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[magicbastarder]

one of the plumbers (the guy who specialises in shower repair) said he wouldn't replace ours, because our ould one is 8.5kW and a new one be 9kW; and the cable feeding it is almost certainly 6sqmm and the regs says 9kW showers need a 9sqmm cable.
i guess he has the luxury of turning away work.

 

[Deadmanposting]

one of the plumbers (the guy who specialises in shower repair) said he wouldn't replace ours, because our ould one is 8.5kW and a new one be 9kW; and the cable feeding it is almost certainly 6sqmm and the regs says 9kW showers need a 9sqmm cable.
i guess he has the luxury of turning away work.

If they don't want to do something, they have a stack of excuses a mile high

Also, they only want quick jobs, not tricky ones

 

[chris d]

It's annoying being a useless DIY cunt. GCSE technology did me no favours. Ive never vacuum plastic'd anything in the house.

 

[ernesto]

If they don't want to do something, they have a stack of excuses a mile high

Also, they only want quick jobs, not tricky ones

When the goings good and you've your pick of your jobs, why would you do harder work for the same money.

Serious shortage of plumbers.

 

[egg_]

We have a pretty reliable older gent doing our plumbing stuff these days. Gotta be pushing 70, seems to be doing it out a sense of not wanting to let people down rather than money

 

[ernesto]

one of the plumbers (the guy who specialises in shower repair) said he wouldn't replace ours, because our ould one is 8.5kW and a new one be 9kW; and the cable feeding it is almost certainly 6sqmm and the regs says 9kW showers need a 9sqmm cable.
i guess he has the luxury of turning away work.

Did he call out?
You could check it yourself and see what gauge cable it is.

If the shower is within 10~ metres of the circuit breaker you'd get away with a 6mm cable to a 9kw shower

Regs wouldn't allow it but it'd be safe and save you replacing the cable which could be a balls

 

[ernesto]

We have a pretty reliable older gent doing our plumbing stuff these days. Gotta be pushing 70, seems to be doing it out a sense of not wanting to let people down rather than money

Often the best lads. A sense of pride in their work.
You just leave the aul lads at their own pace and they're usually worth it

 

[ernesto]

We have a shower room that we both thought each other was leaving a wet towel on (the floor) and it turns out we had a leaky radiator valve. I went to tighten it and it just started pissing everywhere.
So I've had to drain the system, clean out the valve, apply lots of plumber tape and tighten everything back up and re-fill the system. Still leaking - parts are too old. Drain the system AGAIN, removed the part, legged it down to Screwfix and got a replacement part 5 mins before it closed.

All installed and now waiting for the system to refill so I can either cry or go have a victory beer

 

[ann post]

The water is coming from beneath the floor.

It's cans o clock here in holy fuck town.

I'll think about it tomorrow.

 

[magicbastarder]

what colour is the water? this is key.

 

[ann post]

Further investigations tomorrow

 

[ann post]

The water is fixed.

Missing a floor now though.

 

[magicbastarder]

what was it?

 

[pete]

what was it?

wet

 

[ann post]

what was it?

The hot feed back into the house split somewhere under the kitchen. 100% GAMI situation.
There is now a 2.5m ravine in the kitchen that i'll slowly turn into a floor.
Gonna let things dry for a while. The whole ground floor was up to about 4mm deep by friday night, will see what needs to come out or not then.

 

[ann post]

I'M FINE

 

[GO]

sweet hole

 

[magicbastarder]

when you said 2.5m ravine i was expecting a hole 9 foot deep. most disappointed.

 

[ernesto]

thought i ordered a great priced vice for a new workbench only to humorously find it is a 3 inch vice and i didnt read the internet page correctly.
got a good laugh anyway

 

[Cornu Ammonis]

thought i ordered a great priced vice for a new workbench only to humorously find it is a 3 inch vice and i didnt read the internet page correctly.
got a good laugh anyway





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A vice for mice.