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Gave a quote about 4 months ago to fix a leak under a bath that had brought a ceiling down. When I got there I looked under bath (Panel already removed) to find half the floorboards missing which was causing the bath to move and breaking the seal around the bath. There was also a wet pipe that ran under the sink but wasn't going to be chopping boards to get to it and just guessed it was a faulty compression elbow coming down from the sink under the floor as all the joints I could see were compressions. The bath trap also had denso wrapped round it so I was going to renew that and a bit of pipework.
3 months later I get the call from the customer - the insurance company have OK'd the quote and when can I do it? '1st and 2nd of Apri'l says me. 'Wonderful, see you then' says customer.
I get there today and have to chop a few boards to get access to under the sink, turns out the boards were held up by a piece of wood underneath about 1' square screwed into 3 or four boards as the previous 'plumber' had cut them off the joists...
Then the customer says that the bath panel slides out, so I slide it and hear a popping noise - the corner of the acrylic bath has just cracked and now has a nice 2 inch jagged crack in it that seems not to want to squeeze together again...
Once enough boards were up I could see that about 2m of 15mm is corroded and pin-holing, it's the c/h feed from the tank in the loft, this pipe takes a turn and goes out onto the landing. Due to there being a spaghetti junction of pipework around it I'm going to have to chop half the boards in the room to get a new piece in...
I confidently tell the customer that I think only this one piece of pipe will be corroded and it's from the galvy tank in the loft that will need replacing, I gets in the loft to see a lovely PLASTIC tank in there so it must be something else, on further inspection I can feel the greasiness of the flux on the pipe coming down from a soldered elbow so the original 'plumber' must not wipe his flux off - spend the next hour chopping boards and checking elbows and tees...
I start taking the old silicone off the edge of the bath and 3 tiles come off to reveal wet grout behind them and the original tiles still underneath...
Get to the top of the bath where there is a tiled shelf that meets the bath and the slightest bit of pressure causes it to practically drop off the wall revealing that it was originally glued (not screwed) to the stud-wall on a half inch wide baton with no support...
Don't get me wrong, these are lovely people and I'll be pleased when I've fixed all the issues but AARRGGHH!!!!!
How's your bank holiday been? :furious3::mad2::rant:
3 months later I get the call from the customer - the insurance company have OK'd the quote and when can I do it? '1st and 2nd of Apri'l says me. 'Wonderful, see you then' says customer.
I get there today and have to chop a few boards to get access to under the sink, turns out the boards were held up by a piece of wood underneath about 1' square screwed into 3 or four boards as the previous 'plumber' had cut them off the joists...
Then the customer says that the bath panel slides out, so I slide it and hear a popping noise - the corner of the acrylic bath has just cracked and now has a nice 2 inch jagged crack in it that seems not to want to squeeze together again...
Once enough boards were up I could see that about 2m of 15mm is corroded and pin-holing, it's the c/h feed from the tank in the loft, this pipe takes a turn and goes out onto the landing. Due to there being a spaghetti junction of pipework around it I'm going to have to chop half the boards in the room to get a new piece in...
I confidently tell the customer that I think only this one piece of pipe will be corroded and it's from the galvy tank in the loft that will need replacing, I gets in the loft to see a lovely PLASTIC tank in there so it must be something else, on further inspection I can feel the greasiness of the flux on the pipe coming down from a soldered elbow so the original 'plumber' must not wipe his flux off - spend the next hour chopping boards and checking elbows and tees...
I start taking the old silicone off the edge of the bath and 3 tiles come off to reveal wet grout behind them and the original tiles still underneath...
Get to the top of the bath where there is a tiled shelf that meets the bath and the slightest bit of pressure causes it to practically drop off the wall revealing that it was originally glued (not screwed) to the stud-wall on a half inch wide baton with no support...
Don't get me wrong, these are lovely people and I'll be pleased when I've fixed all the issues but AARRGGHH!!!!!
How's your bank holiday been? :furious3::mad2::rant:
