Browse Forums Building Standards; Getting It Right! 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 5089 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 11205 It's MGP 10 which means every length has been machine graded to it's specified engineered strength. It may not look pretty and if you where hand picking your timbers you… 1 1064 |