Kitchen radiator piped up on 1/2" flexi's !

[Darren Jackson]

Went to a new customers house yesterday to service there boiler. 6 month ago they had the kitchen remodelled and the existing radiator changed to a double. The kitchen guys hung the new rad and put 2 15mm x 1/2" flexi's on it telling them it's how you do it nowadays & makes it easy to lift off and lay it down flat for decorating purposes. Just when you thought you'd heard it all. What a joke!

 

[townfanjon]

Lol. Yep I have only seen pictures,
Kitchen fitters ....... Pffttttt

 

[ShaunCorbs]

seen it too many times now to be funny

 

[Best]

Kitchen fitters are probably the worst regular plumbing bodgers.
A lot of the public are so stupid that they allow these idiots to do the plumbing.

 

[WaterTight]

telling them it's how you do it nowadays & makes it easy to lift off and lay it down flat for decorating purposes.

So don't just give them a flood risk, give them advice that encourages them to cause a flood.

 

[jtsplumbing]

So looks like I'll have to start fitting them the new way, what's the max length flexi you can use ??

 

[Scott_D]

500mm
Gets a bit expensive after that

 

[mfgs]

I saw a towel rail in a bathroom hung on a cupboard door on 1m long flexi's drilled through the connect to pipework inside the cupboard. So you could still open the door with the towel rail on it. Genius and awful at the same time.