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1st one at 1:30 - low pressure at all outlets after main stop tap used.
Nice and easy eh? Obviously the plate that holds the washer in the stop tap has come loose. Goes out to the water boards' stopcock at the back gate, puts my key down and thud - it hits a brick, it's one of the smaller types so scratched my arm to bits trying to squeeze it in there to move the brick but the brick is too big to move. Advised customer to call water board to make good and went off to my second 'easy' job...
2:15 - leak under sink. Gets there and it's obviously coming from where the waste sits in the stainless steel sink, it's definitely been going on for ages as you can see all the old bodged repairs. Took me 20 minutes to get the waste released because of the amount of silicone and PTFE under there...
After inspecting the waste, there doesn't seem to be that much wrong with it and it was fitted correctly, so cleaned everything up, replaced the rubber washer and used a donut of plumbers mait to reseat it. Tightened up and tested, it's still leaking. Put the plug in and it's still leaking, so removed waste again and found a burr where the waste hole had been manufactured - possible cause, so filed the burr down and refitted the waste. Still leaking...
Replaced the waste with a new one, used a donut of plumbers mait on both sides, gorilla'd it up and confidently told the customer that will definitely 100% without a doubt stop the leak.
Still leaking...
It's 3:30 now and I'm missing Rachel Riley (Countdown) !! :bigcry:
After much head-scratching I noticed a little thread-like worm of plumbers mait at the side of the waste under the sink, so I wiped it off. A couple of minutes later, there's another little worm. Turns out there's a pin hole about 1mm to the side of the waste that was small enough to miss from the top, but big enough to let water (and plumbers mait) pass. I moved the waste a few mm to the left and refitted it and bingo! No leak, although I did advise that it wasn't a permanent fix and the sink would need replacing at some point.
I've not come across a pin hole like this in a stainless steel sink before, it was new-ish looking and had no signs of corrosion at all. I've seen obvious manufacturing faults and dents and such but not almost-invisible pin holes like this one.
All in all not the best or most productive days work I've had.
Nice and easy eh? Obviously the plate that holds the washer in the stop tap has come loose. Goes out to the water boards' stopcock at the back gate, puts my key down and thud - it hits a brick, it's one of the smaller types so scratched my arm to bits trying to squeeze it in there to move the brick but the brick is too big to move. Advised customer to call water board to make good and went off to my second 'easy' job...
2:15 - leak under sink. Gets there and it's obviously coming from where the waste sits in the stainless steel sink, it's definitely been going on for ages as you can see all the old bodged repairs. Took me 20 minutes to get the waste released because of the amount of silicone and PTFE under there...
After inspecting the waste, there doesn't seem to be that much wrong with it and it was fitted correctly, so cleaned everything up, replaced the rubber washer and used a donut of plumbers mait to reseat it. Tightened up and tested, it's still leaking. Put the plug in and it's still leaking, so removed waste again and found a burr where the waste hole had been manufactured - possible cause, so filed the burr down and refitted the waste. Still leaking...
Replaced the waste with a new one, used a donut of plumbers mait on both sides, gorilla'd it up and confidently told the customer that will definitely 100% without a doubt stop the leak.
Still leaking...
It's 3:30 now and I'm missing Rachel Riley (Countdown) !! :bigcry:
After much head-scratching I noticed a little thread-like worm of plumbers mait at the side of the waste under the sink, so I wiped it off. A couple of minutes later, there's another little worm. Turns out there's a pin hole about 1mm to the side of the waste that was small enough to miss from the top, but big enough to let water (and plumbers mait) pass. I moved the waste a few mm to the left and refitted it and bingo! No leak, although I did advise that it wasn't a permanent fix and the sink would need replacing at some point.
I've not come across a pin hole like this in a stainless steel sink before, it was new-ish looking and had no signs of corrosion at all. I've seen obvious manufacturing faults and dents and such but not almost-invisible pin holes like this one.
All in all not the best or most productive days work I've had.
