Dodgy plumbing 2-page Christmas cracker!

Decramastic disaster

A roofer recently screwed through the middle of the tiles on this decramastic tile roof, says Soren Ebbett of Peter Jackson Plumbing. “The client now has a very bad flood and a damaged roof.”

Septic shock

Greg Morrison of Whangamata Plumbing & Drainage found this bathroom mechanical vent connected to a terminal at the start of a renovation. “Think of the consequences that could happen here in the perfect storm. This is off a septic tank.”

Enjoy our two-page Christmas cracker of dodgy doings! We’ll be back with more in 2022.

Plain silly

“Found this in South Auckland while investigating HWC job,” says Rupesh Kumar of Ontrack Plumbing Repairs. “Owner was not aware of this silly piping. Still some dodgy work done by not trained or qualified people.”

‘Bit hard to start’

“Just thought I’d share these photos with you of an Escea IB850 burner,” says Rowan Small of Gasco South Island. “Calum, one of the servicing team, was called to this property in Queenstown to service the fire as it was ‘getting a bit hard to start’. The owner advised the fire had never been serviced since it was installed close to 15 years ago.

Time for replacement?

Tessa Lindsay sent in this photo of a job her husband Mike was called out to. “Customer wanting to replace hot water cylinder,” says Tessa. “This is what we found.”

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All cisterns go

“Put some aviation lights on it,” says Simon of Combined Plumbers, who sent in this doozy of a job. “Their handyman plumber said he could give them more hot water pressure!!!”

Below the mark

“I wasn’t under the house to fix this problem but there to fix a waste pipe from a basin that a vinyl layer had pulled out when he took out the vanity unit so he could lay the vinyl,” says Graeme Jobey of this handyman hash up.