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Smoko => Rant or Rave => In the Media / News => Topic started by: Plumber on September 26, 2014, 01:34:25 PM

Title: HWC blew up :/
Post by: Plumber on September 26, 2014, 01:34:25 PM: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11331497

I'm amazed people still make that mistake.
Title: Re: HWC blew up :/
Post by: robbo on September 26, 2014, 04:41:02 PM: hi guys/plumber it's hard to know exactly how he installed it,cheers
Title: Re: HWC blew up :/
Post by: Plumber on September 26, 2014, 07:28:38 PM: Would love to hear the plumbers version of the story.
Title: Re: HWC blew up :/
Post by: integrated on September 26, 2014, 08:08:35 PM: Quote
The jobs included installing a tempering valve onto the open vent line of a hot water cylinder connected to a wetback.

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The 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?
Title: Re: HWC blew up :/
Post by: integrated on September 26, 2014, 08:09:49 PM: The TV into the open vent of a wetback HWC is pretty bad but...
Title: Re: HWC blew up :/
Post by: robbo on September 27, 2014, 01:10:14 PM: 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
Title: Re: HWC blew up :/
Post by: Enn on September 28, 2014, 12:24:32 PM: 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...
Title: Re: HWC blew up :/
Post by: aboutgas on September 29, 2014, 03:35:27 PM: Hi All

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

I have checked and his farther comes up but not Michael
Title: Re: HWC blew up :/
Post by: integrated on September 29, 2014, 09:20:48 PM: If he was/is only on exemption then they no longer show on the public register?
Title: Re: HWC blew up :/
Post by: robbo on September 29, 2014, 10:28:49 PM: 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
Title: Re: HWC blew up :/
Post by: integrated on September 30, 2014, 10:14:29 PM: 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?!?