i wont have anyone in to do jobs , i figure if i mess up i know i have and can look into doing to again .
I’m with you on that one. If he’d put a bit of lube on the pipe before trying to push it in, it would have gone right home, not been left with a full 30mm further to go. I find the same mistakes with tilers who never centre things out and end up with thin bits of tile to fit which really show up if the wall’s out of bonk.Push fit connectors, horrid things...Should never have been allowed..
Here you go guys steps repaired:
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The one that really winds me up, I had left six foot of cable so it could be carefully and discreetly be buried:
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Thank you Mr Page, you are a t*ss*r.
Yes, all of the edging around the "patio" was all his own work too.
It was you that said 'id report him to trading standards and gas safe'are you sure i think not
Gas Safe Register
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) today announced that it has selected Capita as its preferred bidder to run the new registration scheme for gas installers from 1 April 2009. This will replace the scheme currently operated by CORGI.www.hse.gov.uk
The Gas Safe Register have a team of inspectors who monitor that gas work is being undertaken competently and safely. They deal with complaints and undertake risk based proactive inspections and work closely with regulators such as HSE and Local Authorities.
complaint area
he can have a complaint against his workmanship for the above is enough for the user to be checked
if hes failed badly on 22mm water what is his gas safe record like and that is the question that gas safe should be asking or checking up on or gas safe isnt fit for purpose
It was you that said 'id report him to trading standards and gas safe'
A snippet from your link
Gas Safe Register maintain the register of businesses and operatives who are competent to undertake both piped natural gas and liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) work in Great Britain, Northern Ireland, the Isle of Man and Guernsey. Under the Gas Safety (Installation and Use) Regulations 1998 for a gas engineering business to legally undertake gas work that is within the scope of the Regulations they must be on the Gas Safe Register.
No mention of plumbers or jobs not connected in any way to gas.
The mark of a good tiler is setting out.I’m with you on that one. If he’d put a bit of lube on the pipe before trying to push it in, it would have gone right home, not been left with a full 30mm further to go. I find the same mistakes with tilers who never centre things out and end up with thin bits of tile to fit which really show up if the wall’s out of bonk.
Its one of my pet hates, fixing other people's f**k ups.Its very disheartening to repair some other complete spanners work though. Much more difficult than doing the job from the start.
^^^Do it right, once, and never again.
Its one of my pet hates, fixing other people's f**k ups.
No reflection on you but my dad joked to me, when he worked for GPO training as an electrical engineer those that failed got sent to the gas boardI guess with a statement like that you will have done your gas safe exam several times then?
I worked for NWGB / BG for 42 years and served my apprenticeship with NWGB (long before BG took over) when they brought in ACOP's then ACS we used to have a 3 day refresher course before we re-took the test every 5 years, mainly because it covers quite a bit of work that we very rarely if ever came across, I never failed to pass first time it but it was a stressfull. If you did fail you could no longer do the job untill you resat it and passed, having said that I would not have paid some of our lads with washers, even though they were qualified
I have to say that we always thought the examiners were stricter with us (we did the exam at our own training centres and the examiners came in from an independent company) than the self employed lads doing it at the local collage.
Good luck reporting him to gas safe they will soon set you straight that an outside water tap isn't what they are there for
Its the same as me saying all builders, odd job men are rubbish, it depends who you get.
Be grateful if wasnt a 30k machine100 %. But what really grinds my gears is people wanting to help and making a king sized townhalls of it. A lad i worked with wanted to help me replace the bearings in my die grinder, i don't know why as it was something i could do perfectly easily on my own. He destroyed one of the bearings putting it in and then lost half the case screws .
I ended up scrapping it and buying a new one.
"Repaired"? That's the "before" photo I hope?
I'm convinced general intelligence is dropping off a cliff every generation
Perhaps for gas work. Not for an outside tapive already done it hunter27
ive also got a report on the plumber he was struck off the gas safe register when they looked into his previous work
No, one winter - it all fell off. I am pleased that I don't have to see it, but not so happy that I will have to start again. As has already been mentioned, it is much harder fixing the cockup.
Yet "A" level results are getting better and better? I am left wondering who is fooling whom? Most youngsters, with a few notable exceptions, are as thick as chocks. Everything requires explanation in triplicate. Not just the youngsters, some of the "grown ups" are dragging themselves down to amoeba level too.
Perhaps for gas work. Not for an outside tap