HALL of SHAME PHOTo`s

[tamz]

It must be years since i've seen a high level grill :smile:

 

[DirksPlumbing]

It must be years since i've seen a high level grill :smile:

The last one I had seen I had been asked if I could get a replacement for it. Because it has been doing a great job when you blank out the gas smell coming of the corroded supply pipe. And it had been lasting for ages.
The customer had accepted the smell of gas for years. Only happened on usage anyway.
I personally do not gamble but i still think buying lottery tickets is still the better option to this kind of russian roulette. Simply because you have a chance to win in it and your losses are limited to what you are willing to loose.

 

[Mr Doberman]

I see this type of thing quite a lot !

 

[Keefy]

Were you called in to tidy that up?

 

[PlumbBobBob]

I see this type of thing quite a lot !

that's just lazyness imho

 

[Throttledwife]

Wish i had taken pics of the boiler we changed in my house..you lot woulda loved it..

 

[galaxy_plumbing]

See anything wrong?

 

[Howsie]

What seems to be a service valve on the wrong pipe. Boom!

 

[Gray0689]

Agree service valve on vent side lol love to see it implode lol
And that lazy couldn't solder a bend on

 

[EPH]

Just read this from start to finish, unbelievable the same poor lads seem to keep finding these installs I see hardly anything like these, nothing dangerous just poor workmanship normally.

Ill post a few pics....

 

[EPH]

 

[REDSAW]

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the cylinder fell over?

 

[Destroyer2813]

^^ you joke Bod but i went to a job where some numpty had fitted a surry flange and replaced the vent pipe with a auto air vent and a 2 bar pump which must of pumped back and belled out the bottom of the cylinder. When i took it out a 48x18 cylinder was 6 inch"s out of level the only thing that saved it was it went backwards against a wall and not out of the door

 

[Barry98]

Nothing I see amazes me no more

 

[Barry98]

but its always been like that

 

[galaxy_plumbing]

...

nice one..whoever did it deserves a slap.

 

[Dotty]

Probably a sparkie. Suited him and no one else!

 

[Mike Jackson]

Finished Fitting a new combi to a property on Monday and no matter what I tried I couldn't get any heat to the drops. With all the rads bar the drops turned off the return to the boiler was red hot but none of the rads were getting hot. This led me to believe that there must be some sort of bypass on the system. I Lifted a few boards and checked the return and it was stone cold as far as the bathroom. The only place there could be a problem was under the tiled bathroom floor.

I returned today with a borescope and struck lucky on the third hole I drilled in the ceiling. I found this.


Bypass by Mike Jackson1, on Flickr

No wonder the drops wouldn't heat up.

 

[Barry98]

Ooooooooooooo bad bad bypass

 

[kay-jay]

Finished Fitting a new combi to a property on Monday and no matter what I tried I couldn't get any heat to the drops. With all the rads bar the drops turned off the return to the boiler was red hot but none of the rads were getting hot. This led me to believe that there must be some sort of bypass on the system. I Lifted a few boards and checked the return and it was stone cold as far as the bathroom. The only place there could be a problem was under the tiled bathroom floor.

I returned today with a borescope and struck lucky on the third hole I drilled in the ceiling. I found this.


Bypass by Mike Jackson1, on Flickr

No wonder the drops wouldn't heat up.

That's some drill bit to drill big oblong holes

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[Dannypipe]

That's some drill bit to drill big oblong holes

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Yeah, looks good. Where can I get one of those drills. Dead handy

Bad bypass. Why would someone do that!?

 

[Mike Jackson]

Yeah, looks good. Where can I get one of those drills. Dead handy

Bad bypass. Why would someone do that!?

I couldn't figure out a reason other than someone didn't have a clue what they were doing. I'm not sure why the previous plumbers that have been out and flushed the system several times didn't do a bit more investigation and figure out the problem. I was glad to as it gave me an excuse to buy a new toy, oops sorry I mean tool.

Nipped back this morning to finish off the pugging up outside and the customer greeted me with a big grin, it was the first time he had been warm downstairs in the winter since he moved in two years ago.

 

[Best]

I had the same problem a couple months ago - a heating system from the 1960s had a 3/4" one pipe loop from the flow to the return immediately after the first rad.
I also fell for it, as the people were new owners & system hadn't been tested until I had been replacing some rads & pipework. Big relief when I found the bypass which had been to feed 2 previous rads on a 1 pipe loop (which would have always acted as a bypass). Felt good that I was the only guy that sorted it in 40 + years! :smile:
Some "plumbers" make the mistake of thinking a 2 pipe system must have both pipes joined for a loop, especially when they are capping off a rad for good & it is the last on a circuit.

 

[Dannypipe]

Always gratifying to sort a problem that others have missed, and get something working properly.

 

[AlexGas]

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Also, the plastic fitting is too close to the cylinder. And it doesn't look like there's 450mm (min) to the vent pipe going up. Can't see the rise either.