28/03/2025
Emergency Callouts keeping us busy... ordinarily no need to post however this one really takes the biscuit.
I'm called at 10pm to a heavy leak of a 4th floor appartment... floor is soaked and likely the ceiling of the appartment below. What's the issue?
Customer recently had their kitchen tap replaced due to a leaky faucet...
The tradesman (term used lightly) who did the install decided it was a good move to plumb the new tap in on a copper line using a speedfit coupler, then to use another small length of copper to attach a brass compression stop then connect the tap flexi... absolutely needless but worse when they didn't even bother to deburr the copper, splitting the speedfit rubber washers... and then use the soft brass thread to fit the compression destroying the thread... (also didn't bother to apply any PTFE or thread joint compound)
Result... 100s if not 1000s of Β£ in damage to the 2 apparments. All to save 5 minutes with a speedfit coupler instead of installing correctly a compression isolator... on what was only ever a 30minute job in the first place. Idiot.
Attention do detail... because not everyone just wants ok... some want it done right!
(Note.... We are also not responsible for the rest of the plumbing monstrosity in the pictures, only the nice new correct safe and neat new install)