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HWC blew up :/

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http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11331497

I'm amazed people still make that mistake.

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robbo

hi guys/plumber it's hard to know exactly how he installed it,cheers

Plumber

Would love to hear the plumbers version of the story.

integrated

QuoteThe jobs included installing a tempering valve onto the open vent line of a hot water cylinder connected to a wetback.


QuoteThe Plumbers, Gasfitters and Drainlayers Board said Guy had failed to have his supervisor check his work at two Westport homes where he worked on hot water cylinders.


I thought it was the supervisors job to check up on things and the supervisors that were responsible for said work? Was this not proven in another case by a member recently who employed a certifying plumber but got done (fined?) for his employed workers sub-standard work?

integrated

The TV into the open vent of a wetback HWC is pretty bad but...

robbo

hi guys, yeah he obviously cut straight into the vent and then what? where did the cold go? love to see a diagram of the pipework, can,t actually see how he got it wrong, cheers

Enn

As i understand it the cylinder imploded - vacume  not exploded, nothing in the local news except that.
4.5k fine and it was not a local plumber but a chap from welly...
''Never have so many been fooled by so few''
Plumbing is not a career it is a disease....

aboutgas

Hi All

Can anybody find this Michael Guy on the public register??

I have checked and his farther comes up but not Michael
Unless the moral improves the floggings will continue

integrated

If he was/is only on exemption then they no longer show on the public register?

robbo

hi guys, exemption under supervision eh! always knew that was only an excuse to employ cheap labour, probably initiated by m.ps because of the falling number of registered guys, cheers

integrated

Yes Robbo the MP's are good at rorting that loophole!!

Would be interesting to know if the supervisor was a member and perhaps the reason why the young fella was the patsy?!?

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