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  • RobG
    RobG Member Posts: 1,850
    Not to discuss pricing but unless it was a really good customer I wouldn't leave the house for a non-emergency call when it is Saturday night for $185.00. I think the OP got off easy. He should hold onto that guy, he works cheap.
  • ChrisJ
    ChrisJ Member Posts: 16,260
    edited November 2014
    Steamhead said:

    For the record, the pic Chris posted was a gas explosion in Oldham, England, where an abusive drunk cut the gas pipe in his house and blew it up to retaliate against his girlfriend. Fortunately they threw him in jail where he belongs. But these kinds of things happen through negligence and incompetence as well.

    If you think about it, a plugged pigtail can permit a boiler to reach highly dangerous pressures, if there is no pressure trapped between the clog and the control. The boiler pressure would not be able to reach the control thru the clog. Now, at least your pressure control can work properly and safely.

    Wow.
    I googled "boiler explosion" and looked threw images to find that. It looked similar to a boiler explosion so I didn't give it a second thought.

    That's a pretty sick and disturbing story.
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  • Steamhead
    Steamhead Member Posts: 17,358
    Here's a link:

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2281037/Oldham-gas-explosion-Andrew-Partington-jailed-10-years-killing-2-year-old-Jamie-Heaton.html
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