Kinda desperate for a solution to the sheer shit show I'm facing.
I work in a court in the UK as the maintenance guy/handyman, you can probably guess who I work for from that. I have a job where the isolation valve on a pipe is leaking. Fairly badly in the closed position and a steady stream in the open position, it's already causing damage to the basement and slowly flooding it.
There's no isolation that I can find and none of the hmcts gremlins in the office can give me a plan for the piping. I tried to install a aladdin isolator onto the pipe but while it installed fine something bound up and it's pretty much useless.
Now they want me to install a standard 15mm isolation valve onto a live pipe with no backup plan, I'm the only person permanently on site so all the responsibility, consequences and shouting end squarely with me.
I'm not a qualified plumber, is there anything else I can try or should I give them the offer of "hire a plumber from the contractor list or take my resignation with immediate effect"?
You can't isolate the upstream, and you are by yourself?
I would never attempt this personally. That's just begging for an eighty gallon spill of what I'm assuming is wastewater.
There's a main shutoff somewhere, but that would inconvenience everyone in the building, and we can't have that.
Well yeah. I presumed several things, first being that actually shutting off the main was off the table, and that OP didn't have access to a freeze kit. Hell I dunno if those are even legal in the UK.
Freeze kits can be dangerous because you can easily asphyxiate yourself from the CO2 gas. It's a last resort, and no plumber would use that when there's an operable main shutoff.
It seems like OP's real problem is obstructive bureaucrat dipshits, in which case he should call the plumber anyway. At least they can tell the building supervisor to fuck off.
In fairness, I've never used a freeze kit except in circumstances where I was also wearing a supplied air mask and full kit.
I'd run the whole situation by Copilot/ChatGPT with enough details of where you are located and what your contract officially is as the maintenance guy/handyman and see what it spouts out.
Leave off on the technical side of the isolation valve and your ideas for solving it. Just leave it as an open question as to public sector plumbing and the appropriate people required to maintain it.
When replying to the email that wants you to install a standard 15mm isolate vale onto a live pipe with no backup plan you should have enough information at your disposal to make sure the person who asked you to do it knows that they will be personally responsible for that action.
You could even has ChatGPT/Copilot write up the email for you (Check for em dashes and Oxford commas, those are giveaways that an AI/LLM helped you draught it) and that will keep it neutral in tone and exact to the law regarding the task.
Just make sure that all communications between you and those asking are in email form (Or documented at the very least). No email means they didn't ask and have no means of showing that they have.
I don't know how it works in the UK, but if you aren't certified or qualified for work then you should't do the work. You want the third world? Act like it and try to fix something where you don't know what you're doing. You want a functioning civilization? Get the people who know what to do.
Until the thirdworlders get pencil-whipped credentials and take the jobs from the Whites anyway. Trucking being one example, not only killing jobs but civilians to boot!
Mistake #1. Literally working for pure evil
Mistake #2. I stopped reading there
Dude
Flood the building with shit
This is an opportunity of a life time
You will become a legend my man
Cut the pipe and sabotage the whole thing. Pin it on supervisors. Haha
Flood the building on the busiest day.
Why you being a (i cant say it because i promised I wouldnt for two months)
In the early 21st century it had seemed that jews, by use of central banking monopolies and fiat currency exchanges, had conquered western civilizations and by hijack their militaries as well for total global power over the air and seas. But then the White people began to become race conscious again, and sabotaged the infrastructure from which ZOG operated, and literally drowned jews and their ZOGbots in their own raw sewage. Unlicensed handymen and plumbers led the revolution.
If it involves cutting and soldering pipe, call a plumber. Insurance won't cover flood damage created by an amateur repair job. Get everything in writing in case your boss insists on you doing it regardless.
Tell them to hire a shitskin since they are so good at everything that Whites are required to be invaded by them.
You have an opportunity here. Just tell them you have it handled long enough to get a new job and then throw your hands up.
Seems like a perfect opportunity to flood the building with shit.
Fighting back against technocratic police state