ESplumber:
[...] but the poles who did the renovation [...]
[...] and the way the poles left the pipework [...]
the poles, who are they? Animals? Aliens? Whoever else?
Mate, please stop with this racial discrimination at least at public forum, ok?
If ever english chap done similar crappy job would you say "the english who did the renovation"?
Everywhere are good specialists and cowboys. There's no excuse for anybody who fouled up a job. There's no matter what nationality cowboy is. Cowboy is always cowboy...
Why do you emphasize that poles done that? Do you want to tell everybody that poles can't do the job properly, because few fools gone wrong?
Or, perhaps because polish builders are not qualified because they come from country where standard plumbing technologies are still unknown for majority of english ones? Where one stove heats up over 50 blocks of flats and supply them in hot water 24h/7? Where water pressure is described in atmospheres not bars and nobody ever heard about water pressure problem (there are problems, sometimes we have to use reducers when pressure blows a tap though), where copper pipes are not allowed for gas by regulations to increase safety, where no even single inch of lead pipe is used because of health hazzard (all of them has been removed ages ago), where no single drain pipe is visible outside building cause all of them are hidden between the walls for esthetic reasons, where is not acceptable if angle between two walls in square room is different then 90 degrees, where is not acceptable if a sheet of paper can slide between newly plastered
wall and level sticked onto it, where is not acceptable if wall/floor has no level, etc. etc. I agree we have bad roads, no motorways and many more disadvantages but it's because of polish goverment composed in 80% of jewish comunists occupying the country, because through all the history gemrans used to fight with russians on our land destroying it completly and we had to start over and over again from scratch. Comunists disabled all of our factories (cars, bikes, planes) and engineers had to emigrate to avoid murder. I'm pretty sure you english even never knew about polish pilots' results in the battle of england cause in your schools no one tells about it don't know why (stop. off topic.)
I know plenty of english fellow plumbers/bilders, that used to work in polish sites and were very impressed by polish perfomance repeatidly say that they have never seen similar things. They couldn't believe how much work could be done in such a low amount of time with highest polish standards.
I work personally in many residences owned by London's millionaires, in theirs new houses where work best english builders which performing lower standard than simple builders in poland do in simple new blocks.
So, please don't blame poles because of few cowboys that did not do well in your mates house. I know that not qualified fools creates bad reputation, although it's no reason for racial discrimination and generalising the facts.
