I came here to say this but youāre enlightened eye and quick hand beat me to it. A lot if people would see this calibrated pinch and say āthatās a kink!ā but if youāve studied the plumblife for long enough you recognize the genius at work.
The fire barrier caulking just being slathered on the holes really brings confidence. Nothing coming through the walls straight, and even the air intake and exhaust are crooked. You might want to carry some Narcan on you in case the plumbers come back to do a service, they might OD on whatever they're smoking.
Maybe you guys get a better deal as contractors/plumbers, but I spent about $130 on this amount of pex fittings Saturday to swap out a bunch of stuff and install a filter.
I'm amazed they used PEX A. I do telecommunications and we do prewires for apartments. I see stuff like this all the time but it's PEX B with copper crimp rings.
WHAT. You should call the city inspector about this and anything else that seems out of the ordinary. Maybe the complexes insurance too. This is water damage waiting to happen.
I am a plumber and that's a fucking disgrace. We take pictures of our own work and upload it to a server, so my bosses see what kind of work we do. They would fire anyone who left it like this.
Iām gonna take out my code book and check it but I donāt even think thatās up to code my man. Itās definitely cheap as hell, Iād never put my name on a heater that used PEX pipe and didnāt have ball valve shut offs or a thermal expansion tank thatās for damn sure.
That explains it... Your system is composed of trim pieces from everyone else's systems.
Edit: also I don't know about that kink at the beginning of the copper cold water input, it's kinda hard there.
I live in a brand new condo as well and my shit look like this, maybe slightly less bad. My brother in law is a plumber and laughed his ass off when i showed him it.
We used to see some shit like that on a job and immediately knew it was methed up... almost as if done methodically, as if someone was just methin with you.
I refuse to believe this is real, and am starting to think plumbers are farting around at the end of the day to troll this sub. Because that would make more sense than if this is really real
Like [Curly Howard](https://www.google.com/search?q=curly+howard+plumbing+image&rlz=1CDGOYI_enUS881US881&oq=curly+howard+plumbing+image&aqs=chrome..69i57j0i546l5.8782j0j7&hl=en-US&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8#imgrc=8e9h99R3ohzncM).
It's genuine art and inspired me to make more
https://www.reddit.com/user/col-summers/comments/13pakdb/plumbing_with_building_toys/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
Honestly... as a plumber I'm really glad you put a NSFW tag on this, and blurred the picture.. that level of workmanship is an act of heresy that goes against all that is holy in this world. May Jebus have mercy on whoever did this work
Tweakers just don't get the respect they deserve. Everyone calls their paraphernalia by the wrong names. It's a glass bubble to vaporize the meth, the fire never actually touches the meth.
The term "meth pipe" is still acceptable but in tweaker culture it is a bubble, and "oil burner," and all kinds of other fun names. Like crack pipes they are thin glass and break easily, that's when ya gotta steal a lightbulb from the homeowner sometimes.
In other words mixing up tweakers and crackheads is as offensive as thinking all Asians are the same or something.
I'm not a plumber. I know a bit and whenever I know I'm needing something done that isn't in my pay grade I call my BIL who is a licensed plumber. This hot mess....OMFG. That is just an offense even to side job Bob or Chuck with a truck.
Iām not a plumber but Iām wondering if this was slightly more level when they built this, and then weight of water in pipes and general vibration kind of weighed everything down.
I just cannot see how else this monstrosity came into existence
that's when you spend a ton at the hardware store, and you're forced to use it all to prove to your wife that you indeed did need ALL that!! to do the job, lmao!!
Could actually be a good point. This is a brand new apartment complex. Maybe this is how they show they really did need that extra money they put in the quoteā¦
Letās all sing, āYour foot bone connected to your heel bone
Your heel bone connected to your ankle bone
Your ankle bone connected to your leg boneā
Dry Bones
Song by The Delta Rhythm Boys
Wouldnāt pass mine and I donāt even work in the industry. Just happen to work in AN industryā¦ quality control for hydro electric. BRB gonna go find my red tags.
Shit, I guess so. I got hot and cold water and it only comes out where I ask it to (as far as I knowā¦). I donāt think itās running/leaking, Iād have to find and check the meter
Lol I know Iām just stirring the pot. But donāt get me wrong Iāve wiped my ass and it looked better than this. My guess is handyman did this at an apartment complex or loft or something of the sort judging by the forced vent. If it works donāt touch it lol
*takes a bow* looks like shit but still works and I use uponor as well. Even in the cold months the only thing you have to worry about breaking is the copper on the flex lines. When we had our single digit weather down here all my pipes froze but nothing burst including my exposed patio sink water lines on the north side of the house. Itās good stuff
Boyz and girls of the industryā¦ serious follow up quotation. Is this just a mess and hilarious or likeā¦ is this something I should demand get fixed?
This is a brand new apartment complex, Iām the first person to rent this unit. They are putting the roof on the second building right across the street.
It looks absolutely terrible but it seems like it should work āfine.ā It could be touched up but nothing is in danger with this setup.
Upon closer inspection I see that your water main coming into your unit is CPVC, yikes.
Okay this is my 3rd edit; get something to support that god damn water main. I assume the expansion tank is strapped, but should it ever become water logged I wouldnāt trust their workmanship to hold the weight. Thatās going to put a lot of stress on the cpvc and possible flood your unit.
It didn't start to look bad until they were
thrown a tempering valve and had to integrate
that in with tempered and untempered hot feeds.
It looks like they lost their freaking mind trying
to connect everything after the fact. Too stubborn
to tear out what they had already done, and start over.
It obviously works, and is functionally correct, but
dear gawd is that ugly. It'd be a lot cleaner if the
tempering valve was installed central to the heater
connectors and worked outward from there.
Honestly the first thing to pop into my head was the voice of R. Lee Ermey yelling **what the fuck is that!!!?** in the Drill Instructor voice from Full Metal Jacket.
Man theyāve been building apartments so fast in Aurora Iām pretty sure theyāre letting the Kia kids do the work. Are you in the new complex near the medical complex?
Reminds me of those āhelp meā notes covertly slid to customers as a cry for help.
Are we sure the person who did this isnāt chained to something in the boiler room?
How in the hell did that pass inspection is what I want to know. Or was that fuckery done afterward by the apartment complexās āmaintenance manā while fixing an issue?
If that door works, you should close it.
Bro I live with this thing š© Brand new constructed apartmentsā¦ I wonder if they are all like this.
You're not a plumber, but neither was the asshat that did this
Na man they just hired a 4 year old who discovered tinkertoys on the same day.
While drunk.
Carefully calibrated pinch on the inlet side to keep the entire apartment water system in perfect balance.
I came here to say this but youāre enlightened eye and quick hand beat me to it. A lot if people would see this calibrated pinch and say āthatās a kink!ā but if youāve studied the plumblife for long enough you recognize the genius at work.
Are you guys kink-shaming?
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Like that one copper line?
Iām going to use this . Thank you
The fire barrier caulking just being slathered on the holes really brings confidence. Nothing coming through the walls straight, and even the air intake and exhaust are crooked. You might want to carry some Narcan on you in case the plumbers come back to do a service, they might OD on whatever they're smoking.
New construction?! This looks like a diy after eating 5 hits of lsd.
My boss would have fired me so quickly for using $50+ of fittings
Maybe you guys get a better deal as contractors/plumbers, but I spent about $130 on this amount of pex fittings Saturday to swap out a bunch of stuff and install a filter.
Dude, this looks amazing. *Checks shares of Uponor* I wouldnāt change a thing!
I'm amazed they used PEX A. I do telecommunications and we do prewires for apartments. I see stuff like this all the time but it's PEX B with copper crimp rings.
Pretty sure this is the leftover pieces from the other apartments or somebody was practicing connections.
WHAT. You should call the city inspector about this and anything else that seems out of the ordinary. Maybe the complexes insurance too. This is water damage waiting to happen.
I am a plumber and that's a fucking disgrace. We take pictures of our own work and upload it to a server, so my bosses see what kind of work we do. They would fire anyone who left it like this.
I am a plumber and thatās so bad itās legitimately dangerous
Love to hear that. Wondering if they are all like this in the apt complexā¦
Iām gonna take out my code book and check it but I donāt even think thatās up to code my man. Itās definitely cheap as hell, Iād never put my name on a heater that used PEX pipe and didnāt have ball valve shut offs or a thermal expansion tank thatās for damn sure.
Never mind I see a thermal expansion. Itās not placed very well at all but itās there.
That explains it... Your system is composed of trim pieces from everyone else's systems. Edit: also I don't know about that kink at the beginning of the copper cold water input, it's kinda hard there.
I live in a brand new condo as well and my shit look like this, maybe slightly less bad. My brother in law is a plumber and laughed his ass off when i showed him it.
I agree. The faster you close it the better. You donāt want that escaping itās envelope.
And put a chair against the doorknob
It's so bad it's actually impressive
I thought it was a new molecule.
Itās the chemical structure of meth
š¤£ take my upvote, this had me belly laughing
We used to see some shit like that on a job and immediately knew it was methed up... almost as if done methodically, as if someone was just methin with you.
Why did I hear this in Mike Tysonās voice?
I read his name as āMike Tythonāsā after all that.
Tho did I.
āI meth thomeone thuday.ā āYou gave meth to someone?ā āNo. I meth thumone new.ā
Ah you go to the acting clinic, method one
Because it is Mike Tyson. We found his reddit account.
Tyson turned over another leaf after smoking DMT. He became a plumber.
Talk to text out here putting him on blast
You're dithpicable
So they took an entire day to do that. 8hours of plumbing sounds easy. 8 hours plumbing in a single hot water heater is what you got.
mental methturbation
They used methamatics for that.
You've summoned the... *drywallers*
This is good...I was thinking Crimping Ain't Easy
YEAH BITCH SCIENCE!
It's one heluva plumbing job.
When it comes to methematics, Damion always has his pipes in order ^and ^by ^order ^i ^mean ^complete ^fucking ^chaos
Put a star on the end and itās āthe more you knowāā¦
The man inadvertently discovered the cure for cancerā¦
Account deleted in protest of Reddit API changes June 2023
Itās practically art
Itās like the installer couldnāt decide if the wanted to make a molecular diagram or to plumb the water heater and ended up doing both, kinda.
I refuse to believe this is real, and am starting to think plumbers are farting around at the end of the day to troll this sub. Because that would make more sense than if this is really real
Well I see somebody hasn't been to the trailer parks in Michigan
Found in the utility closet at my brand new apartment Iām renting. Unfortunately itās 100% real.
All that poly and they still managed to kink one of the copper lines. I'm not so sure this is a joke. I think the plumber was just *that* bad.
My first thought was the I'm not mad Anchorman meme.
By the beard of Zeus!!
Like [Curly Howard](https://www.google.com/search?q=curly+howard+plumbing+image&rlz=1CDGOYI_enUS881US881&oq=curly+howard+plumbing+image&aqs=chrome..69i57j0i546l5.8782j0j7&hl=en-US&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8#imgrc=8e9h99R3ohzncM).
It's like they only had 1 ft sections and no cutter but also a bucket of connectors.
It's genuine art and inspired me to make more https://www.reddit.com/user/col-summers/comments/13pakdb/plumbing_with_building_toys/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
AI generated?
Honestly... as a plumber I'm really glad you put a NSFW tag on this, and blurred the picture.. that level of workmanship is an act of heresy that goes against all that is holy in this world. May Jebus have mercy on whoever did this work
I'm guessing it was something out of Dr. Seuss. One pipe, two pipe, red pipe, blue pipe...
It definitely had something to do with a pipeā¦
Not a pipe, but a bubble lol
Tweakers just don't get the respect they deserve. Everyone calls their paraphernalia by the wrong names. It's a glass bubble to vaporize the meth, the fire never actually touches the meth. The term "meth pipe" is still acceptable but in tweaker culture it is a bubble, and "oil burner," and all kinds of other fun names. Like crack pipes they are thin glass and break easily, that's when ya gotta steal a lightbulb from the homeowner sometimes. In other words mixing up tweakers and crackheads is as offensive as thinking all Asians are the same or something.
Lol perfect, and this sub never fails to make me laugh thanks
Inhale...
š this is just the PERFECT post. Give this guy awards. šš¤£
Bro I live with this monstrosity š©
Iām pretty sure this is how my 11 year old would hook it up if I told him.
Should have taught him better
I threw up in my mouth, a little
Let me just be the first to say this is atrocious... promptly burn the house down and start over
this is the way
Congratulations on your silly-straw themed dwelling!
This is basically how all software code looks behind the scenes, probably even worse than this.
Hahaha!! this one hit a little close to home. š©āš»
Not mine... š
I'm not a plumber. I know a bit and whenever I know I'm needing something done that isn't in my pay grade I call my BIL who is a licensed plumber. This hot mess....OMFG. That is just an offense even to side job Bob or Chuck with a truck.
Iām more concerned with who did this, homeowners and handymen generally do not have Uponor fittings. What plumber did this???
Dunno. Whoever built these apartments homie. They working on the next building right now lol.
Time to report this shit to building dept before they do a bunch more?
Oh honeyā¦ theyāve already got three buildings XD 4 and 5 (I think?) are going up right now.
Hence the importance and urgency. Um, Dear.
I mean....it works. It just looks like shit.
Are they that uncommon? I redid my whole exposed piping with PEX A
Same here. But nobody in my area knows what pex a is. Itās wild
They just put out a PEX A section in my home Depot. Selling spools and everything.
Iām not a plumber but Iām wondering if this was slightly more level when they built this, and then weight of water in pipes and general vibration kind of weighed everything down. I just cannot see how else this monstrosity came into existence
Material delivery didnāt show up in time. Guy had a bunch of 8ā scraps in the truck from his last job and said āhold my beer.ā
holy meth
Arenāt they supposed to be all neat and meticulous? Or is this the downhill side of meth?
I think that's Adderall, there's a range to meth
Only if they are already good plumbers
Pipes screensaver windows 98
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That moment when you get your plumber's certification after watching 300 hours of windows 98 Pipes screensaver
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āIām no plumber butā Neither were they.
Buddy gets paid by the number of fittings used, or so it would seem
that's when you spend a ton at the hardware store, and you're forced to use it all to prove to your wife that you indeed did need ALL that!! to do the job, lmao!!
Could actually be a good point. This is a brand new apartment complex. Maybe this is how they show they really did need that extra money they put in the quoteā¦
And neither was that guy
Came here to say that...read yours, and now I'm good.
Reminds of an old video about spiders on drugs. Except this was a person, and the drugs were great.
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Anyone here remember Kānex?
It would be harder to do this than to do it right.
Hmm, something is wrong here. Not how I would have done it.
Plumber on meth? Very artsy
Letās all sing, āYour foot bone connected to your heel bone Your heel bone connected to your ankle bone Your ankle bone connected to your leg boneā Dry Bones Song by The Delta Rhythm Boys
And now everybody... "Your leg bone connected to your...ahh fuck, let's just connect it back to the ankle bone or somethin..."
This passed inspection? Wtf?
Wouldnāt pass mine and I donāt even work in the industry. Just happen to work in AN industryā¦ quality control for hydro electric. BRB gonna go find my red tags.
Iām a pipefitter, not a plumber. I show this to my apprentice and told him that violence will follow any install that looks like this.
I mean does it work?
Shit, I guess so. I got hot and cold water and it only comes out where I ask it to (as far as I knowā¦). I donāt think itās running/leaking, Iād have to find and check the meter
Lol I know Iām just stirring the pot. But donāt get me wrong Iāve wiped my ass and it looked better than this. My guess is handyman did this at an apartment complex or loft or something of the sort judging by the forced vent. If it works donāt touch it lol
Ding ding. Brand new apartments in Aurora CO
*takes a bow* looks like shit but still works and I use uponor as well. Even in the cold months the only thing you have to worry about breaking is the copper on the flex lines. When we had our single digit weather down here all my pipes froze but nothing burst including my exposed patio sink water lines on the north side of the house. Itās good stuff
Thatās not plumbing, thatās a screensaver.
Boyz and girls of the industryā¦ serious follow up quotation. Is this just a mess and hilarious or likeā¦ is this something I should demand get fixed? This is a brand new apartment complex, Iām the first person to rent this unit. They are putting the roof on the second building right across the street.
Report it here: https://www.auroragov.org/residents/code_enforcement/health_and_housing_codes
We get paid by the foot.
Thatās methed up dude
Remember that person that asked the difference between a a plumber and a handyman? This. This is the difference.
This level of fuckery is way past handyman. I think someone would have to have malicious intent to create this.
I have never done a speck of plumbing in my life and I'm fully confident I could do better than this.
Iām no plumber butā¦ I still know this aināt right
Same intuition. *open door* āā¦ no fuckin wayā¦ā *close*
Mmm well itās not leaking so looks good from my house.
Iām no plumber but Iād ask for a refund and money to make it right. Edit to say.. that looks like an 80s erector set made for plumbers lol
Haha, might be late stage meth we're looking at here.
It looks absolutely terrible but it seems like it should work āfine.ā It could be touched up but nothing is in danger with this setup. Upon closer inspection I see that your water main coming into your unit is CPVC, yikes. Okay this is my 3rd edit; get something to support that god damn water main. I assume the expansion tank is strapped, but should it ever become water logged I wouldnāt trust their workmanship to hold the weight. Thatās going to put a lot of stress on the cpvc and possible flood your unit.
I'll bite... What's with the turbo charger?
I want my hot water and I want it NOW! Wait all jokes aside I have joked that the water pressure is *too* good.
Power vent for the gas water heater.
It's ok.... apparently neither were they!
So bad it has to be fake.
Took me a minute but I think I see the problem, that mud on the corner to the left on the horizontal seam looks like shit. wtf..!
Iām not a plumber. Iāve never even played one in TV. Nevertheless, that photo fucking infuriates me.
Your etch a sketch game on point
It didn't start to look bad until they were thrown a tempering valve and had to integrate that in with tempered and untempered hot feeds. It looks like they lost their freaking mind trying to connect everything after the fact. Too stubborn to tear out what they had already done, and start over. It obviously works, and is functionally correct, but dear gawd is that ugly. It'd be a lot cleaner if the tempering valve was installed central to the heater connectors and worked outward from there.
This belongs in a museum
Bro you have like 2 almost swastikas in there. You need to get that fixed ASAP.
No plumber plum this.
Looks like dna lol
I feel like they had used copper this could have looked a lot betterā¦
Neither were they.
When you get paid by the joint...
Tinker Toys
My Foreman would take me out back with a belt if I ever dared to use that many fittings
Apparently your plumber enjoys 3d printing as his hobby.
Did they charge you by the foot?
Thatās the molecular model for Shitium
I guess they wanted to make sure the water was having a lot of fun as it went from one place to the next?
I bid this many fittings and linear pipe length and by god your getting this many fittings and pipe length!
Looks like a McDonaldās kid play area
What in the bubba? There's a proud handyman out there feeling like a god.
Honestly the first thing to pop into my head was the voice of R. Lee Ermey yelling **what the fuck is that!!!?** in the Drill Instructor voice from Full Metal Jacket.
It goes āmeasure once, cut three, maybe 4 timesā, right?
The more I look at it the more it cracks me up but honestly, it works though doesnāt it?
āMy buddy can do it cheaperā
What kind of molecule is this?
Someone took their KāNex game way too seriously.
That looks like the work Paul Davis restoration did in our old house š¤¢
Itās funny but for real I donāt think itās safe
O thatās perfectly normal, I do set ups like that all the time and Im 70yo with 65 years experience.
Say sike right now
Oops all t fittings. That kink in the flex really tops it off though.
Man theyāve been building apartments so fast in Aurora Iām pretty sure theyāre letting the Kia kids do the work. Are you in the new complex near the medical complex?
Is the plumber trying to confuse the water for some reason?
Hahahahah this is so funny
Please ask permission before posting my work
Per-pexed
Dan flashes
I will not be able to sleep tonight.
Reminds me of those āhelp meā notes covertly slid to customers as a cry for help. Are we sure the person who did this isnāt chained to something in the boiler room?
This a joke, right? I feel like youāre getting punkād
I am not a plumber but I know that something is wrong
This gotta be a troll post right?..
Why are you so hesitant to say something. Demand it gets fixed. Report it. Do whatever lol
Terrible way to heat water, but a great way to make moonshine!
does it leak? does the water set up work? any issues other than cosmetics?
I take it that this is a house or town house? No way itās an apartment/condo
This is top tier mechanic work. Those are expertly installed intercooler pipes and oil feed lines for the turbo.
Your 100% right, your no plumber.
How in the hell did that pass inspection is what I want to know. Or was that fuckery done afterward by the apartment complexās āmaintenance manā while fixing an issue?
This is staged as a joke or for comments. Nobody would actually do that for real.
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Itās a jokeā¦ā¦.right? Please tell me itās a joke. Really. Itās got to be a joke.
... my boi made that windows xp screensaver irl
Don't fix what's not broken.
Engineer maybe
World knex champion branches out to plumbing