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**The wtf plumbing thread**

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    #242
    roy rodgers
    Registered Users Posts: 1,492 ✭✭✭roy rodgers


    Just hope she does nt over flow any time soon.


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    #243
    Dtp1979
    Registered Users Posts: 12,731 ✭✭✭✭Dtp1979


    roy rodgers wrote: »
    Just hope she does nt over flow any time soon.

    I'd be more worried about the compression nut and ring on a plastic toilet cistern ballcock in an attic! :)


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    #244
    corkgsxr
    Registered Users Posts: 3,404 ✭✭✭corkgsxr


    Dtp1979 wrote: »
    I'd be more worried about the compression nut and ring on a plastic toilet cistern ballcock in an attic! :)

    Id be more worried about that they used the worst designed ballcock out there. They snap off at the adjuster very often. I hate when I see them


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    #245
    Dtp1979
    Registered Users Posts: 12,731 ✭✭✭✭Dtp1979


    corkgsxr wrote: »
    Id be more worried about that they used the worst designed ballcock out there. They snap off at the adjuster very often. I hate when I see them

    I also hate that overflow pipe. It's not capable of taking the mains on if it's a strong mains. I nearly always use 1" pipe


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    #246
    K.Flyer
    Registered Users Posts: 8,565 ✭✭✭K.Flyer


    Dtp1979 wrote: »
    I also hate that overflow pipe. It's not capable of taking the mains on if it's a strong mains. I nearly always use 1" pipe

    And there is no support plate used to stop the side wall of the tank flexing as the ball rises, in turn putting more strain on the pipe connection.... amateur hour that one.


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    #247
    jca
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,585 ✭✭✭jca


    Wearb wrote: »
    I know a man that used to work with a tarmacadam layer. Used to get a watering can and almost fill it with water and then a little milk; told the customer it was special everlasting weed-killer and to keep cats and dogs in for 10 hours :rolleyes:

    Another one they used was Andrews Liver Salts with dire warnings to keep children and pets indoors for "at least 4 hours" :D


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    #248
    scudo2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,008 ✭✭✭scudo2


    Eh GUYS.
    Focus in, or magnefy on the overflow.
    There's two !!


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    #249
    gifted
    Registered Users Posts: 4,856 ✭✭✭gifted


    scudo2 wrote: »
    Eh GUYS.
    Focus in, or magnefy on the overflow.
    There's two !!

    Good man Mick :cool:


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    #250
    corkgsxr
    Registered Users Posts: 3,404 ✭✭✭corkgsxr


    Fan stopped in a riello. Polish fella who rents it got his friend to look at it. Declared it fecked.

    New pump and away it went. And a new nossle.

    It dont look that bad all dried out but it looked like someone used hock white putting on the nossle. Nothing would go through it


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    #251
    jca
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,585 ✭✭✭jca


    corkgsxr wrote: »
    Fan stopped in a riello. Polish fella who rents it got his friend to look at it. Declared it fecked.

    New pump and away it went. And a new nossle.

    It dont look that bad all dried out but it looked like someone used hock white putting on the nossle. Nothing would go through it

    I'll probably get a smart answer but what do the letters EH mean? I understand the degrees are for different fuels and different spray patterns. Which degree/letter combination are correct for a bog standard heatpac 90 with a Riello burner using Kerosene.


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    #252
    JohnnieK
    Registered Users Posts: 2,526 ✭✭✭JohnnieK


    jca wrote: »
    I'll probably get a smart answer but what do the letters EH mean? I understand the degrees are for different fuels and different spray patterns. Which degree/letter combination are correct for a bog standard heatpac 90 with a Riello burner using Kerosene.

    EH means extra hollow.
    Assuming its a 70/90 your talking about it would have a nozzle 0.60, 80o, ES (extra solid).


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    #253
    jca
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,585 ✭✭✭jca


    JohnnieK wrote: »
    EH means extra hollow.
    Assuming its a 70/90 your talking about it would have a nozzle 0.60, 80o, ES (extra solid).

    Yep it's a 70/90. Thanks for that. Now if it would only stop raining........


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    #254
    spireland32
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    Facepalm... How people get away with doing work like this is beyond me


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    #255
    shane 007
    Closed Accounts Posts: 914 ✭✭✭shane 007


    spireland32 wrote: »
    Facepalm... How people get away with doing work like this is beyond me

    Lol, it wouldn't have taken a lot to break a couple of tiles. Not exactly an odd colour. Even then, I always suggest to break all perimeter tiles & lay a contrast colour as a border so it looks as if it should be there.


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    #256
    spireland32
    Closed Accounts Posts: 342 ✭✭spireland32


    shane 007 wrote: »
    Lol, it wouldn't have taken a lot to break a couple of tiles. Not exactly an odd colour. Even then, I always suggest to break all perimeter tiles & lay a contrast colour as a border so it looks as if it should be there.

    Stelrad do a rad with a towel rack/rail on it.
    Repipe from the bedroom on the other side.

    Anything but what they did


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    #257
    corkgsxr
    Registered Users Posts: 3,404 ✭✭✭corkgsxr


    spireland32 wrote: »
    Facepalm... How people get away with doing work like this is beyond me

    I just wouldn't. Has to be some other solution


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    #258
    jimf
    Registered Users Posts: 3,951 ✭✭✭jimf


    spireland32 wrote: »
    Facepalm... How people get away with doing work like this is beyond me

    oh sweet jesus even I would be ashamed to leave this behind me and at best id describe myself as a farmyard plumber


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    #259
    wing52
    Registered Users Posts: 277 ✭✭wing52


    I cant believe it's not tec-tite :pac::pac::pac::pac:


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    #260
    Guy:Incognito
    Registered Users Posts: 38,247 ✭✭✭✭Guy:Incognito


    How does the water stay in the toilet?














    :P


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    #261
    Sleeper12
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    Call out for a shower repair today. Can anyone guess why they didn't call the gut that installed the shower?


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    #262
    Egass13
    Registered Users Posts: 1,056 ✭✭✭Egass13


    Sleeper12 wrote: »
    Call out for a shower repair today. Can anyone guess why they didn't call the gut that installed the shower?

    Tasty


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    #263
    shane 007
    Closed Accounts Posts: 914 ✭✭✭shane 007


    Sleeper12 wrote: »
    Call out for a shower repair today. Can anyone guess why they didn't call the gut that installed the shower?

    They missed a bit...


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    #264
    corkgsxr
    Registered Users Posts: 3,404 ✭✭✭corkgsxr


    shane 007 wrote: »
    They missed a bit...

    They ran out after 2 tubes of white


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    #265
    spireland32
    Closed Accounts Posts: 342 ✭✭spireland32


    Dont lean back


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    #266
    gifted
    Registered Users Posts: 4,856 ✭✭✭gifted


    spireland32 wrote: »
    Dont lean back

    That's just awful, just awful...should be arrested for that :mad:


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    #267
    scudo2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,008 ✭✭✭scudo2


    I wish people will stop taking photos in my seven bathroom house.
    Blame the tiler pz.




    17 photos is enough.


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    #268
    K.Flyer
    Registered Users Posts: 8,565 ✭✭✭K.Flyer


    spireland32 wrote: »
    Dont lean back

    That's the continental style...

    They couldn't give one...


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    #269
    Cerco
    Registered Users Posts: 2,033 ✭✭✭Cerco


    spireland32 wrote: »
    Dont lean back

    Great idea! Now you clean the back of the cistern. Store newspapers behind. Great used of wasted space.


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    #270
    demanufactured
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,756 ✭✭✭demanufactured


    Lol my cistern is like that...
    Installed it myself..I'm not a plumber.

    The waste pipe goes down through a concrete floor so the toilet had to Go where I out it...I keep meanin to build in some sort of box behind it.


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    #271
    jack of all
    Registered Users Posts: 2,364 ✭✭✭jack of all


    spireland32 wrote: »
    Dont lean back


    I presume that situation arose because an older wash down pan was replaced with a close couple pan and the waste pipe is further out from the wall? I'm no plumber either, just curious.....


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