it shouldn't happen to a plumber........but it does!

[kay-jay]

rant post!

today was 'one of those days'

went to change taps at a customers house. straightforward you would think?
well alarm bells should have been ringing when she said her husband (deceased) used to be a plumber and did all the house years and years ago.
first problem couldn't get the off...some kind of jointing paste had practically welded the backnuts on.had to drain system because the loft was full of junk and it would have taken hours to move enough stuff to get to the cistern to bung it and of course the gate valve was seized.

time taken to replace taps 2HOURS anyway job done big sigh of relief,thinks to myself well at least i won't get an airlock because of this handy little tip i have. smile to myself and think i should stick the tip on the plumbers forum after all i've never had an airlock since i got given the tip.

turn on mains and fill cylinder....bloody airlock! so i goes to get my rubber shower hose to connect hot to cold mains. hooked it up taps on and water everywhere cos the damn thing split.

right so off to local machine mart for some hose connectors to rig up a replacement hose for blowing out the airlock. stuck in traffic ages.
get back to customers house, turns on hot tap....bugger only working fine now cos the air had risen while i was out.

why oh why did i give customer a fixed price before hand?

bugger
rant over with! (for now)


KJ

 

[Dan]

What a day!

Typical of a job when you're thinking 'will be in and out of here in no time'.

So what's this airlock tip then?

 

[Plumbstar Tom]

yes please share your wisdom

 

[easyt]

Didn't work though

 

[WaterTight]

I too want to know what the airlock tip was even though it didn't work.

These jobs are unavoidable. We've all had them and will have them again. If you're established and in demand you can avoid fixed prices but if not you've just got to shoulder these ones when they come up. Treat them as an exercise for developing how you deal with a crap situation within yourself.

Easy to say - hard to do.

 

[wnjswozo]

all part of the fun,least you did,nt break basin

 

[Dannypipe]

It happens to all of us....sometimes concurrently which is when you feel like jacking it all in. Two sh** days on the trot and I start day dreaming about becoming a banker/stuntman.

So you lost most of the day...what was the fixed price!?

 

[WaterTight]

I damaged a bath the other week changing some taps. New bath. Replacing row of tiles around it too. While sorthing out an airlock that occured after refilling spilled some water, damaged ceiling in floor below. Starting patching it too soon, made a hole in it. Finished the other day. Total time taken to change bath taps - maybe 7 hours?

 

[easyt]

I shouldn't laugh Watertight -- but I did

 

[moony]

the tip by the sound of it was to leave it for a while haha