And finally... DODGY PLUMBING
Don’t be a drip This one was sent in by Dana Bidgood. “When you don’t fix that dripping crox join for many years.”
Can’t help lazy Sent in a photo and haven’t seen it yet? Please bear with us as we work our way through all the entries!
“I was on a confined space course and on one of the muchneeded breaks, I noticed this in the men’s room,” says Certifying Drainlayer Scott Wells. “I asked the guy running the course about it and was told it was easier for him just to replace the paper every couple of days than to call a plumber. Sometimes you just can’t help lazy?”
Just for laughs A couple of photos sent in by Aaron Jamieson of BOP Plumbing of things his company has come across. “This will lighten your day,” he says.
The magazine may have a new look but some things never change!! Enjoy this edition’s sorry collection of dodgy plumbing, gas and drainage pics—and keep ’em coming!
Rotten show Thanks to Martin Reid for sending in this photo of a pan connector [check] in a somewhat sorry state.
Rats! “The landlord got us in to a leak in his basement and this is what we found,” says Blair McNab of this photo. “It’s a 40mm PVC waste pipe from the kitchen sink. The previous tenant apparently loved his roast dinners and obviously put the fat down the sink waste and caused a build-up. The rats chewed into the waste pipe and cleared the blockage for him but kept following the fat trail up the pipe—almost 1 metre chewed. You can see the claw and teeth works on the pipe. “I had only been to the landlord’s place 6 months earlier to replace a section of polybutylene pipe in the wall cavity that mice had chewed through. I think the rats and mice in Kaikorai Valley have it in for him!!!!”
Send your dodgy photos to the Ed: bsellers@masterplumbers.org.nz. The bigger the file, the larger we can show it on the page. nzplumber
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