Fornicating useless tradesmen!, AGAIN!

[difflock]

The daughter phoned me yesterday, about another  leak from the shower in her rental house.

She had had a so-called "plumber" in already, who insisted in bringing in a "specialist" leakfinder. In a terrace house where the leak was showing absolutely directly below the shower.

Twice.

But the leak was still there.

Me, a non plumber went and looked this afternoon, first a hole pure hagged in the kitchen ceiling, and the trashed plasterboard and other shite left up there on top of the nits  behind the pelmet!

Anyway a very very cursory look, and brief test with the shower rose found the source of the leak, between the shower tray and the trim at the bottom of the tiles, easy seen with even my fornicated poor middle aged eyesight, which leak clear Stixall then fixxed.

FFS!

Edited July 22, 2023 by difflock

[spuddog0507]

1 hour ago, difflock said:

The daughter phoned me yesterday, about another  leak from the shower in her rental house.

She had had a so-called "plumber" in, before who insisted in bringing in a "specialist" leakfinder.

Twice.

But the leak was still there.

Me, a non plumber went and looked this afternoon, first a hole pure hagged in the kitchen ceiling, and the trashed plasterboard and other shite left up there behind the pelmet!

Anyway a very very cursory look, and brief test with the shower rose found the source of the leak, between the shower tray and the trim at the bottom of the tiles, easy seen with even my fornicated poor middle aged eyesight, which leak clear Stixall then fixxed.

FFS!

Sounds about right for the tradesman of today, its not that long since i got a lad to look at my gas boiler, it was not swapping over from hot water to the heating ?? he just tried it and said you need a new boiler and that will be £1800 fitted and all set up,,with in an hr of him leaving i had taken the change over valve off and stripped it down and found the diaphragm had split, so ordered a new one from plumbing merchants and fitted it day after, £15 and all working again, i only know one decent plumber heating lad that i would trust out of about 12 i know and he is now semi retired but in his late 60s now,, 

[topchippyles]

23 minutes ago, spuddog0507 said:

Sounds about right for the tradesman of today, its not that long since i got a lad to look at my gas boiler, it was not swapping over from hot water to the heating ?? he just tried it and said you need a new boiler and that will be £1800 fitted and all set up,,with in an hr of him leaving i had taken the change over valve off and stripped it down and found the diaphragm had split, so ordered a new one from plumbing merchants and fitted it day after, £15 and all working again, i only know one decent plumber heating lad that i would trust out of about 12 i know and he is now semi retired but in his late 60s now,, 

Different trade to plumbers the guys who repair boilers you need a heating engineer ideally.  

[difflock]

6 hours ago, topchippyles said:

Different trade to plumbers the guys who repair boilers you need a heating engineer ideally.  

Either, but with functioning brain activated, and an interest in actually finding and fixing the problem.

This dysfunctional fornicator that calls himself a plumber had already bent the daughter over with the central heating leak, from a simple coal fired back boiler system, again in this tiny conventional terrace house, and again he had to come back a 2nd time, because "air was getting in". Not because he failed to check or add Fernox or other such treatment.

And he charged her exhorbinately.

I had forgotten that episode.

P.S.

(i)She is trying to be independant, and (ii) does not wish to get me involved, cos I aint actually a "plumber", this  because of insurance/liability reasons in a rental property. She is very particular like that, needlessly so probably.

Edited July 22, 2023 by difflock

[Mick Dempsey]

Funnily enough we have exactly the same problem.

Going to fix it this morning.

[NJA]

Wait till you get an electrical fault with a gas boiler... plumber and heating engineer washed their hands of it as 'its electrical fault need and electrician mate, we only do gas and water'.  Call electrician out, you've guessed it 'nah can't sort that mate as its in the boiler so plumber or heating engineers job'

[spudulike]

Bloody useless. That shower tray probably wasn't put in right. The plaster should have been taken back to brick, the shower tray sealed to the wall with a flexible filler and mounted on at least an inch thick supported base then the tiles put down to the tray top and sealed with silicone filler but what do I know.

This is why I rarely get a tradesman out!!

[Will C]

Same old story, the job goes wrong as soon as someone else is involved!

[Hank]

On 22/07/2023 at 06:43, difflock said:

Either, but with functioning brain activated, and an interest in actually finding and fixing the problem.

This dysfunctional fornicator that calls himself a plumber had already bent the daughter over with the central heating leak, from a simple coal fired back boiler system, again in this tiny conventional terrace house, and again he had to come back a 2nd time, because "air was getting in". Not because he failed to check or add Fernox or other such treatment.

And he charged her exhorbinately.

I had forgotten that episode.

P.S.

(i)She is trying to be independant, and (ii) does not wish to get me involved, cos I aint actually a "plumber", this  because of insurance/liability reasons in a rental property. She is very particular like that, needlessly so probably.

Does her landlord not take care of stuff like that??

[petercb]

2 hours ago, Hank said:

Does her landlord not take care of stuff like that??

As a landlord yes they should be and I certainly would resolve this. Also I would be pissed if my tenants started bringing contractors in to do work on the structure of my properties without my prior approval.