City & Guilds Qualified - Level 2

Mr Steve Bushnell

I&#39;m a Sole Trader Plumber, and my business name is BUSHNELL&#39;S Plumbing &amp; Heating, Been a domestic plumber for 15 years now. In 2010 I started learning the basic plumbing skills in my spare time, while I was working for a company, and in 2017 I started up my sole trader business as &quot; BUSHNELL&#39;S Plumbing &amp; Heating&quot; 2018 took myself on a tiling course to learn how to tile floor/walls for bathroom etc. The Materials I can Replace.<ul><li>Bathroom Refurbishment and Tiling wall &amp; Floors</li><li>Vented hot water cylinders</li><li>Mains stopcocks</li><li>outside taps</li><li>Installation of Radiators, pipe work and TRV radiator valves</li><li>Taps on kitchen sinks, baths and basins, and kitchen sink drainers and waste</li><li>Installations of washing machine and dish washers</li></ul> The Materials I can&#39;t install or repair is, Un-vented cylinders, because they licensed to install and service. Gas boilers, to install, service and repair, because I&#39;m not gas safe engineer yet, on a gas safe course at the moment and want to be a gas safe engineer by next year.

Waste

Kitchen sink 

Outside tap

This is the cold  supply to the outside tap

This is where the kitchen sink will be installed 

Kitchen sink location 

This is the new Wc vanity unit & toilet Pan with a concealed system inside the white gloss unit.

New toilet installation 

Now the old  toilet has been taken out, ready to install a vanity concealed unit with a toilet pan, new wast pipe is already fitted 

The old toilet taken out

This toilet has been in the property since the property was built  and l think about 60 years.

Old toilet

Also this is the panel for the rain shower l have installed inside the enclosure 

Panel rain shower

This is the shower enclosure l had installed after the tray was fitted 

Shower enclosure

That’s the shower tray installed in a customers bathroom ready for the enclosure 

Shower tray

Vanity basin and toilet has now been installed and both are working fine, next step is the install t

New the floor tiles are complete , need to install new vanity basin and toilet, as you can see where the shower enclosure will be installed next to the toilet

New floor tiles 

Just waiting for the floor tile to set in place , then l can grout them

New floor tiles

Before l fix the tiles in place l had the put cement boards down 

This bathroom floor is ready for the cement boards 

New wooden flooring 

This is new wood flooring as the old wooden flooring was pulled up with the old tiles

New wood bathroom floor 

This hot water cylinder is now installed with new immersion back up heater in the top ,two female coupler for the primary flow and primary return central heating and a male coupler for the cold feed pipe below  the gate valve 

New hot water cylinder installed 

Now the cylinder has been taken out the gate valve had to be changed on this 22mm feed pipe  along with the drain off valve , before l installed the new cylinder, and the storage tank was drained down to change the drain valve 

Now cylinder is out , gate valve change

This old cylinder had to be taken out as the central heating coil had split inside, so l had to drain off the hot water cylinder and the central heating system had to be drained down to do this cylinder change.

900 x 450mm hot water Cylinder 

Installing a radiator, moving and changing pipe work in a house spare bedroom 

Radiator installation 

Customer wanted this designer radiator and chrome pipe work to be installed in there dinning room 

Vertical designer radiator installation 

This is the chrome pipe work to the radiator in the dinning room 

chrome Pipe work

This is a vertical designer radiator + chrome pipe work 

Designer vertical radiator 

The pipe work is now completed to the designer radiator along with a drain off valve

Pipe work to this Radiator

A customer want a shower installed to there unvented hot water tank pipes hot/cold supply’s 

Tilling and shower completed

The tilling on the three walls have now been completed ready for the shower manual mixer and pipes to be in stalled through the ceiling into the loft 

Wall completed 

Tiles are fixed to the wall just need to complete the grouting 

Tile are on the wall

The other end of the wall has been tilled

Other end 

Long wall tilling

End wall above the bath tap have been finished

One wall tilling complete 

A customer want a shower installed , but before l’ve got to tile the three walls 

Starting to tile

This walk in shower door is now completed 

Shower door 

This is the new chrome shower door with the frame  l installed and the make is ELEGANT FROM AMAZON, the home owner couldn’t believe on how much it improved the on suite bathroom

chrome sliding shower 

This shower sliding door with frame was broken as the home owner had problems opening and shutting the sliding door and had to dismantle 

White shower door

White shower door frame support wall brackets 

The radiator that was on this wall under the window was being upgraded 

Old radiator been disconnected 

This is the new radiator l’ve install with new valves and altered pipe work

New radiator 

Had to re-pipe and new valves fitted  for this new radiator 

Smaller radiator 

This new radiator and pipe work is now completed 

Smaller new radiator and new pipe work completed 

A customer want me to remove an old large radiator from under the window and to install a smaller radiator on another wall , so they could have new patio doors fitted

Removing a large old radiator , and installing a smaller radiator on another wall , read for patio d

New sink drainer and mixer tap , and shelf in the cupboard below had to be replaced because sink was leaking  as the sink drainer was broken 

New kitchen sink drainer 

This sink drainer and mixer tap and the shelf below  is in need of a new  upgrade 

Broken sink drainer

This is the new and bigger double Radiator l installed for a company, plus altering the pipe work as well

Companies new radiators

These are to brackets for a two column radiator

Two colume radiator

New two column radiator

Had to bend the pipe work to locate from pipe work to the valves on the right hand side

Pipe work 

This two column radiator plus pipe work is new fully installed and work hot

Installation new radiator

This is the pipe work installed from the pipe from the floor to the lockshield valve on the left hand side

Pipe work

This is the left hand side lockshield and pipe work

New pipe work

This is the new thermostatic trv valve and pipe work

Before the towel rail was installed, a  radiator towel rail was in place and wasn't working, so this 1400 x 600mm towel rail was installed and now the bathroom is toasty warm again

New towel rail

This is a hole house water filter l installed for a customer, from where the internal stop cock mains tap

Who house water filter

From the Mains tap to the water filter flexible hoses

This is the old radiator l decommissioned ready for the new one

Old radiator

This is the new radiator l installed l, plus new valves and microbore pipe work as well

New radiator

This new radiator and pipe work is now completed

New radiator & pipe work

This is where the old radiator was fixed to the wall as the pipes are still in place

Old radiator pipes

This is the new bracket for the new radiator going to go

New radiator brackets

Prepping the new radiator, ready for installation

Installing end caps and trv valves

These brackets are level to hang new radiator

Brackets

This is the new radiator with the trv valves, just need to install the copper pipes

New raduator

The is the other designer radiator l installed in the same house, but in the kitchen area

Designer radiator

This is one of the radiators l installed in the hall way near a front door 

Old offset shower enclosure, with a cracked shower tray

This is the new 900 x 1200mm LH offset shower fixed into place ready for the enclosure to be fitted 

The new offset left hand shower tray

Old shower tray gone

This is the new LH offset shower enclosure has now been completely instalked

New shower enclosure

This is the new on-suite shower tray and new tile now complete, for the bi-folding shower door to be fixed back into place so the owner can start using it

On-suite shower tray

New on-suite shower tray fixed in place with the new tile fixed to the wall

This is the on-suite shower tray l had to remove as it was cracked, and also had to take the first row of tile off to get tray out

Removed shower on-suite tray

This on-suite shower is new complete with bi-folding doors 

On-suite shower complete

This on-suite shower tray has a crack in the corner of it

New concealed toilet unit and pan, now installed

This is the new hot water cylinder installed and no leak after refill and before l found out the circulation pump was not working

RM cylinder

This is the brand new circulation pump l had to install on the new cylinder as the old pump was not working also with two new gate valves as the old ones were letting by

New pump

This Glendhill cylinder in the photo is leaking from the top where you normally install a emmersion heater and a towel has been put around the area

A Vented cylinder

This Circulating Pump stopped working after l installed a new Cylinder after l filled up the cylinde

This is where the old toilet once was before l took it out

Decommissioned old toilet 

This is the new cloakroom vanity basin, in place of the old wall hung basin

New Cloakroon basin

I had to make some boxing made out of white furniture paneks to cover waste pipe and rising mains tap

Boxing to cover pipes

This is the old cylinder leaking from the supply pipe

Old cylinder that is leaking

This had to be taken out before l could take out cylinder, just as well the push fits and plastic pipe needed to be change before the shower pump was reinstalled 

Shower pump

Cylinder

This is the new cylinder installation and the new shower pump has been installed with new pipe and fittings, so all completed

New cylinder

This is the start of the cold/hot supply for a shower enclosure

Installation of hot/cold supply

Plumbing

Bushnells Plumbing & Heating

communication was excellent arrived on time, and cleared up any mess, very happy

out side tap install

excellent..response within hours. Sent pics of suitablw taps and bought them and carried out the job within 3 hrs of accepting the work. would recommend.  polite and helpful.

replacement kitchen mixer and isolation valves

Quick response and able to come out and repair the leak same day - would highly recommend

Fixed leak under sink basin

Steve was very organised, and communication throughout was excellent. He supplied and fitted everything to a high standard. Highly recommended.

Kitchen tap replacement

Steve arrived on time and carried out the replacement with ease.  he even replaced the stop valve that was leaking. thankyou very much.  I might be needing my radiators changed soon. Steve is the person I will absolutely be considering first .

I needed a ball valve replaced

I would highly recommend this company and I intend to use them in the near future

Pipes moved to accommodate a dishwasher

Average score based on 12 reviews in the last 12 months

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I&#39;m a Sole Trader Plumber, and my business name is BUSHNELL&#39;S Plumbing &amp; Heating, Been a domestic plumber for 15 years now.In 2010 I started learning the basic plumbing skills in my spare time, while I was working for a company, and in 2017 I started up my sole trader business as &quot; BUSHNELL&#39;S Plumbing &amp; Heating&quot;2018 took myself on a tiling course to learn how to tile floor/walls for bathroom etc.The Materials I can Replace.Bathroom Refurbishment and Tiling wall &amp; FloorsVented hot water cylindersMains stopcocksoutside tapsInstallation of Radiators, pipe work and TRV radiator valvesTaps on kitchen sinks, baths and basins, and kitchen sink drainers and wasteInstallations of washing machine and dish washersThe Materials I can&#39;t install or repair is, Un-vented cylinders, because they licensed to install and service.Gas boilers, to install, service and repair, because I&#39;m not gas safe engineer yet, on a gas safe course at the moment and want to be a gas safe engineer by next year.

My name is Steve Bushnell and I have been carrying out plumbing work since 2008. My qualifications enable me to install hot water cylinders, bathroom suites, radiators and outside taps.

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