Comments | chaosofdesire: housey woes again

chaosofdesire

housey woes again

Oct 31, 2005 23:51

I think I'm in the wrong profession. I had to have a plumber come out last night to fix a pipe that decided to spring a leak at around midnight. I'm glad I had to get some laundry out of the dryer down in the basement, otherwise I don't know how long it would have been shooting water everywhere before myself or my roommate would have noticed it ( Read more... )

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mindfazer336 November 2 2005, 03:41:17 UTC

Sorry to hear about your pipe busting. Dang that is alot of money, but like you said the company probably took a good chunk of that. Good thing is that you found it when you did.

chaosofdesire November 2 2005, 08:59:37 UTC

I was thinking more about if I hadn't found the leak and how horrible that could've been. The water was spraying up onto the floorboards for the main floor and if it had done that long enough, well, I'm just guessing it could have been a lot uglier mess.

starkillernc November 3 2005, 00:13:23 UTC

well, at least it wasn't your furnace getting a hole in it while you were on vacation. Water is easier to clean than soot, trust me on that one.

As far as the $300, that guy will probably only get his normal hourly on-call rate, which is probably around $15-20/hr. At least that's the going rate around here. Maybe an extra $40 for doing an afterhours service call, but that's iffy with a lot of companies. I got out of plumbing because of the service work honestly. I don't mind working on clean new pipes, but working on ones that have had 15-20+ years of someone elses turds scraping along the sides of it..... um, no thanks. I know some of the bombs that I've dropped, and I couldn't stand those. I sure don't want to deal with someone elses bombs.

chaosofdesire November 3 2005, 01:58:11 UTC

Oh trust me, I wasn't actually considering being a plumber, mainly on what you just brought up. And yeah, definitely easier to clean up water than soot. I'll agree with that.

starkillernc November 3 2005, 14:41:15 UTC

i figured as much. it always seems glamourous from the outside, at least the money does anyways. Yeah, people think that because we ask for $100k for a theater room that takes around 3 days to install, we must get paid $40/hr. Not.