Comments on: Barry The Plumber

By: Andy @ Yellow Swordfish

Andy @ Yellow Swordfish — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 14:36:35 +0000

Being honest I have done some small tasks with push-fit pipes and working as well. There is still ‘plumbing’ and ‘Plumbing’!

I don’t think the problem is with Safari – it’s basic HTML. Put in a long url and there are no spaces. HTML won’t ‘wrap’ that.

By: Malc

Malc — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 12:52:59 +0000

Just seen the mess of my last post – first one using Safari 3, seemed to lose all the layout

By: Malc

Malc — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 12:51:59 +0000

It is of course your decision, but I have rewired and replumbed my house and provided you read up and take your time, the hardest part is being on your knees !In fact you can now buy plastic push fit piping, you just cut the pipe and push fit it together.How to’shttp://www.diy.com/diy/jsp/bq/templates/content_lookup.jsp?content=/bq_advice/common/howtos/basicplumbing/&ts=1206103374264One place to buy from, if you buy the plastic pipe you must use inserts in each end to prevent it collapsing, but other just google ‘plastic push fitting’ or ‘Speedfit’http://www.screwfix.com/cats/100985/Plumbing/Push-Fit-FittingsAs an aside I have just installed Inquisitor for Safari – really good little search engine function http://www.inquisitorx.com/safari/ it might even move me from the brilliant Firefox 3Apologies for all the links

By: Andy @ Yellow Swordfish

Andy @ Yellow Swordfish — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 00:07:53 +0000

Ah… but you have never seen me wield a spanner. Thinking about that – not a lot of people have seen me wield a spanner and there’s a good reason for that!
And… if you had inherited the water and heating system that we did in this house you’d think twice about touching it I assure you. If a plumber ever did come in, take a look and groan I’d have to respond ‘yes, I know!’

By: Malc

Malc — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 23:41:30 +0000

Plumber comes from the (Greek/Latin/Whatever) Lead = Pb, and since water was once carried in lead pipes we have ‘plumber’.

Andy, you have applied your mind to create a clean, elegant web site, with far less effort you could easily become a plumber, my better half had a CORGI registered plumber round to fix her central heating boiler, after 4 attempts at fixing a 20 year old boiler he pronounced it dead, I got the fitting instructions from the maker – Glowworm in Derbyshire, and following the instructions I found that the ‘plumber’ had cut the overheat thermostat wire with clamp.(for reference it took me 5 mins to find the problem that had kept her cold for 8 weeks(DEC-FEB), because I ‘respected’ the ‘tradesman’) – NEVER AGAIN.

The man is/was a complete moron, his sole game was to extract £1600 for a new boiler, anybody that can build a website as slick as yours DOES NOT NEED A THICK PLUMBER TO FIX STUFF.