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**The wtf plumbing thread**

  • 22-11-2013 03:22PM
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,404
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    Thread for when you find the maddest things.

    Photos please. Not a ya know what I saw years ago.

    If quoting, dont quote the pictures just the writing.
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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,404 corkgsxr
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    I'll start it off with this one


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 338 Crazy Eye
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    corkgsxr wrote: »
    Thread for when you find the maddest things.

    Photos please. Not a ya know what I saw years ago.

    If quoting, dont quote the pictures just the writing.

    some fine plumbing in county cork



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 744 dpofloinn
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    Who would have guessed that you could use a McDonalds cheese burger as a float


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 61 paddy_joe
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    Who plumbs a pump in like that?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,404 corkgsxr
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    Short extensions not problem


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,921 Dtp1979
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    paddy_joe wrote: »
    Who plumbs a pump in like that?

    Farmers!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1 clocker13


    ...New way to arrange baffles !!! Customer complained of a lot of black smoke coming out of the boiler!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,005 jimf
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    at least there was a few baffles in it


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 987 The Glass Key
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    I can't get a good picture of this so a description will have to do.

    Under our bath I found a strange pipe that did nothing, might have been for a wash basin at some stage any way the end that wasn't connected terminated in a 1/2'compression fitting with a piece of wood hammered in the end to block the flow. The compression fitting was attached to about 6 inches of copper pipe which was sweated on to 1/2' alkathene, about 3 foot down from the end was what I can only guess was a "repair " consisting of another 6 inches of copper with a compression fitting in the middle and jubilee clips on the alkathene pipe, back at the mains end the alkathene was again sweated over the copper. Somewhere in that lot there is also a genuine Philmatic alkathene connection but as its under the back of the bath I can't get to it to see exactly. All that in about 7ft of pipe?

    Interesting point here is that the cottage had a water supply off the mains with a pressure of up to 160psi until a pressure reducing valve was put in - we are at the bottom of hill and the mains has to go up to houses a few hundred feet above us.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 987 The Glass Key
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    corkgsxr wrote: »
    Short extensions not problem

    I might start a storm here but can anyone explain what the ptfe tape is supposed to do on the thread side of the olive?

    I see it on work that's been done by professional plumbers and can't understand what the advantage is, its a compression fitting and nothing should be getting as far as the threads in the first place? A turn of ptfe on the joint side of the olive maybe.


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  • Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators Posts: 6,516 Wearb
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    I might start a storm here but can anyone explain what the ptfe tape is supposed to do on the thread side of the olive?

    I see it on work that's been done by professional plumbers and can't understand what the advantage is, its a compression fitting and nothing should be getting as far as the threads in the first place? A turn of ptfe on the joint side of the olive maybe.

    PTFE has some very strange properties, besides its obvious use in plumbing. I think it is also has the ability to reduce friction.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 987 The Glass Key
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    Wearb wrote: »
    PTFE has some very strange properties, besides its obvious use in plumbing. I think it is also has the ability to reduce friction.

    But can that also lead to poorly made joints due to over tightening?


  • Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators Posts: 6,516 Wearb
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    But can that also lead to poorly made joints due to over tightening?

    Anyone who would use it on those treads could be capable of doing anything.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,921 Dtp1979
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    I might start a storm here but can anyone explain what the ptfe tape is supposed to do on the thread side of the olive?

    I see it on work that's been done by professional plumbers and can't understand what the advantage is, its a compression fitting and nothing should be getting as far as the threads in the first place? A turn of ptfe on the joint side of the olive maybe.

    Anytime, and I mean anytime, I see PTFE used as you describe, I know the person who did the work had absolutely no clue about plumbing. Was probably the local postman who got his hands on a box of spanners, vice grips, and a hacksaw


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,565 K.Flyer
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    So I got this call about the "Boiler" making funny noises!!



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  • Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators Posts: 6,516 Wearb
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    K.Flyer wrote: »
    So I got this call about the "Boiler" making funny noises!!

    I don't get it........what was wrong :):):):):)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 757 MiniGolf
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    K.Flyer wrote: »
    So I got this call about the "Boiler" making funny noises!!

    The pex off the cylinder was the least of their problems!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,404 corkgsxr
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    Sometimes wouldn't ya be half afraid to try unscrew a emersion


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,565 K.Flyer
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    A coupla' 45s did the trick !!!

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,339 deandean
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    Nice neat run of the supply cable to the shower, you'd hardly notice it in the corner :eek:
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  • Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators Posts: 6,516 Wearb
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    deandean wrote: »
    Nice neat run of the supply cable to the shower, you'd hardly notice it in the corner :eek:

    Plumbing is every bit as bad.:eek:


  • Moderators, Regional Midwest Moderators Posts: 11,282 MarkR
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    deandean wrote: »
    Nice neat run of the supply cable to the shower, you'd hardly notice it in the corner :eek:

    Looks like some smoke damage in there. Bad wiring maybe? :eek:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,842 Billy Bunting
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    Must be some ol Minger to have a shower Loofah as black as that, great advert for LinX.


  • Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators Posts: 6,516 Wearb
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    Must be some ol Minger to have a shower Loofah as black as that, great advert for LinX.

    Place belongs to a chimney sweep :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,404 corkgsxr
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    Multiwick madness and joints don't seal first day? No problem denso and paint


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 478 rightjob!
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    corkgsxr wrote: »
    Multiwick madness and joints don't seal first day? No problem denso and paint

    haha that last one dear lord!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,404 corkgsxr
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    rightjob! wrote: »
    haha that last one dear lord!

    I think its funny they started with a offset. With that many multi's its as flexible as a flexy multi


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,677 shane0007
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    There could be a lesson here for all the students who are going out into the big bad world of rental accommodation.....


  • Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators Posts: 6,516 Wearb
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    Another one for the students.......


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,404 corkgsxr
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    shane0007 wrote: »
    There could be a lesson here for all the students who are going out into the big bad world of rental accommodation.....

    I spend alot of time in student houses. Some are lovely most arent. Entertaining anyway


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