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Right for normal pipework completely wrong when coming from a meter box with the spigot i should have added
External pipe for new boiler
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ChrisR said:Corgi inspectors seem to like to feel they can make up their own little rules at the boundaries of what's written in the regs.
Better let them strut about a bit, eh? Give them enough rope...
I agree with you also chris. I am sure that they are wrong in their personal interpretations sometimes as well, but for a quiet life it sometimes best to 'humour' them
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Totally agree with you Chris just heading out for a pint with one of them now he is a bit like that
namsag said:
Paul Barker said:
What is the point of this board, if it is not to ask opinions of experts? I am visiting the board to try and learn from professionals. I don't expect to become expert myself, but I hope it will help me to be a better customer. Given the amount of discussion that has followed, it seems to have been a reasonable question.
By the way, I would expect most professionals to be quite used to 'ignorant questions' and able to deal with them politely! Surely a homeowner can expect this when employing a professional? Perhaps fortunately for this professional, he wasn't subject to too much in the way of ignorant questioning, thanks to the information received under this post.
I do not believe that my seeking information can be regarded as insulting to the installer. I would not wish to offend the installer, who I already described as "prompt, very pleasant, perfectly approachable." But I am very surprised that he chose to introduce a new, very unsightly pipe where there had been none before (the previous pipe was run beneath the floorboards, inside the property) without any advance warning to the owner. This is made worse by the fact that the property is listed and any work that in any way alters its appearance needs first to be cleared with local authority (I can't believe that they wouldn't clear it, on the basis of what I have read here, but it doesn't alter the fact that it would have been better to have it approved first).
You are generally right but there is often considerable heated discussion between people involved in this industry on forums so thats pretty normal. few issues are totally black and white and there is usually considerable scope for different interpretations and viewpoints.
I do have to admit that I am often somewhat suspicious of people who ask these questions apparently on behalf of friends. Whilst some may be genuinely on behalf of little old ladies to help them, there is often the implication thats its a know all do gooder like you usually get in a pub who likes to tell everyone how everything should be done.
Even the little old ladies are not always quite so harmless as we have heard yesterday when she was jailed for six months!
Tony
I do have to admit that I am often somewhat suspicious of people who ask these questions apparently on behalf of friends. Whilst some may be genuinely on behalf of little old ladies to help them, there is often the implication thats its a know all do gooder like you usually get in a pub who likes to tell everyone how everything should be done.
Even the little old ladies are not always quite so harmless as we have heard yesterday when she was jailed for six months!
Tony
They probably were aware on this one:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=449178&in_page_id=1770
Tony
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=449178&in_page_id=1770
Tony
maryos said:
See //www.diynot.com/, which says this:
Or did you think it said this:
Do you have an enquiring mind, an interfering nature,
a friend who's had some work done, and you want to
challenge the person who did it by appearing to be
knowledgable? Then come along, air your unqualified
opinion, and irritate the experts who give their time in
exchange for nothing other than the thanks that they
rarely receive.
Yeah, right.
This is just to express my thanks, once again, for all the reassuring responses that I received earlier in the thread. We've painted the pipe and it blends in better with the house so that hopefully it won't be such an obvious eyesore when the local authority inspector visits shortly. Also, to reassure anybody concerned on behalf of the professional who installed the pipe: I am sure that he had to suffer far less in the way of ignorant questioning than would otherwise have been the case, thanks to the contributions of posters on this board.
Many thanks!
Many thanks!
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