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**The wtf plumbing thread**

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,526 ✭✭✭JohnnieK


    K.Flyer wrote: »
    Or at the very least, box over it and paint the box..
    It is astounding the level of shoddy work that some people will accept.

    You got it in one there, "what people will except".


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,008 ✭✭✭scudo2


    2 in the bush is safer than 4 in a boiler.
    Unusual as it was a straight 20' SS chimney.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,404 ✭✭✭corkgsxr


    Awkward 4" run? No problem just add a flexy


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,039 ✭✭✭jpfahy


    Irish Water;
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  • Subscribers Posts: 19,425 ✭✭✭✭Oryx


    Thats shameful ^^^^


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,155 ✭✭✭✭Sleeper12


    Please tell me thats not Irish water using those fittings???


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,960 ✭✭✭jimf


    jpfahy wrote: »
    Irish Water;
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    no potential for leaks then as mrs brown would say that's nice


  • Subscribers Posts: 19,425 ✭✭✭✭Oryx


    I remember all those adverts on the side of vans 'train to be a water meter installer, 'earn €€€€€€'. I guess this is the result.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,526 ✭✭✭JohnnieK


    I wonder why they couldn't dig down further in the original position.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,585 ✭✭✭jca


    jpfahy wrote: »
    Irish Water;
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    There's going to be some mayhem when we get the first real frost.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,565 ✭✭✭K.Flyer


    JohnnieK wrote: »
    I wonder why they couldn't dig down further in the original position.

    Possibly a drainage pipe running alongside the mains. I've seen them a few times go straight down with the box and elbow back up to the original mains height.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,008 ✭✭✭scudo2


    Oryx wrote: »
    I remember all those adverts on the side of vans 'train to be a water meter installer, 'earn €€€€€€'. I guess this is the result.

    People actually paid for training on how to install water meters !!!

    Training centers actually charged for a course!!

    End result, no guarentee of a job.

    If you couldn't show somebody in 30 mins. how to fit a meter,then there's something wrong.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,008 ✭✭✭scudo2


    Guess what's inside.
    Answer in second post.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,008 ✭✭✭scudo2


    Answer:
    Hut was built after I last serviced it.
    I refused to service it till flue was extended.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,960 ✭✭✭jimf


    scudo2 wrote: »
    Answer:
    Hut was built after I last serviced it.
    I refused to service it till flue was extended.

    a feck it scudo your gettin very exact :P:P


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,988 ✭✭✭jacksie66


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,039 ✭✭✭jpfahy


    Some more in case you thought it was an isolated case:
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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,039 ✭✭✭jpfahy


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,988 ✭✭✭jacksie66


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,492 ✭✭✭roy rodgers


    jacksie66 wrote: »
    Same house

    20140929_160327.jpg

    I taught the earthquake was two years ago????


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,565 ✭✭✭K.Flyer


    A page of utter dire plumbing work


  • Registered Users Posts: 60 ✭✭trurl


    I can't take pictures, because I have no idea what's going on here, but there is warmish water in our toilet tank, and there is some black residue coming from all hot water taps (kitchen, bath, sink). The water pressure in our gas boiler is jumping between .8 and 3.2 bars like a happy bunny. Please PM me if you can fix it. Bray, Wicklow. thx


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,404 ✭✭✭corkgsxr


    Sleeper12 wrote: »
    Please tell me thats not Irish water using those fittings???

    Are they not Phil Mac fittings?
    scudo2 wrote: »
    People actually paid for training on how to install water meters !!!

    Training centers actually charged for a course!!

    End result, no guarentee of a job.

    If you couldn't show somebody in 30 mins. how to fit a meter,then there's something wrong.

    To get contracts to do water meters you had to do the course. It was quite dear too. 900/1300 or something


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,155 ✭✭✭✭Sleeper12


    corkgsxr wrote: »
    Are they not Phil Mac fittings?



    To get contracts to do water meters you had to do the course. It was quite dear too. 900/1300 or something

    It turned out Irish water trained their own installers. Anyone who paid for the course were fuming. There was a full Joe Duffy show about it. Some very unhappy people.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,404 ✭✭✭corkgsxr


    Sleeper12 wrote: »
    It turned out Irish water trained their own installers. Anyone who paid for the course were fuming. There was a full Joe Duffy show about it. Some very unhappy people.

    I warned a lot of people not to do it as the handy ones went to Irish water lads. The fellas who done courses only get the awkward ones that can't be done as a batch.

    Eg estates can be done as a team system so huge numbers done in a day


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,404 ✭✭✭corkgsxr


    Got to love pub work


  • Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators Posts: 6,302 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wearb


    New gear for sooty boilers.

    Btw the label reads.
    "Holy Water now €1 per Splash"

    Please follow site and charter rules. "Resistance is futile"



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,043 ✭✭✭Cerco


    Wearb wrote: »
    New gear for sooty boilers.

    Btw the label reads.
    "Holy Water now €1 per Splash"

    I thought it was another suggestion for measuring oil usage.:eek:


  • Registered Users Posts: 13 dysfunctional


    i prefer holy relics. €20, but more credible.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,839 ✭✭✭✭Dtp1979


    ista wrote: »
    Looking for help with TRVs.

    Can I canvass people for assisstance in this thread please?

    I was sent here by the moderator Spear.

    What help do you need?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,155 ✭✭✭✭Sleeper12


    I might start a storm here but can anyone explain what the ptfe tape is supposed to do on the thread side of the olive?

    I see it on work that's been done by professional plumbers and can't understand what the advantage is, its a compression fitting and nothing should be getting as far as the threads in the first place? A turn of ptfe on the joint side of the olive maybe.

    It's a neon sign telling you that a plumber didn't do the work. :-)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 445 ✭✭Froststop


    Has anyone come across Qual Pex pipe pulling out of joints under floors?

    Got called to a house where the pipe has been pulling out of the joints and it looks as if the pipe is shrinking in length.
    Manufacturers claim expansion loops should be used underfloors! Has anyone heard this claim before?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,839 ✭✭✭✭Dtp1979


    Froststop wrote: »
    Has anyone come across Qual Pex pipe pulling out of joints under floors?

    Got called to a house where the pipe has been pulling out of the joints and it looks as if the pipe is shrinking in length.
    Manufacturers claim expansion loops should be used underfloors! Has anyone heard this claim before?

    God no and I hope it's not true


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 445 ✭✭Froststop


    Dtp1979 wrote: »
    God no and I hope it's not true

    It's looking that way, I cut one pipe and it seperated/pulled away leaving a gap at the cut of approx 1/2" suggesting the pipe is shrinking along the length.

    have you heard of using expansion loops on QP?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,839 ✭✭✭✭Dtp1979


    Froststop wrote: »
    It's looking that way, I cut one pipe and it seperated/pulled away leaving a gap at the cut of approx 1/2" suggesting the pipe is shrinking along the length.

    have you heard of using expansion loops on QP?

    No never heard anything like that


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 445 ✭✭Froststop


    Dtp1979 wrote: »
    No never heard anything like that

    Manufacturer claims they should be used, yet they seem to have never told anyone! Fingers crossed it's just a faulty batch of pipe. House only built 2005.

    Home owner suing them for damages.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 366 ✭✭cruiser202006


    Froststop wrote: »
    It's looking that way, I cut one pipe and it seperated/pulled away leaving a gap at the cut of approx 1/2" suggesting the pipe is shrinking along the length.

    have you heard of using expansion loops on QP?
    Have seen it personally with 1" qualpex pulling out of push fit fittings. Pipe seemed to have shrunk. Had to disconnect at boiler and push back through 4" duct and add 6inches extra to them at boiler side to reconnect up.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 445 ✭✭Froststop


    Have seen it personally with 1" qualpex pulling out of push fit fittings. Pipe seemed to have shrunk. Had to disconnect at boiler and push back through 4" duct and add 6inches extra to them at boiler side to reconnect up.

    6" seems a lot. This issue is effecting 3/4". Who ever plumbed the heating first day used 1" with brass fittings and push fit on 3/4" & 1/2".


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,008 ✭✭✭scudo2


    Unusual old bath, timber lined.
    House is 105 years old.
    Anybody come across one before ?
    M.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,839 ✭✭✭✭Dtp1979


    scudo2 wrote: »
    Unusual old bath, timber lined.
    House is 105 years old.
    Anybody come across one before ?
    M.

    Never with timber like that


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,155 ✭✭✭✭Sleeper12


    scudo2 wrote: »
    Unusual old bath, timber lined.
    House is 105 years old.
    Anybody come across one before ?
    M.

    I've seen baths like this in Macs Salvage.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,008 ✭✭✭scudo2


    Sleeper12 wrote: »
    I've seen baths like this in Macs Salvage.

    Any idea of age ?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,155 ✭✭✭✭Sleeper12


    scudo2 wrote: »
    Any idea of age ?

    Sorry no idea. Macs Salvage could have just about anything of any age. Usually they'd just have regular cast iron bath & it'd be mostly farmers buying them for troughs for the animals better known a drinkers.

    I did see one like this there awhile back.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,404 ✭✭✭corkgsxr


    Nope never


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 800 ✭✭✭esox28


    scudo2 wrote: »
    Unusual old bath, timber lined.
    House is 105 years old.
    Anybody come across one before ?
    M.

    No but that's cool, love to see more pics of old plumbing.


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,102 ✭✭✭Stinicker


    I spotted this whilst on Holiday during the summer in the Philippines. Health and Safety standards are great over there by the looks of it.

    Wheras an Irish electric shower would be discreetly wired and plumbed with the connections sealed inside the waterproof shower unit over there they take a more basic approach and just wire a socket next to the shower and fit your Electric shower and then plug it into the 220v mains.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,839 ✭✭✭✭Dtp1979


    Stinicker wrote: »
    I spotted this whilst on Holiday during the summer in the Philippines. Health and Safety standards are great over there by the looks of it.

    Wheras an Irish electric shower would be discreetly wired and plumbed with the connections sealed inside the waterproof shower unit over there they take a more basic approach and just wire a socket next to the shower and fit your Electric shower and then plug it into the 220v mains.

    Dunno about safety but that's one classy lookin shower head


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,008 ✭✭✭scudo2


    The Skill's Of Master Craftsmen.

    Ivy league !!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,960 ✭✭✭jimf


    scudo2 wrote: »
    The Skill's Of Master Craftsmen.

    Ivy league !!!


    that's a def a in lego for the leaving cert :P:P


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,839 ✭✭✭✭Dtp1979


    scudo2 wrote: »
    The Skill's Of Master Craftsmen.

    Ivy league !!!

    Disgraceful. 3 elbows and no bends


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