Immersion heater element replacement.

[wsoppitt]

Evening guys and girls, just a quick question. When asked to look at a faulty immersion heater , do you suggest a plumber ( likely to be faulty element) or do you take a look, test then advise that they need a plumber when it is a faulty element and charge a call out for testing or do you take on the plumbing aspect of the job and change the element yourself. The reason I ask is that I have been asked to look at an immersion heater that has stopped working, likely to need replacement element, dont want to suggest a plumber incase it's not, also wouldn't want to charge incase it is. What are your views.

 

[telectrix]

our local waste site is privately run. always enough staff on site, and helpful. 75% of whatever is tipped gets recycled. I am allowed to take most waste in my van averaging once a month (ANPR on site).

 

[GBDamo]

If council staff are lying in wait outside scrap yards then this needs publicising.

These staff, and the fines associated, have been empowered to reduce fly tipping.

Typical State mission creep:-

1, Enact law to deal with a highly publicised problem.
2, Word the law in such a woolly way that it applies to previously innocent parties.
3, Ignore the original targets of the legislation, too much like hard work.
4, Go after previously law abiding easy targets.

It's worth keeping an eye out for this as it's happening more and more.

Another example of the above is school children and holidays:-

Law intended to tackle degenerate and neglectful parents allowing their kids to truant and run feral.

Results in fines for good working families who take their kids on a term time holiday to try to save a few bob.

 

[Midwest]

Like or not they do. Another member related such a story, @SparkyChick, I think it was. Then there was that incident recently where environmental agency gave a builder a fpn for carrying sandwich wrappers in a waste bag in his van!!

I got myself a lower tier waste licence (free), which allows me to carry waste generated by myself, but soon as you start collecting scrap cable etc to take to the scrappy, its the upper tier (£229 +VAT). The definition, is it someone else's waste, you need a licence.

Not stopped me from being naughty boy, but something you might wish to be aware of.

 

[GBDamo]

Like or not they do. Another member related such a story, @SparkyChick, I think it was. Then there was that incident recently where environmental agency gave a builder a fpn for carrying sandwich wrappers in a waste bag in his van!!

I got myself a lower tier waste licence (free), which allows me to carry waste generated by myself, but soon as you start collecting scrap cable etc to take to the scrappy, its the upper tier (£229 +VAT). The definition, is it someone else's waste, you need a licence.

Not stopped me from being naughty boy, but something you might wish to be aware of.

Its disgraceful though, we know the types they should be going after but there's little or no chance of catching them or recovering fines.

Instead they encumber small traders with more layers of red tape to deal with.

The new 'crime' becomes not complying with the red tape and not actually fly tipping.

This kind of thing boils my pi55

 

[Midwest]

All the waste I generate on jobs, has to be disposed of by the customer, either skip bag or skip, or their own (environmentally ecologically safe ) disposal system. Its in the T&C's of my quotation.

Dunno what happens to all the old copper stuff

 

[sparksfly]

Isn't it my waste, which was not detailed in the quote for removal, given permission by customer that I can take any left over cable, metal items...now my property ?

 

[Midwest]

I could post various links on this subject, but it would be a tad boring. Have a peruse yourself. Basically, its keep your ---- to yourself

 

[Bellendian]

The real problem is that once you have your waste carriers license, you have now saddled yourself with another level of beurocracy...all waste transported needs to be accompanied by a duty of care/waste transfer note, detailing type and source of waste, tipping site etc.
Gets complicated for those who take small amounts of scrap home and accumulate in a bin for the annual Christmas weigh in! All records need to be kept for 5years blah blah....just a nightmare!
And all the while hedges and alleyways continue to be filled with the usual crap thats expensive to dispose of...not often you see a pile of copper dumped in a field!

 

[GBDamo]

The real problem is that once you have your waste carriers license, you have now saddled yourself with another level of beurocracy...all waste transported needs to be accompanied by a duty of care/waste transfer note, detailing type and source of waste, tipping site etc.
Gets complicated for those who take small amounts of scrap home and accumulate in a bin for the annual Christmas weigh in! All records need to be kept for 5years blah blah....just a nightmare!
And all the while hedges and alleyways continue to be filled with the usual crap thats expensive to dispose of...not often you see a pile of copper dumped in a field!

Exactly, original problem remains unsolved but more positions for council job squatters.

 

[Midwest]

The real problem is that once you have your waste carriers license, you have now saddled yourself with another level of beurocracy...all waste transported needs to be accompanied by a duty of care/waste transfer note, detailing type and source of waste, tipping site etc.

I'm guessing they might let me off, with my lower tier licence and waste bag of crisp packets etc, whereas those without will get £60 ticket

 

[mattg4321]

They can do one if they think I'll be getting a license. If asked anything I have in my van won't be waste. Cardboard will be reused at home for gardening, old light fittings will be plant pots etc. I'm also someone who likes to reuse crisp packets for storing things in How can anything possibly be waste if I'm going to use it! Theres a fine line between a bag of rubble and a bag of ballast. I might need that bag of rubble to build the levels up in my garden for a shed base.

 

[Midwest]

They can do one if they think I'll be getting a license. If asked anything I have in my van won't be waste. Cardboard will be reused at home for gardening, old light fittings will be plant pots etc. I'm also someone who likes to reuse crisp packets for storing things in How can anything possibly be waste if I'm going to use it! Theres a fine line between a bag of rubble and a bag of ballast. I might need that bag of rubble to build the levels up in my garden for a shed base.

Have a read of this link then, and tell me what you think. I think its nonsense, but it appears some bodies have a different view.

Decide if a material is waste or not: general guide (updated version of part 2 of original full document) - https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/legal-definition-of-waste-guidance/decide-if-a-material-is-waste-or-not#identify-when-waste-rules-apply

 

[mattg4321]

In the unlikely event I get pulled over by one of these Nazis they better be ready for me to argue that I will be using anything in my van! They can't change the definition of a word to suit themselves.

 

[buzzlightyear]

I have only been away for one night , read this post is gone from at replacement element to shifting s88t ,next you will start saying what marigold gloves you put one ,I like the pink ones goes with my eyes .

 

[Midwest]

I have only been away for one night , read this post is gone from at replacement element to shifting s88t ,next you will start saying what marigold gloves you put one ,I like the pink ones goes with my eyes .

P off buz. Remember you are only on day release.