[Nazareth]

I had a call for a leak in the ceiling of a selectman's office a couple years back. I happened to be parked on main street 100' away. I stood on his file cabinet to look above the drop ceiling. Heating system boiler drain was slightly dripping, they had just started the heating system for the season a couple days prior. Pulled out my pocket hose cap, screwed it on gudentite, and I was done. He grinned and asked "That's it?! You're still charging me the hour minimum aren't you?".

"Hell yes I am!"


I have two hose caps on my van

...Somewhere

Probably next to all those lost receipts I've been looking for

 

[skoronesa]

"Hell yes I am!"


I have two hose caps on my van

...Somewhere

Probably next to all those lost receipts I've been looking for

I probably have a dozen. One in my pocket, several in my toolbag, and some in a couple different places in the van. If I use a drain for water like when I am snaking and I have any doubts about it holding, usually because I was the first guy to use it in several decades, I throw a cap on. No need for a call back from a dripping boiler drain my master could have put in when he was knee high on a fence post.

 

[Tango]

It just happened to my brother today

How old was the heater? Ask him if he put any kind of strain on it and what he did.

When is the time in years to assume the plastic valve may be brittle?

 

[Tango]

I keep drain caps in the same tool box as the water heater drain pump, easy to remember where they are.

 

[BC73RS]

Its stories like this that make me want to go to my supplier and order a bag of hose caps just out of paranoia

Most of the big contracts we did had a cap c/w chain on an any hose bibb styled valve. It was always written in the specs.

 

[sparky]

I had a call for a leak in the ceiling of a selectman's office a couple years back. I happened to be parked on main street 100' away. I stood on his file cabinet to look above the drop ceiling. Heating system boiler drain was slightly dripping, they had just started the heating system for the season a couple days prior. Pulled out my pocket hose cap, screwed it on gudentite, and I was done. He grinned and asked "That's it?! You're still charging me the hour minimum aren't you?".

Nope 2hours what I would have said lolololol9lo

 

[Master Mark]

I have had a number of them break off and then try to chip out the plastic shank broke off in the threads...
I finally get the threads cleared and the new valve wont start cause the threads are all corroded..
then I had to find a 3/4 tap to re-tap the god dam thing ..... and all this with the water coming out
onto the basement floor........ this was a rental and they did not want a new heater

but I won....

 

[skoronesa]

I keep drain caps in the same tool box as the water heater drain pump, easy to remember where they are.

I always keep a hose cap in my pocket.