It's your fault! (GrandPAH)

ScottMP

the radiator gets hot. " Ya, that can't really happen Mrs Smith ".

I like how its "MY valve, My Faucet .....". We never had that problem untill you put in that faucet of yours.

Your right, Dave, sometimes you have to fire a customer.

I had a lady who came home from vacation to a flooded basement. The sump pump her Dad put in fifty years ago had stopped. We put in a new sump pump. The pit was about five inches deep. We were Hero's.

Next year the water got about 2" before the float came up. I had " Taken advantage of an elderely woman in need ". Her Dads pump allways worked fine.

AArrrrrggghhh

Scott

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Dave Yates (GrandPAH)_2

Reading the T&P test thread below...........

Brought back lots of memories & not wanting to step on the thread, I thought it might be fun to "air" some of the you-touched-it / it's-your-fault stories.

Yesterday, I had to go back on a "call-back" for a feed water valve the customer said was running every few minutes. Hydronic hot water & all is above grade, so no leaks would = popped relief at some point. Let's just say "thanks Fluidmaster!"

Had a customer for years who every time I worked in their home, the next day I'd get a call saying my having been there caused another problem. Work on the basement laundry tub faucet & it becomes your fault the third floor toilet runs! After about the sixth go-round, that was the first customer I ever fired.

Singh_6

\" Everything in the boiler room is now yours\"

Taking over a job, new install. Piping all wrong on boiler, radiant tubing lenghths extra long ; > etc.
Of course owner does want to pay me for completly ripping out everything and starting from scratch.
And problematic oil burner ( see Beckett NX thread ) is now my fault !!

As Charlie Brown says "Good Grief"

Weezbo

I can see the experience Exuding from your insight *~/:)

one should have a profound respect for this man

Norm Harvey

Someday I'd love to hear "Since you were here the toilet runs, the roof leaks, the dog is sick, and my wife's pregnant!"

Sometimes I feel like I'm being set up. Like when you get called to do an annual maintenance "right away" on the furnace and there must be at least 500CFM comming out the inspection door along with soot, smell, and CO. Then when you begin to tell the people that you have shut down their equipment untill it can be replaced you get the ole' "What are you talking about? It was working fine before you got here!"



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Weezbo

You dash right over....

the home owner/rentor says wow that was quick ,the guys who came by yesterday said it would take thousands of dollars to .... and they would be back after the issue was resolved*~/:)

you bust out the HIP WADERS , ...slosh away to some thing that looks like you might be able to reduce the rising "tide".... out comes a cleanout.... down there somewhere you could not see, yet you hoped one might be...:)

next day you return...there is a sump! in some corner you really did not have time to explore previously...ok so it isn't working....

the homeowner tells you that last week it started "acting up" buh it wasn't able to be repaired so the guys who came by said that they would order one ...you go over slosh slosh slosh turn the power off and on hammer the thing around a bit ...Ta DA...it goes!... long story short..."The Check is in the mail".....

I have to think God keeps us around for comic relief