make mistakes . I bet the next one you get youl go about it slightly different. I bet you feel better with it now confessed . Just imagine the forum like a church confession booth and croppies in the next booth saying the good lord forgives all plumbers with a conscience. Lol

 

[oz-plumber]

Croppie would only ask the Lord to forgive the plumbers that got away with it.
Because they need forgiveness and redemption.

The ones that didn't, he would condemn, and send straight the hell!!
Because they would deserve what they should get.

 

[Best]

You made an honest mistake. A very stupid mistake! We have all done similar mistakes & usually don't repeat them.
Besides, if you had told the customer the truth, you would have probably got spoken to like a little boy & made to look an idiot, plus all costs of damage would be on your head. You'd have been treated like a criminal very likely & the owner should have got of his backside & searched thoroughly for where the leak was coming from incase above floors IMO before he called you out anyhow.

 

[townfanjon]

All of a sudden you guys have made me feel a lot better about all the cock ups I have made lol

 

[buckley plumb]

went to do a gas cert on a Worcester jr for a landlord last wk it was a jam packed day and I was a little stressed due t the amount of work I had. did the checks then did flue flow and only got 1mb.stared to strip the vert flue to check for blockage as the boiler was only a year old.I then stepped back and realised what I had done - I had put the u tester on the wrong test point bloody Worcester and that white cap

 

[cr0ft]

saturday I was totally feed up with my company making me work yet another weekend, its my 4th in a row

got sent to a leak that was coming through a ceiling.
knocked on the door of this massive house which answered by an extremely posh bullingdon club reject who i took an immediate dislike to as he asked me to take my shoes off dispite he was wearing his indoors and so were all his kids

he was convinced that the leak was coming from one of the many ensuite showers they had. This particular ensuite was part of the master bedroom, extremely expensive looking and finished in tiles which obviously cost a fortune.
as usuall there was no access to the shower trap and so i explained to the customer that i would have to remove the tiles and there was a high chance that the tiles would get broken. He said its got to be done and signed the disclamer and i set to work on destroying his bathroom.
when i finally got access to under the shower i found it was bone dry. So looking around the bathroom i started investigating, on the other side was a toilet and in full view if i'd taken the time to look was the leak on the tap connector as it joined the plastic under the cistern. peering inside the boxing surrounding the toilet this was clearly the cause of the damp patch on the ceiling.

I had been there 2 hours and destroyed a bathroom all for nothing.
I of course lied about it, said i'd repaired the leak which i had, sweeped his bathroom up, put it in a black rubble bag, gave him the invoice and left

i'm sure karma will catch up with me eventually, but in the mean time i felt the need to confess in a private forum

At least the owner was a complete bellend! Imagine how guilty you would have felt if he was a nice bloke!

 

[TFGplumbing]

1 John 1:9 says, “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”

Can we please make a sub-fourm? lol

 

[Ray Stafford]

If we are going all biblical, then may I direct you to the first book of Timothy, chapter 5, verse 23.

A stout fellow that Timothy. One of the best.

 

[Rickster123]

If we are going all biblical, then may I direct you to the first book of Timothy, chapter 5, verse 23.

A stout fellow that Timothy. One of the best.

That Timothy was a smart bugger,

 

[Ray Stafford]

That Timothy was a smart bugger,
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Now there's a fellow deserving of a sub-forum.

Maybe even a political party. Join with me Adam - TIMOTHY FOR PRIME MINISTER!

 

[Rickster123]

Now there's a fellow deserving of a sub-forum.

Maybe even a political party. Join with me Adam - TIMOTHY FOR PRIME MINISTER!

im not brave enough ray, I had to check that the mrs didn't see that picture!

 

[Dotty]

I can see some of us getting into serious trouble if shoulders get peeked over.......

 

[kris]

went to do a gas cert on a Worcester jr for a landlord last wk it was a jam packed day and I was a little stressed due t the amount of work I had. did the checks then did flue flow and only got 1mb.stared to strip the vert flue to check for blockage as the boiler was only a year old.I then stepped back and realised what I had done - I had put the u tester on the wrong test point bloody Worcester and that white cap

Nice one Buckley I've made that mistake myself. The test point on the classics are there so you'd think the junior would be the same but it's up near the top. We just say to ourself DOOOHH. I had the custard watching me when I was doing it .