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**The wtf plumbing thread**

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 180 ✭✭oikster


    Mind your head.....................


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,677 ✭✭✭shane0007


    oikster wrote: »
    Mind your head.....................

    I bet a lot of clothes gets washed again after being dropped when unloading!


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,940 ✭✭✭jimf


    oikster wrote: »
    Mind your head.....................


    handy if u dont make the bowl in time I suppose :eek::eek:


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


    Thats mad. Id say the back of there head is square from hitting off it


  • Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 6,521 Mod ✭✭✭✭Irish Steve


    Also not too happy about the drain connection. We can't see the entire hose but given how much hose we can see, I'd have 2 concerns, the first is that there's no air break in the connection, and the second would be if it goes high enough behind the machine for it to not syphon out the contents when operating. There's also the issue of a device in close proximity to water that's may not be protected in the way I'd expect it to be from a power/earth/RCD basis.

    Shore, if it was easy, everybody would be doin it.😁



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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 987 ✭✭✭The Glass Key


    At the very least that setup needs the addition of a very strong toilet seat no matter what the plumbing or electrical issues are.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,217 ✭✭✭deandean


    Very handy setup there. Like the old shampoo ad, In one sitting you could wash. And go.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 342 ✭✭spireland32


    Nice expansion pipe :(


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


    Nice expansion pipe :(

    Wow. Thats actually a situation where you could blow a cylinder up.


    And perfect for parasitic circulation


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


    I know some of you have probably seen worse but I had to post it.

    Today I was looking at a boiler that I was told was put in less than a year ago, apart from the state of the boiler (buckled plates, melted condensate trap etc, etc) This was the oil tank!! It was against a party wall and leaning slightly in towards the garden.
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  • Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators Posts: 6,186 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wearb


    Worst tank I came across was one put up on pallets. It had been there over 10 years. Eventually the horizontal boards on top rotted completely and the full plastic oil tank sat down on the now protruding nail heads and leaked. I had mentioned it to him a year before it happened, but was told "sure its been there for years, not a bother on it"

    OH! btw that reminds me of a tip I have for this situation. If you have an oil tank leaking from the bottom, maintain a couple of inches of water in it until you can get it sorted properly. The water will go to the bottom and you will then only have water leaking out.

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



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


    Trap solutions


  • Registered Users Posts: 12,695 ✭✭✭✭Dtp1979


    Home made powerflusher. Not mine by the way!!


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,940 ✭✭✭jimf


    Dtp1979 wrote: »
    Home made powerflusher. Not mine by the way!!

    is that a scudo enterprises sticker I see in the top corner ;)


  • Registered Users Posts: 12,695 ✭✭✭✭Dtp1979


    jimf wrote: »
    is that a scudo enterprises sticker I see in the top corner ;)

    Believe it not that wheelie bin is going for nearly 500 on eBay


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 342 ✭✭spireland32


    Stupid electrician


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


    corkgsxr wrote: »
    Thread for when you find the maddest things.

    Photos please. Not a ya know what I saw years ago.

    If quoting, dont quote the pictures just the writing.

    To all nice Mods

    Can we make this a STICKY for all the regular guys that contribute so much here but do not have axcess to the RGII photo tread.
    Rather than this topic disappearing way down the list.
    Many thanks if you can.
    A few will appreciate it.



    + a thanks to corkgsrx for starting it.


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


    Lads this is how you plumb a bath.

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  • Registered Users Posts: 61 ✭✭paddy_joe


    Ha. Who does that?


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


    paddy_joe wrote: »
    Ha. Who does that?

    Donno just a house I had to find a leak


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


    scudo2 wrote: »
    To all nice Mods

    Can we make this a STICKY for all the regular guys that contribute so much here but do not have axcess to the RGII photo tread.
    Rather than this topic disappearing way down the list.
    Many thanks if you can.
    A few will appreciate it.



    + a thanks to corkgsrx for starting it.

    Well ?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,677 ✭✭✭shane0007


    Guy walked into Chadwicks yesterday looking for a replacement for these! He didn't seem to think there was a much of a problem with the boiler!

    Warmflow SE


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,940 ✭✭✭jimf


    shane0007 wrote: »
    Guy walked into Chadwicks yesterday looking for a replacement for these! He didn't seem to think there was a much of a problem with the boiler!

    Warmflow SE

    jaysus this just better by the day


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,677 ✭✭✭shane0007


    TBH I've never seen baffles as bad. Seen the warped, half melted but not every baffle absolutely disintegrated.

    For me, it had to be over-firing or a faulty boiler thermostat. He didn't seem too bothered, he had a nozzle in his hand to get a match. I asked what if the last guy put in whatever was in his box, he said that's why he came into Chadwick's. He doesn't do boilers. But great news, the counter guy was able to match the old nozzle perfectly, which was the wrong nozzle anyhow.


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,940 ✭✭✭jimf


    shane0007 wrote: »
    TBH I've never seen baffles as bad. Seen the warped, half melted but not every baffle absolutely disintegrated.

    For me, it had to be over-firing or a faulty boiler thermostat. He didn't seem too bothered, he had a nozzle in his hand to get a match. I asked what if the last guy put in whatever was in his box, he said that's why he came into Chadwick's. He doesn't do boilers. But great news, the counter guy was able to match the old nozzle perfectly, which was the wrong nozzle anyhow.

    and youd wonder where the saying bangin your head off a wall came from

    warmflow stats can be suspect for sure do you know what nozzle was fitted


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


    shane0007 wrote: »
    Guy walked into Chadwicks yesterday looking for a replacement for these! He didn't seem to think there was a much of a problem with the boiler!

    Warmflow SE
    Someday the mass will be enlightened.!
    Scudo2, Chapter 12, Verse 16


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,677 ✭✭✭shane0007


    jimf wrote: »
    and youd wonder where the saying bangin your head off a wall came from

    warmflow stats can be suspect for sure do you know what nozzle was fitted

    Nozzle was an 0.65 80S instead of a 0.65 60 ES, but that was not the issue to cause that much damage.


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


    shane0007 wrote: »
    Nozzle was an 0.65 80S instead of a 0.65 60 ES, but that was not the issue to cause that much damage.

    Thats water down the flue isnt it


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,677 ✭✭✭shane0007


    corkgsxr wrote: »
    Thats water down the flue isnt it

    No, it's not corrosion, it's melted metal.


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


    Was the boiler stat faulty / wired wrong and system was relying on the room stats or tine clock to stop?


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