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Hefty-
LSX everywhere. Had a fireman friend (R.I.P.) who I introduced to LSX. He came up with some amazing joints. Had to replace a bath trap for him that worked but had no washers in at all, just a tube of LSX. He insisted on covering compression joints with a coating of LSX that you had to peel off before you could get a spanner on them.
Airhead
Been through a bit of that recently. I'm getting better at it now I don't expect anything to work first time.
Had to do a bit of work with a plumber recently, was talking to him about a fused spur. He said "can't trust them can you, you switch them off and they're still live", which confused me for a while. Then I realised that if you live in a world of plumbing it's quite possible the fused spur was wired by a plumber so they might have wired it incorrectly first time around.
Same thing seems to apply with plumbing. Everyone thinks they'll have a go so you get people trying to connect euro basin wastes to 1 1/4 traps and sometimes they make it work for a while but ultimately someone needs to fix it. (S12A-F is the McAlpine EU -> 1 1/4" adaptor).