HALL of SHAME PHOTo`s

[Barry98]

I know we all come across them but thought we could stick them all in one thread for everyone to see.

my first of many , was in a church hall and this was someones idea of capping the gas off.

 

[CMairiD]

A reminder why we do void gas checks ...



... because tenants do stoopid things like this.

 

[mikegas]

I know we all come across them but thought we could stick them all in one thread for everyone to see.

my first of many , was in a church hall and this was someones idea of capping the gas off.

Wasn't this allowed back in the day though?

 

[REDSAW]

you mean this sort of thing?.
by the way i use those gloves too.lol.

 

[Barry98]

Got a box full of them courtesy of the storesmen where I did a job last month

 

[jaybob]

ive got some craking nono's somewhere ill route then out and upload i do alot of rentels so you can only imagin the bodgery will post soon lol

 

[MattWeth]

Not gas related as such but I was hacking the plaster of a wall in our kitchen and found this piece of quality workmanship: ....

 

[Mike Jackson]

What's wrong with that? Perfectly good repair

 

[Mike Jackson]

I've got plenty of pictures. I'll start with these. Customer complaint about standard of workmanship. Yes that is the rear of the boiler in the second picture, the original installer didn't bother blocking up before he hung the boiler. It took two of us two days to put the install right, we had to repipe the entire heating system and run a new gas supply as he'd used the original undersized 15mm for a 30Kw combi.

 

[Barry98]

ive just had a bit of a spat for using orignal 15mm on a install , i apprecaite you can get 15mm fed boilers but they were adminat on a baxi which is 22mm. it was on a listed building and was impossible to run 22 so i rang baxi whos advise was fit the duo-tec and gas rate etc if its within MI`s then its ok.

 

[Barry98]

good pics by the way lets keep them coming

 

[Mike Jackson]

We had 20 working at meter 13 at boiler and when the boiler fired up the hob went out. Definitely not to MI in this case.

 

[Barry98]

couple more , posted before but better to have in one thread

 

[Mike Jackson]

While I'm on a roll. Called to a job, new boiler with vertical flue. Water ingress had destroyed the pcb. Manufacturer declined to repair, put it down to faulty flue joints. I attended and checked the flue, all fine. I then noticed a joint in the tubing coming from the condense pump. When I filled the pump with water it turned on and water sprayed out of the joint. Investigation revealed that the tubing had been joined with a biro casing. This may have worked had the installer not left the pointed end on and left this pointing towards the pump. It's no wonder it leaked trying to pump through a hole a couple of mm across.

 

[jaybob]

While I'm on a roll. Called to a job, new boiler with vertical flue. Water ingress had destroyed the pcb. Manufacturer declined to repair, put it down to faulty flue joints. I attended and checked the flue, all fine. I then noticed a joint in the tubing coming from the condense pump. When I filled the pump with water it turned on and water sprayed out of the joint. Investigation revealed that the tubing had been joined with a biro casing. This may have worked had the installer not left the pointed end on and left this pointing towards the pump. It's no wonder it leaked trying to pump through a hole a couple of mm across.

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haha that made me chuckle if he didnt een thik tto cut the end dowm to make bigger opening not that that would make it right in any way just shows his lack of braincells haha

 

[mcniven]

' i had to take the batteries out of the carbon monoxide detector it kept me up all night man! ' - lucky customer.

find the flue terminal! Lol.

 

[Dannypipe]

Three flats in the same building. First one, a Keston C25, nice use of compression joints in the flue. Then a lovely bit of silcon added to a spilling flue.

 

[Dannypipe]

Oh and then a flue made from coke bottles and duct tape. Always good.

 

[PlumbBobBob]

Oh and then a flue made from coke bottles and duct tape. Always good.

don't know which is better your coke bottles or mike's biro for ingenuity lol

 

[Dannypipe]

The biro is a winner!!

 

[SimonJohns]

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I think your right about this one.
ANYONE who has the cheek to leave an old part that has expired should be shot! They could of weighed it in too. Obv earning too much money. Lol

 

[Billy Bob Bob]

a dodgy looking ILFE

 

[Billy Bob Bob]

got asked to do a LGSC on this mess yes there are 2 90 degree bends on the flue,and no ventilation and signs of spillage it failed a flue flow as well poured out of the roof i replaced it with a performa 30 he combi you may recognize the photos from the GSR mag

 

[Destroyer2813]

Did ya win?

 

[southcoastboile]

love this thread! wish id taken some piks of some of the things ive come across.