So, I am under a house installing a boiler for a customer and I see this! What is it you ask? What’s black and white and brown all over?

Well, the black bit to the left of the first photo is a push fit coupler. The white bit is a Bye Law 30 Kit. But the brown stuff is anybodies guess. I certainly don’t know what it was. The monstrosity is some cowboy’s idea of how to hook up a dishwasher discharge pipe from a 32mm pipe into a 22mm section of copper tube!

If not for the length of the 32mm pipe work there is no way that the 22mm tube would have been able to cope with the discharge. The bye-law kit was literally slid onto the 32mm pipe work (a very loose connection) and then smeared with some brown stuff at both ends to keep it from leaking. The top portion of the bye-law kit was plugged with a wad of ‘something’ and then more brown stuff smeared around.

This mess was fit last year by a ‘plumber’ when he arrived to pipe up a new dishwasher which was located at the end of a kitchen with no existing waste pipe. His solution was to say the least creative; to say the most crap; and I’m sure that’s what he used to smear all over the joints.

Needless to say, we removed the fittings normally used in a loft tank and replaced the pipe work with the appropriate drainage solution.

Yip-pie Kiya

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