11-10-2018, 09:11 AM | #1 |
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Major mess around my house.
I had a drainage cast iron pipe brake under the house, it happened about 17 years ago and I was able to remove the bottom of a wall next to the kitchen and dig down to the pipe and replaced about 10 feet with PVC, now it broke further down and I just couldn't deal with it any longer without messing up the tile floor right down the middle of the dining room. so I called my son and he gave me an option, since it's just the washer and kitchen sink we could go out the wall and re-run a new line of 3" PVC underground around the house to the main sewer line. It took me a few months to get him to do it but he finally showed up yesterday with a crew of four and got it done. Started at 9 am and finished at 6 pm non-stop work. then they got to the other end of the house and capped that line so it's dead underground. I had to remove plants, I have a 1 X 12 feet piece of concrete gone from the garage landing area which I have to fix and a lot of sand around the landscape which I have to level and mulch. I'm half way done.
It pays to have a son who owns a medium sized plumbing outfit. I feel sorry for him, he had to be at a restaurant at 6 am today for maintenance and then was meeting with the crew at another job site downtown.
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11-10-2018, 09:36 AM | #2 |
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Geez, some guys have all the fun.
Glad it worked out for you.
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11-10-2018, 10:09 AM | #3 |
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I can do almost anything around my house. I hate plumbing the most. It seems nothing ever goes as planned. It's always worse than you thought it was and requires several trips to get more stuff.
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11-10-2018, 10:11 AM | #4 |
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Plumbers and proctologists get all the good paying jobs!
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11-10-2018, 10:38 AM | #5 |
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My daughter had to take care of plumbing issues in their "new" house (built in the 60's). The cast iron pipes were rotted out. They had to tear up the concrete floors to replace them. It cost them mucho $$$. I told them to check and see if any of that might be covered by insurance or that the inspector missed it. They just bought the place.
I thought pipe bursting technology had advanced to where they didn't have to do that anymore? Maybe it is just for the big mains and such?
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11-10-2018, 10:52 AM | #6 |
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Don't feel to bad. Your son owes you. Mine will never be able to pay back all the shit he put me through. I'm trying though. Ha ha.
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11-10-2018, 11:09 AM | #7 |
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Amen, that's fact with me too.
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11-10-2018, 12:16 PM | #8 | |
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Travish, I asked him how much and he threw a shovel at me. He had four guys working on this yesterday and he says he owes me more than that but I don't want him to get hurt....even though he's finishing a 100K job at that building downtown. |
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11-10-2018, 12:18 PM | #9 |
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On a side note: Thursday they had nothing to do so he grabbed both crews and chartered a fishing boat, took them out for day of fishing, they have all been working their asses off.
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11-10-2018, 12:19 PM | #10 |
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Good that you caught it before it became a major Sink Hole.
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11-10-2018, 12:23 PM | #11 | |
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When I retired 5 years ago, I left my son in charge of a prospering remodeling / contracting company. The little bastard ran it into the ground, sold off assets and now he's in jail for 2 years for being an asshole. Violation of probation Possession of a controlled substance Driving while revoked Being an asshole in the presence of an officer. He's always been the "world owes me a living" type. Well, now he's getting his share of benefits from the state of Fla. 45yrs. old, too. Has 4 kids from 4 different women and I don't get to see any of them. Hard to forgive. By comparison, I'd rather have Aviator's troubles... |
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11-10-2018, 12:24 PM | #12 |
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It's been there for a little while as I waited on him and that was one of my major concerns, see...we are floating on sand here, water pushes sand out and next you know I have a structural problem. I have seen houses here with the floor at an angle and when I looked outside a big crack on the outside wall.
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