Cowboy corner

[Deleted member 294929]

Just a thread to show our friends on the forum what's not acceptable when your paying good money for a job to be done.

What has the cowboy plumber/Heating engineer do so wrong here?

 

[Deleted member 294929]

The problem we have in the plumbing industry is that every one and their dog thinks pushing a bit of pipe into a fitting makes them a plumber. And then they charge plumbers rates

 

[gant]

Just a thread to show our friends on the forum what's not acceptable when your paying good money for a job to be done.


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What has the cowboy plumber/Heating engineer do so wrong here?

Let the dog out?

 

[Ihavenojob]

What has the cowboy plumber/Heating engineer do so wrong here?

There's an awful lot of heat loss around that door.

 

[Deleted member 221031]

That’s builders for you. They know everything and make up the rest.

 

[Deleted member 294929]

Let the dog out?

He's working

 

[securespark]

My last experience with a plumber was atrocious. I asked him to move the wash hand basin and he said we needed room to put the heated towel rail in; there was plenty of room but he just couldn't be arsed.
I asked him to use soldered copper and he said "Nobody uses that anymore..."

He didn't want to bed the shower tray in with silicone until I suggested it and I don't know what he's done with the tray's waste but it constantly stinks of shoite in the cubicle. There should be a trap on it, surely?

I'd have sacked the shyster on the spot, but Mrs S was desperate to crack on.

There isn't a trap! Well, can't see one. Would there be a trap built into the Mira waste?

If there were, surely it wouldn't smell so bad?

Would it be possible to retrofit a trap on the underside of the ceiling?

 

[Deleted member 294929]

My last experience with a plumber was atrocious. I asked him to move the wash hand basin and he said we needed room to put the heated towel rail in; there was plenty of room but he just couldn't be arsed.
I asked him to use soldered copper and he said "Nobody uses that anymore..."

He didn't want to bed the shower tray in with silicone until I suggested it and I don't know what he's done with the tray's waste but it constantly stinks of shoite in the cubicle. There should be a trap on it, surely?

I'd have sacked the shyster on the spot, but Mrs S was desperate to crack on.View attachment 305324

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There isn't a trap! Well, can't see one. Would there be a trap built into the Mira waste?

If there were, surely it wouldn't smell so bad?

Would it be possible to retrofit a trap on the underside of the ceiling?

You could put an inline trap on that horizontal pipe.

 

[Deleted member 294929]

The gas engineer colour coded the waste/condense but fell short of the target.

 

[securespark]

Cheers!
I'm hoping it's not quite horizontal, that it's got a slight fall on it.....

This picture shows the wastepipe turning a corner. There's better room there to fit an inline waste. Would that be good?

 

[Deleted member 267285]

There isn't a trap! Well, can't see one. Would there be a trap built into the Mira waste?

If there were, surely it wouldn't smell so bad?

Would it be possible to retrofit a trap on the underside of the ceiling?

If it’s built into the Mira waste, then it’s not obvious. You could fit a Running trap or a Hepvo Valve the latter being more inconspicuous and more ascetically pleasing.

 

[Winglet]

Terrible installation here with electric and ethernet cables stuffed together through same socket back box as well as cables incorrectly installed and crushed against back of the CCTV camera. Also, indoor Ethernet cable used for outdoors.

 

[securespark]

If it’s built into the Mira waste, then it’s not obvious. You could fit a Running trap or a Hepvo Valve the latter being more inconspicuous and more ascetically pleasing.

Bless you, I think it's a bit late to worry about the aesthetics! Most of those God-awful pipe runs were there when we moved in.

 

[denso13]

Would there be a trap built into the Mira waste?

Yes, there will be a trap attached to the tray, it comes with it.

 

[Deleted member 294929]

Bless you, I think it's a bit late to worry about the aesthetics! Most of those God-awful pipe runs were there when we moved in.

It would be harder not to fit a trap than to fit one.
Is the stack vented properly?