Recent content by snowdropwoody

"Ask for quotes"???? You must live on the moon, because if you can even get a plumber to come round is a miracle in poxy Suffolk. It would be easier to get an audience with the Pope than get a plumber to turn up, and if you ask them anything, they look at you with contempt and disbelief...

This baffles me. It doesn't matter a toss what fittings cost, plumbers just pass the cost on to us, the customer. We customers have zero say in what fittings a plumber uses, or how much they cost. And, to be honest, if press fittings cost an extra £100 I wouldn't have cared less. He...

Thanks, that makes us feel a bit better (as the stuff done today was pressure tested for about half an hour, and didn't leak, and hasn't leaked yet, and heating is on). Pipe in the screed was wrapped in hessian cloth for about half the length of the pipe, and foam for the rest.

The first leak was on a soldered joint, which the second plumber was able to pull apart by hand. So there was either no solder on it, or whatever had been, had come off. He did a pressure test for about half an hour when he installed the pipe, and it was fine. We don't know where exactly...

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Sort of but... The first leak was not detected or fixed by this bad plumber (because we never expected it to be in the new extension). It was found and fixed by a local plumber. The bad plumber was hired by the general builder who did the extension. He did pay the other plumber's bill first...

Hello, Can you please give me some advice? I had an extension built 3 years ago (lounge and hallway) and had 3 new radiators installed. Plumber put jointed copper pipe in screed. After 12 months one of the joints leaked, in the hallway cupboard, requiring flooring to be taken up, screed to...