Bathroom Fitting

Is it normal to cut pipes including mains water pipe into the wall?

Anonymous user 23/02/2024 - 2.54 PM

A builder was renovating my bathroom. He stripped it bear of old basin, bath and toilet and replastered the walls. He then walked out of the job just as he said a plumber was going to fit new bath, loo etc. What alarms me is that whilst the tap pipes for the bath and basin protrude from the floor, the pipes - carrying the water/waste etc have been severed. He cut the pipes at the wall and then squashed them together (the only pipe that now protudes is the toilet waste pipe all others are in the wall). Is it normal to sever pipes in this way? I have a terrible feeling that the reason he scarpered is that when the plumber turned up he saw what the builder had done and could not afford to put this right. I am so worried that any reassurance or not would be gratefully received. All one can see now of the previous pipes is a squashed end in the wall.