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Plumb For Your Life: Danger: dick head on the roof
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Plumb For Your Life. Thursday, 17 January 2013. Danger: dick head on the roof. There are few things more worrying to a gas engineer than a phone call to say that people are currently in hospital with suspected CO poisoning and that their work has been reported to the HSE (Health and Safety Executive). I know this is the case as this happened to us a few months ago. My first thought, and I suspect most people would react this way, was to think “Oh my God! What did I do wrong? As it happened I’d have...
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Plumb For Your Life: Who'd be a gas boiler engineer?
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Plumb For Your Life. Sunday, 17 March 2013. Who'd be a gas boiler engineer? This is the sorry tale of a gas engineer and his noble fight against the boiler from hell. One fine day our gallant hero received a call from a customer. His boiler had stopped working and - if we could find a minute in between saving fair maidens and slaying evil dragons - would we be able to pop out and have a look at it. A few days later this arrived and we began to remove the old heat exchanger. As usual the service manua...
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Plumb For Your Life: January 2013
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Plumb For Your Life. Thursday, 17 January 2013. Danger: dick head on the roof. There are few things more worrying to a gas engineer than a phone call to say that people are currently in hospital with suspected CO poisoning and that their work has been reported to the HSE (Health and Safety Executive). I know this is the case as this happened to us a few months ago. My first thought, and I suspect most people would react this way, was to think “Oh my God! What did I do wrong? As it happened I’d have...
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Plumb For Your Life: O'Keeffe's Working Hand Cream
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Plumb For Your Life. Sunday, 2 December 2012. O'Keeffe's Working Hand Cream. A manly pot of hand cream. Most plumbers like to talk, in fact I suspect some enjoy it more than plumbing. Yet, within in that broad, eclectic, lexicon of learned conversations, I have never come across a single one that dwelt on the wonders of moisturising cream! So it was with relief and some surprise that I discovered O’Keeffe’s Working Hand cream. Propping up the counter at our local Travis Perkins. There are few things more...
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Plumb For Your Life: February 2013
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Plumb For Your Life. Tuesday, 12 February 2013. A Good Old Moan. Get your bloody hair cut! I turned 50 last week. Few benefits accrue from such ancientness but there is one; I am now honour bound to become a grumpy old git. With that in mind let’s have a good old moan. First off, business email accounts! Even more annoying than those wankers are the prats that send me junk emails asking if I’ll like to buy their wonderful databases. Why? Woolly jumpers are very popular at the moment.". Last, and by no me...
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Plumb For Your Life: July 2012
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Plumb For Your Life. Tuesday, 31 July 2012. Money, what a drag. Last week David Gauke pronounced that it was immoral to pay tradesmen in cash. If tradesmen had their wits about them they would be scoffing at such minor sleight of hand. Instead they’d be spending everyday at hard graft within their local communities and then declaring to the tax man that all that money was actually earnt by the missus, who is currently sunning herself on a beach in Monaco and is therefore exempt from UK tax. Of course the...
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Plumb For Your Life: A Good Old Moan
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Plumb For Your Life. Tuesday, 12 February 2013. A Good Old Moan. Get your bloody hair cut! I turned 50 last week. Few benefits accrue from such ancientness but there is one; I am now honour bound to become a grumpy old git. With that in mind let’s have a good old moan. First off, business email accounts! Even more annoying than those wankers are the prats that send me junk emails asking if I’ll like to buy their wonderful databases. Why? Woolly jumpers are very popular at the moment.". Last, and by no me...
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Plumb For Your Life: March 2013
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Plumb For Your Life. Sunday, 17 March 2013. Who'd be a gas boiler engineer? This is the sorry tale of a gas engineer and his noble fight against the boiler from hell. One fine day our gallant hero received a call from a customer. His boiler had stopped working and - if we could find a minute in between saving fair maidens and slaying evil dragons - would we be able to pop out and have a look at it. A few days later this arrived and we began to remove the old heat exchanger. As usual the service manua...
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Plumb For Your Life: Ariston Boilers
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Plumb For Your Life. Thursday, 25 April 2013. Our local plumbing merchants often do breakfast mornings, an event cunningly designed to entice the innocent heating engineer into a chat with one of the many UK plumbing manufacturers. This got me thinking about why I was so conservative about the boilers we recommend and, having had my ponder, I figured that it really boiled down to the following criteria:. How easy is it going to be to sell this boiler? How reliable is this boiler going to be? As luck woul...