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Re: Ask a Plumber [Re: ballsalsa]
    #22475994 - 11/04/15 11:14 AM (8 years, 2 months ago)

I miss the smell of solder.


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Re: Ask a Plumber [Re: Mr.PhilCybin]
    #22476008 - 11/04/15 11:18 AM (8 years, 2 months ago)

you ever have an older woman customer try to pay your for a job with sex?

if they were hot I would've entertained it,




...but they never were :nonono:


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Re: Ask a Plumber [Re: Mr.PhilCybin]
    #22476022 - 11/04/15 11:21 AM (8 years, 2 months ago)

yeah, they never are.  Plus, if im gonna replace your sewer main, or remodel your kitchen, you're gonna have to come up with more than a blowjob.


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Re: Ask a Plumber [Re: ballsalsa]
    #22476097 - 11/04/15 11:42 AM (8 years, 2 months ago)

agreed 100%

I'd take one as interest though :shrug:


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Re: Ask a Plumber [Re: Mr.PhilCybin]
    #22476114 - 11/04/15 11:46 AM (8 years, 2 months ago)

:nodofunderstanding:


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Re: Ask a Plumber [Re: ballsalsa]
    #22476149 - 11/04/15 11:54 AM (8 years, 2 months ago)

is it worth it to become a plumber? and how hard is the schooling


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Re: Ask a Plumber [Re: Rebelutionsssss]
    #22476228 - 11/04/15 12:10 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

it takes years to learn plumbing. 6 years as an apprentice if you go through the union.

if you can get into the union, its a great job.
if you get a contractors license and have the skill set to run a business, its a great job.
if you are a worker bee, in a labor market where every illegal alien on every corner claims they know plumbing, it is a crappy job

Also: the work is physically hard, you will burn yourself and injure yourself in other ways, there's more thinking involved than people expect, and your customers will treat you like an idiot, because pop culture has taught them that plumbers are dumb-dumbs


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Re: Ask a Plumber [Re: ballsalsa]
    #22476701 - 11/04/15 02:09 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

I'm in the HVAC field. Some crossovers with plumbing. It's cool because we do a little of everything and the pay/benefits are on point. You can retire before your 50 and get 75% of your top earning year annually. Then on top of that good retirement money start your own business and your living the good life. I'm going to be opening up my own shop before that though. Within the next 5 years I'll be self employed. The benefits are good now but my motto is work smarter not harder. 


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Re: Ask a Plumber [Re: Magicman69]
    #22476805 - 11/04/15 02:29 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

good motto.
HVAC is a good trade.  too much attic time though


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Re: Ask a Plumber [Re: ballsalsa]
    #22476815 - 11/04/15 02:33 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

are you union?
pay rate?
working full time/year round?


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Re: Ask a Plumber [Re: chulutu]
    #22476842 - 11/04/15 02:40 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

nope.
i quit plumbing after 11 years and I'm a full time student/Part-time aquarium service guy right now.

I still do jobs on the side though. I try to bid them out, but if i have to go hourly, i charge $20-100 depending on what i think they can afford.
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Re: Ask a Plumber [Re: ballsalsa]
    #22476985 - 11/04/15 03:15 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

if you know what you're doing, bidding a job and cranking it out is so much more time efficient.

if there's a lot of unknowns or you're new, taking an hourly wage isn't so bad though.


I only did one side job for some customers that was based hourly, but there were good people so I didn't mind. they over paid me anyways.

what's the weirdest thing you ever found in a wall, drain, attic/under a house, etc.?


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Re: Ask a Plumber [Re: Mr.PhilCybin]
    #22477127 - 11/04/15 03:52 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

i found a whole potato in the trap of a toilet once.
lots of mummified cats and raccoons under houses.
I know a guy who found a body under a house in santa monica.
i've found lots of old beer cans and whatnot.
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Re: Ask a Plumber [Re: ballsalsa]
    #22477137 - 11/04/15 03:54 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

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ballsalsa said:
it takes years to learn plumbing. 6 years as an apprentice if you go through the union.

if you can get into the union, its a great job.
if you get a contractors license and have the skill set to run a business, its a great job.
if you are a worker bee, in a labor market where every illegal alien on every corner claims they know plumbing, it is a crappy job

Also: the work is physically hard, you will burn yourself and injure yourself in other ways, there's more thinking involved than people expect, and your customers will treat you like an idiot, because pop culture has taught them that plumbers are dumb-dumbs



Builders and contractors do NOT think plumbers are idiots.  Around here the plumber's test is way harder than the electrician's test


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Re: Ask a Plumber [Re: zappaisgod]
    #22477158 - 11/04/15 04:02 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

and thats great on new construction or commercial work.  Residential plumbers have to deal directly with homeowners quite often, and in particular, the lawyers and engineers will say some condescending shit that i would never let slide if i didn't want their money.


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Re: Ask a Plumber [Re: ballsalsa]
    #22477217 - 11/04/15 04:17 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

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and thats great on new construction or commercial work.  Residential plumbers have to deal directly with homeowners quite often, and in particular, the lawyers and engineers will say some condescending shit that i would never let slide if i didn't want their money.



I'll tell you what, I don't see that around here even on remodeling jobs and I live and work in a very hoity toity neighborhood.


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Re: Ask a Plumber [Re: zappaisgod]
    #22477266 - 11/04/15 04:30 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

fair enough


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Re: Ask a Plumber [Re: ballsalsa]
    #22478525 - 11/04/15 09:48 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

east coast and west coast must be different.


I've seen your side BS a lot more often.  with that said I was mostly working in well-off orange county so lots of snobs were clients.


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Re: Ask a Plumber [Re: ballsalsa]
    #22478846 - 11/04/15 10:58 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

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bumping because i'm bored





ok, so last year I busted up my ankle pretty good, it still hasnt completely
recovered but it's getting better, now when I twist my foot around behind me
it hurts like hell. what can I do to make it stop doing that


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Re: Ask a Plumber [Re: Prisoner#1]
    #22478850 - 11/04/15 10:59 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

Amputation


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