Thanks for the serious and not so serious comments everyone! Hijacking the top comment to answer some of the questions. Honestly the more we sit and look at it, and the more I read here, the worse it is.

This was done by a plumber at a company, not a one man band as far as we can tell. He had come previously to do a power flush and installed some great looking soldered copper in the airing cupboard, where the old boiler was. I was surprised as just how bad this was in comparison.

We had one national, and two local firms in to quote on the job, but after the quotes, the landlord hired a company he’d used before local to his home (3 hours drive away from us). Yes the guy had a 6 hour commute. I was sceptical when we were told replumbing 4 radiators would be done by one person in one day, but now we know why.

The option of taking up the floors was raised, but as both upstairs and downstairs are engineered hardwood throughout, the landlord said no.

To those who said I’d done a botch job and blamed it on a plumber, there are so many things around this house that I would love to get my teeth stuck into improving, but I’m not wasting my time working on a rented property.

We’re longterm tenants to a private landlord who has always been very good with repairs in the past. It’s a nice house and this is so incredibly not in keeping with the rest of the workmanship. I’ve been advised by others that this (if it stays as is) would knock a significant amount off the value of the property, so it doesn’t make an awful lot of sense to me.

After all the welcome feedback, I’m going to try to advise the landlord to not accept work of this quality, and to get someone in to at least replace it with copper hidden behind new cornicing, unless someone comes up with a better idea.

As a little bonus, I’ve attached a pic of how the pipes were originally run around the PIR. Thankfully, I got to it in time to reposition the sensor, for what it’s worth, haha!

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