Stick to what you know best

[Steve weightman]

Have a landlord and appliance shop owner who I fit cookers and hobs etc for who's currently turning old shops into a couple of flats. I've put in the cylinder and tanks and new cold water mains but was not asked to fit the bathrooms which I couldn't understand. He wanted the so called builder to do it and for me to commission it only because he's paying him peanuts for the building work so getting the bathroom installation cheap. So I dropped in to check it and I compare it to going into an exam room to spot all the faults which I lost count of. Kitchen taps on the bath and basin,bath won't go in the corner due to the waste pipe against the legs,bath trap elbowed up to the waste pipe leaving 6 inches of water in the bath,all compresion fittings with tape around the threads lol and from the 22mm I left from the hot water draw off reduced down to 15mm again on a compression fitting.ended up taking it all out and starting again.

 

[LGriffiths]

 

[Aire]

The waste pipe is shocking but the taps look fantastic

 

[DXCross]

Builders build plumbers plumb springs to mind..

I chuckled at the bath ‘taps’

 

[Steve weightman]

Builders build plumbers plumb springs to mind..

I chuckled at the bath ‘taps’

I did at least there on the sink must have had a job lot on pillar taps that day

 

[Steve weightman]

The waste pipe is shocking but the taps look fantastic

Yeah one for the books.. I thought it was a inline trap lol

 

[Harvest Fields]

Looks ok from my house. Apart from the gap around the bath that is

 

[townfanjon]

Well , thats just absolute quality !!!

 

[Burger]

I hope you charged him extra for putting right someone else’s shoite?

 

[Burger]

Can’t say the taps haven’t got a minimum air gap

 

[firemant]

Why were the builders cheap?

 

[Steve weightman]

I hope you charged him extra for putting right someone else’s shoite?

I have, I asked if he wanted me to fit it but he has the builder in a position where he's told him a total price and getting more work out of him for nothing and won't say no

 

[Harvest Fields]

I have, I asked if he wanted me to fit it but he has the builder in a position where he's told him a total price and getting more work out of him for nothing and won't say no

Bad decision

 

[Steve weightman]

Why were the builders cheap?

I use the term builder loosely, he seems desperate for work so he won't turn anything down

 

[Steve weightman]

Can’t say the taps haven’t got a minimum air gap

True story

 

[Stu-B]

Those taps are just....

 

[Best]

Probably, bar any dangerous work, overall the worst work I have seen posted on here!
I wouldn’t trust one little part of any of the work done there.
Clearly a complete plumbing novice to have done that!
Silly to have allowed anyone to have taken that work on, even if they had been free.

 

[JKG]

Those taps

 

[Last Plumber]

I bet you couldn't take the smile off your face?
I hope you walk away from that. I have taken on 'others' hideous work before and wished I hadn't.

 

[Welder]

The a silver lining to every builders cloud...

Nothing we lot could do could compare. Think it about time we started showing a set of pictures like this to prospective customers so they can see why saving 28 pence on a job may not be a good move

 

[Last Plumber]

The a silver lining to every builders cloud...

Nothing we lot could do could compare. Think it about time we started showing a set of pictures like this to prospective customers so they can see why saving 28 pence on a job may not be a good move

Some folk will spoil the job for ha'porth o tar!

I the grand scheme of things, there is no saving is there?

They penny pinch over a tradesman and then pay one the same amount as they would have originally to put things right. In fact it is possibly more due to the tradesman being offended at playing second fiddle.
The cost of the 'non-tadesman' is a pure loss isn't it?

Numb as a pump.

 

[Steve weightman]

I bet you couldn't take the smile off your face?
I hope you walk away from that. I have taken on 'others' hideous work before and wished I hadn't.

On the contrary I didn't take much removing as nothing was secured in place no surprise there. All put back in place now with the conversation to the owner of I told you so being very satisfying

 

[wrxsti265]

That is without a doubt some awful work but I’d like to thank the builder for those taps. Made my day that has

 

[Ray Stroud]

Speaking as a home DIYer / novice myself, whilst I can see what's wrong in all these photos can someone enlighten me why the use of PTFE is wrong? I've used it on several joints at home and feel a bit embarrassed now

 

[offgridman]

If you use PTFE tap on a compression joint, it goes around the olive, not around the threads.
There are instances where you tape threads, but standard compression joints aint one of them.

 

[Steve weightman]

Speaking as a home DIYer / novice myself, whilst I can see what's wrong in all these photos can someone enlighten me why the use of PTFE is wrong? I've used it on several joints at home and feel a bit embarrassed now

There's no point wrapping it around the threads if it's needed at all wrap it around the olives took me ages to take it all off from this job

 

[Ray Stroud]

Interesting. When I was shown the basics decades ago, it included putting tape around the male thread as a cleaner way than using jointing compound. Are you saying use nothing at all unless you get a leak?

 

[Harvest Fields]

I just use the compression fitting.

 

[Millsy 82]

Interesting. When I was shown the basics decades ago, it included putting tape around the male thread as a cleaner way than using jointing compound. Are you saying use nothing at all unless you get a leak?

Around a Male thread yes. Around the thread on a compression doesnt do anything. The olive causes the seal a bit of paste around the pipe/ olive is enough

 

[Best]

Speaking as a home DIYer / novice myself, whilst I can see what's wrong in all these photos can someone enlighten me why the use of PTFE is wrong? I've used it on several joints at home and feel a bit embarrassed now

The threads on a male joint are solely where the water can pass and need ptfe or other to seal.
The threads on compression joints are not solely where water can pass and are only for the nuts to hold the fitting together between the compressed olives.
If the olives failed to seal properly in a compression joint that you had also used ptfe on threads, then the water would just pass between the gap between nut and pipe

 

[SimonG]

Just imagine all the crap you can't see

 

[Jerry]

At least its all compression and not pushfit!