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Post by Deleted on Dec 11, 2016 12:04:30 GMT
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Post by tomplum on Dec 11, 2016 12:30:29 GMT
good un that PB, plumbers have bad days often, but when shit happens, we retreat,regroup and conquer the problem, If we could't do that we'd be would have got out long ago,
I'll have a think about some bad ones I 've had, smiley-whacky086 fan shit
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Post by joinerjohn on Dec 11, 2016 12:49:08 GMT
In one day, I managed to drill through an electric cable in the morning. Spent an hour putting that right. Then in the afternoon, nicked a 15mm central heating pipe (copper) with my chisel. Luckily the CH hadn't yet been filled with water. A month ago when fitting a kitchen, I'd done me own plumbing and when I thought everything was all connected up, turned the water on. Heard running water and found the outside tap had been left open. Turned that off, went back inside and still heard running water. Went upstairs to check the bathroom taps and found they were turned off. Went back downstairs and found the open pipe for the washing machine feed (inside a base unit) Hadn't even connected a stop tap for it.  Turned the water off rather quickly. Found the stop tap for it and put it on....... Turned the water on again and had a walk round checking for slight leaks. All of a sudden the smoke alarms went off.  Had a look round and found two radiators (which had been taken off for decorating) with black water pissing out of the pipework. One was on the TV side so turned that off. In the front bedroom the water hadn't been turned off on the lockshield side. Grrrrrrrrrr Ran downstairs for a pair of pliers to turn it off, still wondering why the smoke alarms had gone off, and noticed the black water pouring out of the downstairs smoker. Got the lockshield valve turned off, and headed back downstairs to sort out the smoke alarm. Fookin water everywhere. Turned off all the electrics, got some rags and proceeded to do my best to dry everything up. Had to take the smoke alarm apart to dry off everything inside. Had to lift some floorboards upstairs to dry off the water in between the joists. Reckon I spent about two hours drying everything out as best as I could. Found out afterwards that the plumber had drained down the CH so rads could be taken off for decorating, hadn't turned the valves off after (he never imagined anyone turning the water on again causing the CH to refill) Lesson learned though. Next time I fit a kitchen and see radiators off the wall, I'm not going to turn the water on. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 11, 2016 13:04:06 GMT
I remember yrs ago we were working on a big house up near Hampton court, it was massive and we were changing rads and valves and altering the pipe work in the boiler cupboard downstairs in the kitchen.I had two hoses on draining it down and went upstairs to the top floor and started opening the vents on the rads, there was two brothers working with me and one was alright and the other was useless. In between venting the rads me and this brother (the alright one) were taking the new rads up and unwrapping them etc, the next thing we hear shouting and I run all the way downstairs to the kitchen to find the twat of a brother has cut through the 28mm pipe work in the boiler cupboard and fucking water flooding this luxurious kitchen, what he what he was thinking I don't know and luckily I had some big bungs and managed to stop it.
Needless to say he got sent down the road by my boss. kick-in-the-balls
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Dec 11, 2016 13:50:15 GMT
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Post by endfeed on Dec 11, 2016 13:50:15 GMT
Snapped a piece of brittle polyork pipe under a bath which was feed from tank in loft of flat above by time i found tank down stairs flat was flooded 😨😨😨😢still get the piss taken out of me for that one😁😁😁
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Post by Deleted on Dec 11, 2016 13:54:27 GMT
Snapped a piece of brittle polyork pipe under a bath which was feed from tank in loft of flat above by time i found tank down stairs flat was flooded 😨😨😨😢still get the piss taken out of me for that one😁😁😁 Its a nightmare endfeed. I always spend a bit of time now days just sussing out the layouts and stop tap position. |
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Post by endfeed on Dec 11, 2016 14:09:09 GMT
To add to this day,when i ran up to flat above to get into loft the guy who answered door was big bloke with lip stick and eye shadow on fucking weird day that was😕
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Post by tomplum on Dec 11, 2016 14:49:57 GMT
To add to this day,when i ran up to flat above to get into loft the guy who answered door was big bloke with lip stick and eye shadow on fucking weird day that was😕 Ha Ha,,,I'd have pissed my sides when he opened the door,  |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 11, 2016 15:00:51 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Dec 11, 2016 15:26:28 GMT
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Post by tomplum on Dec 11, 2016 15:59:45 GMT
I bet BB doest know the trouble he's caused, Bit like the worse driver in the world was once asked, " have you ever been in an accident" she said, " never but I've seen loads in my rear view mirror " thats BB all over, I pretty much sure people who hire him, won't have him back, Thats why he's here, America fucked him off, Even Mexico won't have him,  |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 11, 2016 17:10:22 GMT
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Post by tomplum on Dec 11, 2016 17:33:25 GMT
found one of flats, they think he's plumber but he's toolbag is not big enough,,,
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Post by Deleted on Dec 11, 2016 19:07:30 GMT
It must be like care in the community when people employ BB. |
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Turned the water off rather quickly. Found the stop tap for it and put it on....... Turned the water on again and had a walk round checking for slight leaks. All of a sudden the smoke alarms went off. 
Had a look round and found two radiators (which had been taken off for decorating) with black water pissing out of the pipework. One was on the TV side so turned that off. In the front bedroom the water hadn't been turned off on the lockshield side. Grrrrrrrrrr Ran downstairs for a pair of pliers to turn it off, still wondering why the smoke alarms had gone off, and noticed the black water pouring out of the downstairs smoker. Got the lockshield valve turned off, and headed back downstairs to sort out the smoke alarm. Fookin water everywhere. Turned off all the electrics, got some rags and proceeded to do my best to dry everything up. Had to take the smoke alarm apart to dry off everything inside. Had to lift some floorboards upstairs to dry off the water in between the joists. Reckon I spent about two hours drying everything out as best as I could.
