he did all his own plumbing when building his house, now he is trying to sell his house and building control came round to check soil pipe is tight. It is not, has a leak. He asked if I could go and find the leak. are there any common places for these to leak? Like in the pump hose. i had this before and i did not check it for hrs. Went mad i did
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I have done it once, and it had a tiny drop and they passed it. But guy is saying it is dropping fast so hopefully easy to find
but that's where we test it. take that off and wack bung with pump. so it is not part of the test
i don't mind doing the job. I love a challenge. Just like learning the best way to go about it. This smoke bomb, is it the same thing you use for a flue flow test
Weng there today, massive drop. Nightmare it was, internal stack boxed and tiled. All toilets wall hung and stuck on with massive amounts of silicone. Mission to remove. So moved all 4 toilets, drop not so severe. So break down into sections, a few traps leaking. So in the end I left it with a tiny drop. Have seen BC turn up and just make sure it doesn't drop instantly and be satisfied. So praying for that. If not, its ripping out tiles and boxing.
Tried smoking it, didn't do much, just felt like s##t. But no, couldn't see any smoke. Am sure BC will be ok with it. You can hardly see drop
I don't know if I am or not. But can you tell me this naughty path I could potentially walk down
Didn't realise there was other ways apart form air test? How can you hide the hose from h BC when there then you sly dogs
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BC won't accept any drop. They will want to see it steady at around 50mb for 2 minutes or however long they can be bothered looking at it.
As Ryan said, there are many simple ways to get around it if you have a think about it but you need to be there. Kinking the hose probably won't work unless the bc guy is a numpty. You need to think of more ingenious ways.
I once got a motorway service station passed testing 10ft of pipe from the manhole. Just think about it.
Probably more than half the drains in the country wouldn't take an air test
As Ryan said, there are many simple ways to get around it if you have a think about it but you need to be there. Kinking the hose probably won't work unless the bc guy is a numpty. You need to think of more ingenious ways.
I once got a motorway service station passed testing 10ft of pipe from the manhole. Just think about it.
Probably more than half the drains in the country wouldn't take an air test
Oh right, I thought it had to be 38mb for 3 minutes. Ingenious ways, can you give a little more info than that. It's going to be a newly qualified BC. so they might not know the kink trick
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