Saturday, July 19th, 2008
Cowboy Plumber - DANGER OF THE WEEK AWARD
We recently moved our clients bathroom from it's existing location to another room in the house. As we pulled up the old bathroom floor to remove pipe work we found this!
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Saturday, May 3rd, 2008
Another boiler installed incorrectly! I was on site to sort out an electrical problem and discovered this while hauling my tools down the side of the house. Yet another example of an unqualified plumber shoving in a boiler as quick as he can and legging it.
We removed the weather ring ...
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
'Can you issue me with a safety certificate' or the more common phrase 'can you commission my boiler' is the start of a conversation that in destined to go nowhere with our company. The reason is simple. If the conversation starts with either of those two phrases I know ...
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Saturday, April 19th, 2008
Here is yet another example of the poor workmanship and unsafe situations that we see everyday! This boiler was removed to make way for a new condensing boiler. When we pulled out the old flue out what we discovered was this mess. Can you guess why this happened and ...
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Saturday, March 29th, 2008
I actually know this builder although we had never worked together before this job. Generally speaking this builder is not a cowboy as he does his own work properly and to the building regulations. In this case however the rush to get the building work completed to the home owners ...
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Saturday, February 9th, 2008
When I arrived at my clients to install a new hob this was what I was met with. The person hired to replace the old laminated counter tops with granite had disconnected the old hob in order to replace the countertops. He told the home owner that he was allowed ...
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Saturday, February 2nd, 2008
I've never seen anything as foolish as this! I was adding a gas pipe to a kitchen for a customer and needed to undertake a tightness test to check the pipe work before I started. I asked to see the meter and what I found was this mess. Someone had ...
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Saturday, January 26th, 2008
Yet another 'blob' of tape underneath the floor. The tape is of course the first problem but if you look at the second photo closely you can just make out the fact that one of the live (red) wires is not actually connected. So the ring main in the ...
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Saturday, January 19th, 2008
Here's a handy tip to tell if a cowboy has ever worked on your gas pipes. Look for miles and miles and miles of yellow tape wrapped around the pipes. For some reason every cowboy or DIY gas fitter seems to think that if they wrap the pipes with yellow ...
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Thursday, January 10th, 2008
We see more and more of these types of jobs as more and more people are convinced by more and more advertisers that they can create a kitchen the size of Taj Mahal out of a 3 x 3 metre room. Unfortunately for the homeowner we are always the one ...
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