People who claim to be plumbers...
and tilers...
New bath fitted and the drain is accessible from the side and there are isolating valves on the hot and cold supplies, about halfway along the bath, underneath it. So far so good. Tiler arrives to tile the walls and floor and without asking he proceeds to tile the side of the bath frame when a plastic panel was intended. Result is that the drain and isolators are no longer accessible.
There is mains cold suppply to the ktchen, but the bathroom and en-suite shower room are gravity fed. The kitchen, bathroom and en-suite are side by side so it would have been easy to tee off the mains from the kitchen to the other taps and bath and shower,, but no...
Plumber was made aware of the very poor pressure but bashed on regardless, clearly didn't bother to test the loos as both of them took 8 minutes to fill after flushing. Called back, he mused a bit and the owner said were their flow restrictors in the toilet valves...a blank look ensued from said plumber who eventually phoned the manufacturer for guidance on how to sort it!
The same plumber finished off fitting the shower and it's enclosure on a Thursday afternoon. The house was unoccupied but he left the water on after "testing"...that Thursday was the one before the September weekend, and the owner was on holiday for 4 days, Friday to Tuesday, and arrived back to find his 2 downstairs neighbours wading about in welly boots trying to get rid of the flood from above. The plumber had screwed the shower screen to the wall and pierced the cold feed with a screw. It clearly wasn't immediately obvious and was a small leak, but 4 days of leaking was the result. The owner was just about to move in to the flat and naturally he had fallen out with his neighbours big time...or they had fallen out with him!
A combination of useless plumber and stupid tiler and a costly mess had to be sorted out.
There's more to come, but I'll leave that for another thread.
and tilers...
New bath fitted and the drain is accessible from the side and there are isolating valves on the hot and cold supplies, about halfway along the bath, underneath it. So far so good. Tiler arrives to tile the walls and floor and without asking he proceeds to tile the side of the bath frame when a plastic panel was intended. Result is that the drain and isolators are no longer accessible.
There is mains cold suppply to the ktchen, but the bathroom and en-suite shower room are gravity fed. The kitchen, bathroom and en-suite are side by side so it would have been easy to tee off the mains from the kitchen to the other taps and bath and shower,, but no...
Plumber was made aware of the very poor pressure but bashed on regardless, clearly didn't bother to test the loos as both of them took 8 minutes to fill after flushing. Called back, he mused a bit and the owner said were their flow restrictors in the toilet valves...a blank look ensued from said plumber who eventually phoned the manufacturer for guidance on how to sort it!
The same plumber finished off fitting the shower and it's enclosure on a Thursday afternoon. The house was unoccupied but he left the water on after "testing"...that Thursday was the one before the September weekend, and the owner was on holiday for 4 days, Friday to Tuesday, and arrived back to find his 2 downstairs neighbours wading about in welly boots trying to get rid of the flood from above. The plumber had screwed the shower screen to the wall and pierced the cold feed with a screw. It clearly wasn't immediately obvious and was a small leak, but 4 days of leaking was the result. The owner was just about to move in to the flat and naturally he had fallen out with his neighbours big time...or they had fallen out with him!
A combination of useless plumber and stupid tiler and a costly mess had to be sorted out.
There's more to come, but I'll leave that for another thread.
