home depot customer

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cause i would have let him do it...hehe

ed wallace

home depot customer

I was in a home depot today a customer there asked me the differance between copper pipes with red and blue lettering i explained the differances it turns out he has a steam system and wants to replace the 1 1/2 in pipe with 3/4 copper i explained why it was a very bad idea i just hoped he listened to me and doesnt run a working steam system

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Mad Dog

Me too!~!!!!!!!!

They are on their own......Mad Dog

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P. Smith

i unfortunatly used to work at a home depot, I had a customer asking me questions for about 30 minuts on diferent copper fittings I adventually told him that if he cant figure it out himself he definetly shouldn't be doing it and to go home and open the yellow pages. Luckily for me the manager on used to be a licensed plumber - he got a pretty good laugh out of it.

mark

Dennis - Reliable Services

I would have said PVC is much cheaper and easier to work with.

Dave Yates (PAH)

Humnnnn,

I find that Orangeburg piping works best with old vapor systems. When piping up medium pressure steam, polyvinyl tubing gets us in and out within very reasonable times. If it's to be high pressure steam, recalled Quest fittings get recycled. All of which we then carefully envelope within an asbestos (recycled of course) covering.

Copper takes too long & black iron - fuggetaboutit!

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Earthfire

I concur!!!!!!!!!!!!

Steve Ebels

Reminds me of

The clear vinyl tubing I saw used as LP gas line in a customers house. I just shut it off told the customer what I would charge to "fix" their boiler and left when they refused.

mellow

got to love hose

How abou a rubber hose for oil line. It happend.

bigugh_4

\"I do not praise~~~~~~~~~

The word 'cheap, It is not a word of hope or cheer' went the first lines of a poem that hung on the wall of a supply house years ago. It was printed by the Stephen A Young Co. The "Sayco" faucet guys. It went on to say 'Cheap men means a cheap country' It is ok to make remarks about some uninformed home owner and his ideas, but we all must be very careful about becoming cheap in a different sort of way. Being helpful to others whenever we come across their lack of knowledge, makes us a lot less cheap, no matter the outcome. HD has its place. let us not cheapen ourselves by banging on it , rather take the time to impress others with the correct way of doing things. After all shrapnel flys a long way from a uninformed home owners explosion, be careful out there!

Mark Eatherton1

Well said Gary...

Well said.

ME

Boiler Guy

They are EVERYWHERE!

I have just been "granted" a licence to print $ !!!!
Yesterday one of the local property management companies asked me to repair a 4 storey 1912 one pipe steam building. "Money is no object" they said breathlessly. An "inexpensive" plumber has replaced ALL of the wet returns which are now piped in 3/4 "M" copper attached to an 1 1/4" DWV copper main piped to a 30 gallon receiver located 18" above the only trap on the system. I guess I'll be warm till spring!!
Wadda ya think?