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I thought with all the talk of a 'double dip' recession us plumbers would need a funny thread to keep morale up. Let's hear the funniest (looking back) things that have happened to you as a plumber.
If ever you are in doubt that new-build plumbing standards are slipping in Britain, here's my story! Happened to me on Thursday whilst fixing 2 leaks on a back-to-wall WC.
The first leak was a sewage leak from the back of the pan which the customer noticed dripping through their ground floor ceiling. So I did the usual thing, open up the cabinet, unscrew the pan from the tiled floor. Next I removed the pan carefully then heard a large amount of running water from the back of the pan. Of course, being against a cabinet I couldn't see where it was coming from. Definitely not the cistern, that's been flushed and isolated already. Hmm.
Then the bits of poo started coming out all over the floor. Hmm, I don't think water should be flowing out of the soil pipe at the back of the toilet, this is a new one...
Then I looked at the soil pipe. What's this, its running uphill from the pan? Surely not... I had to check it twice with my eyes before I could believe it. It turns out the whole run from the back of the WC to the stack runs uphill, yes, uphill - explaining why I had just been soaked in sewage! I guess that explains why the other toilet on the branch sometimes backflows into the one I had removed. I just wish that had been mentioned earlier
Had to be the closest I came to chucking up on the job, but looking back, very funny.
Ok, beat that one!
If ever you are in doubt that new-build plumbing standards are slipping in Britain, here's my story! Happened to me on Thursday whilst fixing 2 leaks on a back-to-wall WC.
The first leak was a sewage leak from the back of the pan which the customer noticed dripping through their ground floor ceiling. So I did the usual thing, open up the cabinet, unscrew the pan from the tiled floor. Next I removed the pan carefully then heard a large amount of running water from the back of the pan. Of course, being against a cabinet I couldn't see where it was coming from. Definitely not the cistern, that's been flushed and isolated already. Hmm.
Then the bits of poo started coming out all over the floor. Hmm, I don't think water should be flowing out of the soil pipe at the back of the toilet, this is a new one...
Then I looked at the soil pipe. What's this, its running uphill from the pan? Surely not... I had to check it twice with my eyes before I could believe it. It turns out the whole run from the back of the WC to the stack runs uphill, yes, uphill - explaining why I had just been soaked in sewage! I guess that explains why the other toilet on the branch sometimes backflows into the one I had removed. I just wish that had been mentioned earlier
Had to be the closest I came to chucking up on the job, but looking back, very funny.
Ok, beat that one!