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HWC blew up :/
« 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.

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Re: HWC blew up :/
« Reply #1 on: September 26, 2014, 04:41:02 PM »
hi guys/plumber it's hard to know exactly how he installed it,cheers

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Re: HWC blew up :/
« Reply #2 on: September 26, 2014, 07:28:38 PM »
Would love to hear the plumbers version of the story.

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Re: HWC blew up :/
« Reply #3 on: September 26, 2014, 08:08:35 PM »
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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?

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Re: HWC blew up :/
« Reply #4 on: September 26, 2014, 08:09:49 PM »
The TV into the open vent of a wetback HWC is pretty bad but...

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Re: HWC blew up :/
« Reply #5 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

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Re: HWC blew up :/
« Reply #6 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...
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Re: HWC blew up :/
« Reply #7 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
Unless the moral improves the floggings will continue

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Re: HWC blew up :/
« Reply #8 on: September 29, 2014, 09:20:48 PM »
If he was/is only on exemption then they no longer show on the public register?

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Re: HWC blew up :/
« Reply #9 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

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« Reply #10 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?!?


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