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What is the stand-by efficiency of that boiler? You know, when it's not running....

or...

I installed my own boiler last year, and it works very well, but I want to ask one question. What is that 8" round hole in the top of it for?

....Noel
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  • Dave Yates (PAH)
    Dave Yates (PAH) Member Posts: 2,162
    well....

    "Have you ever done this before?"

    Nope, it's my first day. Can you point out which one is the boiler?

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  • Jim Erhardt
    Jim Erhardt Member Posts: 52
    Is that little thing....

    ...going to heat my house?
  • jackchips_2
    jackchips_2 Member Posts: 1,337
    It goes back

    a few years,ok many years:

    "You look so young, how old are you?"
  • J.C.A._3
    J.C.A._3 Member Posts: 2,980
    No wonder.....

    They got no water,these pipes are filled with WIRES!

    Jerome "Curley" Howard.
  • DanHolohan
    DanHolohan Member, Moderator, Administrator Posts: 16,610
    \"A fine place for wires, we'll get 'em outta dere!\"

    His brudda, Moe.
    Retired and loving it.
  • jim walls_3
    jim walls_3 Member Posts: 31
    question

    How many 8th's (1/8) are in an inch?

    ahhhhhhh, please step away from the saw,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, here's a shovel we need gravel in that trench :-)
  • John R. Hall
    John R. Hall Member Posts: 2,245
    Yum

    Fries or onion rings?
  • Mitch_4
    Mitch_4 Member Posts: 955
    can

    you imagine a place with no hypothetical questions?
  • John MacGregor_3
    John MacGregor_3 Member Posts: 31


    Funny you should ask, Dan.
    Over the weekend I managed to catch up on some of my favorite reading.
    In the May 2004 PME you wrote an article entitled "Risky Living". You talked about a contractor who installed in-floor radiant for free when the owner balks at the cost of doing the basement/lower level, and then charging for the entire installation when Mr Owner decides that he wants it done anyway.
    This is a great idea as long as you get the final hook-up and can recoup your investment, but what's to keep them from trying to, and getting, someone else to hook it up for just the cost of hooking it up? As your friend said,'That's why they have so much, they don't like to part with it'. Does he have it in writing that if the system is hooked up to the infloor that only he is allowed to do it?
    In our case we won't finish up someone else's job because we don't know what's been done there.
  • Weezbo
    Weezbo Member Posts: 6,232
    Is My basement FLOODED NOW?

  • DanHolohan
    DanHolohan Member, Moderator, Administrator Posts: 16,610
    Nothing in writing,

    but he did get 100 percent of the jobs.
    Retired and loving it.
  • ScottMP
    ScottMP Member Posts: 5,883
    Is

    this going to be expensive ?

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  • Robert O'Connor_7
    Robert O'Connor_7 Member Posts: 688
    Q???

    While your here, could you just fix the........Robert O'Connor/NJ
  • don_42
    don_42 Member Posts: 42
    Whew

    you're high..I got my last one done for ...Or thanks for your time but I got a buddy who say he can do it a whole lot cheaper.
  • ernie_3
    ernie_3 Member Posts: 191
    hmmm

    My neighbor just added A/C off of his boiler. Can you price it up for me?
  • Mike T., Swampeast MO
    Mike T., Swampeast MO Member Posts: 6,928
    All from one man...

    ...an accountant who hired me (hourly) to remodel/rebuild an older home in atrocious shape for his newlywed daughter. Attic apartment upstairs to be rented.

    "I have to pay for those?" [Scale plans--for the addition containing kitchen, bath and laundry.]

    "Why do they [daughter and son-in-law] need plug-ins in the bedrooms? Don't they still make wind-up clocks?"

    "Do you really need to put a sink in the bath room? [Upstairs apartment.}
  • Grumpy_2
    Grumpy_2 Member Posts: 82
    Audience

    Mind if I watch?
  • Grumpy_2
    Grumpy_2 Member Posts: 82
    After handing them the bill........

    Just how BIG is your yacht?
  • EJW
    EJW Member Posts: 321
    a little off topic but...

    I had a woman leave me a note once that said, " The water heater is in the basement. The basement is downstairs". EJW
  • sootmonkey
    sootmonkey Member Posts: 158
    not quite

    Lest favorite, "Do you know why I pulled you over?"
  • Jerry Boulanger_2
    Jerry Boulanger_2 Member Posts: 111
    Some of my favorites

    I need to order an exhaust fan. Can you tell me what the static pressure is up here in (name a town)?

    Do I have 3-phase power in my building?

    If I hold the phone up to it, can you listen and tell me what's wrong with it?

    Who else sells these things?





  • Tony_8
    Tony_8 Member Posts: 608
    There are so many...

    But currently the most popular seems to be, "Can I make payments on this ?" Popular with them not me. I've got one guy who said he'd pay Thursday when he got his check. Just didn't say which Thursday or how much. $20/month so far, the interest is about $15/month. Boy did he howl ! I'll be retired before he's done.
  • lchmb
    lchmb Member Posts: 2,997
    last night

    Recieved a call from a customer who wanted to know "my gas hot water heater won't stay running, I just filled my 20 lb cylinder and was wondering if maybe there isn't enough pressure, can you tell me what to do?
  • Wizaard
    Wizaard Member Posts: 28
    Go Home

    On the coldest day on record in Cleveland, Ohio I had a tech turn off his radio and leave for the day...at 4pm.

    When told that his co-workers worked well into the night and asked to explain himself, he replied, "Was that a problem?"
  • Ken C.
    Ken C. Member Posts: 267
    If I had a quarter every time ...

    ... a customer asked me, "Why did it (valve, faucet, toilet, etc.) break/go bad/leak?" when the problem is ususally obvious, such as massive corrosion. Apparently, the average homeowner forgets that many plumbing and heating items are mechanical devices, which tend to wear out with age.
  • Paul Mitchell_2
    Paul Mitchell_2 Member Posts: 184
    This one always gets me

    What temperature should I keep my thermostat at?

    or a boiler that has a domestic coil.....The boiler keeps running when the heat is off, Is that normal?
  • Brian (Tankless)
    Brian (Tankless) Member Posts: 340
    Igotta get outta this place

    "Y'all's very well spoken, what language do they speak in ENGLAND"?

    And, again, "are you sure that little thing is going to heat all my hot water".

    No, it's going to heat all your COLD water, and make it hot, that's why we call them water HEATERS :O)

    I can't believe I've lasted 25 years, thank God for beer :)

    Swampster.
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    One I get all the time;

    Is radiant heat REALLY worth THAT MUCH MORE money?

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  • Robert O'Connor_7
    Robert O'Connor_7 Member Posts: 688
    24 HRs.?

    Had a call a few years back from a guy who called looking for a price on a faucet install (he paged me @ 3am. explaining to me how he works the night shift). We pretty much do commercial/industrial by the way and only really did 24 hr service for maintenance contract customers. I'd just got home @ around 1 am after finishing a large boiler in a factory that we started on @ 6am (the day before). he lived almost 80 miles away, and already bought the faucet but wanted a FREE estimate. I told him we did not do residential, and he was too far anyway ( I was still being nice if you could belive). He shouted at me and said "Your ad in the BLUE BOOK says 24 hr emergency service" I calmly replied " Yes, just not 24 hrs. in a row" then hung up!..Robert O'Connor/NJ
  • D lux_2
    D lux_2 Member Posts: 230
    just say NO

  • S Ebels
    S Ebels Member Posts: 2,322
    Actually true......really, I'm not kidding

    Homeowner who had installed his furnace 2 YEARS before........... "What do you mean about a return air duct"?

    The furnace had actually run into its second season with no return air connected. Just sucking through the cracks and gaps in the cabinet. Can we say fried heat exchanger??
  • ScottMP
    ScottMP Member Posts: 5,883
    I had a customer

    Who left a note on her door which said, in large letters, ....

    " Dear Milne Plumbing, the key to the front door is under the mat ."

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  • joe_14
    joe_14 Member Posts: 138
    i couldnt believe this on!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    one cold windy snowy night,power goes out and iam the lucky stiff on call. i get a no heat call. i call the customer veryify that they have no heat. customer says thats right and its cold in here. i asked her if they had power,thier response was no we dont have power but the furnace runs on oil dosent it???????
    go figure.
    joe.g.
  • DanHolohan
    DanHolohan Member, Moderator, Administrator Posts: 16,610
    While on a cruise to Bermuda

    I overheard an elderly woman ask the cruise director if the ship makes its own electricity. Without missing a beat, he said, "No, we use a really long extension cord."

    Same cruise, another woman asked the same guy if this elevator goes to the front of the boat.
    Retired and loving it.
  • Nick Z._2
    Nick Z._2 Member Posts: 32
    My favorite ??

    "You did a really nice job.Would you like a beer,while my wife writes the check?"
  • jim walls_3
    jim walls_3 Member Posts: 31
    Disney World

    Heard this one in June during a stay with Mickey, "what time is the 3 o'clock parade?
  • Unknown
    Unknown Member
    I had a radio dispatcher

    that was a white haired woman and she would whisper over the radio where the key was hidden.

    How we laughed!!!

    Noel
  • Tom Stayer_2
    Tom Stayer_2 Member Posts: 11
    sing along

    What did you do with the money?
    When there is a radio on the job, I usually hear this when I make an attempt to sing along with the tunes.
  • Tom Stayer_2
    Tom Stayer_2 Member Posts: 11
    sing along

    What did you do with the money?
    When there is a radio on the job, I usually hear this when I make an attempt to sing along with the tunes.
  • eric_2
    eric_2 Member Posts: 148
    How about

    What are all these extra parts for?
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