Ultimate DONT'S tips for plumbers

[Chalked]

Following on from the top tips thread. I will start off with a "don't do" that happened today.
dont sick your finger in the open end of a 25mm plasson mdpe socket to see if it's fully inserted!
one index finger stuck! Had to undo the outer ring with the free hand, then prize off the grip ring one the finger was released from the fitting. :49:

 

[buckley plumb]

When the customer goes out and says help yourself to tea and coffee never use the milk from the tupperware jug.Never again when they come home and say o no you didn't use the milk in the container did you its breast milk for the baby :-(

 

[Rickster123]

When the customer goes out and says help yourself to tea and coffee never use the milk from the tupperware jug.Never again when they come home and say o no you didn't use the milk in the container did you its breast milk for the baby :-(

Aggghhhhhhh!! :willy_nilly:

 

[JCSPLUMBING]

I've been sent out when I was an apprentice looking for sky hooks.

 

[Geyser]

I've been sent out when I was an apprentice looking for sky hooks.

Find any? Getting quite rare these days!

 

[JCSPLUMBING]

No never did find the bloody things :dita:

 

[Geyser]

Don't blow down a pipe just after soldering it!! :001_icon16:

 

[ShaunCorbs]

I've been sent out when I was an apprentice looking for sky hooks.

now you know where to get them from Sky Hooks (Pack 2) - SHPK2

 

[plumben]

never turn an iso/service valve off without knowing where the main stop tap is first

 

[Ch4 plumbing]

If you use an air pump gun to unblock a basin ALWAYS use a damp rag to cover the overflow!!

 

[WaterTight]

never turn an iso/service valve off without knowing where the main stop tap is first

I do this all the time. I play the odds. I'd say 60% of the time - after it leaks - it will stop leaking when turned back on. In the other 40%: 30% you can find a main stop tap or isolate/bung further back. 5% it's leaking slowly enough to freeze. 5% you're screwed and need to leave them with a leak while the water board fixes the external stopcock.

 

[plumbandplumber]

A DON'T for customers - Don't be an arrogant arrs with your plumbers, etc. They may use your nice new washing machine to wash their dust sheets when you're out at work. :rofl:

 

[1Steven]

I still come across basins with hot and cold reversed. In care homes :furious3:

 

[plumbandplumber]

My brother owned a flat where the bath had hot and cold the right way around, but the basin next to it was wrong way around. The bathroom had been redone by the previous owner not long before my brother bought it.

No sense at all!

 

[Ermintrude]

Don't trust others when it comes to leccy. Load and supply commonly reversed on Spurs

Don't trust apprentice to prove its dead. Blew down a pump and got a jolt through eye

 

[Stanios]

Don't trust others when it comes to leccy. Load and supply commonly reversed on Spurs

Don't trust apprentice to prove its dead. Blew down a pump and got a jolt through eye

Make apprentice touch it first to make sure its safe

 

[JCSPLUMBING]

Don't trust others when it comes to leccy. Load and supply commonly reversed on Spurs

Don't trust apprentice to prove its dead. Blew down a pump and got a jolt through eye

It's funny you say that, when I was an apprentice I told my boss the live was off when he changed a 3 port valve. I only pulled out the fuse holder in the fused spur. It was still touching somehow and shot him down the stairs when he was about to remove the wiring. I have a habit of laughing when I'm nervous so he nearly beat the crap out of me as I was in stitches laughing.

 

[rpm]

Don't trust others when it comes to leccy. Load and supply commonly reversed on Spurs

Don't trust apprentice to prove its dead. Blew down a pump and got a jolt through eye

About 3yrs in working with sani`s I was taking one apart when it spat the dirty water out covering me in Brown water and I had the fuse in my pocket!

 

[Gary Lee]

i got sent to the shop for the customary tartan paint when i was a painter..... To my Boss and Uncles shock they actually stocked a paint made by a company called tartan..... £60 a gallon, so i got 2 and put it on the firms account.... They went ape**** LOL

 

[macackau]

Don't switch off the pipe freezer until you have actually made the pipe water tight! I may have done this in an office full of people. Fountain.

 

[rpm]

Don`t use one of these pump up pistol type unblockers on a shower or a bath waste. :13:

 

[Millsy 82]

Don`t use one of these pump up pistol type unblockers on a shower or a bath waste. :13:

Or as my mate told me urinals if there is more than 1.

Oh how I laughed! Lol.