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Being a wrinkly myself, I thought I would like to pass on a tip or two to our younger members when they start in the game.
First and foremost concentrate on measuring and marking out. You'll always get a recommendation if your work looks neat, even if its Plumbed in wrong.
Also don't expect everything to be level. Level a basin on a wall, if the tiles aren't plumb and it will look horrible.
So check and tell people, the choice is, level and looks horrible or eye it in so it looks level.
And don't forget many sanitary ware pieces can be made from moulds years old, so they are not necessary level anyway. Same goes for cast iron soil pipe.
Always make sure you allow proper expansion control points and silicon greased expansion gaps on pvc gutters and soil stacks. They may not leak, but the click, click as they expand and contract will sometimes drive people cuckoo.
Don't let solder run all down your pipes when end feeding, wipe off flux and clip all pipes properly.
They are just a few things. In other words its partly about good house keeping not only Plumbing theory.
Just remember you are making a product and would you buy it or have it in your house?
In my early days we had loads and loads of specialist clerk of works who knew the game inside out and would condemn anything they did not like and your company would pay.
My boss as an apprentice made you go back and repair things or clean things on jobs, in your own time, if you should have done it while on the job.
You soon learnt what was acceptable or not.
So concentrate on neat and tidy as well as getting it right theory wise.
First and foremost concentrate on measuring and marking out. You'll always get a recommendation if your work looks neat, even if its Plumbed in wrong.
Also don't expect everything to be level. Level a basin on a wall, if the tiles aren't plumb and it will look horrible.
So check and tell people, the choice is, level and looks horrible or eye it in so it looks level.
And don't forget many sanitary ware pieces can be made from moulds years old, so they are not necessary level anyway. Same goes for cast iron soil pipe.
Always make sure you allow proper expansion control points and silicon greased expansion gaps on pvc gutters and soil stacks. They may not leak, but the click, click as they expand and contract will sometimes drive people cuckoo.
Don't let solder run all down your pipes when end feeding, wipe off flux and clip all pipes properly.
They are just a few things. In other words its partly about good house keeping not only Plumbing theory.
Just remember you are making a product and would you buy it or have it in your house?
In my early days we had loads and loads of specialist clerk of works who knew the game inside out and would condemn anything they did not like and your company would pay.
My boss as an apprentice made you go back and repair things or clean things on jobs, in your own time, if you should have done it while on the job.
You soon learnt what was acceptable or not.
So concentrate on neat and tidy as well as getting it right theory wise.
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