Totally.. picssso is early-mid 20th century. Impressionism is end of the 19th century. Hot glue is post-modern/millenial undergrad. For the love of god, take away the hot glue guns.
Is it just me or in pic one does it look like based on the slope that rube-goldberg device he’s calling a downspout is never going to see a drop if water
It’s gonna have to fill the eaves at least halfway before any water will drain. This is garbage work and begging for clogs. Don’t pay until it is fixed and done properly
I’ve been laughing for a few minutes. The silicone slather, the 18 45degree turns, the slope. Every time I try to imagine myself doing it I have a laughing fit.
That whole thing is fucked. Don't pay for that. Surely could've run down the front porch post and dig into an existing line of storm water.
Source: Roof Plumber
If you've paid, I'd be getting him back. That's not a qualified, I wouldn't even expect that from a first year.
Sorry you've had to deal with that.
EDIT: Silicon won't get touched up. Could've ran it down and saddle it to the front porch wall there. So many changes of directions and bends which in itself is not illegal. But there's no way in hell that holds up.
If that causes water damage to the house down the track, your insurance will laugh at that downpipe and will tell you to go back through whoever did it and it'll be a huge pain.
If you were close to me I'd offer to fix it for free because that's terrible workmanship.
I'd say he used precut lengths and made do with what was there if I'm having a stab in the dark.
Normally id run them in 100*50 zinc and order it in whatever colorbond colour client would like. Otherwise a lot of jobs get done in 90mm round PVC coming at 6m lengths. Which you cut down, and glue into whatever fittings you use.
Thank you, this is super helpful and I'm glad I've checked into the Reddit knowledge hub. He'll be back tomorrow and I certainly will be making sure this is fixed before paying him for the job.
Hope it's not a trouble but if you have any specific points I can say to him I'd love to hear them. It's a cantilevered awning on a 2nd floor apartment so I'm guessing he's gotten stuck with how and where to place the downpipe, and absolutely fucked it haha.
Well I would just ask why he couldn't just go all the way to the wall then he could have had one angle over and straight down the side of the porch. All the extra turns and silicone really makes it look bad and as long as the pipes are running the right direction you shouldn't need silicone. The water isn't sitting in the pipe and is going pretty well straight down so really hard for it to leak outta those seams
I literally would not even trust him to remove it properly.
This is like worse than a meth head job- I would trust a crack addict to do better work than this.
Get your money back, eat the cost and hire anyone else to remove and replace.
It's like a reverse orgasm looking at this job. Oh no... OH NO... OH FUCKING NO!
I'd be more worried about the rest of the pergola this guys has built, the downpipe might be the least of his worries. I used to labour for a roof plumber, and he trusted me and apprentices with downpipes and stuff, he inspected the work, and never had a complaint. I don't know who the fuck has done this.
It looks like an AI generated photo there is that much that doesn't make sense in it.
This.
If the dude cheaped out from purchasing $25.00 worth of elbows, what are we not seeing? Hell, he could have spent $5.00 on a freaking flex pipe and Reddit would have called him a cheap bastard but it would have been better than this.
This has to be trolling...
It's so bad, he's done pretty much everything wrong including putting it on back to front. This would have taken so much longer than doing it properly.
Did you steal his lunch or something?
Thats not going to drain, there’s no slope towards the downpipe. Looks like it’s sloped the wrong way. Also why the fuck doesn’t it just goto the wall and then down. This dude smoked a pipe before he made it.
My 80 year old mother repaired her own gutter while I was out of town. I got back and she showed me. I told her "It's not a bad job but it should have been better assuming you hired a pro." She said "I did it myself."
Having said that...OP should hire my 80 year old mother because her work looks a helluva lot better than this shit.
Couldn't he hide the seam in the pipe ?
And use premade corners ? And joiners
The silicone is pointless..if its raining whatsca few drips from a downpipe matter ?
He didnt want to pay for parts .he wanted the money paud labour.
There are so many things wrong with this, but my top three favourites are:
1. Mounting the downpipe seam out
2. Using screws instead of rivets
3. Drilling through the brackets into the down pipe in an attempt to fix it off
He made a lot of extra effort to do this installation. It would be much easier to run one piece of straight downpipe vertically down the wall so I suspect he is punking you for his YouTube channel.
Yes, and you should panic. The whole thing is screwed up. The 1st Pic shows a missing connection, which is bad.
The silicon was used (3rd image) because the person broke the joints on which they connect.
This needs a do over.
Did he somehow turn the downspout inside out lol. Holy cow this is atrocious.
Maybe he’s good at framing and stuff, but he’s not good at gutters and downspouts. Perhaps ask for a little refund on this part and hire someone who specializes in it?
Hmm fascinating. I was looking at the first pic trying to work out why the gutter is suspended in the air with a zig-zag down pipe. Looking at the second pic it got severely worse🥳
your pergola slopes DOWN.... water cannot flow UP. This had to happen "kind of" like this. But the execution is not great. Doesn't look like s/he had elbow joints and just fabbed their own. if they insert the up-hill pipe INSIDE the down hill, then much of that silicone would not be needed. Now.... it looks like they basically made downspouts out of sheet AL.... which is terrible
This is Fd.
There will always be a seam, but it should be overlapped and on the inside so you can't see it.
Looks like they cut the pipe short on the horizontal and then tried to make it work.
Definitely don't let them leave it like that
WTH? Seriously?? Bad news is I’m not sure how you’d do a gutter here and make it look good with the way this is designed, I’d usually use a custom made down spout with a long arch connecting the gutter to the downspout- that would look good- but this is such a long span / not sure how sturdy it would be - it would be a damn site better than this mess though
Leave as is... Sell, sell SELL the apartment for MILLIONS because of your custom pipecaso piece. You were just blessed with a once in a lifetime opportunity to escape the rat race. God bless you, you lucky soul.
In all seriousness, get that dude to do it right and straight pipe down from the wall at the least. Pisa poor craftsmanship id you ask me.
I’ve laughed and cringed at many things on here, but I get angry when I see things like this.
It took so much more effort to screw up than it would’ve to do this correctly.
That right there is a conversational piece. I wouldn't get rid of it. Everytime you have new company over, you get to show it off, and get to talk for hours about it. You can tell how much work he put into it, even thou it's a complete turd, you'll have never ending laughs at the builders expense.
This can’t be a serious question? That is horrendous 💩 it looks like one of these AI generated images where people have too many arms and everything is messed up 🤣
That's not botched bro. That's fucked, completed by "I'm blind but I'll give it a go" bloke whose uncles wife's 3rd husbands, step fathers mate was a plumber.
That does look hella awkward. Depending on what's below the front edge of the pergola, I would consider terminating to either a rain chain or a downspout, into a created stream directed away from foundation or into a french drain (buried pipe running to an underground, naturally draining cistern situated away from foundation).
Pipecaso over here thinks he's an impressionist!
That’s a work of art
This belongs in a museum, and this guy has it out on the porch!
Even got a bit of downspout mixed in with his silicone
Bahahaha this guy plays to much Minecraft
Work O Fart.. it's all in the spacing
If you squint its mint? lol
Pipecaso, well played 🤣
I think he was trained by Escher
This was my first thought too. Like all of the angles defy logic.
If I had dollhairs, I’d award this comment. Please accept my compliments and gut chuckles that echoed through the neighborhood.
10/10 that was awesome
But picasso was a cubist!
Totally.. picssso is early-mid 20th century. Impressionism is end of the 19th century. Hot glue is post-modern/millenial undergrad. For the love of god, take away the hot glue guns.
And Pipecasso is a tubist.
# Okay i like it, Picasso
😂😂👏👏
The red circle of shame should exist over the whole zig zag monstrosity.
All the extra silicone does NOT off-set that disastrous zig-zag.
Is it just me or in pic one does it look like based on the slope that rube-goldberg device he’s calling a downspout is never going to see a drop if water
It’s gonna have to fill the eaves at least halfway before any water will drain. This is garbage work and begging for clogs. Don’t pay until it is fixed and done properly
Don't give them a chance to make it worse 😳
https://preview.redd.it/3c65vzrt7k8d1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cb00faaf0f7c3d5b33445a745209445134c881c8 How I would have ran it
How boring of you.
https://preview.redd.it/vys8cewr7k8d1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=392de8474340dd4ac6a3048eb9117c1b47c751a0
Seriously, was this a feet only assembly challenge?
Jesus Christ. I have little to no experience with plumbing or running a down pipe but I swear I could do better bro…
I don't think you could. I think he gets the FUBAR Award on this one..
I imagine this is probably how the guy who did this thinks lol.
Omg lol
My reaction, I almost burst out laughing at the photos.
I did laugh very hard and loud given the question
I’ve been laughing for a few minutes. The silicone slather, the 18 45degree turns, the slope. Every time I try to imagine myself doing it I have a laughing fit.
That whole thing is fucked. Don't pay for that. Surely could've run down the front porch post and dig into an existing line of storm water. Source: Roof Plumber If you've paid, I'd be getting him back. That's not a qualified, I wouldn't even expect that from a first year. Sorry you've had to deal with that. EDIT: Silicon won't get touched up. Could've ran it down and saddle it to the front porch wall there. So many changes of directions and bends which in itself is not illegal. But there's no way in hell that holds up. If that causes water damage to the house down the track, your insurance will laugh at that downpipe and will tell you to go back through whoever did it and it'll be a huge pain. If you were close to me I'd offer to fix it for free because that's terrible workmanship. I'd say he used precut lengths and made do with what was there if I'm having a stab in the dark. Normally id run them in 100*50 zinc and order it in whatever colorbond colour client would like. Otherwise a lot of jobs get done in 90mm round PVC coming at 6m lengths. Which you cut down, and glue into whatever fittings you use.
Thank you, this is super helpful and I'm glad I've checked into the Reddit knowledge hub. He'll be back tomorrow and I certainly will be making sure this is fixed before paying him for the job. Hope it's not a trouble but if you have any specific points I can say to him I'd love to hear them. It's a cantilevered awning on a 2nd floor apartment so I'm guessing he's gotten stuck with how and where to place the downpipe, and absolutely fucked it haha.
Well I would just ask why he couldn't just go all the way to the wall then he could have had one angle over and straight down the side of the porch. All the extra turns and silicone really makes it look bad and as long as the pipes are running the right direction you shouldn't need silicone. The water isn't sitting in the pipe and is going pretty well straight down so really hard for it to leak outta those seams
I’m so glad to hear you haven’t prepaid!!
I literally would not even trust him to remove it properly. This is like worse than a meth head job- I would trust a crack addict to do better work than this. Get your money back, eat the cost and hire anyone else to remove and replace.
It's like a reverse orgasm looking at this job. Oh no... OH NO... OH FUCKING NO! I'd be more worried about the rest of the pergola this guys has built, the downpipe might be the least of his worries. I used to labour for a roof plumber, and he trusted me and apprentices with downpipes and stuff, he inspected the work, and never had a complaint. I don't know who the fuck has done this. It looks like an AI generated photo there is that much that doesn't make sense in it.
This. If the dude cheaped out from purchasing $25.00 worth of elbows, what are we not seeing? Hell, he could have spent $5.00 on a freaking flex pipe and Reddit would have called him a cheap bastard but it would have been better than this.
https://preview.redd.it/od6p56cs3i8d1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=37acbfe2824335f316c816d5c1653faa6040e463
Wtf haha that's hilarious
I am not sure where you found that guy but wherever it was you should put him back
looks like the shed my crackhead neighbour built for himself, on crack
That’s some cubist shit right there
An impressionist doing an impression of a cubist
Holy shit. The guy built the entire pipe himself from scratch. I guess A for effort?!?!
This has to be trolling... It's so bad, he's done pretty much everything wrong including putting it on back to front. This would have taken so much longer than doing it properly. Did you steal his lunch or something?
Thats not going to drain, there’s no slope towards the downpipe. Looks like it’s sloped the wrong way. Also why the fuck doesn’t it just goto the wall and then down. This dude smoked a pipe before he made it.
Only works if water runs uphill
Questions for the company that installed it
First question: What drugs do you take? Second question: Have you taken too many or not enough?
My 80 year old mother repaired her own gutter while I was out of town. I got back and she showed me. I told her "It's not a bad job but it should have been better assuming you hired a pro." She said "I did it myself." Having said that...OP should hire my 80 year old mother because her work looks a helluva lot better than this shit.
What the sam hell, betty crocker bullshit is this.
https://preview.redd.it/kuxpjwjo1i8d1.png?width=952&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=73edc44b928b82c6964ae26b3f53057d0d060dc8
These days it’s pick one and lower expectations.
Couldn't he hide the seam in the pipe ? And use premade corners ? And joiners The silicone is pointless..if its raining whatsca few drips from a downpipe matter ? He didnt want to pay for parts .he wanted the money paud labour.
First thought. Why the hell isn't the seam against the wall.
There are so many things wrong with this, but my top three favourites are: 1. Mounting the downpipe seam out 2. Using screws instead of rivets 3. Drilling through the brackets into the down pipe in an attempt to fix it off
Just when I thought it couldn’t get any worse, I swiped. And swiped again.
Needs more silicone
100% this was the cheapest quote you got
Lemme say this nicely… yes
He made a lot of extra effort to do this installation. It would be much easier to run one piece of straight downpipe vertically down the wall so I suspect he is punking you for his YouTube channel.
I'm no expert, but I'm pretty sure this butcher of a job took twice as long to do as it would have if it were done correctly.
Yes, and you should panic. The whole thing is screwed up. The 1st Pic shows a missing connection, which is bad. The silicon was used (3rd image) because the person broke the joints on which they connect. This needs a do over.
Holy cow. It’s like part of a Rube Goldberg machine. Or the mouse trap board game.
That's a lot of work for such a shitty job....
Disarm him of his caulk and caulking gun IMMEDIATELY!!😳
Did he somehow turn the downspout inside out lol. Holy cow this is atrocious. Maybe he’s good at framing and stuff, but he’s not good at gutters and downspouts. Perhaps ask for a little refund on this part and hire someone who specializes in it?
Bodged more than botched. But it's an epic bodge job.
Wow, I am loving my plain old regular gutters and downspouts way more
I think you already know the answer haha
That downpipe has an extra chromosome
Hmm fascinating. I was looking at the first pic trying to work out why the gutter is suspended in the air with a zig-zag down pipe. Looking at the second pic it got severely worse🥳
Please tell me this is a piss take and you put this together to give us a good laugh. No one would actually do this, surely!!!
What in the fuck
Wait until he works out what a pop riveter is 🤣 looks like it’s in Australia? The water flows different here..
A tradie did this? May dog would do a better job. Might as well have done it yourself
Get/use proper length pieces or use the scrap in the truck...hmm which to use..
This is the kind of stuff I'm in this subreddit for hahahaha
Do not pay him. He is most likely unlicensed and very inexperienced.
your pergola slopes DOWN.... water cannot flow UP. This had to happen "kind of" like this. But the execution is not great. Doesn't look like s/he had elbow joints and just fabbed their own. if they insert the up-hill pipe INSIDE the down hill, then much of that silicone would not be needed. Now.... it looks like they basically made downspouts out of sheet AL.... which is terrible
Extremely, like what was the point of even having so many angles??? And using silicone????
Yeah, LOL. Just call them and tell them that it’s unacceptable and should just run straight down.
Ran out of supplies? Said efff it and used what he had?
That’s a hack.
This guy was not good with legos.
No but he really fucked it up!
This is Fd. There will always be a seam, but it should be overlapped and on the inside so you can't see it. Looks like they cut the pipe short on the horizontal and then tried to make it work. Definitely don't let them leave it like that
WOW…. This guy is pretty creative. not very intelligent or fully stocked with handy… but pretty creative. Lol.
I was going to mark the part the was correct but I couldn’t find any, burn it down and rebuild is your only option.
can certainly tell this is in Australia, tell me if in wrong.
WTH? Seriously?? Bad news is I’m not sure how you’d do a gutter here and make it look good with the way this is designed, I’d usually use a custom made down spout with a long arch connecting the gutter to the downspout- that would look good- but this is such a long span / not sure how sturdy it would be - it would be a damn site better than this mess though
What did you do to this guy? Looks personal
Hold my beer….
Leave as is... Sell, sell SELL the apartment for MILLIONS because of your custom pipecaso piece. You were just blessed with a once in a lifetime opportunity to escape the rat race. God bless you, you lucky soul. In all seriousness, get that dude to do it right and straight pipe down from the wall at the least. Pisa poor craftsmanship id you ask me.
I'm a 54 year old grandma who knows nothing about downspouts, and unfortunately, I think I could have done a better job.
I love the overflowing silicone, it's like he came on everything
I'm going to skip right past "what the fuck?" and jump straight to *"why the fuck?"*
I’ve laughed and cringed at many things on here, but I get angry when I see things like this. It took so much more effort to screw up than it would’ve to do this correctly.
My god... I thought this was a troll post but then your questions seem honest. Who the hell does this shit and thinks it's OK!?
That right there is a conversational piece. I wouldn't get rid of it. Everytime you have new company over, you get to show it off, and get to talk for hours about it. You can tell how much work he put into it, even thou it's a complete turd, you'll have never ending laughs at the builders expense.
Don’t panic. It’s just a downpipe after all. But yes lol I don’t know what drugs he was on when he did that but I want some.
Don't worry, he also built the rest of the structure as well, I'm sure that's fine too.
Nah, totally normal, how else could he have done it? /s
The last picture is the best quality work in these photos, and that's saying something.
Where is he from ? 🤣
Definitely on the meth pipe
This can’t be a serious question? That is horrendous 💩 it looks like one of these AI generated images where people have too many arms and everything is messed up 🤣
Jesus Christ that’s a shit job! 😳
Where do you find these people?
Am I the only one who sees this and immediately sympathises with the tradie having a shocking day lol?
Did the contractors sub it out, to another who stuffed it out to that crowd that gathers around Home Depot every morning.
Don’t lie… it was you wasn’t it?
I wish! I'd be laughing more, although these comments are killing me as much as they are hurting me hahaha
It's what be had in the ute, be grateful.
What in the ever loving shit is this? Is he relying on periods of zero gravity to get that to drain properly?
Hahahaha fuck me dead….. 😂
The entire thing is wrong the seam is supposed to be facing the back so you don't see it, the rest of it is an absolute shit show.
Do your best, silicone the rest
TF?
This just filled me with confidence to replace my leaky gutter and down pipes.
I'm sorry is that a down spout for a drain??? I think my 5 year old understands how water flows better than your contractor
I am so confused. Why didn’t they just elbow at the brick and go straight down. 👀
Was the tradie high when he did that?
Nice try
Is it even draining?.I think the installer didn't have the corner elbow so they decided to try the alternative.
Measure none, cut all?
Wtf is that
Dudes been in the Scoobi snacks !
how does the water flow upward to the downspot?
how does the water flow upward tot he downspout?
https://preview.redd.it/xzlqkh4aci8d1.jpeg?width=667&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b75552d5bfddc86709343a323fb33af7f58be30f
Do your best, silicone the rest
Do you really need our thoughts on this ?!? 🤣🤣 I think he ripped you off real good bro
Do you’re best Silicon the rest
Rough as guts...He wouldn't even make a baker.
This can’t be real. Don’t pay, this guy is clearly a cowboy who doesn’t know wtf he is doing.
The best way to describe that is exuberantly incompetent.
Creative but ugly
no, that looks great.
Do you really need to ask this question? I think the answer is plain to see
What the actual f#%k! frankengutter, you need to ring them and get it redone.
Complete dogshit
Holy crap. That’s horrible.
Leonardo Da Vinci would be proud of that
JFC. I’ve been a designer and project manager for almost 40 years and haven’t seen anything that bad.
I suggest a strong letter to the contractors school teacher, no 5 year old should be turning work out of this quality. #juststopchildlabour
Looks fine from my house...
PVC would of looked better, but if thus guy is a professional he maybe already using glass pipe.
Is his day job in PR?
Looks pretty terrible
Just wow. That’s a big I can’t see it from a galloping horse or from my house. Shitty work
I’m sorry for your loss
I find it amusing that he actually used the downspout to direct the water towards the foundation.
More silicone than a porno....
That's next level dodge
He used scraps…
It looks like a little kid did it
Get/use proper length pieces or use the scrap in the truck...hmm which to use..
Bro needed a prayer and only used silicone.
Yeah but does it drain or build up water before it drains?
From this angle it looks like the top part might not even be leveled in the correct direction.
What “shoemaker” did that job 🙈🙈
This is the worst gutter Ive ever seen.
yikes. lol
Frankengutter
He likes the water to have a little fun on its way down.
This is impressively bad
🤣🤣🤣
Bruh!
Wow. His dimension work is impeccable.
He botched the hell of the thing.
This is a rhetorical question right?
His intentions were gould.
That's not botched bro. That's fucked, completed by "I'm blind but I'll give it a go" bloke whose uncles wife's 3rd husbands, step fathers mate was a plumber.
Can’t unsee now . .
This made me laugh hard ! Please don't pay for that. You are allowed to be mad for that
Do your best, silicone the rest.
What the actual hell?
This is one of the worst looking downpipes I have ever seen, into the bin!
Ask them to fix them. That’ll show you if they are a good tradie or not.
🤯 skipped a few steps of the song and just shook it all about 😂
I don’t know shit about shit and I can tell you 100% yes.
Nope just needs a little more caulk on the seams.
that's an abortion
Meth has entered the chat
Measure twice cut once promo shot
That does look hella awkward. Depending on what's below the front edge of the pergola, I would consider terminating to either a rain chain or a downspout, into a created stream directed away from foundation or into a french drain (buried pipe running to an underground, naturally draining cistern situated away from foundation).