How do these guys sleep

[kittedup]

Good Evening.

Just finished a boiler swop in a bungalow.

Thought it would be straight forward- that was my first mistake- I should have realised the previous plumber might not have been that good when none of the radiator drops had drain offs on them. Joy. Cream carpets too.

Anyway first to test the gas and I find this method of capping off a 15mm gas pipe-

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• kittedup
• 26 Nov 2009
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It was the first tee off the meter and the meter had been changed recently- how they missed it is beyond me- it was literally next to the test nipple on the meter. Stevie Wonder would have seen it. I know this used to be acceptable a while back but this didn't look like it had been done that long ago

So next off up in the loft where I needed to connect to the soil pipe to run away the boiler condensate . I find this:

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• kittedup
• 26 Nov 2009
• 1

Now the picture isn't that great but what the guy had done was extend the soil pipe by using a short length of Kopex flue liner. Genius.

And last but not least by favorite by far. The customer asked me to change the basin taps and waste, so I set about splitting the basin (which wasn't screwed to the wall, just siliconed) from the pedastal (which was tiled solid into the floor) and guess what I found?

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• kittedup
• 26 Nov 2009
• 1

Yep that is right. Half a clothes peg keeping the basin level.

I sometimes lay awake worrying about how I have left jobs, but how people sleep after leaving stuff like this is well beyond me.

Ted

 

[glasgowgas]

i think you will find that you need my permision to take those photographs and......................................................


err it wasn`t me

 

[cider]

Only thing stops me sleeping are the 3 kids

 

[mickyg]

bet the house was owned by a builder once..

 

[DP]

OK kittedup,

You have a basin that will not sit level on the padestal. How would you fix the problem?

 

[kittedup]

As i had to put the basin back i had to level this one.

Well luckily i hadn't eaten all my lunch so i had some bread left over which i stuffed in the gap. Where the gap was a bit larger i used cheese.

Actually with the basin screwed back to the wall, plus a bead of silicone it levelled up ok. Did my usual test of sitting on the front of the basin and i'm happy.

Ted