SHE BUILT IT: Stupid Plumber Tricks

First we saw water leak marks in the living room ceiling. So we took out the drywall and sure enough something had been leaking from the toilet, but we could not duplicate the leak.

Today we removed the toilet and found what I have documented in pictures below. Of all the stupid things that the plumber has done this ranks with the top.

They cut various pieces of wood and stuck them under the flange and then installed the toilet. The problem is that the wood was not sealed and no durarock or tile was under the toilet base. We could see light when we took out the drywall coming from the hole in the bathroom flooring under the toilet. The result was that even the slightest wetness or water spill would penetrate the floor area under the toilet and leak onto the ceiling.

My question to the plumber is "why did you do what you did? Shouldn't you have informed me of the problem with the lack of durarock and tile instead of just stuffing something under the toilet and ultimately causing the leak and damage to the ceiling. ?"

The second and probably the "top stupid plumber tricks "problem with the upstairs bath is the installation of the faucet water lines in a manner that makes them appear to have crossed the hot and cold lines. There is no logical reason why they would have to be done this way. It would have been just as easy or easier to make the lines fit directly up Cold line to cold and hot line to hot.

My question to the Plumber "Why? Was it purposefully to cause another problem because it could have been done correctly with LESS effort?"

By the way this has been rejected by the building code inspector and has to be redone. The sink has to be removed and completely re done as is the toilet.

Additionally you see 2 pictures. One of the shower faucet turn on valve and one of the shower head. Whats wrong with those pictures? What's wrong is that the faucet is polished chrome and the shower head is brushed chrome. Looks like they forgot it SHOULD MATCH. Do you think?