What we all working on this week ?

[SimonG]

And whilst I'm on, is everybody else run ragged with work?

 

[ShaunCorbs]

Yep put a few prices in recently and thought they might get one done all three have come back go ahead

 

[Deleted member 120897]

And whilst I'm on, is everybody else run ragged with work?

Nope, paye and social housing

 

[king of pipes]

End of life Camray. Farewell old girl.

What you replacing it with Simon ?

 

[SimonG]

What you replacing it with Simon ?

A nice new slimline firebird combi.

 

[SimonG]

the walls are a nightmare, 1/2 a shift just to get the flue through.

 

[EvilDrPorkChop]

Fit a MegaFlo (Which leaked on the probe pocket from factory) sorry for poor pics, was a really tight squeeze! Bit of servicing, back to finish off that big bathroom on Monday (Mirror, Towel Rail) then start another bathroom Tuesday.

 

[SimonG]

Nearly done, but pub was calling.

Builders in at a later date to sort walls out.

 

[Keefy]

Just been to unblock a WC for a friend of the missus. She's flushed down one of those plastic fresheners that clip over the rim of the pan.

I undo the cold feed round the back, take out the screw from one side of the pan and realise the other one is hidden by tiles/boxing-in. Tell her I'll have to remove the obstruction to get access. After she makes a quick call to someone she says she doesn't want me to do that so I put everything back as it was and charge her £30.

She's still got a blocked WC and it's the only one in the house. She seems to think she can get someone else who can do it without breaking her precious tile which, by the way, she has spares of.

All I needed to do was remove the other fixing screw, pull the pan out and reach in to remove the obstruction. As I was leaving she had a plunger in her hand.

Sunday night favours eh?

Edit: £30 has just landed in my account.

 

[Deleted member 120897]

Just been to unblock a WC for a friend of the missus. She's flushed down one of those plastic fresheners that clip over the rim of the pan.

I undo the cold feed round the back, take out the screw from one side of the pan and realise the other one is hidden by tiles/boxing-in. Tell her I'll have to remove the obstruction to get access. After she makes a quick call to someone she says she doesn't want me to do that so I put everything back as it was and charge her £30.

She's still got a blocked WC and it's the only one in the house. She seems to think she can get someone else who can do it without breaking her precious tile which, by the way, she has spares of.

All I needed to do was remove the other fixing screw, pull the pan out and reach in to remove the obstruction. As I was leaving she had a plunger in her hand.

Sunday night favours eh?

Edit: £30 has just landed in my account.

At least you got the £30 though.

 

[ShaunCorbs]

Nothing weirder than folk

 

[king of pipes]

Another bathroom job started all the old stuff is out the damaged walls and ceiling have been reboarded and skimmed, now putting it back together a split stone wall and floating furniture was a challenge on a metal stud plaster board wall . Kop

 

[Deleted member 120897]

Not doing much this week as it’s my time for coronavirus . Not a great experience, wife seems worse than me with it.

 

[SimonG]

Not doing much this week as it’s my time for coronavirus . Not a great experience, wife seems worse than me with it.

Take it easy, hope you both recover quickly.

 

[SimonG]

Quiet one today. Thankful for it, last week was heavy with that install.

Control box and magic eye on a mectron burner. Look at a job to install 6 designer rads, want pipes out of wall. Wayrock floors.
And.
Swap out knackered trv on a sealed system.

Then van turned poorly, rear pads, couldn't get it in till next week so managed to pick up a set and swapped them over. Real value for money on the old ones and lucky not to mess the discs up.

 

[king of pipes]

Not doing much this week as it’s my time for coronavirus . Not a great experience, wife seems worse than me with it.

Get well soon Chris

 

[king of pipes]

Got the lights and fan done a absolute mare with blown in insulation I had to remove it all fit hoods over the new lights to keep it away I'll lay more insulation over the flex to help avoid condensation kop

 

[ShaunCorbs]

Busy few weeks doing and old farm house up new rads, kitchen and bathroom also f the last installer who installs drain offs in a floor void I’m guessing someone ran out of caps

Also running a new 35,22,22 supplies as the old ones burst in the cold spell found out why someone’s cut the insulation to fit the timbers and 4 main cables in there 4x70mm 3 phase and two 3x25mm and a 25mm earth spent a week cable managing them as there like waves and in the way

 

[king of pipes]

Bit more done I got the boxing in completed first fixed the bath shower mixer, tanking and tiling well on the way the niche took a bit of time . Kop

 

[Scott_D]

Extending prvs for external wall insulation

 

[king of pipes]

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Extending prvs for external wall insulation

What they using on the outside Scott I'm toying with the idea of doing some on my place ? Kop

 

[Scott_D]

What they using on the outside Scott I'm toying with the idea of doing some on my place ? Kop

Rockwall insulation slabs that are stuck with adhesive and plastic pins then mesh and render.

 

[king of pipes]

Grouting up today before fitting the bath tomorrow , a shower door to swap over pm today . Kop

 

[king of pipes]

Getting there on this one but over commited so means not there today I am fitting a Home boost pump and Saturday is now another work day fitting a brushed brass fancy shower door that's taken 6 week to arrive kop

 

[king of pipes]

Finally done this one took 6 weeks for shower doors to arrive have a restful weekend chaps .
Kop

 

[king of pipes]

Cracking on with this one this week my work load is off the scale are you all insanely busy ? the phone hasn't stopped I'm leaving it now on answer phone and deal with it at the end of the working day . Kop

 

[Deleted member 120897]

Cracking on with this one this week my work load is off the scale are you all insanely busy ? the phone hasn't stopped I'm leaving it now on answer phone and deal with it at the end of the working day . Kop

Not insanely busy in social housing mate. Does that bath waste run uphill?

 

[SimonG]

In the bear hole. That cold last night the self leveller didn't go off

 

[king of pipes]

All change for toilet cistern boxing in which is a pita messed my tiling up sure I can work something out but annoying, I didn't have the cistern till Tuesday the flush pipe is not cut able so needed to get creative . Kop

 

[king of pipes]

Sorted out now with a little cheat on track for floorlayer to get in

 

[EvilDrPorkChop]

Finished another bathroom, heat only to System boiler and new rads (system was corroding like mad, had a 4 year old rad blow on pressurising) bits of servicing and jobs.

 

[Scott_D]

Finished another bathroom, heat only to System boiler and new rads (system was corroding like mad, had a 4 year old rad blow on pressurising) bits of servicing and jobs.

What brand is the bath mixer/shower?

 

[EvilDrPorkChop]

What brand is the bath mixer/shower?

HansGrohe Crometta S with Bath Mixer

hansgrohe Shower pipes: Crometta S, 1 spray mode, Item No. 27320000

Showerpipe 240 1jet with thermostatic bath mixer. Click for More!

www.hansgrohe.co.uk

I'll only fit Hansgrohe these days.

 

[Scott_D]

Gas run through a bungalow loft

 

[Scott_D]

HansGrohe Crometta S with Bath Mixer

hansgrohe Shower pipes: Crometta S, 1 spray mode, Item No. 27320000

Showerpipe 240 1jet with thermostatic bath mixer. Click for More!

www.hansgrohe.co.uk

I'll only fit Hansgrohe these days.

Looks like a nice shower but pretty pricey

 

[ShaunCorbs]

Looks like a nice shower but pretty pricey

Not too Bad

 

[EvilDrPorkChop]

Looks like a nice shower but pretty pricey

They're about £415+VAT trade. When you think you don't need a shower + taps it ain't bad.

 

[EvilDrPorkChop]

Not too Bad

That's not the one with the bath filler, about another £100 on top.

 

[ShaunCorbs]

That's not the one with the bath filler, about another £100 on top.

For some reason the wrong link inserted meant to do this One

 

[Scott_D]

Mlcp spaghetti

 

[ShaunCorbs]

Wavin ?

 

[SimonG]

Finally out the bear cave, just the custom glass screen to go in.

 

[ShaunCorbs]

Still finding frost damage

Little tsat took me a full day to find this little fecker was loosing air pressure but couldn’t find where had to turn the water on
And wait an hour

 

[king of pipes]

Another bathroom upgrade started this week splash panels on two walls for a large shower cubical , it all stripped out and patching up well under way , a new floor going down plasterer due early doors next week . Kop

 

[Ric2013]

Are you able to drill a 6" hole in a wall for me? This became fit and wire a heat-recovery extract fan. Seemed decent quality, but not installer-friendly. I have suspicions the plate heat exchanger is too small to do a lot, but customer supplied it, so ho hum.

 

[SimonG]

Not work, but cracking night.

 

[ShaunCorbs]

My day being a spark and look no rubbish

 

[king of pipes]

Tidy job Shaun should avoid any future drama's.
Kop

 

[king of pipes]

Not work, but cracking night.

What was the occasion bud ??

 

[SimonG]

What was the occasion bud ??

One of the lads had 4 tickets for the Premier darts as a Christmas present. 3 two posters and a diet coke £53