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Roofer replacing a roof on our contract just happily went around disconnecting the vertical flues and then leaving them live with the boilers pumping out. Shockingly now action at all was taken and I've since found 2 more :-(
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after moving into my house and gas safety check and service had been carried out as part of the buying agreement I found the fire hadn't been serviced for a long long time and after many attempts the spillage test failed. This was a pic of the catchment area and the fire took me 3 hours to clean before it failed lol. The certificate belonged to a rogue agent and 2 weeks later the boiler had to be replaced, lucky I'm in the game
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Roofer replacing a roof on our contract just happily went around disconnecting the vertical flues and then leaving them live with the boilers pumping out. Shockingly now action at all was taken and I've since found 2 more :-(

Did you RIDDOR? We RIDDOR'd on a scaffold company that purposely removed a flue and refitted incorrectly.
 
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Installed for a landlord, this so called plumber has gas safe according to the agent. Second boiler of his I have seen and second where the flue isn't sealed on either side. 15mm gas to boiler stepped up to 22mm as it gets to the boiler.
 
Wow they've ploughed those holes through, why oh why do these people get away with it?

As far as the flue the clip/bracket it had been removed and left on the lagging. Was a huge contractor that had just started and was doing major building works throughout the county. They squashed the problem in 2 seconds and the thing that upset me the most was the roofer that carried out the work laughed in my face and told me to stop being a drama queen. I filled in the riddor form but never heard anything, such a poor attitude.
 
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You may never hear anything. In the case we had with the scaffolder, the HSE contacted us because we owned the house and employed the contractor.

We got asked what processes we were going to put in place to ensure that this didn't happen again on our housing stock. Once that was clarified, the HSE were happy and the case closed.

If you are seeing this happen repeatedly, I'd RIDDOR each and every one. I dare bet HSE will twig it's a pattern and get a bit more serious with it.
 
I've just got back from inspecting the plumbing work that's been recently carried out at a rented flat. The tenant has been given notice to quit because she complained about the quality of work. She has also been branded a racist by the owner of the building firm that did the work because his employees are Eastern European. Apparently they are very good workers but they are certainly not plumbers.

Since the work was done the hot water has been excessively hot, I wonder why?


CQ9R5539 by Mike Jackson1, on Flickr

Parallel pipes!


CQ9R5549 by Mike Jackson1, on Flickr

No dust sheets or burn barrier used.


CQ9R5551 by Mike Jackson1, on Flickr

Apparently this sort of damage is acceptable when lifting floors.


CQ9R5566 by Mike Jackson1, on Flickr

A sight for sore eyes.


CQ9R5579 by Mike Jackson1, on Flickr

This was her mat that was used to mop up a leak, hence the staining and perhaps a little more care could have been taken when soldering.


CQ9R5583 by Mike Jackson1, on Flickr

When you have a leak apparently it's okay to use the customers measuring jug to catch it. This is after it's been washed.


CQ9R5585 by Mike Jackson1, on Flickr

The same chaps installed the new kitchen sink when she moved in. Smells from a kitchen sink or normal apparently.


CQ9R5580 by Mike Jackson1, on Flickr
 
Checked the ventilation on a static caravan today and found all but 4 vents were blocked.


Blocked by Mike Jackson1, on Flickr

Others were blocked with toilet roll, newspaper etc. I pulled half a bin bag of debris out from the vents in all. The drop holes under the cooker and water heater had been blocked by carpet as well. All this was despite the large sign warning against blocking the ventilation.
 
Went out to a new customer today, barn conversion all plumbed up by the previous owner, plastic pipe almost right up to boiler, plastic oil pipe run externally up the wall, plant room in the roof space, heating pump acting as a secondary circ, ufh everywhere but no timers just on danfoss room stats and the best bit the towel rails on the first floor were all piped from the roof down

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