NZ Plumber October-November 2023

This edition’s epic fails!

High and dry

“I bet it took an architect to design where this downpipe had to go?” says Steve Purcell of Purcells Plumbing, who took this photo at Katikati’s council building. “Thats right, at the high point....”

Seal of approval?

Thanks to Shaun from Bell Plumbing for sending this one in. “I recently found this masterpiece, created with silicone to try and stop water tracking to the front of the bench from a leaking sink mixer cartridge,” he says.

Cap that

“Here’s one you don’t see very often,” says David Whitfield of Morrinsville Plumbing & Gas Services. “A customer’s low pressure hot water cylinder vent broke, so he climbed on the roof and capped it off. A few days later the cylinder split due to over pressure. He was lucky—it could have been worse.”

Thanks to Soren Ebbett of Peter Jackson Plumbing for sending in this photo of an unsafe, unserviceable HWC with plastic piping.