Every job's a b**tard in plumbing.
Welcome to the world of plumbing. If the manufacturers haven't made your life as difficult as possible, the person who installed whatever it was or the last plumber to have touched it will have. Everything you touch is either seized, rusted, broken, bodged, inaccessible - or weeps when you put it back together. A simple one hour job turns into a 'mare of several other jobs that take a lot longer. Some jobs seem to have a knack of fighting you all the way.
Every job's a b**tard in plumbing.
Not quite every one
Back in the day I had an old lady customer who's loft CWS was leaking round a tank connector where it had distorted the cistern slightly. I started by telling her it would be a "difficult" ie. bastard job to get it out through the traphatch and then renew it ( pre Bylaw 30 etc ) But I had an idea I could try a push fit plastic tank connector which had a larger hole thru' the cistern wall - worth a try ? Drained down one afternoon - returned next day and went for it - worked a treat, came away in plastic and converted to the existing copper - did some lagging and job was a good 'un. She was well pleased. That's how I worked for people in the village where I lived then . Noticed some months ago that my guttering job from '73 in same village had been changed maybe they didn't like the grey Osma . Another more recent (15+ years ) for a friend involved a CWS that was high up on a stillage. Nightmare to get up to - then I found an old ali ladder which I cut to length and fixed permanently in the roof
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