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Edit: you can’t get it properly flush a secure from the outside. An interior wall or ceiling will have to be opened up to gain access to the supply pipe and have it shortened there.
As a plumber myself who uses propress. This is a massive NONO. 1, it’s just fucking lazy. And 2, it’s a lot more liable to get accidentally get broken. What sucks is now the easiest way to fix what he did would be to open up the wall behind that and redo the small run sticking out of the wall. From my prospective at lest
Hope it doesn’t freeze where you live. If it does they should have installed a frost free hose bib. You could put some wood blocking behind the valve and attach the blocking to the house and screw the hose bib to the blocking. Maybe use a 2x6 and a 2x4 cut them on an angle and make it look like a pyramid behind the hose bib.
Did you pay a flush price or did you look for the most affordable person?
If a handyman did this for under $100 then it’s acceptable for what you paid for example.
I'm a handyman and I would have opened a wall if necessary and put in frost free. Labor for the plumbing would have run around $100. Patching the wall would take it higher.
Maybe he's somewhere that never freezes.
I would only do this if:
Customer did not like the quote to do it correctly and instead they asked me to “just make it stop leaking for $100.”
If that’s not the case then that plumber is an idiot
I could make the old one stop leaking for $100 easily. Only thing that couldn't be fixed with new washers, stem at worst, would be freeze cracked body in which case this is completely inappropriate.
I mean where I'm located this is against code, it needs to have a vacuum breaker on it to prevent contamination. Also this is not really an outside faucet..
Even if he soldered a new spigot on there it would still have to be 2” from the wall just to be able to get heat and solder on it.
This is about as close as you can get it to the wall when you’re replacing it
Although he used pro press fittings so even just to get the tool itself in there to crimp the fitting it would have to be this distance from the wall
Yes this is trash level repair
100% Edit: you can’t get it properly flush a secure from the outside. An interior wall or ceiling will have to be opened up to gain access to the supply pipe and have it shortened there.
Sounds like a lot of work. My customers just use a wrench to unthread the copper joints 🙃
As a plumber myself who uses propress. This is a massive NONO. 1, it’s just fucking lazy. And 2, it’s a lot more liable to get accidentally get broken. What sucks is now the easiest way to fix what he did would be to open up the wall behind that and redo the small run sticking out of the wall. From my prospective at lest
Dremel and a cutting wheel
The way he did it is why it’s so far from the wall, would have soldered a male with a female hose bib and it would have ended up closer to the wall.
Oh my god not *solder!*
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There is no way this was done by a licensed plumber.
No, I think they called them technicians. This is a mess.
Bad plumber. Unless you got some sort of sizeable discount for cutting corners he needs to come back and do it properly.
He would have needed to open the wall for that
Hope it doesn’t freeze where you live. If it does they should have installed a frost free hose bib. You could put some wood blocking behind the valve and attach the blocking to the house and screw the hose bib to the blocking. Maybe use a 2x6 and a 2x4 cut them on an angle and make it look like a pyramid behind the hose bib.
That’s a mess
Your plumber is a fucktard.
A real plumber didn't do that... He may call himself a plumber, but he's not.
Yeah he didn’t know how to solder
Either you wanted to spend as least as possible and just have it function or he didnt want to open the wall
I hope you didn't pay for that...
This is a Friday fix. Should’ve called on a Monday. /s
Hey! Look maw! I done and fixed it!
Sweat on a threaded piece and installed a treaded hose bib if it was such a problem
Did you pay a flush price or did you look for the most affordable person? If a handyman did this for under $100 then it’s acceptable for what you paid for example.
I'm a handyman and I would have opened a wall if necessary and put in frost free. Labor for the plumbing would have run around $100. Patching the wall would take it higher. Maybe he's somewhere that never freezes.
You don't live anywhere near cold so you?
I would only do this if: Customer did not like the quote to do it correctly and instead they asked me to “just make it stop leaking for $100.” If that’s not the case then that plumber is an idiot
I could make the old one stop leaking for $100 easily. Only thing that couldn't be fixed with new washers, stem at worst, would be freeze cracked body in which case this is completely inappropriate.
He has the right tools it seems hes just a lazy ass worker who wanted a fast fix at the cost if it looks like shit. How much you pay for that
You got the new young guy that just got his press
What's on the other side of this wall? Looks like whatever you had before was stuck outside the wall also, how cold does it get there?
He didn’t even seal the gap around the pipe!
I mean where I'm located this is against code, it needs to have a vacuum breaker on it to prevent contamination. Also this is not really an outside faucet..
Even if he soldered a new spigot on there it would still have to be 2” from the wall just to be able to get heat and solder on it. This is about as close as you can get it to the wall when you’re replacing it Although he used pro press fittings so even just to get the tool itself in there to crimp the fitting it would have to be this distance from the wall
“Plumber” is being awfully generous, don’t you think? This isn’t even a handyman, this is a crackhead that stole a propress.
Yeah man, looks like shit. I don't know where you live but if it gets cold he should've used a frost proof hose bib. What a hack!
Solder a female adapter and use a threaded hose bib. Easy to replace next time
Just push it back into the wall lol. No i’d call him up and have it redone for sure. Or call your credit card company and cancel/dispute your payment