Photo story - incredible.

[Ed Sirett]

This has to be seen, you wouldn't believe it otherwise.

'm hoping that these pics will be accepted by the Gas Installer Magazine. An IR thermometer for me if they are.

[Doctor Drivel]

Looks like grade D solder was used. Who fitted it? Illegal immigrants? Then you go and ruin it all by taking the cooker supply off the boiler supply. The boiler should have its own dedicated supply.

[Henry]

WOW! all I can bring myself to say!

Henry

[Chris Bacon]

[fred]

In article , Henry writes

Wow indeed, I love the final pic with the boiler flue just below the final destination, should have been some sort of clue that gas was available nearby.

[Eric The Viking]

I reckon Viz would run that as a photo story!

Awesome! =)

ETV

[Lobster]

Awesome! I particularly like the way the photos and piping get more and more implausible as you progress through the sequence!

David

[Dave Liquorice]

I like the air gap in the gas pipe near the base of the soil stack and down spout.

I bet your roses are loving you ATM, B-)

[Andy]

This is what I imagine passes for DIY in squatter camps like Soweto in South Africa! I'm going with the 'illegal immigrant' guess of the previous poster.

:-)

Andy.

[Doctor Drivel]

Every time I have seen stuff like that, it have been a third worlder who did it.

[Andy Hall]

I was thinking it might have been you, except that it's not plastic.

[news]

I've seen quite a few of them and the above example takes the biscuit.

[Andrew Gabriel]

Brilliant.

The boiler flue through the missing keystone of the arch amused me too. I hope the bricking in underneath is up to supporting the wall above.

Did you get any indication from the owner who did the installation?

[Doctor Drivel]

Matt, it wasn't me as I would never take a cooker supply off a boiler pipe. That is looking for trouble.

[Richard Conway]

That's all that's wrong with it then, is it?

[dennis]

Plastic would be OK. The thick yellow stuff that is. Preferably buried.

[Doctor Drivel]

Can't you figure what is wrong?

[Richard Conway]

I don't think there is anything wrong with it - although I would have used 8mm microbore to save the bother of doing all those soldered joints.

[Graeme Eldred]

In message , Ed Sirett writes

if Ed hadn't re-routed them internally.

[Roger R]

Just a general observation on pipefittings. When I've done copper piping for water I found 45 degree bends invaluable for acheiving a much neater job, yet these don't seem widely available in the usual sheds.

Had 45 degree bends been available to who ever did the work in the photos the ridiculous arrangement of the water pipes might have been tidier, and the flattened bend in the gas pipe would have been avoided - not that a neater arrangement would have this work in any way acceptable.

I've never fitted any gas supply piping and don't know what is normal practice, but is exposed external copper pipe run supported by pipe clips ok?

Roger