sniff sniff, whimper
So the plumber's long and gone, pipes holding water and working error-free mind you and all of sudden a new floor makes it the plumber's problem?
No.
For the same reason why a carpenter shoots a nail on a trim board and hits a pipe in the wall, he's paying for the damage.
For the same reason when a drywaller screws a screw through the wall and hits a drain or water line, depending on how lucky he was that day
, he's paying for the damage.
I personally have never ran water lines that close to a floor but I understand how important the R-factor is in overhangs.
I also understand that this thread is just a minor jab at the plumber since you're probably footing the tab for using long screws. Bitch and moan all you want.......
but there wasn't a plumbing problem until you decided to lay a floor.
That sits heavily in your customer's mind and you can call the plumber anything you want, it's on your dime.
I think the same way of carpenters when I run my brand new 2-9/16" milwaukee drill bit through the bottom plate and catch not one, not two, but sometimes 3 nails that spiralled out of control when they was stabbing the sides of stud instead of nailing bottom up when they should of.
I'll also think of them when they laid the joists out around the toilet where I have to use an offset flange, giving the customer a world of joy joy of misery for a lifetime in the home with no way around it short of using headers and boxing out, structurally affecting the floor integrity.
Should I mention that *#&$ing center stud that they always put up on a shower wall where the valve goes, right where it has to be removed?
How bout scabbing drywall catches or doubling up studs in a corner when a vent rolls around them to come out and catch the main stack.
How bout when you all H-clip the roof sheathing right where my main stack is going out, causing me to double roll 45's which COSTS ME MONEY. lol
Don't even get me started on floor guys who don't raise the closet flanges to the finished floor surface as required by
industry standard. What? Who me? Yeah YOU.
Come to raise the roost with a plumber expect one to tell the tales of the nonsense bull**** I dealt with all those years I did new construction.
And they wondered why they had sand in thier air compressors when they came back from lunch.