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Yep bear in mind this guy is supposed to be a professional, has had the company for years according to my internet research and is well known, although I don't think we are his only unhappy customer!

It hadn't been filed. Whilst he had put silicone above that black plastic bolt bit I think there was a number of issues which I'll be outlining to him. 1. No black rubber seal used on the white trap connector just oodles of PTFE tape (which had become unwrapped and dangling inside the trap). 2. The trap itself wasn't fitted straight and was loose. 3. The thread on the flange I think it is that @ProDave called it not being cut square. We will see if everything works OK tomorrow when plumber no 2 returns but hopefully I can then outline to old plumber what he did wrong and no doubt he will just blame his apprentice!

He's fitted another one today and siliconed it all, told us to leave it for now and he'll pop back tomorrow and check it's all fine. Got the part he took off so if old plumber starts kicking off and saying there was nothing up with it then I'll save it as 'evidence'. If he wants a fight he's picked the wrong person!

Nope he's never coming back, new plumber seems decent. When he comes back tomorrow will ask him how much we owe him and I'm billing the old plumber. Took photos of everything, videod it and still have messages from last time we had a leak in the same sink and it wasn't fixed. If he won't pay it I'll take him to the smalls claims on principle and bill him for redecorating costs too where we now have water marks down the wall and get someone independent to inspect the whole bathroom plumbing.

Ok so plot thickens, it seems that old plumber has cut the chrome plug thread, no idea why but this lip was also causing issues with seal as it was stepped when it was cut so would never provide a good seal. New plug fitted, new trap fitted and sealed will return tomorrow to check it's all ok. Old plumber can't say it was the equipment as it was a brand new Bristan tap and plug that came together from Amazon! ?

So far new plumber has established there wasn't a black seal on the trap just ptf tape which not ideal as it had all come unwrapped and was all inside trap but then found new seal on his van, still hasn't solved issue and ran taps and still a drip from trap so he has gone to get a new trap. Also running from black seal.

My worry is that's exactly what the plumber did last time to 'fix' it. A local guy has kindly offered to pop in to take a look FOC on his way home, someone who actually sorted out the 70s shower and toilet when we moved in to get it working whose details I lost and did a temporary fix for us who I wish we would have used for the whole house instead of going with this guy instead!

Ok so when we observed dripping it was coming from the waste pipe, the white one. The bathroom sink hasn't been used since last night and when we got up this morning there was water all over the floor and on the base of the cabinet inside which was dripping from the white waste pipe bit. Since we turned each of these silver things off the water isn't dripping as much but we still have water going into the bowl. It may have been leaking a while as we had 6 toilet rolls on the cabinet which have obviously been absorbing the water. You can see the water here. I'm not sure why the water has marks on the wall below the cabinet unless water has been trickling down the cabinet inside but our ensuite sink is the other side of that wall. Not sure you can see from the photos. Plumber coming out 3pm - not the same one who did the work who is on holiday! The drawer has a gap in it for the pipe so in theory shouldn't need to be fitted wonky unless he didn't fit the cabinet straight.

Yes it was. It was dripping from there into the bowl before we managed to get the drawer out and isolate the tap.

Yep that's one thing we commented on when we took the drawer out. Not sure that explains the pressure issue.

Cloaks bathroom vanity. Water all over floor and inside cabinet. Managed to isolate tap now and it's stopped. It seems to be coming from here and we noticed the white ring was loose, as in you could tighten it as it was loose. This is the same leak we had a while ago and the plumber fixed it then and I believe the trap was loose. It may be a coincidence but last night when I used this tap the pressure was very low, almost to a dribble which I thought nothing of as it did a bit of a splutter and then normal flow resumed. Our plumber is off for two weeks and said 'do what you need to do to sort it' so having isolated everything I'm now looking at more reliable plumbers. I'm not sure what the pressure issue would be though and if this is linked...

Thank you, I may have to try them. I'm growing blue poppies from seed and they are a few cm high. I'm surprised as they didn't seem to be doing anything at all, unless they are actually weeds I'm nurturing.

What are those plants @joe90?

I do tend to check the app most days after the electricity app issues with Octopus - call me obsessive! I did notice a smell on Monday (I'm quite deaf but my sense of smell is amazing) but the wife told me there was no smell. I love being right ? How the two guys could eat biccies and drink tea whilst inspecting inside is beyond me. I was dry heaving with a mask on!

Sorted, it was a stone obviously stuck, lucky the pump didn't burn out but explains the heat when we opened the cover. The covers will be finally be sorted and fixed down this week which will hopefully prevent any issues of bricks falling in.

Progress... Possible issue - a stone! We have been saying for months to fix the things down.

There are here, pumps on but it ain't pumping ....

No just us two and nothing down the loo that shouldn't be.

On it already.... We have been told to turn consumer unit off and someone is due out.

We didn't hold it for long as it was heavy but it was running and the water wasn't going down! We also noticed when we lifted the lid it was really hot to touch

What's this? This seems to be running. Not really sure what this is: And then there is another bit which I'm not going to post pics of as it's full of sh!t.

Let me have a look, some lids are fastened down. With the strange hours the spike is I think it must be something in this area. It may be a coincidence but in the past couple do days we have noticed a real smell in this area too.

No idea what I'm looking at to be honest.

Something odd happened. When we turned off the treatment plant/pump circuit it was 700-800w pretty consistently for an hour. The minute we turned it on it's been at 400-500w consistently for almost an hour. Going to try working through the other circuits.

No immersion kicked in it's off. Yes our PV is working albeit it is minimal as the sky is dark, grey and cloudy - summer has ended! @ProDave I've got this and have plugged it in. We have turned of the sewage treatment plant for the next hour so will start with this.