someone cocked up lol

[crow11]

my niece just moved into a flat in a converted building split into 6 flats, these where only done about 5 years ago, when she showed me this just had to laugh, double socket slap bang in the middle behind the kitchen radiator, looking at the kitchen this is the only place the rad can go, so someone cocked up on the design, then to top it off she rang me and said washing machine plug wont reach, they have put the socket in a cupboard on the other side of the sink nowhere near the opening for the washer

 

[oldtimer]

I think it reflects the level all trades are at plus 20 years ago it was a tradesman that did the job and the way he/she was trained was reflected in the job. The type of thing you describe is what used to happen in what I call a DIY Willies house that was a minority now in my view its the DIY Willies mentality that is creeping in to our environment

 

[Plonker 3]

Could have been storage heaters fitted previously? Then converted DP switches to sockets, then wet head comes along and puts up the rad.

 

[oldtimer]

Could have been storage heaters fitted previously? Then converted DP switches to sockets, then wet head comes along and puts up the rad.

Na just think the clown running the job did not have the brains to figure it out leaving the wet head having to fit his radiator

 

[ian.settle1]

Plumber will say he put his radiator in first as normal.

 

[danzor]

"Whats to point in paying an electrician to move it, you won't see it anyway'

 

[telectrix]

child safety taken to the extreme,

 

[Dizzy_Maskell]

That's new builds chuck stuff any where don't matter if its no use

 

[7029 dave]

dieversity

 

[GLENNSPARK]

Plumber will say he put his radiator in first as normal.

i guess no-one else got the joke...lol..

 

[Adam W]

i guess no-one else got the joke...lol..

I got it. :rofl:

 

[oldtimer]

i guess no-one else got the joke...lol..

Got it just didnt bite lol

 

[Adam W]

Chances are it could have been a simple oversight, easily avoided if the 'designers' had exchanged notes and realised their mistake.
Unfortunately nowadays the attitude seems to be you do what you're told or you're down the road, and unfortunately it just so happened that the drawing showed a socket behind the radiator.

 

[Andy78]

Chances are it could have been a simple oversight, easily avoided if the 'designers' had exchanged notes and realised their mistake.
Unfortunately nowadays the attitude seems to be you do what you're told or you're down the road, and unfortunately it just so happened that the drawing showed a socket behind the radiator.

Rubbish. Only an idiot would blindly follow such a ridiculous course of action, but then we are talking about plumbers here i suppose, lol.
I have had drawings with dado trunking running across doors, sockets in mid air, tray runs through solid concrete lintels etc. Have I installed any of it ? no, I spoke to the relevant person at the time to make the decision I needed to carry on.
Pure laziness, no excuses.

If your drawing showed a socket behind a rad that was already there, would you drop the rad off the wall, install the socket, and put it back again ?
Would you hell !

 

[Adam W]

Rubbish. Only an idiot would blindly follow such a ridiculous course of action, but then we are talking about plumbers here i suppose, lol.
I have had drawings with dado trunking running across doors, sockets in mid air, tray runs through solid concrete lintels etc. Have I installed any of it ? no, I spoke to the relevant person at the time to make the decision I needed to carry on.
Pure laziness, no excuses.

If your drawing showed a socket behind a rad that was already there, would you drop the rad off the wall, install the socket, and put it back again ?
Would you hell !

Maybe YOU did that, but other people wouldn't.
Of course it's common sense not to put a radiator over a socket, but that's exactly what happened here.

 

[shagbite]

Rubbish. Only an idiot would blindly follow such a ridiculous course of action, but then we are talking about plumbers here i suppose, lol.
I have had drawings with dado trunking running across doors, sockets in mid air, tray runs through solid concrete lintels etc. Have I installed any of it ? no, I spoke to the relevant person at the time to make the decision I needed to carry on.
Pure laziness, no excuses.

If your drawing showed a socket behind a rad that was already there,

would you drop the rad off the wall, install the socket, and put it back again ?

Would you hell !

no, i'd use my common sense - leave the radiator in situ, break out the sticky-back YT2 and fix a 1" pattress on the front of the rad' (with a dab of pinkgrip on the back).

 

[ipf]

no, i'd use my common sense - leave the radiator in situ, break out the sticky-back YT2 and fix a 1" pattress on the front of the rad' (with a dab of pinkgrip on the back).

Nah....drill through for back entry!!