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Saturday, August 23rd, 2008DANGER OF THE WEEK AWARD Cowboy Builders We were called in to remove a redundant worktop unit and sink in a day care centre. After isolating the water we started to dismantle the entire system.
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DANGER OF THE WEEK AWARD Cowboy Builders We were called in to remove a redundant worktop unit and sink in a day care centre. After isolating the water we started to dismantle the entire system.
Poo Stew Taboo
Saturday, August 2nd, 2008DANGER OF THE WEEK AWARD Cowboy Plumbers If you look closely you'll see the top 12 inches of a waste pipe sticking out of a ceiling in a pair of toilets in a warehouse. The waste pipes empty directly into a roof space with no purpose built ventilation to remove the sewer ...
Mind The Gap!
Saturday, July 19th, 2008DANGER OF THE WEEK AWARD Cowboy Plumbers We recently moved our clients bathroom from it's existing location to another room in the house. As we pulled up the old bathroom floor to remove pipe work we found this!
Congestion Charging Manchester - Check Please!
Tuesday, July 1st, 2008Well, Reality Check please! As a small home maintenance business trying to conduct business in an age of more and more stealth taxes I am not a big supporter of grandiose plans to drive me further out of the market place. The current multi million pound propaganda drive to convince us ...
Danger of the Week Award - Cowboy Plumber
Saturday, May 3rd, 2008Another boiler installed incorrectly! I was on site to sort out an electrical problem and discovered this while hauling my tools down the side of the house. Yet another example of an unqualified plumber shoving in a boiler as quick as he can and legging it. We removed the weather ring ...
Can You Issue Me With A Safety Certificate?
Wednesday, April 30th, 2008'Can you issue me with a safety certificate' or the more common phrase 'can you commission my boiler' is the start of a conversation that in destined to go nowhere with our company. The reason is simple. If the conversation starts with either of those two phrases I know ...
Danger of the Week Award - Cowboy Gas Fitter
Saturday, April 19th, 2008Here is yet another example of the poor workmanship and unsafe situations that we see everyday! This boiler was removed to make way for a new condensing boiler. When we pulled out the old flue out what we discovered was this mess. Can you guess why this happened and ...
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