Thoroughly dodgy plumber- who to complain to?

[unimpressed]

Sorry pic here

 

[dancinplumba]

might be your work next, no one is perfect we all have off days, some more than others though 🙂

Hahaha You Young man should speak for yourself now shut up 🙂

 

[unimpressed]

The point re. pipes is, we specified where they should run. We confirmed he understood. He then ignored that (for no apparent reason) and ran them elsewhere.

 

[Guest123]

No name and shame please on the public forum. This is an open plumbing forum not an open court.

 

[unimpressed]

One of the piles of rubbish left behind- I did expect him to tidy up a bit.

 

[unimpressed]

I won't name then, of course.

 

[SafeGasInstall]

It ain't dad bad as op on first post says !
must have been Colin then !?pmsl

 

[unimpressed]

Bear in mind these are just some photos I've quickly found- I haven't been round taking photos to illustrate the problem. I'll do that tomorrow.

Oh and one more gem from this chap I forgot about. Told him where the electric runs and he only bloody drilled exactly where we showed him it was, narrowly missing the cables.

 

[unimpressed]

This is the boiler- just for interest. No real issue, but don't really know what I'm looking at tbh, The copper piping runs annoyingly close to the plug switch though.

 

[SafeGasInstall]

No , I don't actually belive all this now !!! There is a reason I asked for the photos NOW
you are exaturating it , I am sorry but you have fail tonight !!!

 

[Dannypipe]

Well the pipes shouldn't have been on show, if it was priced to have the floor up. If it wasn't priced to have the floor up (it is more work to have the floor up obviously) then I can understand why he's done it.

Leaving piles of rubbish, and touching lilac paintwork up with blue. Yes wrong....but again some plumbers wouldn't have bothered touching the paintwork up at all.

In short, what I'm saying is, while the work doesn't appear to be brilliant. It's not the worse I've seen by a country mile. We see some god awful work on here.

 

[Dannypipe]

This is the boiler- just for interest. No real issue, but don't really know what I'm looking at tbh, The copper piping runs annoyingly close to the plug switch though.

Is this a wind up!?

 

[unimpressed]

Ok fair enough if that's your opinion- I'm unhappy as it wasn't what I asked for and the issues I stated do stand. What am I exaggerating? I don't have photos of everything, but what's wrong with those I do have to show my point?

 

[Dannypipe]

Well to say that the copper pipe is annoyingly close to the socket. I mean really?

I'm looking at that boiler install and frankly I don't think that's a poor job at all.

Pipework is clipped, its all in copper as it should be. The cross overs have all been down with fittings, and not formed which is fine if you aren't the best on a pipe bender.

I can't view it with the naked eye, but this really isn't SHOCK HORROR crap work.

 

[unimpressed]

Dannypipe, sorry I don't think I am explaining well enough. There was no need to take the floor up- the ceilings below are not in, so there is easy access from downstairs. The floor level differences mean that pipes running through the wall in the bedroom can come out below the floorboards of the bathroom next door. Which is where those chrome pipes should have run-they should have gone below the bathroom floor, not into the bathroom at all.

 

[dancinplumba]

what make and model is boiler ?

 

[unimpressed]

Yep danny- as I said, no issue with the boiler install (though I would not recognise a problem if there was one). the boiler photo was just for info. The problems are elsewhere. Just annoyed that we don't have the boiler warranty.

 

[unimpressed]

Dancin- I'm afraid I can't remember, I will have to check and let you know tomorrow.

 

[unimpressed]

And thanks for the info re. decent boiler install danny- it's one less thing to worry about!

 

[Dannypipe]

Yes you should have the boiler warranty, and I think if you asked for the pipes to be hidden then they should have.

There is no excuse for that.

I don't think you've had a total cowboy in your home though (which is good news for you). Maybe just someone who is stubborn and difficult and will just do it as he sees fit. I don't know. But I was expecting bad, bad work.

Please see our gallery of rubbish work (someone please post a link!!) and you'll see what I'm talking about.