Browse Forums Building Standards; Getting It Right! 1 Oct 02, 2010 9:07 am I hired a tiler to do a new bathroom 3 months ago. His brother is a licensed plumber so they did all the plumbing work & tiling & finished the whole bathroom. We only start to use the bathroom about 4 weeks ago. Recently, we just found out the water has been leaking inside the wall so we cut out the internal wall and the water was leaking from the joint where the copper pipes & nuts were attached. The plumber blamed that it was the manufacturer fault as the nut was cracked hence the leaking. The damage has affected to gyprock wall, mdf skirting and also hardwood timber floor as I have not polished the floor yet. Damage bill could go up to thousand of dollars & plumber has refused his responsibilities for poor workmanship. Should i take this matter to Fair Trading or just bad luck on my part? thanks for any advice ttn Re: Advice needed - not quality plumbing work 2Oct 02, 2010 9:53 am I believe all licenced operators are required to have insurance and must provide a warranty period for work. Regardless of manufacturer, the pipes should have been tested before walling them up for leaks and defects. Re: Advice needed - not quality plumbing work 3Oct 02, 2010 10:57 am Threaten (scratch that) ... explain to him that ... 'You'll use your own insurance, and then they'll chase him down to pay for it'.
That should make him hop, skip and jump over your hurdles. Re: Advice needed - not quality plumbing work 4Oct 02, 2010 11:00 am ttn The plumber blamed that it was the manufacturer fault as the nut was cracked hence the leaking. Should i take this matter to Fair Trading or just bad luck on my part? Nut is his problem, he supplied it. Fair Trading is the way to go. Ed "ECOECO" At 'EcoEco', we design windows, we design the best windows, we do it for you, so that when you’re happy we are happy. Tel. 1800 326 326 Re: Advice needed - not quality plumbing work 8Oct 12, 2010 3:21 pm It sounds like poor workmanship. The nut you describe should not be behind the wall. Im guessing its a compression type nut known as a kinko nut. Its not supposed to be installed behind a wall. The best advice you'd had is to allow your insurance company chase him up. Hes most likely not a licensed plumber and may not have insurance. Im a plumber and I have 10million dollars public liability insurance....he should too. Re: Advice needed - not quality plumbing work 9Oct 12, 2010 3:29 pm Plumbers are funny fellows some times. They charged our lines and there was a small leak, they blamed one of the other tradies for rupturing the main line in. Another tradie saw water dripping down a cavity onto our slab and screamed at them THERE IS YOUR FUC&*ING LEAK. What the plumber had done was screwed the shower rail into the tile then the wall, then it just (and only by 1mm) punctured the supply hose to the shower! If it had been 5mm over to any side it would have missed it. So down came the tile, cut a hole in the wall, replaced the section of hose, re-patched the wall and re-tiled it. YAY.... (insert sad face) Re: Advice needed - not quality plumbing work 10Oct 12, 2010 3:40 pm Henley's plumbers were useles... Aaron is still re-doing most of our plumbing in the house... Re: Advice needed - not quality plumbing work 12Oct 12, 2010 6:16 pm TheOK Nathan SteelFab Plumbers are funny fellows some times. don't get me started ... I used to work for a company who employs over 100 of them. Re: Advice needed - not quality plumbing work 14Dec 04, 2012 9:12 pm just Erin Henley's plumbers were useles... Aaron is still re-doing most of our plumbing in the house... cant agree more 5 years on and still having sewer issues the guy who did our house couldnt be trusted to fit a garden hose. poor gradient if any, rocks on top of pipes ( under slab) dislodges connectors pipes laid on top of rocks. used chipboard with mortar mix on top for bath support. What a moron and guess what im the one still paying for all the crap work 5 years later. Now time for the plumbing commission and VCAT. 1) I had requested R6 ceiling insualtion batts, however I noticed that on some areas there are huge gaps which will allow hot air to sweep in, and also noticed black/grey… 0 3597 I posted the floorplan on Houzz.com forum and got some really good ideas and advice from people there. Then we reached out to a couple of renovation companies and one… 5 10098 Hi All, I engaged a tradie to install concrete retaining wall 600-800mm high over 32 meters in Victoria. Sleepers are 200*75*2000 mm installed over 17 steel posts. I… 0 6917 |