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Dave Yates (PAH)
Dave Yates (PAH) Member Posts: 2,162
in THE MAIN WALL
your family won't sit with you at the movies because the last time they sat with you it was a James Bond flick and in the opening scene he bounces some crook off of a flat panel radiator & you can't help but excitedly point that out to the wife & kids! Had a Danfoss thermostatic valve too(G).

Or you're a devout Plumber at Heart when during the movies love scene in the whirlpool bath, you inadvertantly blurt out "Look honey, that that's Kohler's latest widespread high-flow faucet with a 24 Lb polished brass over-the-edge Roman tub spout that takes two mechanics just to lift and hold in place while working from below the deck".

I'll be the guy sitting by myself!

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  • Wayco Wayne
    Wayco Wayne Member Posts: 615
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    I was thinking

    while piping in a Munchkin about the Jeff Foxworthy schtick that always started "you know your a redneck when". Anyone got any ideas for the phrase "you know your a Wethed when....." Could be a new book for Dan.

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  • DanHolohan
    DanHolohan Member, Moderator, Administrator Posts: 16,539
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    Steve Smith

    at PM did a column on this a few years back. The one that stays with me is, "You know you're a Wethead when you name your first-born Uponor."

    I'm still laughing over that one.
    Retired and loving it.
  • chuck shaw
    chuck shaw Member Posts: 584
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    you know your a wet head when

    You know your a wet head when your wife(girlfriend) knows more about heating systems then the supply house heating "engineer"

    chuck

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  • Dale W.
    Dale W. Member Posts: 42
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    When a radiator key

    is on your keychain.

    Dale W.
  • Paul Rohrs
    Paul Rohrs Member Posts: 357
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    You know you're a wethead when.....

    Your Inhibited Proplyene Glycol doubles as a cologne.

    PR
  • Online Sheriff \"Murph\"
    Online Sheriff \"Murph\" Member Posts: 380
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    you know your a wet head when

    THEY invite you to the steakhouse and you forget to wear your hat!!


    thanks for dinner chuck (sorry i wasn't in the proper
    mood to engage with the twit across the bar)


    murph' (SOS)
  • chuck shaw
    chuck shaw Member Posts: 584
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    no problem murph (nm)



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  • Chauncey
    Chauncey Member Posts: 43
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    good one. I think I should have some kind

    of precious metal electroplated on mine.
  • Chauncey
    Chauncey Member Posts: 43
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    You have a 3-ring binder full of piping and

    wiring diagrams that you like, dislike, and/or swear that you are going to try someday.
  • Paul_6
    Paul_6 Member Posts: 88
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    You know your a wet head when

    It's 9:30 at night, and all the kids are in bed, and your wife is asleep on the couch, and you are reading through all the posts on the wall for the second time this evening.

    Paul.
  • Online Sheriff \"Murph\"
    Online Sheriff \"Murph\" Member Posts: 380
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    or the suspects........

    are rounded up in the paddy-wagon for a nice, quiet italian dinner!! Paul I thought you would enjoy this!!
  • Troy_3
    Troy_3 Member Posts: 479
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    You know your a wethead when

    You wake your spouse in the middle of the night declaring"I figured it out - I know how to wire all those controls now"
  • Steamhead
    Steamhead Member Posts: 16,876
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    My Take

    You know you're a Wethead when someone looking in your boiler room sees all the plugged tees and various parts lying around from all the different piping setups you've tried.

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  • Troy_3
    Troy_3 Member Posts: 479
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    You know your a wethead when

    You head to the basement of each house in a show of homes to check out the mechanicals. And when you walk down the street afterwards you recite to your spouse what each house has in it from memory. ( but you don't remember the carpets)
  • [Deleted User]
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    You know your wife is a wet head when...

    she replies, "No honey, you're wrong, you can't tie all the neutrals together, they have to be run individually..."

    I say this in an envious voice Troy. You have a special wife and relationship.

    When I wake up and tell my wife "AHA, I've figured it out", she says "Roll over and go back to sleep, you're waking the dogs up."

    Give your "best Troubleshooter" my best.

    ME

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  • Paul_6
    Paul_6 Member Posts: 88
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    I wondered when

    the rogues gallery photo would show up. thanks , Paul.
  • kevin_5
    kevin_5 Member Posts: 308
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    Wife gives birth on radiant floor!

    I'm dead serious. We planned another home-birth, but I didn't count on this. On Sept. 18, '02, after long hours sitting around waiting, things kicked into high gear when my wife went to use the bathroom. The midwife yelled for me to help get her on the floor, and in a minute, our third child was born. It didn't take too long to see a marketing angle in this, but I never thought to name her Uponor. Maybe I'll find out that Lydia is Swedish for "staple up" or something. P.S. Our second was born under a radiant ceiling and I cut both their cords with my leatherman. Ante up fellas! Kevin
  • ScottMP
    ScottMP Member Posts: 5,884
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    You know your a wethead when ..

    You go on vacation, and tour a mansion and you ask the tour guide " Are we going to see the basement ! "

    Or you bring so many people into the basement of your house that your wife finds an old sign to put up.

    Scott

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  • Wayco Wayne
    Wayco Wayne Member Posts: 615
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    Scott

    That hits close to home. After Wetstock I visited the Museum in Plymouth Mass. Found the mech room door open and snuck in to look at their well kept Steam boiler. Also have looked in on mechanical rooms everywhere I go on vacation. I must be a Wethed.

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  • chuck shaw
    chuck shaw Member Posts: 584
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    you know you are wethead when

    you have more pictures of boilers then you do of your family

    chuck

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  • ScottMP
    ScottMP Member Posts: 5,884
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    Wayne

    I was on vacation in England about seven years ago and asked the tour guide that question. You should have SEEN his face. You would have thought I had asked him to drop his pants. :)

    Scott

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  • Dave H_2
    Dave H_2 Member Posts: 556
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    Everybody you know knows you're a Wethead

    When all they want to do is talk heating and show you their basements.

    I was in Germany to see my wife's family (not during ISH) for the first time and all they wanted to do was bring me to the basements to show off their Veissman and constant circ heating systems.

    (I really wanted a vacation)

    Oh well, jumped in with both feet of course.
    Dave H
  • BillW@honeywell
    BillW@honeywell Member Posts: 1,099
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    A bunch of desperados for sure!

    That looks like a casting call for a Clint Eastwood movie from the 70's!
  • BillW@honeywell
    BillW@honeywell Member Posts: 1,099
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    You know you're a wethead when...

    People wonder why you are standing there staring at a maze of pipes pretending to be trapped air! They're coming to take me away, ha ha....
  • PJO
    PJO Member Posts: 140
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    A Wethead \"At Heart\" in Disney...

    Riding the train around Magic Kingdom....I hear the steam whistle blow...the tour guide makes a quick reference to the "real steam" engine.

    It was all I could do to wait until the train stopped...

    I shoot right up to the "engineer" (the old & original term) and he informs me it is an oil-fired (#2 sulpher-free fuel) Smith (I think) that is from the sixties...the "coal" car holds water...I asked him how many BTU's and I got the look as described earlier :-)...he wasn't sure of the BTU's but he was sure I was half-insane.

    Anyway, just as I'm looking to climb all over this baby there's a tap on my shoulder...management has a "look" of her own that's kind of like the one I get when I invite some (poor) un-hydronics edumacated person into my boiler room - only she's a wee bit upset...the kids are 75 yards ahead of us heading to Mickey's playhouse and I want to look at a boiler?

    Well folks, we all know what happened next...I argued for about a half second, then ran after the kids :-) "But honey, I'll never see anything like this again!"

    I guess that's makes me a wethead, too. At least at heart. Damn proud of it!

    Take Care, PJO
  • Jamie_6
    Jamie_6 Member Posts: 710
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    When you know what a wet head is & can recite it from memory!

    A wet head is a wildly enthusiastic person who is biased toward the best, who honestly believes that people will buy value, not price, if value is properly presented in a way that is in the customer's self-interest.
  • Mike T., Swampeast MO
    Mike T., Swampeast MO Member Posts: 6,928
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    Neutrals

    If it's got a dedicated hot line, run a dedicated neutral and make CERTAIN it goes to the same EXACT transformer/source that the hot came from!

    If the hots to multiple devices are paralleled, parallel all the neutrals--again to the EXACT same source.

    Failure to do this will bite you in the **** every time!
  • Mike T., Swampeast MO
    Mike T., Swampeast MO Member Posts: 6,928
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    And when the spare keys...

    ...are in the wall safe. And when no-one, but no-one gets hold of the nice old heavy one you found at a junk store.
  • George Peteya
    George Peteya Member Posts: 34
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    You wish you weren't a wethead when ...

    You meet your wife and a good Customer for lunch at a nice restaurant. The first thing you point out is the woodgrain baseboard. Then, behind the bar, just above the single malt Scotch, the T87.
  • Unknown
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    Gulty

    > You meet your wife and a good Customer for lunch

    > at a nice restaurant. The first thing you point

    > out is the woodgrain baseboard. Then, behind the

    > bar, just above the single malt Scotch, the T87.



    You know you are...
  • Unknown
    Unknown Member
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    Gulty

    > You meet your wife and a good Customer for lunch

    > at a nice restaurant. The first thing you point

    > out is the woodgrain baseboard. Then, behind the

    > bar, just above the single malt Scotch, the T87.



    You know you are...
  • Unknown
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    Guilty

    You know you are... When a good friend takes you to a place in another country to see a cathedral from another century and they speak another language, making it difficult to find the boiler room.


    Later we went upstairs.

    Noel
  • Unknown
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    and you follow up that trip with a trip to NYC

    to look at Big Allis...
  • J.C.A.
    J.C.A. Member Posts: 349
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    Noel, you party ANIMAL !

    Go all the way to Europe and the best part is the heat ? O.K. , YOU ARE a true wethead ! Chris
  • kevin
    kevin Member Posts: 420
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    you know...

    you're a wet head...when someone is pouring a slab and you instinctively ask" would you like PEX tubing with that"? kpc
  • ScottMP
    ScottMP Member Posts: 5,884
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    Noel ?

    Did you digitally remove the PINT from Kens hand ?

    scott

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  • Bob C.
    Bob C. Member Posts: 20
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    If you go out to dinner and allyou do is stare at the piping in the ceiling you know your a wet head
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