Im no expert but clearly its a cross connected system. Going by the boards history and how things work if anything ever happens and someone became ill or died your old boss would probably tell his friends at the board that it was you who did the install and they might prosecute again. Your old boss sounds far worse than even the worst diy'er ive met. Wouldnt put it past them. Wouldnt put anything past them these days.

It is a good example of how they dont really uphold "the Act", well only when they feel like it.... if something goes wrong they will deny all accountability of knowing this problem existed just like the last time.

I left very soon after he said this. And as soon as I left I saw work supposedly signed off by me, work I hadn't done. I tried to tell the Board as soon as this happened and was fobbed off for 6 years......then when a guy nearly died in an explosion the Board went after me. Hiding evidence and telling lies.

Mate they ever think of going after me ever again, I will find it very hard to keep my calm.

Mate all I have ever wanted is to prevent people getting hurt, that's all. My emails over the last decade show this, believe me there are a lot, sent to many people.

I told the guy how f****ed up his system was, but he wasn't interested, think he said something like I don't drink the hot water. But what happens when this guy sells this house and someone moves in and starts showering their kids in this water, not knowing where the water has been for six months. It just wrong to gamble with peoples lives like this.

If there is one system like this how many others are there? He could have done dozens like this. They pontificate about looking after the safety of the public.....really??

I had some other things happening in my life during this time too, my eldest was expected and we had just bought our first house and had a big mortgage, believe me leaving Allgas and going out on my own wasn't an easy choice, then my boy had two major operations and my mother fell ill and was dumped on my doorstep by my old man. Then the chipshop went up. If they think I am going away they are thicker than I thought, what don't kill you makes you stronger. We all have snapping points mate.

I have told the owner and I have told the Board, no one gives a shit, I have told MPs and left messages at the TA.

You got to ask why this guy, who installed this system, got gifted a craftsman's licence with no apprenticeship, all the evidence at the hearing pointing to him FOR A BLOODY EXPLOSION, he actually faced a charge for the explosion....but it disappeared without any hearing or trial.......and the Board do nothing about this....I have been warning about this system for years.

Corruption at the risk to the publics safety......they got to go, it needs looking at.

Why is this guy so untouchable? Any and all who have sheltered him needs to go, we need a public enquiry.....email you local MP.

If the public knew half the Board would be gone tomorrow........exposure, is the only way, believe me I have tried everything else.

I even told the coroner, I can barely feed my own family mate let alone fix it for free, the whole place needs re-plumbing, my opinion it hould be condemned, not fit for habitation.

Letter sent to coroner and the Board below.

Coroners Carla na Nagara, Tim Scott
Covering: Hawera, Levin, Kaikoura, Marlborough, Marton, Motueka, Nelson, New Plymouth, Ohakune, Palmerston North, Taihape, Taumaranui, Wanganui, Waverley

Tel (06) 350 0083
Fax (06) 350 0084

Level 3, The Square Centre
478 Main Street
DX Box PX1000
Palmerston North

Email: csu.palmerstonnorth@justice.govt.nz

 

Dear Coroners office,

 

I am most sincerely sorry for bothering you with this, as I am sure you are all very busy and your time is of a premium. I assure you I do not do this lightly.

 

Please find attached a copy of a schematic for a badly installed central heating system. I am terrified by the risk of legionnaire’s disease. As I understand it, the legionella bug grows best at between 25 and 45 deg C and is more easily inhaled when it is present in atomised water, such as water from a domestic shower.

 

As far as I know this system shuts off the radiators with thermostatically controlled valves, off a ring main. This ring main is heated by a califont….the hot water outlets come off this ring main !!!!! with no isolation/separation of this stagnant water from the potable hot water outlets, including the shower.

 

As these TRV’s open for winter, the stagnant water (stagnating for up to 9 months) will rejoin the hot water circuit and come out of all the hot water outlets, including the shower where the water will be dispersed and potentially atomised to finer, more easily inhaled droplets. We have had a warm summer and the weather is now becoming cooler.

 

Please can you check your cases for any pneumonia outbreaks. Specifically from the Atatwhai area in Nelson, address of Matuku Pl, a man called Mr Kraak, an elderly Dutch gentleman (I did try to warn him at the beginning of the install but he didn’t want to know).

 

If you haven’t had any cases please can you note the address and be aware of such, just in case any thing of concern comes up. There is always the risk that the man responsible for installing this system, the man being protected by the Board, has installed other central heating systems in a similar manner, and a review of other pneumonia cases where this man worked might be prudent. People have a signature way of putting things together.

 

I have numerous times, over many years tried to get the Plumbers Board to look into it. They are not even the ambulance at the bottom of the cliff, more a kin to a hearse. Legionnaires’ will strike regardless of who you know at the Board.

 

You may remember the explosion in Milton Street in Nelson, the Board framed me for that. Made me the scape goat and protected the person who all the evidence pointed to, it is the same person who installed and certified this dire C/H system. It appears we have a Plumbers Board who are prepared to protect a “mate” at the risk of the public’s health and safety. Please see attached examples of correspondence, I apologise for the terse language in the latter one sent but I am very frustrated with this corrupt Plumbers Board.

 

I am happy to provide more information if required (I have a huge amount). Again, I am so sorry to bother you with this but I am at my wits end to get someone to look at this. I have copied in others for clarity and transparency for them and is no reflection on your office, I also apologise for this.

 

If the Board were to honour their responsibilities then I would not have to contact you, I assure you it is as a last ditch effort to not to have to actually call on your services.

 

I have attached a submission made by me to a Parliament Select committee for some more background. My submission is more specifically about the explosion, but it gives an idea of the level of cover up.

 

If I can clarify or answer any questions please don’t hesitate to ask, again I am sorry to bother you.

 

 

Grant this is how I saw my old boss start the system, I had nothing else to do with it, I left even before the pre pipe was any where near completed and I didn't touch it after I saw what he was up to and had made the comment about using poker face, he signed it off months after my leaving his employ.

I have tried to get it looked at for years, same as I did the dodgy certs covering dodgy work for 6 years before an explosion that these goons later framed me for.

I should clarify that this was a new build, the system was being installed as it was built.