"Soddering" Lead Pipes Across the Pond. Plumbing for Sparks Series.

As a plumber, for some 30 years' I'd prefer to solder. NOW, I have a good story about this, when doing building works for a famous chef, (living in Wandsworth, SW London), in the late 80's BUT, haha, I won't bore you!! 


I had a plumbing engineer, as a good friend back then, and I told him NOT to use solder BUT... to use 'tallow' for joining the lead to copper, (obviously 'tinning' first), but he didn't do as I asked and just used solder and what happened, after he'd finished, (I was wiring industrial air con systems way down south near Worthing),  I was in BIG trouble as my client were going to a big BBC event, that night... they had some four bathrooms, plus a couple of toilets', and were left with ONE cold tap in the kitchen... after my 'friend' had left! I came home, late that night, and had a barrage of abuse, (from that chef), BUT... it wasn't MY fault. If only people would listen, NOT saying I'm always right but as Nigel Clough would say... "I'm not the best but I'm in the top 1.! Haha.


I offered to go there, late that evening, but it was too late!!


Tom... ?

As a plumber, for some 30 years' I'd prefer to solder. NOW, I have a good story about this, when doing building works for a famous chef, (living in Wandsworth, SW London), in the late 80's BUT, haha, I won't bore you!! 


I had a plumbing engineer, as a good friend back then, and I told him NOT to use solder BUT... to use 'tallow' for joining the lead to copper, (obviously 'tinning' first), but he didn't do as I asked and just used solder and what happened, after he'd finished, (I was wiring industrial air con systems way down south near Worthing),  I was in BIG trouble as my client were going to a big BBC event, that night... they had some four bathrooms, plus a couple of toilets', and were left with ONE cold tap in the kitchen... after my 'friend' had left! I came home, late that night, and had a barrage of abuse, (from that chef), BUT... it wasn't MY fault. If only people would listen, NOT saying I'm always right but as Nigel Clough would say... "I'm not the best but I'm in the top 1.! Haha.


I offered to go there, late that evening, but it was too late!!


Tom... ?