You don’t realize how much you rely on hot water until you have a luke warm shower on a cold winters day. No one likes to wake up on a cold morning to find there is no hot water!If...
It had to have been a male that named plumbing fittings because men are visual and women are…thoughtful.
When I started my apprenticeship, one of the first things my dad taught me was if I thought about sex, I would...
On Monday, dad and I fixed a leak under a sink in a house at Shailer Park. Unfortunately the client had got a water filter tap installed into her kitchen sink and the tradesman who connected the tap didn’t...
I hosted a baby shower for my best friend on Saturday and her and her mum told me a funny story. I had to share it with you!
We’ll call my best friend Kate and her mum Jane. Jane and...
I love asking nitty gritty questions about jobs that have ‘out there’ roles. Every person that I ask about their job involving something embarrassing or gross say ‘it’s part of the job and after a while you don’t think...
The push up plug and wastes (aka pop up wastes) are a popular style for basins. But one common problem is the plug can get stuck when pushed down. So what do you do when a push up plug...
One of the questions I get asked often is "When do you replace tap washers?"
The reason I get asked this question a lot, when attending maintenance jobs, is to prevent the inconvenience of having no water flow through your...
Plumbing solutions to problems can often be diagnosed over the phone when speaking to a client, but it always pays to have a look at the problem to ensure no other underlying issues could be causing the problem.
In this...
Today dad and I installed an overflow relief gully (ORG) to a house that had one installed in the wrong place.
What is an Overflow Relief Gully?
It's a drain like fitting with a grate on top and has a bend...
It’s happened to me before. You turn on a tap (often for some reason it ends up being your hot water tap) and you keep turning and turning and it WON’T TURN OFF! You panic because you have a...
