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You know your a Wet hed when:
Dave Yates (PAH)
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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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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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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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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.0 -
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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When a radiator key
is on your keychain.
Dale W.0 -
You know you're a wethead when.....
Your Inhibited Proplyene Glycol doubles as a cologne.
PR0 -
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)0 -
no problem murph (nm)
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good one. I think I should have some kind
of precious metal electroplated on mine.0 -
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.0 -
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.0 -
or the suspects........
are rounded up in the paddy-wagon for a nice, quiet italian dinner!! Paul I thought you would enjoy this!!0 -
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"0 -
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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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)0 -
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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I wondered when
the rogues gallery photo would show up. thanks , Paul.0 -
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! Kevin0 -
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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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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you know you are wethead when
you have more pictures of boilers then you do of your family
chuck
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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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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 Holdorf
Technical Training Manager - East
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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!0 -
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....0 -
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, PJO0 -
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.
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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!0 -
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.0 -
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 T87.0 -
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...0 -
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...0 -
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.
Noel0 -
and you follow up that trip with a trip to NYC
to look at Big Allis...0 -
Noel, you party ANIMAL !
Go all the way to Europe and the best part is the heat ? O.K. , YOU ARE a true wethead ! Chris0 -
you know...
you're a wet head...when someone is pouring a slab and you instinctively ask" would you like PEX tubing with that"? kpc0 -
Noel ?
Did you digitally remove the PINT from Kens hand ?
scott
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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 head0
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