Saturday, July 26th, 2008
Cowboy Gas Fitter - DANGER OF THE WEEK AWARD
This pipe work and the cables were boxed in behind a panel in a rental we went to look at recently. I would have hidden this work too if I had done it!! In fact I would have hidden the pipe work, ...
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Saturday, June 28th, 2008
Cowboy Plumbing - DANGER OF THE WEEK AWARD
Unfortunately the cowboy who extended this house didn't extend the waste pipe to match! Whoever did the work was already awarded a previous Cowboy of the Week Award for an unsafe boiler installation. See the May 3, 2008 Cowboy Award.
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Saturday, June 7th, 2008
Cowboy Gas Fitter - DANGER OF THE WEEK AWARD
There is something wrong with this picture. Can you spot it? Well, if you can't it's the rubber hose connection that is hooking up the Pressure Relief Valve on the boiler to a bit of copper pipe which sticks out of the ...
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Saturday, May 10th, 2008
What’s required to replace your old combination boiler? A lot of work goes into replacing an old cast iron boiler with a modern A-rated appliance. Though most boiler swaps can be accommodated in a day or two an entire heating system can take up to a week. It depends on ...
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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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Saturday, April 26th, 2008
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?
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Saturday, April 12th, 2008
The home owner hired us to remove an old balanced flue boiler and replace it with a condensing system boiler. While we were doing that they asked us to replace all radiators and move one radiator in the back bedroom. While moving the single radiator we noticed that the old ...
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Wednesday, January 9th, 2008
This is another job left over from the tale end of last year. The original problem was an immersion hot water heater that wasn't producing hot water since a previous plumber showed up, tightened the heater and caused a short circuit. We showed up and could not find an immediate ...
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Monday, December 3rd, 2007
I was called to replace a kitchen sink and tap and also make repairs to a toilet which was taking too long to fill. The jobs sounded easy enough so I loaded up with what I thought I'd require and headed out for the first call of the week. There ...
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Thursday, November 29th, 2007
This is a complaint that comes up regularly. The toilet makes a loud noise during the fill cycle after flushing. Sometimes the noise is only a few seconds and sometimes like a toilet I repaired today, the noise goes on for the entire fill. What causes this noise and how ...
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