There are easier to fix plumbing fittings and accessories being sold in the plumbing market today than some year's ago.
Before now Baths, Basins, Sinks, Heaters, Toilets were usually connected with union connectors made of galvanized or steel materials. But today I congratulate people of all trades especially those who are concerned with improvement of plumbing installation.
The inventions of plastic, copper and stainless flexible connectors have added more value to do it yourself plumbing. At the same time care must be taken when selecting or purchasing any of these products because of mixtures of some fake ones among the high quality types. Fake flexible connectors have caused more harm than good in recent times.
Over seven home flooding within July to November which I attended were caused by broken flexible connectors especially at night when people are asleep, or at daytime when people are away at their places of work, with no person at home.
Imagine waking up at night to do something important, only to find your two feet into ten centimeter flood. Or assuming you get back from work just to find your apartment completely flooded. I suggest that a quality control body should be formed to supervise goods related to plumbing material manufacturing, especially those that cause home emergencies.
All flexible connectors either for water, gas and air connection must be made of superior materials and corrosion resistance.
Such materials as well must be made to be used both indoors and outdoors works and must resist the harsh effects of UV rays, weather and salt. If these precaution measures are taken as I mention, we will go a long way preventing some plumbing emergencies in homes, offices, hotels, hospitals, churches, and schools.
Life Snakes in the Bathroom, Causes, reactions and prevention
I am not trying to sound strange or frighten people to unnecessary fear and anxiety but to let everyone to be aware of this useful emergency in bathrooms which is caused by careless or neglected plumbing installations.
As I mentioned in my first article, that incident of recorded life snake in bathroom is real, then I will like to look beyond the two causes I put down in my first writing on plumbing emergencies life snakes Issue.
Since the toilet in use is sealed with little water between the inside and the outlet, water reptiles can easily swim through it into bathrooms. This may create serious emergency when one sees, snake, frog, rat or warms in his or her bathroom.
In one of published news Taipei Times said “snake bites man sitting on Toilet and continued.” The man now suffers from a phobia of Toilets.”
Indeed there are many repeated cases of emergencies in bathroom relating to snake bites or even snake presence. I hereby challenge Toilet bowel manufacturers to reseac-h and come up with a befitting seal soonest as to avoid this menace of bathroom emergencies.
Solutions and Suggestions:
a. Every WC toilet outlet especially those fixed on ground floors must be fitted with flexible rubber tube tied with copper wire. This will allow the motorcar type of tube cut & fixed to 100mm pvc outlet from the WC bowel to open and close when flushed.
b. Make sure that all holes on the wall, holes beside or within manholes or chambers are properly covered as prevention to bathroom emergencies.
c. Your septic Tank and soak way pits must be properly covered and vent covers placed on all vents with PVC cement or tangit.
d. Apply snake repellant around your homes, snakes have sensitive taste and scent organs, it smells the air around itself, the strong odour of some snake repellant sends away snakes far from your abode. This too serves on measure to safe guide your home from avoidable experience of life snake which is one of recent bathroom emergencies. More informations on what to do incase of ugly confrontation with life snake in the bathroom.
As I mentioned in my first article, that incident of recorded life snake in bathroom is real, then I will like to look beyond the two causes I put down in my first writing on plumbing emergencies life snakes Issue.
Since the toilet in use is sealed with little water between the inside and the outlet, water reptiles can easily swim through it into bathrooms. This may create serious emergency when one sees, snake, frog, rat or warms in his or her bathroom.
In one of published news Taipei Times said “snake bites man sitting on Toilet and continued.” The man now suffers from a phobia of Toilets.”
Indeed there are many repeated cases of emergencies in bathroom relating to snake bites or even snake presence. I hereby challenge Toilet bowel manufacturers to reseac-h and come up with a befitting seal soonest as to avoid this menace of bathroom emergencies.
Solutions and Suggestions:
a. Every WC toilet outlet especially those fixed on ground floors must be fitted with flexible rubber tube tied with copper wire. This will allow the motorcar type of tube cut & fixed to 100mm pvc outlet from the WC bowel to open and close when flushed.
b. Make sure that all holes on the wall, holes beside or within manholes or chambers are properly covered as prevention to bathroom emergencies.
c. Your septic Tank and soak way pits must be properly covered and vent covers placed on all vents with PVC cement or tangit.
d. Apply snake repellant around your homes, snakes have sensitive taste and scent organs, it smells the air around itself, the strong odour of some snake repellant sends away snakes far from your abode. This too serves on measure to safe guide your home from avoidable experience of life snake which is one of recent bathroom emergencies. More informations on what to do incase of ugly confrontation with life snake in the bathroom.
Plumbing Emergencies: Life Snake in the Bathrooms: Causes and Solutions
There have been several serious reports of life snakes bites in the bathrooms. The causes may be: (A) Bad building plan (B) Bad Plumbing installation. Builders should make sure that block walls are properly plastered with well mixed cement up to the ceiling level. And outer ceiling must be made of strong lasting materials that will not rotten with time to create chance for reptiles to climb into the roof. On the other hand careless plumbing installations in the house, has created loopholes for rats, lizards, frogs, toads, and even snakes to gain entrance into living apartments through the bathroom waste pipelines. My concern of such happenings adds more, but most often when people are bitten by snakes right in their rooms, and at times such bites results to serious illness and even death.
As a professional plumber, I have gone to many homes for emergencies but many a times I come across plumbing waste pipe laid into big street drainage without any wire mesh or drain trap to cover them at all.
Recently, a house wife called me for repairs which involved big rats getting into her bathroom through waste water pipeline.
Also, another white housewife, a Russian told me how a rat ran into a toilet seat and got away through the retained water in the WC trap. Some reptiles in the search of water or cool places during hot climate, always trace water from big gutters and drain pipes into bathroom especially where we have bushes, forest and swarms.
Solution:
I recommend that only qualified plumbers with years of experience should handle plumbing installations located at places mention above, materials for such jobs must be of good standard with good water seals, example are, water closets, floor drains.
All vents must be covered with stainless or plastic vent cover with tiny holes to let out air. All the baths, sinks, wash hand basin should be fixed with good resealing traps.
Never enter any dark toilet without light. Use torches where there is no electricity, where there is electricity; switch for bathroom light must be fixed before the bathroom door to enable users to light the room before entry.
Cases of snakes in homes and bathroom phase two will be continued.
As a professional plumber, I have gone to many homes for emergencies but many a times I come across plumbing waste pipe laid into big street drainage without any wire mesh or drain trap to cover them at all.
Recently, a house wife called me for repairs which involved big rats getting into her bathroom through waste water pipeline.
Also, another white housewife, a Russian told me how a rat ran into a toilet seat and got away through the retained water in the WC trap. Some reptiles in the search of water or cool places during hot climate, always trace water from big gutters and drain pipes into bathroom especially where we have bushes, forest and swarms.
Solution:
I recommend that only qualified plumbers with years of experience should handle plumbing installations located at places mention above, materials for such jobs must be of good standard with good water seals, example are, water closets, floor drains.
All vents must be covered with stainless or plastic vent cover with tiny holes to let out air. All the baths, sinks, wash hand basin should be fixed with good resealing traps.
Never enter any dark toilet without light. Use torches where there is no electricity, where there is electricity; switch for bathroom light must be fixed before the bathroom door to enable users to light the room before entry.
Cases of snakes in homes and bathroom phase two will be continued.
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