pricing up for little job

[AWheating]

We're all clever in Leicester!!

if your all clever why are you all still living there? 😉

 

[APS]

Who wants to start the bidding on whether he gets called back or not.

 

[APS]

£30 should have just about covered materials then looking at that. If compression fittings needed ptfe they would all be supplied with a roll when you buy one.

 

[Kyle87]

if your all clever why are you all still living there? 😉

Because the football team is carp. Keeps things quiet round ere

 

[Rickster123]

Fair play to you for putting he pic up and taking the criticism well. Not much I can add to the many many comments since. Put it down to experience and move on. Next time it will look very different.... WON'T IT?!

 

[secret squirrel]

Maybe the poor lad wasn't taught incorrectly maybe its his understanding of what he's learnt,

I don't think he believed his work to be slatted as bad as it has been, no one in there right mind would put up that pic knowing it was so bad.

With any luck he won't be scared to come back and ask a bit more......

 

[Kyle87]

Nothing wrong with making a mistake as long as you learn from it. We've all done something daft in the past.

I have stuck a 32mm core in the wrong place because I didn't draw clear lines.
I once got a woodchip in my eye because I didn't wear safety glasses using a circy saw. Had to pick it out with a knife.
I also forgot to cap off ALL the pipes on a bathroom first fix. Legged it back to stopcock when I heard water gushing from the pipes for thermo mixer shower.

Point is, make a mistake, live and learn!!

 

[Plum Bob 66]

Forget the PTFE, if compression fittings needed PTFE they'd come with a roll.

True, "if it squeaks it very seldom leaks"!

 

[Billy Bob Bob]

went and done it today all done no paste tho:6:
But its beer money for the evening :8:

why is it bandaged up? is it mummified?

 

[plumber0808]

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Oh Jesus that made me cry laughing. 🙂

 

[plumber0808]

High five supper plumb for posting that picture up, that takes some balls. you have also taken the criticism well.

good luck with the training and maybe keep the pictures to yourself next time.

 

[TBServices]

This thread is hilarious.

Supper Plumb, change your name to shoddy plumb, ditch your "mentor" as he is clearly a tit who shouldn't be allowed near clean water, then find a real plumber. You'll never learn anything from this guy if he can't even fit compression joints.

 

[stoker122]

Many years ago when I was the apprentice, I told the guvnor I didn't think the compression joints on rad valves needed paste.
He said fair enough fit them without any.
They then left me to drain down and remake all of the joints again as most of them leaked.
Needless to say I have always put a lick of paste on the shoulder of the fitting since.

 

[TerryWaite]

I'm working with a guy who uses PTFE on big screwed joints, he looks at me as if I'm soft when I pull a reel of loctite 55 out, PTFE is crap IMHO especially the cheap stuff and that photo made me laugh, definitely no PTFE on comp joints!!!

 

[ne1ls0n]

thats the best laugh i have had this month, where did you learn that? A+E? looks like its been in a crash

 

[PlumbBobBob]

when i saw the picture i said out loud "oh my good god" i wonder if he has shares in ptfe manufacture? that is just so wrong.

 

[SimonG]

when i saw the picture i said out loud "oh my good god" i wonder if he has shares in ptfe manufacture? that is just so wrong.

I was close, four foot snake, sprang to mind.

 

[Best]

Paste is needed for sealing olives - especially poor quality olives. As I always state, leaks can be microscopic & that is exactly what causes the slight corrosion on brass nuts & fittings & copper pipes & seized up nuts.
This thread has cheered me up! :smile:

 

[RGII79]

paste does little to seal olive it more most will seal without anything if done correctly and if they do just change them paste helps prevent the nuts seizing up.small dab of boss between thread and olive never fails

 

[erpkid]

Sorry to add a bit more fuel to this but am in midst of ebay argument with a German who bid on one of my lathes a 3/4 ton Colchester and he expects me to palletise and get it on the roadside for this carrier. This was advertised as collection only with assistance but this arrogant chap assumes an old uk plumber can lift this out of his workshop on a sloping site onto a pallet so he can pay by paypal then reverse the payment......scum.....rant off..............

Anyhow back to ptfe and paste.........I use a little paste but mainly to lubricate the threads so on nipping up your are experiencing resistance to the compression of the olive rather than the thread friction.