And don’t even get me started on plumbers
We recently moved house. The ‘new’ place was built in the early 1960s and was renovated just before we moved in; new bathroom, toilet, new fixtures and fittings. When our tenancy started I discovered that not a single waste-pipe in the house had even been finger-tightened. Water leaked into the laundry cupboard and the bathroom vanity. The water supply pipes under the house leaked. The new dishwasher hose leaked. The rubber seal built into the plug in the bathtub (a new design that is pushed down to both stop the plughole and release the water) had been stretched and so fell off every time the bath was emptied. The adjustable shower-head attachment — fitted over a vertical pole with a button to set the height — was missing its rubber gasket and so would not support the weight of the shower-head. There were so many things wrong with this supposedly new plumbing that you would have to suspect at least negligence, at the worst deliberate damage. To paraphrase the project manager in charge of the renovation, plumbers aren’t the brightest sparks and are impossible to get hold of when you need them to remedy their handiwork. Mind you, this is the same guy who uttered the immortal words, “That’s a sealed unit,” when referring to the broken shower head attachment. An old friend who’s a builder tells me this lack of attention to detail is pretty much standard for tradesmen, and when I suggested it seemed like a deliberate if misguided attempt to charge more money after being called back to fix the problem, he could only smile and nod his head. If I knew the name of the plumber I’d report this joker — but to whom? This crowd isn’t even internet-savvy enough to have added its members to the website yet.
posted by Chris Bell at 2:42 PM
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