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**The wtf plumbing thread**

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    #362
    K.Flyer
    Registered Users 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.


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    #363
    scudo2
    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.


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    #364
    scudo2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,008 ✭✭✭scudo2


    Guess what's inside.
    Answer in second post.


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    #365
    scudo2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,008 ✭✭✭scudo2


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


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    #366
    jimf
    Registered Users Posts: 3,949 ✭✭✭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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    #367
    jacksie66
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,988 ✭✭✭jacksie66


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    #368
    jpfahy
    Registered Users Posts: 1,039 ✭✭✭jpfahy


    Some more in case you thought it was an isolated case:
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    #369
    jpfahy
    Registered Users Posts: 1,039 ✭✭✭jpfahy


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    #370
    jacksie66
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,988 ✭✭✭jacksie66


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    #371
    roy rodgers
    Registered Users Posts: 1,492 ✭✭✭roy rodgers


    jacksie66 wrote: »
    Same house

    20140929_160327.jpg

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


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    #372
    K.Flyer
    Registered Users Posts: 8,565 ✭✭✭K.Flyer


    A page of utter dire plumbing work


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    #373
    trurl
    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


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    #374
    corkgsxr
    Registered Users 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


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    #375
    Sleeper12
    Registered Users Posts: 16,878 ✭✭✭✭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.


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    #376
    corkgsxr
    Registered Users 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


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    #377
    corkgsxr
    Registered Users Posts: 3,404 ✭✭✭corkgsxr


    Got to love pub work


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    #378
    Wearb
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators Posts: 6,213 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"



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    #379
    Cerco
    Registered Users Posts: 2,032 ✭✭✭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:


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    #380
    dysfunctional
    Registered Users Posts: 13 ✭dysfunctional


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


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    #381
    Dtp1979
    Registered Users Posts: 12,727 ✭✭✭✭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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    #382
    Sleeper12
    Registered Users Posts: 16,878 ✭✭✭✭Sleeper12


    The Glass Key wrote: »
    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. :-)


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    #383
    Froststop
    Registered Users 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?


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    #384
    Dtp1979
    Registered Users Posts: 12,727 ✭✭✭✭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


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    #385
    Froststop
    Registered Users 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?


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    #386
    Dtp1979
    Registered Users Posts: 12,727 ✭✭✭✭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


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    #387
    Froststop
    Registered Users 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.


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    #388
    cruiser202006
    Registered Users 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.


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    #389
    Froststop
    Registered Users Posts: 445 ✭✭Froststop


    cruiser202006 wrote: »
    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".


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    #390
    scudo2
    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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    #391
    Dtp1979
    Registered Users Posts: 12,727 ✭✭✭✭Dtp1979


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

    Never with timber like that


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