Fake Plumbers posing

[Stanios]

Once in a while stumble upon websites, magazines etc with images of "plumbers" posing with completely inaccurate tools / materials making the whole thing look ridicuous to anyone who has a clue. Just going to post a few recent ones..

Retrofiting that thermocouple to a Worcester CDI

 

[oz-plumber]

• Stillsons on a chrome towel rail
• Blue gloves with Stillsons, orange gloves in nailbag - must be for when using a spanner
• Plunger in nailbag
• Sidecutters on a basin top
• Thermocouple on a condensing boiler
• Shifting spanner on round chrome trap
• Manicured fingernails
• 2 1/2 day growth

- As for the posing and the pleasant smiles - no one would ever believe they are plumbers.

 

[Johnben]

Brilliant. The thermocouple proper tickled

 

[gmartine]

Huh? Fella is wearing a suit in one otherwise nowt wrong with any of them.

 

[Scott_D]

The first one is John Wilson - Ravenheats top man

 

[Stigster]

I'm loving it, Stanios. I've just done an image search and most stock images of plumbers just have to have the big Stilsons out doing something daft. After that it's the pump pliers. I'll see if I can find a couple of good ones and put them up here.

Great idea for a topic by the way!

 

[WC1]

Apart from Wilson, they are "stock photos" - all stock photos of plumbers (or any other trade) are so.

stock photo plumber - Recherche Google

 

[Stigster]

I've found a few what on earth are they doing?

 

[WC1]

I'm just glad he's wearing a hard hat in the lower picture

 

[Ric2013]

Excuse my ignorance.
I'm assuming a condensing boiler would still have some method for knowing whether the gas is alight or not. How does it do it if not with a thermocouple? Something more complex, I assume?

 

[SJB060685]

Flame rectification maybe?

 

[townfanjon]

John Wilson is a legend in these parts , his boiler knowledge is incredible.

 

[JCplumb]

Still laughing at the one where the guy needs a hard hat to do whatever it is he's doing to the washing machine waste spigot

 

[JKG]

There’s some classics there. Loving the one with the stilsons on the towel rail and plunger hanging from he's waist.
They also look far to happy

 

[Stu-B]

John Wilson is a legend in these parts , his boiler knowledge is incredible.

Those ravenheat training days are incredible, he’s such a knowledgable fella, plus they put on the best spread of all the boiler manufacturers

 

[Best]

Funny all the tools are always nice shiny and clean.

 

[WC1]

Stupid extra characters

 

[Best]

Stupid extra characters

Pliers onto a rad valve?

 

[Stanios]

I've seen embelishments on plumber's websites and advertisements the usual is "our team of expert engineers" "with over 100 years of experience"
This guy takes it one step further with a "leadership team" consisting of head of commercial sales, business development manager, head of logistics and quality management systems all of these remarkable and certainly 100% real individuals could also do well on a Colgate advertisement.
Mind you the website team was not very thorough on this leaving the photos of those key team members labeled as " man-team-member-smiling-portrait-grey-background.jpg "

Our Team

www.stratfordandkyle.com

 

[WC1]

They're gas safe roofers who also install cctv at the same time.

 

[bear]

What?!! I always find stilsons are perfect for chrome!! Such a smooth surface nothing digs in and grips chrome plating quite like a stilson!! Pass the plasters! Btw anybody got tweezers?!!
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Stupid extra characters

Good job the blow torch ain’t lit!

 

[Ric2013]

If she can do quality work with those tools and with the customer insisting she work around the furniture, she must be very skilled indeed.

 

[WC1]

What?!! I always find stilsons are perfect for chrome!! Such a smooth surface nothing digs in and grips chrome plating quite like a stilson!! Pass the plasters! Btw anybody got tweezers?!!
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Good job the blow torch ain’t lit!

You mean the Fisher Price "My First Blowtorch" ?

 

[Stanios]

If she can do quality work with those tools and with the customer insisting she work around the furniture, she must be very skilled indeed.

There is a play button but no video.. Looks like we will never learn the secret of fitting a trv using wire cutters.

 

[JCplumb]

You mean the Fisher Price "My First Blowtorch" ?

Haha, I bought one of those when I was in college, was well proud, my tutor peed himself when he saw it