What we all working on this week ?

[king of pipes]

I have a insurance job to try and rescue a poorly installed quad shower the customer wants to save the tiling if possible and has a few spare so fingers crossed it may work , the loss adjuster allowed em £1500 that will just about cover materials. Kop

 

[ShaunCorbs]

Ooo damp wall special fixings required who did the wastes ?

 

[SimonG]

Customer has done everything upto now.

Nothings been pressure tested, underfloor heating wasnt filled or pressurised at screed going down.

Architect has screwed up left right and centre

Got it all covered in t & c's, labour and consumables only. Invoiced and paid on a friday when I've been there. Just waiting for written confirmation to go ahead.

 

[ShaunCorbs]

good luck be fun if the screed has to come up

 

[SimonG]

good luck be fun if the screed has to come up

It will be because that's one of the things the architect screwed up. Hardcore, 4" concrete then underfloor heating in screed. They had to add in an extra inch of wingspan on top of the concrete.

 

[ShaunCorbs]

It will be because that's one of the things the architect screwed up. Hardcore, 4" concrete then underfloor heating in screed. They had to add in an extra inch of wingspan on top of the concrete.

makes you think has he done the footings correctly

 

[SimonG]

It's a converted 1797 chapel.

 

[king of pipes]

Update chaps job is done and dusted and in use moved on to two kitchen first fixes , and a couple of designer type rads, another shower room to start next week . Regards Kop

No likely Simon ??? 123456789

 

[king of pipes]

Need to replace this water heater for a customer he wants a small combi fitted but only use the hot water side for now with rads fitted at a later date , it needs to be rear flued as below and the flue route is challenging , your opinions chaps ??? Valliant pure is looking like it may work ??

 

[Scott_D]

Glow worm energy is a cheaper version.
Not going to help you here but do you know about the vaillant controls extending the warranty?

 

[king of pipes]

Glow worm energy is a cheaper version.
Not going to help you here but do you know about the vaillant controls extending the warranty?

Yes mate 👍 I've got some info on the pure and energy .

 

[Aquarius]

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[SimonG]

Well looks like I wont be doing the chapel after all, bloke thinks my price for first fix and boiler/cylinder is too expensive. Put in 13 days all on copper. 4 1/2 days for boiler and cylinder room inc controls wiring. 4 days to first fix the three bathrooms. 1 day for kitchen and cloakroom. 1 day to fill and pressure test. 1/2 day for oil line (not an easy run). 1 day to flush refill and commission boiler and a days feck factor.
Never mind.

 

[ShaunCorbs]

That old story expects it done in a week will end up with mr plastic

 

[Harvest Fields]

You can not please everyone mate. Believe me, I’ve tried.

 

[ShaunCorbs]

Service the standard thing it’s been serviced every year

 

[Aquarius]

Service the standard thing it’s been serviced every year

Do kitchen sinks get serviced? 😁

Joking aside, it’s probably a poke and go, a lot of our customers say to me, “it only got serviced last week”, I then proceed to tell them “it’s not a service it’s a safety check”

 

[ShaunCorbs]

Do kitchen sinks get serviced? 😁

Joking aside, it’s probably a poke and go, a lot of our customers say to me, “it only got serviced last week”, I then proceed to tell them “it’s not a service it’s a safety check”

the classic bg safety check

 

[SimonG]

Do kitchen sinks get serviced? 😁

Joking aside, it’s probably a poke and go, a lot of our customers say to me, “it only got serviced last week”, I then proceed to tell them “it’s not a service it’s a safety check”

Same with the oil boilers, start pulling out the baffles and customer asks what you doing as nobody has done that before.

 

[Harvest Fields]

Do kitchen sinks get serviced? 😁

Joking aside, it’s probably a poke and go, a lot of our customers say to me, “it only got serviced last week”, I then proceed to tell them “it’s not a service it’s a safety check”

Not even a safety check mate.

 

[king of pipes]

Well looks like I wont be doing the chapel after all, bloke thinks my price for first fix and boiler/cylinder is too expensive. Put in 13 days all on copper. 4 1/2 days for boiler and cylinder room inc controls wiring. 4 days to first fix the three bathrooms. 1 day for kitchen and cloakroom. 1 day to fill and pressure test. 1/2 day for oil line (not an easy run). 1 day to flush refill and commission boiler and a days feck factor.
Never mind.

Win some you loose some mate 😉

 

[Aquarius]

Not even a safety check mate.

I’m led to believe ours are?

 

[king of pipes]

Another bathroom started this week chaps getting the tiling done a new going up ceiling up tomorrow . Kop
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Service the standard thing it’s been serviced every year

Yeh yeh heard it all before 😂😂

 

[Stigster]

Hi Guys, having a 'mare today with a "simple" towel rail job for my uncle. Doing it purely for the love of plumbing for free of course 😵 on my day off.

Old rail a tiny bit rusty so he's bought an new one (Years left in the old one if you ask me!). Exactly the same as the old one he says. Easy job he says. Apart from the new rail is not the same, the spacings between the bars are different and the height is different so the fixings don't line up and even moving just the bottom fixing leaves the pipes either too long or too short no matter what I do. I don't work out of a van any more so what would normally be a fairly easy job is a pain in the arse with drilling tiles and making good and extending pipes, most probably. Because I'm not carrying the right kit in the car for a "simple" "identical" rail swap I've got to go into work tomorrow and get the right kit and drive across the island again on my next day off.

So I'm going back tomorrow to just redo the thing basically from scratch, freeze the pipes and extend them into the new rail about an inch. 😖 Or maybe just move all the fixings.

In reality nothing major in the grand scheme but still a PITA! Ahh that's better getting that off my chest.

Oh I forgot, he does pay me - In old (still good nick though) clothes of his which would be great if he wasn't about 5 stone heavier than me. 😂
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Same with the oil boilers, start pulling out the baffles and customer asks what you doing as nobody has done that before.

Now that's a familiar one! When I used to work regularly with oil, I've lost count of the amount of times someone has complained because "Why is it taking you so long? The last guy was always in and out in 20 minutes?" I've even had one or two ask me if I'm sure I know what I'm doing!

The firm I worked for charged £100 to do a proper service, oil filter cartridge, new burner hoses where needed and I played that better safe than sorry, full clean out of the combustion chamber, baffles and secondary heat exchanger turbulator jobbies cleaned, fire valve test, burner set up properly again, new nozzle if needed, flue gas analysis, photocell test, and proper paperwork. Used to take me about an hour or a bit longer if the boiler was filthy which it usually was.

They'd complain that the last bloke did it for £80 and only took 20 minutes. I tried to explain that they were paying him £80 to not have their boiler serviced and paying us £100 to have the full works. Some people then understood but others thought I was taking the p*ss.

I don't miss that rubbish any more that's for sure.

 

[king of pipes]

Progress report chaps all working out did make a boo boo on drilling a panel though which is gonna cost me grrrr and cause a bit of inconvenience for my customer s___ happens . Kop

 

[ShaunCorbs]

dont think the customers going to be happy with the shower head on a bright yellow hose looks good kop