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Post by endfeed on Nov 7, 2018 17:37:46 GMT
I've fitted an electric hot water heater today at a school, got home with my nice cuppa and thought shit I didn't fit a non return valve before the combination valve. Should I worry about it,will look like a right twat if I go back! What do you guys think,rules are for fools or go back with egg in my face?
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Post by tomplum on Nov 7, 2018 17:55:12 GMT
happens to us all endfeed, I'm the sort that can't sleep when i do someting like that and go back, I've known many that say, " yea I'll go back tomorrow" and never do, and some will just say fuck it, with the safety devices now its unlikely to harm anyone,, I've seen heaters plumbed totally wrong and no one ever knew it was wrong,,, its all down to you mate, do you feel lucky, well do you,,  |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 7, 2018 17:59:01 GMT
Can't talk from a plumber's perspective but from a customer perspective if I ever paid a plumber who I knew to be good, he made a minor mistake, called me up and offered to rectify for free at a mutually convenient time, that would INCREASE my opinion of him. I definitely wouldn't worry about egg on the face - it would be the opposite. On the other hand, if they later notice it (maybe they got another plumber temporarily or whatever who made the comment) that wouldn't look good for you.
Caveat to all this is I tend to do my own work but I DO pay for some things (e.g. plastering ceilings) so not sure if I'm "typical".
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Post by rocketmanbkk on Nov 7, 2018 18:19:34 GMT
I’d make an excuse & go back
Just say it’s a 24/48 test visit & then adjust it & say ‘that’s better’
Then piss off
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Post by endfeed on Nov 7, 2018 18:26:48 GMT
There's a couple of joiners/multi skillers on site tomorrow,I'm gonna ring one of them and see if they can can give me a dig out with it.if not I'm going back👍🏼 honest all way pay off in the end😀
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Post by woodbine66 on Nov 7, 2018 18:41:19 GMT
Sometimes small, harmless errors will find you. Some years ago I fitted an outside tap for a regular customer. Did it properly, NRV and inside BS1010 isolation stop tap for it. Three months later he wanted his boiler serviced and I sent someone round who did my servicing for me. Unknown to me, I had fitted the isolating stop tap for outside tap the wrong way round. Didn't cause any problems at all, as the customer had been using his new tap no problems.
Anyway, he's servicing the boiler which is right above the new stop tap, spots my error - and the cnut only goes and tells the customer I'd fitted it wrong. Needless to say, that was the last job he got from me. 
I had to go back to turn the stop tap around.No harm done. The customer still uses my services. |
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Post by endfeed on Nov 7, 2018 20:24:15 GMT
The rotton sod! I hope his head drops off smiley-chores017 chop
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Post by wetfinger on Nov 7, 2018 20:34:24 GMT
Yes go back, I would. Its like me today fitting a vanity basin and when fitting the kitchen unit style legs I could have twisted the mountings so that the little tabs point inwards and not stick out to support the side panels like they are supposed to and end up having in my case to chop out the return plinths. A little voice in my head says what if its faulty and the laminate comes off and they send a guy out and he says its void as its not fitted exactly to our specs.
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Post by endfeed on Nov 7, 2018 22:54:32 GMT
The composite valve has an inbuilt non return valve 1787034013 yippee my bacon has been saved  . |
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Post by tomplum on Nov 7, 2018 22:59:32 GMT
1787034013 yippee
hooray
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Post by fastflowfred on Nov 9, 2018 16:18:37 GMT
Yup. Customer perspective here too:
I'm a "have a go" type of guy but when I get stuck (often) or know I need a pro., I get them in (or ask Tom).
So on the one hand, the last thing I want to hear is that the pro has actually made a horlicks of it - but on the other, I would definitely respect your honesty and integrity for the admission and the remedial work.
And, while I obviously have no idea if the omission might be dangerous (?) but better safe than sorry as, I guess, you'd be liable if the worst happened?
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