Are all plumbers thick?

[Sysman]

Had a couple of teams of plumbers first thing this morning, trying to get into the upstairs flat.

"The key is next door", I say.
"But can we come in?", say the plumbers.
"Please fetch the key from next door", I repeat.

Repeat and rinse for the second team.

Who when they have finished try to get into my apartment to tell me they've done. Sigh.

This isn't the first time I've met plumbers who seem to have difficulty with simple concepts like getting into a house.

Is this why they are so expensive?

[hyperD]

Are all plumbers thick?

Yes.

It's the pre-2006 inhalation of the lead solder fumes. Gives them a brain as dysfunctional as a Huxley Associates gel-encrusted, bow-legged barrow boy.

[wim121]

The reason why isnt because they are thick.

The reason is because they are pre-occupied with various cons on the mind, as 99.99% of plumbers are lying dirty scroundrels that would pork their own grandmother after stealing off her.

[Moscow Mule]

I have had a similar experience with gormless plumbers. One thought that a waste pipe running uphill "would be alright". Lazy fecker didn't want to dig into the concrete to get the required fall.

[Troll]

What's the collective noun for a "group of plumbers" ?

[wim121]

What's the collective noun for a "group of plumbers" ?

crooks, fleecers, fraudsters, hustlers, scam artists, sharks, swindlers, leakies, or my personal favourite; Plumbums (the latin word and origin for plumbers) ...

[xoggoth]

We had a plumber/heating engineer in a few weeks back to look at a leaking flue on our CH. He was so fat he could barely get round the unit to see the probelm. Rather glad he didn't quote us. Did it myself in the end.

The flue was damaged by the last lot of plumbers who did the bathroom, not bright enough to know you should not stand on thin stainless steel ducting apparently.

PS And the last one we had charged us £400 for a £220 pump. When the other one went wrong got replacement off net put that in myself too, DIY is much cheaper and job just as good or better usually.

[wim121]

I taught myself to solder while being mucked around by a plumber for nearly a year. Turns out he was gas registered but not under his trading name which makes installations illegal.

Unfortunately, there are some jobs like gas that a DIYer cant do.


After my previous experience, when I needed to get my work signed off, I looked through the yellow pages and compared to the gas safe register, nearly all of them werent registered even though claiming they are. Looked through the council approved list, they either never came round to quote or didnt have valid gas safe certificates.

Out of hundreds of plumbers I checked, most werent legally compliant including a large local gas installer a couple of towns away that acts illegally and carries out unsafe work. Eventually found a decent plumber though, that turns up when he says he will, charges a reasonable amount instead of hundreds per hour and abides by the law.

If anyone in the north west needs a plumber by the way, feel free to shoot me a message.

[d000hg]

Unfortunately, there are some jobs like gas that a DIYer cant do. .

Well...

[OwlHoot]

Are all plumbers thick?

In my experience, the knuckle-dragging scum are living proof that evolution can go backwards as well as forwards.

I've never yet encountered a plumber who didn't (a) try and rip me off, and (b) do a bodged and incomplete job.