On Sun, 12 Mar 2006 22:35:57 GMT, Guy King
wrote:

http://www.clubi.ie/plumbing-heating/bm.htm

Some may have seen this before - and of course it's not restricted to
the Irish,

I've dealt with Irish (Northern) plumbers and have _never_ met such a
cack-handed bunch of bodge merchants in my life. Except perhaps my
sister-in-law's plasterers, who managed to burn the cavity wall
insulation out - by lighting a fire to keep warm, before the fireplace
hearth was installed or the flue properly lined. We got off lightly,
with merely the toilet cistern overflow that disappeared into an
internal wall, the bath that had to be bailed through the window to
empty it (and was self-filling in heavy rain) and of course the
infamous Night of the Zombie Septic Tank.

IMHE, it's down to the blatant nepotism that's rife in NI. "Ach, wee
Jimmy will see you right" usually means "My idiot nephew Jimmy needs the
work, as he's an inbred halfwit with vestigial gills. However we all
drink at the same rugby club, and it's not either of us who has to live
there afterwards".

Oh, and they're not a patch on landfill contractors who turned our
garden into an asbestos waste tip. Still, there was a drink in it for
the right people, so that's alright then.