A cowboy plumber who lied about being part of an approved trader scheme must pay 2,620 after a customer reported his shoddy work.

Roger Dunham, of R Dunham Plumbing and Heating, was reported to Bracknell Forest Councils Trading Standards team by one of his clients, complaining about work he had carried out in December 2013.

The customer had employed Dunham based on claims that he was a member of the Trading Standards scheme, Buy With Confidence (BWC).

Appearing at Reading Magistrates Court on Monday September 1, Dunham, of Gravetts Lane, Guildford, admitted he lied about being a member of the scheme as well as two other charges contrary to the Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations 2008.

The plumbers membership to the trading standards scheme had expired in 2012.

He also made false claims that he was a member of the Chartered Institute of Plumbing and Heating Engineering (Ciphe) and that he was qualified by the Construction Industry Training Board (CITB).

Dunham was fined 1,400 and ordered to pay council costs of 1,100 as well as a victim surcharge of 120 a total of 2,620.

In mitigation, the plumber said he had not got round to renewing his paperwork for the BWC scheme and had enquired about joining Ciphe but accepted he should not have been displaying the logo.

He also claimed he was Gas Safe-qualified and said this was the same, if not better, than any CITB qualification, which he had simply forgotten to remove this from his paperwork.

However, the magistrates did not accept his excuse, saying the complaint was made more than a year after his BWC membership lapsed and he had not even applied to Ciphe. They added making such statements was misleading and fraudulent.

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A cowboy plumber who lied about being part of an approved trader scheme must pay 2,620 after a customer reported his shoddy work.

Roger Dunham, of R Dunham Plumbing and Heating, was reported to Bracknell Forest Councils Trading Standards team by one of his clients, complaining about work he had carried out in December 2013.

The customer had employed Dunham based on claims that he was a member of the Trading Standards scheme, Buy With Confidence (BWC).

Appearing at Reading Magistrates Court on Monday September 1, Dunham, of Gravetts Lane, Guildford, admitted he lied about being a member of the scheme as well as two other charges contrary to the Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations 2008.

The plumbers membership to the trading standards scheme had expired in 2012.

He also made false claims that he was a member of the Chartered Institute of Plumbing and Heating Engineering (Ciphe) and that he was qualified by the Construction Industry Training Board (CITB).

Dunham was fined 1,400 and ordered to pay council costs of 1,100 as well as a victim surcharge of 120 a total of 2,620.

In mitigation, the plumber said he had not got round to renewing his paperwork for the BWC scheme and had enquired about joining Ciphe but accepted he should not have been displaying the logo.

He also claimed he was Gas Safe-qualified and said this was the same, if not better, than any CITB qualification, which he had simply forgotten to remove this from his paperwork.

However, the magistrates did not accept his excuse, saying the complaint was made more than a year after his BWC membership lapsed and he had not even applied to Ciphe. They added making such statements was misleading and fraudulent.

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Gifted artists: there's just something about tradies. Photo: Anna-Lisa Backlund

Give me a choice between front-row seats at a Red Hot ChiliPeppers concert, or a front yard seat watching a plumber yank a wad of homemade gloop out of my blocked drain, and I'm torn, I really am. Because I can spend hours watching my plumber doing his plumbing work, strutting round and round my sewer, playing electric-eel solos that really groove out.

Give me a choice between sitting through a Stephen Hawking lecture about black holes, cosmology and gravity, or watching a truckie reverse a massive semi-articulated truck into a tiny driveway, and I have to be honest, I'm going the truckie. These drivers understand the classical laws of trailer-motion, they're professors of truck-dynamics. I'd like to see Stephen Hawking reverse like that, in a semi-articulated 18-wheeler wheelchair.

Give me a choice between a live comedy show with talented comedians nailing gag after gag of quality material, or peeking down the side of my house and watching a fence guy nailing paling after paling of quality pine ... hmmm, tough decision. But I'll probably take the fence-guy: I could stand and watch him build an entire fence, unless he shooed me away with a pneumatic nail gun.

Because I'm a tradie groupie, a worker fanboi, a hoarding whore. Artists, academics, athletes, they do nothing for me: I'd rather hang around city construction sites, peeping through the little viewer-peephole, enjoying a labourer-of-love. I'd rather follow the mattress delivery-guy into my house, marvelling at his prowess with doorway angling and corner manoeuvring.I'd rather pull over in the car and watch roadworkers fix a road, especially the traffic spotter who has to stand on the road all day, holding an unfortunate sign over his head that says "SLOW", like he's not ashamed that the whole world knows.

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Across the street from my place there was an old house that had been standing for 100 years, and suddenly it wasn't there any more. A huge dinosaur-necked excavator came and smashed it down, then a massive hippo-arsed truck came and took away the pieces, leaving an empty gap in the row of houses, like the street had a tooth pulled and it was waiting for a dental implant. And now a new house has started going up and it's been a non-stop heavy-metal concert of tradies, truckies, tractors and I've been soaking up every second, standing at my front gate, pretending I'm checking my mail 14 times an hour.

Other tradie groupies come to watch too: passers-by,neighbours, all of us huddled on the footpath, mesmerised by the show. When an earthmover dug huge holes in the ground, we all rushed down to the moshpit to get a closer look, swaying to the hydraulic pump-rhythms. When a crane delivered a massive pre-made swimming pool, we cheered, applauded, one passer-by even getting a little teary, mumbling "Must be dust in my eye, yeah, just ... dust". Some of us even stayed back at the end of the day to watch a couple of surveyors measuring the site with their electronic laser-levels, but they were a bit too prog-rock and we soon lost interest.

Tomorrow we'll be back again, hoping to catch our favourite chippies, brickies, sparkies, truckies. We don't know why: maybe it's because they build stuff we can't build, lift things we can't lift, drive machines we can't drive, eat snack foods we can't eat. They are not doing lesser jobs, they have not chosen fallback professions: these people are gifted artists, and we are drawn to them like moths to a flame. Mostly male middle-aged moths with a little too much time on our hands.

Danny Katz is a columnist for The Age.

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Tribunal president Dato Maznah Dasmi, who sat with Alhadi Ibrahim and Bexter Agas Micheal, said in the meantime the claimant and developer could still settle the matter outside.

House owner Gerald Lee, 28, had filed a claim against the developer after the water tank above the ceiling in the master bedrooms toilet fell.

Lee, a civil engineer, argued that the two untreated wooden planks placed above the ceiling were unable to support the 1,000-litre water tank.

When the tank fell, he said, the master bedroom and toilet in his house at Jalan Bako were flooded. Some appliances in toilet were also damaged.

Lee then lodged a complaint with the developer, and the developer repaired most of the damage inflicted, including repainting the affected wall.

But it was understood that the developer declined to compensate Lee for the damaged bedroom set and water heater, worth a total of RM5,700.

On Lees claim that there were only two wooden planks to support the water tank, a representative of the developer insisted the tank was supported by three two-inch by four-inch wooden planks.

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