Dodgy Plumbing Dodgy assortment to make you laugh (and cry)

Naughty stool

“Was under a house while renovating a bathroom when I found the original waste for the toilet, which was held in place with just an old wooden stool,” says Zack Stalker. Drinking from the toilet?!

“The restaurant asked why we were capping it off,” says Soren Ebbett of Peter Jackson Plumbing. “Our plumber said, ‘Because otherwise you will have toilet water in your drinking water.’”

This edition’s dodgy assortment is enough to make you cry (and laugh).

Mixing it up

Thanks to Marty Fairbairn for sending this photo in. “Who needs a mixer?” he says.

Home and hosed

“Was at this job for a leaking water main,” says Sam Hieatt. “Customer didn’t want me to replace the tap and it’s a rental house. Not sure whether I was impressed or disappointed.”

Shrinking standards

“The 100mm w/c connections that reduce to 80mm make me smile, “ says Craig Tremeer, who sent in this photo. “This one uses a bush rather than an invert.”

Creative plumbing

“Found this vented trap upside down on open vented 10 metre long 40mm PVC waste that was totally full of fat,” says Martin O’Donaghue. “Interestingly, the diaphragm hardly leaked at all even though it was under constant load. Good old Dux traps.”

As a plumbing and drainlaying trainer, Martin says what particularly interested him here is that whoever was let loose on this kitchen waste had the foresight to use the old male and female connector onto the basket waste. “This is good, although they cost more than the trap itself,” he says.

Friday night special

Another gem sent in by Craig Tremeer. “This guy used PTFE tape on one of the croxes that was leaking like a sieve. Hemp on everything else. It lasted 10 years then blew out on a Friday night. Just love having to deal with a CWE screwed straight into the cylinder.”

Let’s stick together

Geoff Aburn from Adams Plumbing in Dunedin sent in these three photos for our Dodgy Plumbing pages. “This is what happens when sparkies try to plumb… waste pipe siliconed together.”