Yeeehaaar! (No. 2)

[Whitespirit66]

This is my second installment of cowboy standard plumbing pictures, lifted from other plumbing forums.

The pictures form part of a bigger bodge, which involved a shower pump that pumped from the cold main and a combi! This interesting arrangemnt came to an end because it was interfereing with a neighbour's supply.

All work was apparently performed by 'professionals'.

'More beans Mr Taggart?'

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[PEDANTICVINDICTIVEMAN]

Love a bit of chrome pipework, cowboys using white flex handrail set, tsk tsk

 

[HERTS P&D]

OMG. How do people get away with this. Please note I say people and not tradesmen.

Andy

 

[Agile]

But short of digging into the wall how could that have been done any better?

Digging into the wall, apart from making a one hour job into a three hour , would then have ended up with non matching tiles!

Tony

 

[htgeng]

But short of digging into the wall how could that have been done any better?

Digging into the wall, apart from making a one hour job into a three hour , would then have ended up with non matching tiles!

Tony

I think tony is right. A lot of us would sniff at such a job but go to any dodgy b&b up north in the seaside towns and you will see many such works of art. It doesn't look pretty, but I bet the rest of the bathroom looks naff to with an avocado or chocolate coloured suite.

 

[Diyisfun]

Im a diyer & I know I can do a better job, I think I would also have tried to bend the pipe (chrome if you can get it) & reduce the number of compression fittings.

 

[Agile]

Now this DIYer is going to redo the job! But he may not even use chrome fittings.

There is a professional way to solve the problem to a large extent and I would have done that.

It relies on determining conspicuity!

Chrome is most conspicious and NOT the right way to do it in this case.

I would have used copper tube with soldered end feeds and painted it white so that it blended into the background. It would have been cheaper in materials as well.

Tony

 

[Diyisfun]

Agile..What Diyer is going to redo it?

If I as a diyer had a need for this, I would come onto a forum such as this & ask for advice.

 

[PEDANTICVINDICTIVEMAN]

Who gives a toss as long as it works, was most likely a cheap job, get what you pay for, pay peanuts get monkeys.

 

[kevplumb]

There is a professional way to solve the problem to a large extent

yeah move the feeds in the first place

 

[Biguns]

But short of digging into the wall how could that have been done any better?

Digging into the wall, apart from making a one hour job into a three hour , would then have ended up with non matching tiles!

Tony

I think tony is right. A lot of us would sniff at such a job but go to any dodgy b&b up north in the seaside towns and you will see many such works of art.

Are you trying to be devisive, racist or supremacist.Up North indeed