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Can we have a thread for these please? If you look close you can see the wet cardboard gasket between the rubber and sink. Nice
 

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Oh I have a bunch of winners, I took all these pictures myself.

This weekend diy copper roof rack!

Then first job this morning, the proper way to bend a toilet speedway. All you need are some channel locks and a few kinks where you need them most.
 

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So this private water system that i've been looking at installing meters on called me Saturday because a leak that I found on one of the 2" stub up lines had apparently gotten worse. I had to tell her I was really sorry that my wife was out of town for work and I was stuck with no backup and 3 kids that need to be delivered to activities all over town and I just didn't have time for emergecies.

They opted to wait and called me again yesterday morning. When I talked to her, I told her if it wasn't a terrible leak I'd like to wait until Tuesday and see if I can have a pack joint fitting on hand in case their main valves don't work 100%. That was fine with them and I told her I'd be by later to make sure that I have any other fittings that I needed on hand.

I got out of the truck and I hear the unmistakable sound of a creek. When I walk over the edge of the road I can see down below that they are both standing there looking at this thing that had completely blown apart. I asked her how long ago it happened and she said not even 10 minutes. They had just turned the main valve off.

What timing.

I found on the riser upstream of the shutoff valves that they had used one of those PVC slip unions with the compression gaskets and the two nuts. It looked like it had just given way over time pushing the tee above it upwards enough to cause a small crack to develop and what appeared to be a ****ty glue joint to begin with finally gave way. I was lucky enough to be able to let the water out at a couple of houses below me and made the repair with glue joint fittings.
 
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Double post just because I know some don't visit the soap thread....

1&2) carpet bathroom, don't pee standing up and like Macplumb says aha moment when the toilet overflows and stain the carpet with Mr. Brown.

3&4) The whole shower pan is taped!!!!

5) DIY putting new tile and wrecking the glaze of the tile(see tub spout brown spot)

I love my job :vs_laugh::vs_laugh::vs_laugh:



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I went to one of the local casinos today to investigate the source of a bad odor that has apparently been an issue for years. They said the smell was only occasional but nobody could pin down a definite time of day or activity that caused it to be worse.

They sent their maintenance crew under the building 8 times searching for the source of the smell.

What I found : (here are your pictures Tango)

https://drive.google.com/open?id=12_CqEh8MyBOB14D_CycyRIKpf7AfRStP

https://drive.google.com/open?id=12vTwpBuM1Lt2P5eh2dkWy8lSeQ7fXyjU

https://drive.google.com/open?id=12sXMBARX1Xm6cTc1y7xEKMB0JecC_bB8

This is underneath the kitchen area and there aren't any drain pipes into the area that is damaged, so I'm guessing failed flooring in the kitchen and years of spilling and disgusting mop water being pushed around on the floor led to this issue.

I can imagine when we get a nice hot day the place smells delicious.

:vs_laugh: :vs_laugh:

I told them to call some kind of builder to come give them a proper evaluation of the safety of that floor system. It's kind of hard to see in the pictures but one of the OSB webbing on the floor joist was buckling, the plywood was sagging between the joists and delaminating. Inside the kitchen, there's an area where someone has screwed down a large piece of diamond plate. My money says that's where it started and maintenance crews band-aided it rather than try to figure out the problem. Now we have a 14' x 8' completely saturated subfloor with damaged floor joists to boot.

Good job fellas. Full commercial kitchen remodel coming soon. . . .
 
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Who the hell does a commercial kitchen built on wood flooring? Surely not to code.:
I can't really speak to whether or not it's allowed. It makes sense that it wouldn't be, but this is a native casino, and they are on tribal land so they can do whatever they want without worrying about the government getting involved.

The health department may be a different story though since they are serving food.
 
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Can you unclog my bathtub?

Sure, then after seeing this, I'm not putting my snake in there, a snake catching on an electrician fish tape?... I'll use another method and that's all she wrote.


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