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Here’s a few pics of some of the horrors I occasionally come across.I appreciate folk miss things, make mistakes but som...
01/10/2025

Here’s a few pics of some of the horrors I occasionally come across.
I appreciate folk miss things, make mistakes but some of these have been getting missed for years.
First 1 is a flue that’s not sealed to the building, it was made up incorrectly and there were no securing screws and such was the angle rainwater was running in rotting the fan and casing.i replaced the flue, sealed with cement grout and did my best with the angle and cleaned the corrosion.
Next is a flue that’s the opposite, 2 or 3 tubes of silicone have been squeezed into it but none were sticking to the sandstone.
Next a boiler with split condensate nut, last guy overtightened it and tried to glue it. The condensate is corrosive and eats boilers.
Next, condensate on an oil boiler left unconnected after a service, what’s more concerning was the service had not long been done and this trap should be be cleaned every year and imo this pipe has not been connected for a couple of years at least, this particular boiler had a few faults and the previous guy had replaced a part which tells the boiler to come on as there’s a hot water demand, I was back at it again recently as there’s was no hot water, upon removing the previously fitted part I found it to be jammed with an o ring, that o ring didn’t come from the water main so I can only assume when the new part was in its bag there was an o ring in the bag and it found its way into the mechanism and was preventing it working.
Next was a gas boiler that was losing pressure due to a leak, I looked at the pipework and I think a 1st year apprentice fitted this, there is an at risk fault on this as the safety discharge is terminated into the condensate discharge which is wrong and for some reason it has not been routed through the external wall the boiler is mounted on.
Next is a radiator that was fitted to the wall with fixings you would use for picture hooks, never seen 1 fully off the wsll and on the floor before.
Last 1 is a house I was walking past, the roofer or plumber that did this must have just decided to not dress the lead around the corner.

Last month I fitted an external Worcester oil boiler with 6 year warranty to replace a very old wall mounted oil boiler....
01/10/2025

Last month I fitted an external Worcester oil boiler with 6 year warranty to replace a very old wall mounted oil boiler. I repiped the system to suit, added thermostatic valves to the existing rads and fitted 3 new rads.
I replaced an lpg boiler that had recently had a lot of repairs (not by me) but still would not work reliably, i fitted a Worcester 4000 with 10 year warranty.
I didn’t take a pic after finishing it as I was in a rush but it works now!
Then I returned to a job I have been on for a few months to fit the shower door, main part of the job was a new heating system to work with an air source heat pump, (something I’m possibly going to get into in the near future) and there was a tiny shower room off 1 of the bedrooms I fitted.
I fitted a cloakroom suite around a year ago and the customer wanted to knock a cupboard down to gain space for a shower tray.
I love the colour of tiles on this job.

Not posted since June so tonight I’m doing 2 posts, maybe 3!First 1 was a bathroom that’s been getting talked about for ...
01/10/2025

Not posted since June so tonight I’m doing 2 posts, maybe 3!
First 1 was a bathroom that’s been getting talked about for 3 years for a couple that trusted me with my first big job when I started out on my own nearly 4 years ago.
The old suite was stripped out, damaged floor lifted, joists strengthened and an alcove filled in with boxes built for shelves.
Joinery work was done by myself.
Then repiped to suit then Luke the tiler tiled the floor and walls (bar around the window as that was being replaced) then I returned to fit the copper bath, high level cistern, upcycled whb unit with petrified wood basin and shower enclosure.
What a difference and it’s 1 of the biggest transformations I have been part of.
Been doing quite a lot of boiler servicing lately but that’s not very interesting to look at.
Also changed a few boilers and I’m now a level 2 Worcester accredited installer, think I get a sticker for the van or something 😆

Had a few varied jobs the past 2 weeks, another grant boiler that was surprisingly leaking for no reason..!A friend hit ...
21/06/2025

Had a few varied jobs the past 2 weeks, another grant boiler that was surprisingly leaking for no reason..!
A friend hit a water main while digging foundations and while fixing the pipe I found a newt, and inside the grant boiler was a huge spider!
I exchanged an expansion vessel for a lively customer and she made me 1 of the best coffees I have ever had and the shortbread biscuits were equally as good.
Couple of pics of a shower I did recently and a gas boiler with a very dangerous glue.
It had never been put together properly since the day it was installed, it wasn’t sealed to the building and I could have pulled it out from outside with no effort at all.
New flue fitted, leaks fixed and it’s good for another year.

Done a lot more than this but I’ll have pics of that job next week.Swapped out a hard to use tap for a couple who’s gran...
07/06/2025

Done a lot more than this but I’ll have pics of that job next week.
Swapped out a hard to use tap for a couple who’s grandkids struggled to use it, nice 30 min job.
Also fitted a column radiator for a lady who I fitted a bathroom for last year.
Not my favourite job as they need strong fixings in the wall and need some adjusting so they don’t rattle but worth the effort.

It’s been a long time since I posted, as usual but I can be excused as I have been very busy fitting bathrooms, boilers ...
29/05/2025

It’s been a long time since I posted, as usual but I can be excused as I have been very busy fitting bathrooms, boilers and general repairs.
Done a few with LRG joinery, he can cut wetwall almost as good as his barber cuts his hair!
Recently I have been working on an air source heating install, I have repiped a 200 year old house while the renewables company fitted the unit. Quite interesting and hoping it leads to more work within the renewables industry.
Check the pics for before and after and if you need oil boiler repairs/servicing/breakdown work, bathrooms, renovations and anything in between please get in touch.
I don’t do 24hr call-out as I’m not always available but I try to help if I can.
Thanks for looking.

In my usual style and hurry to get started or finished I forgot to take an after pic of 1 boiler changeover and a before...
02/03/2025

In my usual style and hurry to get started or finished I forgot to take an after pic of 1 boiler changeover and a before pic of another boiler install install I did this week.
Both are Worcester 8000’s, I Nat gas, 1 lpg, both with 12 year warranty’s.
The lpg job was a big changeover from open vented system with 3 huge water storage tanks, shower pump to remove, boiler going in a different location so was a bit of work and a lot of climbing steps and crawling about the loft.
Had another few hours cleaning filters on a biomass system I look after, love removing the filters and seeing all the crud that they have caught.
I have recently acquired a new press tool for crimping pipe fittings, I thought soldering using a blow torch was the best way but it’s slow, messy and dangerous as you’re using a naked flame, you can burn nearby surfaces, smoke detectors go off, fire is a possibility so I’m really enjoying using this new to me tool.
Cheers for looking!

Here’s a few pics of a bath/shower room I worked on this month.I did not do the tiling or joinery work nor did I pick th...
01/02/2025

Here’s a few pics of a bath/shower room I worked on this month.
I did not do the tiling or joinery work nor did I pick the suite but I repiped the heating and hot & cold pipework throughout then altered the drains, plus measured everything 3 times to make sure everything was perfect before being tiled.
Between the 4 different trades we took a vision and idea from the customers imagination and turned it into reality.
The view from the rear of the house is also spectacular!
Serviced and repaired a few broken down oil boilers, 1 irked me as it gets serviced every year by the same company and it was a tragic bodged mess inside which reduces the lifespan of the boiler and causes me more work.
Also had the misfortune to work on a few grant oil boilers recently, they all leak and share common faults which did a market leader is terrible.
I started a job at the medical center and there was to be no hit work so I have got myself a press gun, very impressed as it’s cleaner and faster than traditional soldering but it does take away a bit of skill.
No pics of that job yet but there’s a before and after pic of a boiler I replied to suit new kitchen units.
I also have to thank Kevin Cargill for giving me a hand with the tray and Murray Ingram for giving me a lift in with the bath and shower screen. Sometimes you just can’t manage on your own.

More bathrooms!This 1 was the far side of Dundee which pain due to traffic.A lot of wet rot was found but the job was th...
08/12/2024

More bathrooms!
This 1 was the far side of Dundee which pain due to traffic.
A lot of wet rot was found but the job was through martin property care which is 1 of their specialities.
Turned out really nice and those units took a minute to fit as I had to cut plinths, side panels and the worktop and I only had 1 chance!
During the week I swapped out an old cracked oil tank and spent some time on a biomass heating system that has pipe corrosion problems, getting on top of it now with filters and weekly cleaning.
Also a word of warning!
Beware of these 2 shady characters at this time of year, known to masquerade as plumbers but this year they are bricklayers, keep your windows and doors locked and you should be oh-Kay!

Bathrooms/shower rooms and toilets has been the theme lately.Tried putting them in order of before/after.Then there’s so...
04/12/2024

Bathrooms/shower rooms and toilets has been the theme lately.
Tried putting them in order of before/after.
Then there’s some at the bottom that I did not take after pictures of!
1 lady did home baking and the scones were exceptional, hope I get another job at her house 😋.
I fitted a Japanese toilet which I hadn’t seen before, it does things you wouldn’t ever think you needed a toilet to do.
Today I swapped over an oil tank, I fully expected to be stinking of kerosene afterwards but I didn’t spill a drop which made up for last weeks job, a sooted up external oil boiler, the black dirt on the floor is from me washing the inside of the boiler out with a hose as it was so bad.
Then the week before last I changed an open vented system over to pressurised and fitted a new Worcester 8000 combi with 12 year warranty as the existing boiler was getting troublesome and unreliable.
The pic of the pipes was a challenge, I had to get a waste pipe round them somehow but I could not cut the bigger pipes as they are for an air source heating system and contain glycol, so I had to alter everything else round about them while maintaining a fall so the new drain would work, then cut and break out 5 meters of concrete 50mm x 100mm for the drain, everything had a nice coating of fine dust, my tools, van and myself.
The last pic is of some Macintosh red apples, for no reason other than they are amazing and only available this time of year.

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