Ultimate DONT'S tips for plumbers

[hammers4spanner]

Always carry a bog roll in the van. That's saved my socks on more than one occasion.

I was doing a boiler change few year ago and needed to curl one out , place was a bedsit for students and obviously no bog roll .

Used my socks , anyway finished boiler got it up and running left , next morning got call from landlord saying students have blocked toilet!!

Turned out blockage was my socks lol , ended getting paid to unblock my blockage KERCHING

 

[Rickster123]

I was doing a boiler change few year ago and needed to curl one out , place was a bedsit for students and obviously no bog roll .

Used my socks , anyway finished boiler got it up and running left , next morning got call from landlord saying students have blocked toilet!!

Turned out blockage was my socks lol , ended getting paid to unblock my blockage KERCHING

Hammers, you disgust me!

 

[drip-dry]

I was doing a boiler change few year ago and needed to curl one out , place was a bedsit for students and obviously no bog roll .

Used my socks , anyway finished boiler got it up and running left , next morning got call from landlord saying students have blocked toilet!!

Turned out blockage was my socks lol , ended getting paid to unblock my blockage KERCHING

I would of just put them back on.other Alf would not know as she says me feet stink like sh.t after a days graft a anyway...but pleased you socked it to them with a little bonus invoice

:82:

 

[Dannypipe]

What happened to the "top tips" thread. I remember it got deleted once before. Has it been deleted a second time?

Shame if it has.

 

[zzzjim]

................saved my socks on more than one occasion.

What a middle classed life I must have lived , Only heard of Sock alternative watching TV .
(aged over 50 ... Runny nose always have Kitchen roll / Hankercheif in pocket )
What cold feet , rather rip a shirt sleeve off !

 

[buckley plumb]

When the customer goes out and says help yourself to tea and coffee never use the milk from the tupperware jug.Never again when they come home and say o no you didn't use the milk in the container did you its breast milk for the baby :-(

 

[Rickster123]

When the customer goes out and says help yourself to tea and coffee never use the milk from the tupperware jug.Never again when they come home and say o no you didn't use the milk in the container did you its breast milk for the baby :-(

Aggghhhhhhh!! :willy_nilly:

 

[JCSPLUMBING]

I've been sent out when I was an apprentice looking for sky hooks.

 

[Geyser]

I've been sent out when I was an apprentice looking for sky hooks.

Find any? Getting quite rare these days!

 

[JCSPLUMBING]

No never did find the bloody things :dita:

 

[Geyser]

Don't blow down a pipe just after soldering it!! :001_icon16:

 

[ShaunCorbs]

I've been sent out when I was an apprentice looking for sky hooks.

now you know where to get them from Sky Hooks (Pack 2) - SHPK2 😀

 

[plumben]

never turn an iso/service valve off without knowing where the main stop tap is first

 

[Ch4 plumbing]

If you use an air pump gun to unblock a basin ALWAYS use a damp rag to cover the overflow!!

 

[WaterTight]

never turn an iso/service valve off without knowing where the main stop tap is first

I do this all the time. I play the odds. I'd say 60% of the time - after it leaks - it will stop leaking when turned back on. In the other 40%: 30% you can find a main stop tap or isolate/bung further back. 5% it's leaking slowly enough to freeze. 5% you're screwed and need to leave them with a leak while the water board fixes the external stopcock.

 

[plumbandplumber]

A DON'T for customers - Don't be an arrogant arrs with your plumbers, etc. They may use your nice new washing machine to wash their dust sheets when you're out at work. :rofl:

 

[1Steven]

I still come across basins with hot and cold reversed. In care homes :furious3:

 

[plumbandplumber]

My brother owned a flat where the bath had hot and cold the right way around, but the basin next to it was wrong way around. The bathroom had been redone by the previous owner not long before my brother bought it.

No sense at all!

 

[Ermintrude]

Don't trust others when it comes to leccy. Load and supply commonly reversed on Spurs

Don't trust apprentice to prove its dead. Blew down a pump and got a jolt through eye

 

[Stanios]

Don't trust others when it comes to leccy. Load and supply commonly reversed on Spurs

Don't trust apprentice to prove its dead. Blew down a pump and got a jolt through eye

Make apprentice touch it first to make sure its safe 🙂

 

[JCSPLUMBING]

Don't trust others when it comes to leccy. Load and supply commonly reversed on Spurs

Don't trust apprentice to prove its dead. Blew down a pump and got a jolt through eye

It's funny you say that, when I was an apprentice I told my boss the live was off when he changed a 3 port valve. I only pulled out the fuse holder in the fused spur. It was still touching somehow and shot him down the stairs when he was about to remove the wiring. I have a habit of laughing when I'm nervous so he nearly beat the crap out of me as I was in stitches laughing.

 

[rpm]

Don't trust others when it comes to leccy. Load and supply commonly reversed on Spurs

Don't trust apprentice to prove its dead. Blew down a pump and got a jolt through eye

About 3yrs in working with sani`s I was taking one apart when it spat the dirty water out covering me in Brown water and I had the fuse in my pocket!

 

[Gary Lee]

i got sent to the shop for the customary tartan paint when i was a painter..... To my Boss and Uncles shock they actually stocked a paint made by a company called tartan..... £60 a gallon, so i got 2 and put it on the firms account.... They went ape**** LOL

 

[macackau]

Don't switch off the pipe freezer until you have actually made the pipe water tight! I may have done this in an office full of people. Fountain.

 

[rpm]

Don`t use one of these pump up pistol type unblockers on a shower or a bath waste. :13: