Hints, tips & secrets of plumbing - No Banter please!

[lewisplumber]

re: Hints, tips & secrets of plumbing - No Banter please!

Always advise your apprentice to rub everflux in to his cuts as it stops them bleeding. Oh that's right it just hurts a lot . That serves him right for breaking 3 back nuts on the bath taps!!

 

[leelister6]

re: Hints, tips & secrets of plumbing - No Banter please!

Always swap the crappy plastic backnuts for brass ones and find another excuse to batter the tea biatch!

 

[sh7295]

re: Hints, tips & secrets of plumbing - No Banter please!

when draining a hot water cylinder and want to know how much water is left get the other end of hose pipe start from top and slowly lower down side of cylinder water will rise up hose pipe and come out at same height of water in cylinder

 

[GQuigley67]

re: Hints, tips & secrets of plumbing - No Banter please!

when draining a hot water cylinder and want to know how much water is left get the other end of hose pipe start from top and slowly lower down side of cylinder water will rise up hose pipe and come out at same height of water in cylinder

or give it a rattle and judge it yourself, if its light enough to carry that's good enough for me use some speed fit caps to cap outlets to prevent spills

 

[Dannypipe]

re: Hints, tips & secrets of plumbing - No Banter please!

Or stick a hammer through the bottom and drain it into the room below. Works for me, and no complaints (as long as I'm still holding the hammer). LOL.

 

[sh7295]

re: Hints, tips & secrets of plumbing - No Banter please!

video camera with light on your phone in the hard areas you cant get your head in

 

[REDSAW]

re: Hints, tips & secrets of plumbing - No Banter please!

next one to post a non hint or tip collects 3 point and gets deleted any way.
start your own thread.....
i'm in a mood.

thank you.

 

[lewisplumber]

re: Hints, tips & secrets of plumbing - No Banter please!

Always take your boots off when going in to the clients house. Small things make a big impact. Make sure your socks don't have holes in! Bloody apprentice !

 

[Dannypipe]

re: Hints, tips & secrets of plumbing - No Banter please!

I worked for my father for years. So I was used to pricing jobs up and dealing with clients.

Eventually I just go someone to design a logo (I'd chosen a name) and put a few ads in the paper. I had a few of my own clients allready by that point.

Business has been steadilly growing. I'm not about to become a millionaire and I don't want to get off the tools. I'd be happier if I could afford to pay someone to do the paper work and for me to stay on the tools!

Biggest attribute of mine is I can talk to the clients and build trust. Trust is everything. Imagine you letting a stranger in your house to fit a boiler or a fire. You'd want to know you could trust them.

 

[Dannypipe]

re: Hints, tips & secrets of plumbing - No Banter please!

next one to post a non hint or tip collects 3 point and gets deleted any way.
start your own thread.....
i'm in a mood.

thank you.

Fair enough!!

Hint - If your concerned a solvent weld fitting may take a while to get in the correct posistion (for example you have two akward joints to make and they have to be done in tandem) then apply much more solvent cement than you would normally do. This will buy you a bit more time but we're only talking seconds, not minutes.

 

[Carl86]

re: Hints, tips & secrets of plumbing - No Banter please!

What i tend to do with solvent weld fittings (say 2 45's at a certain angle) is place them on the desired length of pipe with out glue that you join the two with then mark a line across both of them with a felt tip, or pencil.

Then glue up the pipe and fittings and twist the fittings to marry the line up on both fittings and pipe. Leave to set.

This piece can then be incorporated into the pipe work at the correct angle.

 

[tamz]

re: Hints, tips & secrets of plumbing - No Banter please!

Always take your boots off when going in to the clients house. Small things make a big impact. Make sure your socks don't have holes in! Bloody apprentice !

Especially the industrial dancing pumps

 

[lewisplumber]

re: Hints, tips & secrets of plumbing - No Banter please!

Always hit your apprentice once a day, but never with the same object twice!

 

[WHPES]

re: Hints, tips & secrets of plumbing - No Banter please!

I have found targetting properties with for sale signs outside has been very worthwhile this year. I ask the people there to leave my flier for the new people, and also I have had quite a bit of work from the people there when they move to their new houses.

One couple actually asked me to come with them when they were viewing prospective houses and give them an idea of costs for a new heating system and bathroom for a couple of places they had narrowed their choice down to. They bought the house and I got the job to do all the plumbing, and I also got the kitchen refit and joinery work for my joiner friend, the decorating for my decorator friend and all the electrics for my electrician friend all from one knock at one door.

 

[REDSAW]

re: Hints, tips & secrets of plumbing - No Banter please!

I have found targetting properties with for sale signs outside has been very worthwhile this year. I ask the people there to leave my flier for the new people, and also I have had quite a bit of work from the people there when they move to their new houses.

One couple actually asked me to come with them when they were viewing prospective houses and give them an idea of costs for a new heating system and bathroom for a couple of places they had narrowed their choice down to. They bought the house and I got the job to do all the plumbing, and I also got the kitchen refit and joinery work for my joiner friend, the decorating for my decorator friend and all the electrics for my electrician friend all from one knock at one door.

pity you dont have an 'solicitor' friend you could have got a 1% skim of the top.lol.

 

[fuzzy]

re: Hints, tips & secrets of plumbing - No Banter please!

top tip..... Never stop learning

 

[Cumbria Handyma]

re: Hints, tips & secrets of plumbing - No Banter please!

Had a call out late one evening to an overflowing loft tank. Hole in ball-valve, did not have one in the motor and shops closed.

Removed ball valve emptied it, put it back on arm, covered with plastic bag and used cable ties to secure open end to arm.

Not a drop of water in the bag when I returned the next afternoon.

 

[putneyplumbing]

re: Hints, tips & secrets of plumbing - No Banter please!

Really helpful tips and hits which makes plumbing safe and easy, Sydney plumbers are experienced to suggest more tips.

 

[Cumbria Handyma]

re: Hints, tips & secrets of plumbing - No Banter please!

Really helpful tips and hits which makes plumbing safe and easy, Sydney plumbers are experienced to suggest more tips.

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[Howsie]

Amused and bemused also.

 

[kay-jay]

Amused and bemused also.

+1

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[WHPES]

re: Hints, tips & secrets of plumbing - No Banter please!

Trade adverts in local newspapers are a waste of money.

 

[Plum Bob 66]

re: Hints, tips & secrets of plumbing - No Banter please!

Trade adverts in local newspapers are a waste of money.

Couldnt agree more !!

 

[kay-jay]

I get 200-300 a week from local rag which only costs 8 quid so it works for me.

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[WHPES]

re: Hints, tips & secrets of plumbing - No Banter please!

A topic raised a few weeks ago - located a supplier for replacement clicker waste washers:

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