This week's "Who the hell fitted that?"....

[Sid Viscous]

Found this in the kitchen of quite a posh Victorian house....




I love the idea of some bloke standing to admire his work thinking 'Oh yeah!'
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[ShaunCorbs]

Diy maybe ?

That drain off is classic

 

[snowhead]

"Hello, I'd like a radiator moved in my nice new kitchen, all I ask is that you make it look as ugly as you can and if you could fit the drain cock upside down, that would be nice"

 

[NickH]

The thing is, there are plenty of people who would look at that and see absolutely nothing wrong with it.
Why exactly can't you fit this rad vertically ?
I've seen people fit 3" ogee architrave back to front with the wide edge nearest the door because they thought it looked " better ".
Better than what exactly, my dogs a**e perhaps.

 

[Sid Viscous]

Well even the present Mrs Viscous could see that something wasn't right.....

 

[townfanjon]

Are we taking bets that the vent is at the bottom , to be used as an extra drain off

 

[snowhead]

Are we taking bets that the vent is at the bottom , to be used as an extra drain off

So they did put some thought into it then,

 

[ShaunCorbs]

Are we taking bets that the vent is at the bottom , to be used as an extra drain off

No it's at the top luckily

 

[king of pipes]

Nice! how The hell is it fixed to the wall . kop

 

[Sid Viscous]

They looked like standard rad brackets. I'm guessing the pipework is what's stopping it all sliding off.... or No-nails/Fixall

 

[townfanjon]

Nice! how The hell is it fixed to the wall . kop

6” nails.

 

[Ric2013]

I saw one of those. Looked like the homeowner had made his own brackets from sheet aluminium. Although I did eventually fit the replacement, I wasn't the one doing the removal, so I didn't get to admire them. In 'my' case, though, the wall section was very narrow and I doubt it would have been easy (or possible) to obtain a satisfactory solution without this kind of alternative approach. In your case, though, WHY?

 

[Welder]

'Prat' is all that springs to mind.
Oh now 'builder' has crept in too...
Obvs a person who ticks boxes (needs this that and something else) but obviously has no idea of how things work or why they are fitted so does it spectacularly wrong...

 

[Sid Viscous]

As it happens Dave you may be bang on the money. The lady of the house said they bought it from a builder who'd converted it back from HMO to single dwelling.....

 

[Bogart]

And my wife thinks my pipework skills leave something to be desired, I will have to show her this!

 

[zzzjim]

Its perfectly suited for heating the thru-draft ,when the kids leave the door open !

 

[Sid Viscous]

Also in the local area, found this in the entrance to a city pub. I wasn't even drinking as I was on driver duty!

 

[Darren Jackson]

Guess the installer sampled a few beverages before they set to work! Either that or they need a new bubble for there spirit level, you can find them next to the wire mesh buckets and left handed screwdrivers in the local DIY store....

 

[Ric2013]

Ah, the old days when breaking the phial on a spirit level meant replacing the phial, not a whole new level of waste.

 

[Gasmk1]

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Also in the local area, found this in the entrance to a city pub. I wasn't even drinking as I was on driver duty!

give the benefit of the doubt some drunk may have sat on it after it was fitted perfectly level

 

[Welder]

Good point, well made.