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Poco Deplorevole

On Fri, 17 Feb 2017 11:02:10 -0500, wrote:

On Fri, 17 Feb 2017 10:17:25 -0500, Poco Deplorevole
wrote:

On Fri, 17 Feb 2017 09:26:31 -0500, wrote:

On Fri, 17 Feb 2017 08:36:14 -0500, Poco Deplorevole
wrote:

On Fri, 17 Feb 2017 07:57:16 -0500 (EST), justan wrote:

Poco Deplorevole Wrote in message:
...when you're waiting for the plumber to show up. Hopefully getting one from Angie's List will be a
good thing and not a huge ripoff. Plumbers are right up there with YKW when it comes to people I
don't trust.

They have to live too. Your poop is their bread and butter.

I wouldn't mind them, if I trusted them. I had one tell me I needed a new water main, $10000 worth.
Thinking the water leak (coming under the foundation into the sump and overflowing into the
basement) might have been from the county line, I called them. They came out, tested the lines, and
told me there was no leak. Turned out my sump pump had plugged up. I put in a new sump pump and no
more problem.

Sneaky devils. I later found that the folks from this firm worked on a commission basis. Maybe they
all do now.

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In my opinion you're almost always better off hiring people from a
small mom and pop business than from a larger company. Small
operations tend to have less overhead and rely more on word of mouth
recommendations.

The hard part is finding them. This time I used Angie's List. We'll see how it goes.

I don't suppose it would be shocking to know I have never hired a
plumber. What kind of problem do you have?

An old (over 25 years) Moen shower valve is leaking. I bravely bought a new cartridge and a
cartridge puller. Then I tried to unscrew the handle. The screw broke off. Now I have no way to
attach the cartridge puller. I've been dousing the screw with PB Blaster for the past five days.

Propitiously, Angies List had a 'Plumber for 2 hours for $119' ad hit my email shortly after
breaking off the screw. I paid the bucks and will let the plumber do it. About 1 cm of screw is
sticking out of the cartridge, and a careful application of vice-grips may get it out. If I were a
shady plumber, I'd probably just go ahead and break it off to add some more labor time.

This is the second time in 25 years I've had a plumber do a job in the house, so I don't feel too
badly.