oh plumber

 

1. And so goes the Summer of a Thousand Cuts.
   Well, as Red Green used to say; Give me a role of duct tape and I will rule the world, or at least the part I keep watching fall apart on a regular basis,,,,

   Posted by Rich K       07/13/2015  at  02:04 PM  



2. Thank your fine friends in China for driving up the cost of copper to what it currently is.  However, their economic manipulations over there are now causing them problems, and as a result the price of copper and iron ore and portland cement and such are dropping.  If only you could have waited a few months…

   By the way, how did you ever get a plumber to arrive so quickly?  I was led to believe that they are usually much like the NHS, and will get to you when they feel like it…
   }:-]

   Posted by Mark Matis       07/13/2015  at  02:59 PM  



3. Really? It took this guy 2 1/2 hours to get here from when I called, and he apologized for taking so long. Things are better out here in the sticks.

   Course, he charged me a fortune. But I’ve got a shower that works, and a couple nice new ball valves that actually shut off the water. And a whole new temperature controlled diverter valve thingy, with an access panel. And no more drippy connections on the hot water heater. So I guess it was worth it.

   Posted by Drew458       07/13/2015  at  04:41 PM  



4. I gotta get me one of those!

   Posted by grayjohn       07/14/2015  at  07:24 PM  



5. An ABS drain under my kitchen sink fractured earlier this spring. I am still not done repairing the entire kitchen, but the plumbing part of the whole thing cost me $1145. They plumber was here maybe 6 hours. That is/was the biggest ripoff I have encountered in a LONG LONG time. I should have been a plumber.

   Posted by RedneckGeezer       07/14/2015  at  09:22 PM  



6. Its become that way over here as well, and yet my old man was a plumber all his life and he has nothing much to show for it. He did mostly industrial stuff, but for a time had his own business. However in the 60’s and 70’s plumbers were paid peanuts. It seems like by the 1980’s and 90’s they brought in more and more regulations so that you can’t legally do many jobs if it involves electrickery or gas. You have to have a “competant person” carry out the work. With a commensurate increase in what they charge. I get the point that you don’t want some half-wit blowing their house up through a gas leak, or burning it down with ethnic wiring, but most plumbing and electrical wiring is really not that difficult.

   Posted by LyndonB       07/15/2015  at  02:59 PM  



7. You could never be a plumber, RedneckGeezer.  You simply do not have the butt crack to work in that profession.

   Posted by Mark Matis       07/15/2015  at  03:03 PM  



8. Sadly Mark, that too is a thing of the past.

   Posted by Drew458       07/15/2015  at  04:11 PM  

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