bathroom refit-is my whole pipework guaranteed?

jblack_2

joeshmo wrote: »

my dad knows a few people in the business-ill see if i can get a pressure test or something so i can get an independent viewpoint after the work is completed.

Once the work is done you won't need to pressure test it. If there's water in the pipes this will test it itself.

I can appreciate what you are saying about not having a good relationship with the fitter. I have been in the same situation (as a fitter myself). I'd had enough after 2 days of the customer watching my every move and questioning everything I was doing!!! He even moved a dining room chair in to the bathroom and sat and watched!!!!

I just calmly packed my tools away and told him there would be a bill in the post for the work already done and left. He was without a bathroom but I still got my 2 days pay from him.

J

jblack_2

EliteHeat wrote: »

No offence, but you sound like an absolute nightmare. Are you entirely compos mentis?

:rotfl: :rotfl:

joeshmo

its a shame they dont have an opposite of thank button cos 'elite' you'd get one. though your idea of supplying him with tea and biscuits was very useful (i came for advice not questionning of my mental health so please forgive me if i do take offence)

jblack, im not a pushy customer , ive left him alone to get on with it. ive questioned 2 things which he wasnt happy with saying the 2nd time he wasnt going to remove a tile to alter something which was wrong as id made clear how i wanted something right from the start though he offered an alternative which i agreed to. jblack, if i go by just water in the pipes, will i be able to tell if there's a slow leak under the floor. i thought a pressure test might exaccerbate a leak so youd be able to tell if theres a leak

27col

You are quite obviously not going to be happy what ever this plumber does. So you might as well drop him off the job or let him get on with it.
I don't think that I would fancy doing any work for you.
No plumber is going to deliberately leave a leak. It is too easy to discover, and also to pin down who's fault it was. As someone has already stated, you test a system by filling it with water. You also do the test before there is any serious making good, so as to have access to any possible leak.