Favorite Pet Hates (Why would you do that !!) - Please list yours

[Voidbetween]

Iv been in the Industry for approx 30+ years,and over that time I have come across work that you ask yourself why would you do that !!!

 

[Voidbetween]

Start the ball rolling

PTFE on a compression fitting thread !!!

 

[Best]

Too many to list, but here's a few, -
Solder running down pipes, or flux corrosion because not cleaned,
Slight leaks at compression joints,
Damage to flooring and especially joists,
Flexi hoses everywhere,
Cheap isolating valves fitted on heating systems (why?)
Plastic pipework installed like a mass of wires,
Plastic pipes and push fit on show,
Motorised valves, or pumps or other serviceable parts installed in an awkward or impossible to work at place, or with pipework in front of them,
Teeth marks from grips on radiator valves or other valves and fittings, especially on chrome.

 

[SimonG]

Green joints.
Everybody with a a hole thinking they can plumb.

 

[Voidbetween]

lol I woz going to get them off my chest one by one !

prv placement on Worcester Greenstar Combi

 

[lame plumber]

boiler manufacturers who have no care about installers fingers.......... WB the main offender, how come indergas dont shred my hands?

 

[Best]

Warmflow combi oil boiler.
(That fits in the OP question "Why would you do that!!")

 

[bright spark]

Boilers with no safety valves.
Cylinders and boilers pipe up with qualpex.
Dirty lazy plumbers leaving rubbish behind.
Boilers installed but not commissioned properly.
Bad workmanship in general

 

[Keefy]

Upside-down outside taps.

 

[quality]

joiners who fit kitchens around existing boilers

 

[Voidbetween]

Magnaclean filters fitted so close to the ceiling u cant get the magnet out !

 

[jim fennessey]

Yeah and boxing in of stop cocks and service valves, then we also have the tiler tile over everything no access covers,

 

[joni os]

Metal nuts on plastic threads. Usually an iso. tap connector with hard fibre washer.

 

[1Steven]

No drain off valve on hot water cylinder.
Best one, mains water connected to prv on system boiler!

 

[Billy Bob Bob]

working on flavel /kinder gas fires,had to remove a full facia,glass assembly,fuel bed with lots of coals,burner then gas valve locking screws could be located,slide the lot out from underneath just to change a ods,screws fixing it in are totally inaccessible

 

[finchy01]

The boss

 

[Sharp Point]

Cheap Chinese bathroomware

 

[jaydebruyne]

Quarter turn pump valves - whhyyyyy!!!

Push fit iso valves with plastic slotted turns

Toilet cisterns with no access to maintain

Iso valves underneath baths you can't reach

Communal water services with no local stopcock

I could go on..

Asking for a pack of 22mm olives at plumbs and being given 3/4" and not realising til I get to the job

 

[lame plumber]

Pulling bodies out of the oggin, it is happening too often folks, be careful on holiday.

 

[Rickster123]

Tenants who switch on the washing machine and dishwasher at 7.55am knowing that the boilers being replaced at 8am. Morons.
Fellow employees who moan about how hard they have it and yet never say a word to bosses.
Tenants who think pipes should be painted to match the 20 year old chipped paint. Get a job, get a life, get lost.
Ptfe tape that splits on the roll. Tedious.
Grahams delivery drivers thinking 9.30 is first thing.
Health and safety idiots.

 

[jaydebruyne]

Tenants who ask for an 8am appointment to trace a leak from the bathroom yet one of them is in the shower when I arrive.. *^%#

 

[kay-jay]

Fitting the combi valve on an unvented lower than the top.

 

[kay-jay]

Customers looking over your shoulder

 

[Paulplumb]

Customers telling you its a 5 minute job and that they'd have done it themselves if they had the tools.

Kitchen taps being supplied with flexis and not copper tails

Everflux separating in the pot for no good reason

Customers calling you out of hours to see if you'll come and quote for a tap washer

 

[kay-jay]

Tenants who cant be arsed to keep an appointment

 

[kay-jay]

Having to empty the airing cupboard because customer is too bine idle

 

[Rickster123]

Having to empty the airing cupboard because customer is too bine idle

Yes! Another gripe of mine. You're there to change the cylinder and they didn't realise you needed the cupboard emptying!

 

[kay-jay]

Lifting floorboards and finding some plonker has notched almost entirely through the joists

 

[kay-jay]

Not being offered a brew/being given a shyt brew

 

[Rickster123]

Oh and people calling the cylinder the boiler! Plebs.