News

I haven’t see one of these in years!

Here is a Micraven conversion which used to be used to change a direct copper cylinder into an indirect copper cylinder for use with microbore pipework. The idea behind them was to save money on...

/12 Sep 2013

Well Well Well!

Got called out recently to unblock a sewer in a back garden. I arrived to find there were several manholes in this one garden, so I started the task of lifting the covers off of...

/12 Sep 2013

Check Before We Arrive

I’ve been doing a rather large tiling job this week and its amazing, even when purchasing top of the range tiles they can still be irregular in shape and sometimes even turn up broken! So...

Hattie The Sausage Dog

Anyone who knows me knows I am a dog person. My family all have dogs (think we’re up to 6 at the moment), my two are Toby a Bichon Frise crossed with a Dachshund, and...

It all goes down the plughole

Just a little reminder to you all, if it goes down the plughole it might cause you a problem in the future! Just recently I’ve been called out to a number of blocked showers and...

There’s No Hot Water In The Gents!

I was called out last week to a pub by the train station in Oxford as there was no hot water in the gents toilets. I got my trusty screwdriver out, popped open the cover...

Wasps in the Attic

There are times as a plumber when you find something you really are not expecting. I’ve been working on a very nice en-suite in Oxford recently, I went into the attic to turn off the...

/20 May 2013

Dangerous Electrics Once Again

I had to re-route some pipe work across a downstairs bedroom ceiling the other day, so that we could get the pipe work across from wall to wall. We had to cut an access panel...

/20 May 2013