[March Tool Giveaway - Vote Now]

Protoolnut gets my vote for the giveaway and vote for President

[No hot water at restaurant in years!]

Health department got call out to this restaurant, found the water heater not working and god knows what else. It probably hasn't been working in years and this little tankless does the whole place, kitchen, bath and other sinks. Not to mention this tankless has a million code violations theres like 30 violations on the electric alone. They were using a 30amp switch with 10 gauge wire pig-tailed off the switch. It all burned up because everything needs to be rated for 60amps. Some nice french fires!! Another problem besides everything, is that code requires 36 inches of copper water lines off the tankless. This is so gross that a restaurant has no hot water to wash dishes and still doesn't because theres low water flow at the kitchen. This is only a point of use water heater. The owner tells me they wash dishes with chemicals so they don't need hot water. So you use soap no $#!t   Disgusting!!!  I guess its a good thing to work in restaurants because you work inside the kitchens and you know what places not to eat at. If you ever been inside a Golden Corral kitchen or any Chinese place you would die. Don't eat there!! 

[Poorly installed leaking water heater]

21 hours ago, KnarlyCarl said:

You're allowed copper or braided line, but you are right about the 18"

We can use anything here on an electric tank, even cpvc directly off the nipples. Its just so unprofessional to not hard pipe it. On tankless electric 36 inch's of copper pipe is required on the hot and cold side.

[Poorly installed leaking water heater]

On 3/12/2016 at 5:39 PM, KnarlyCarl said:

Open in web view, I have to do that just about every post that has pics in it.

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You know this won't be the last time you see this either. One time is all it takes to have an electrical problem or hot water shoot out at someone at the right circumstance.... Which means you gotta cover your butt before you leave that house...

One time we were backed up on the schedule real bad so one of our hvac guys went to swap out a leaking water heater, I went back to check on him and there was no relief tube. Whats the deal with that I asked him? He says well the old one didn't have one on it. Are you serious right now!? Go back to your furnaces.

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The electrical fire hazards I see everyday is just disturbing, don't know how I sleep at night. Well actually I don't sleep I have severe sleep insomnia..lol Haha I tell my inspectors the same thing. Me, It didn't have shock arrestors before all I did was put a cap on the stub out. The inspector laughs, I laugh, the homeowner cries..lol  Same goes for electrical, Me, Smoke detectors?? Not in this house. Inspector, It will have them on the final inspection. 

 

On 3/12/2016 at 6:09 PM, tonylandin said:

Thanks Carl didn't know you could do that on phone but low and behold there it was

Wow that does look pretty messy rat workers without pride it sucks but there out there some just never get trained properly get teamed up with a ratty guy and that's how they learn and the rat legacy continues hope homeowners decide to let you fix it properly

I once quoted a job and people wanted the bandaid I was young and thought that customers knew what they wanted and we're always right. It bit me in the but ever since then it's right or it's not by me lesson learned

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Yup, but theres nothing to fix it gets replaced the tank is leaking. 

[New City Hall Building]

On 3/12/2016 at 8:32 AM, 99_XC600 said:

I feel compelled to write all over the building with a black sharpie,

Its a blank canvas, do as you please

[Forum Picture upload problem]

Thanks Eric and everyone else it seems to be working now. Good job Eric!!

[Calling any plumbers]

Were you able to fix the problem??

[Hybrid Electric Heat Pump Water heater install]

Re posted the pictures, looks like I can uploaded pictures without any problems. Eric fixed it

[Calling any plumbers]

If it is plastic you do not need a washer there or any sealant, if the pipe attached to trap has a taper to it you do not need a washer there. In this picture where the trap connects is this what you are talking about?? A washer is not required to make the seal, the taper in the pipe seals against the trap. Hope this helps

[Poorly installed leaking water heater]

Another day another poorly installed leaking GE Water heater. Hey lets leave the connector off and pull the ground wire out and put it on the ground screw. This is disturbing to see obviously there's kids in the house, its in the garage next to there bikes. It only takes one time to hit the flex with something and it will short out. It looks like it shorted out already theres a burn mark on the connector. I don't know how you could possibly think this is okay and to just ignore it. No relief line, no pan, flex water heater connectors, electrical whip with pipe insulation on it? what a real mess. I hope they call back for the change out.

[Calling any plumbers]

Upload a picture of what you have. Is it tubular plastic??  

[New City Hall Building]

On 3/12/2016 at 0:11 AM, Millerzconstruction said:

It is white ain't it...

Millerz

Yup, theres a lot more white inside too

[circular saw]

Sweet with a bad ass blade too!!

[Dryer vent cleaning]

Hey guys you should check out this product called Lint Alert. I forgot to mention it before but it is cheap insurance to prevent fires.   

[Dryer vent cleaning]

12 hours ago, nordraw said:

Reading this makes me want to take my dryer apart and clean it out. It's new so I am most likely good for a little while though. I'll check it out in a couple of months.

Yea, it should be done once a year, but it depends on your usage if you dry clothes everyday you might won't to do it every 6 months. 

[New Sharkbites]

17 hours ago, MikeyB said:

If these fittings were Around when I worked in my old bosses shop there was no way in the world he would have let us use them. We were barley allowed to use speedy flexes, you had to use tubes and bend them by hand. The way he put it was we are Plumbers not Handymen! And we only used  pvc for DWV only when absolutely necessary, no-hub was the preferred choice. And we were one of the only shops in the neighborhood that was still pouring lead/oakum joints. For me it was a great way to learn the hard way rather then an easier way. 

Old school plumbers know what works and what doesn't work, they probably looked at these sharkbites and just shaked there head.  

 

17 hours ago, KnarlyCarl said:

 

Now we use no hub only when absolutely necessary, and pvc the preferred choice

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Pvc is the way to go 

[New Sharkbites]

On 3/12/2016 at 10:56 PM, KnarlyCarl said:

Huh, well, we use their CTS compatible fittings from time to time, but only joining between dissimilar pipe material, I don't exactly know what to think of them, but they're not the first thing I would reach for. I never used their PVC compatible fittings, don't intend to..... 

 

Yup, I'm the same way only use them when the shut off at the street won't hold. I see a few guys use them to transition from copper to cpvc which is done very often here. The Sharkbite is the same price vs a copper female adapter and a stainless cpvc male adapter plus no sweating, dope, Teflon and screwing around..lol But like I said I only use them when the water won't shut off all the way.  

[Failing Sewer line]

17 hours ago, KnarlyCarl said:

Nor would it work on collapsed pipe that has created a mini septic tank in their yard! Fun!

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Yea, labor is cheap here and PVC is even cheaper. Septic tanks smell like money!!

[Forum Picture upload problem]

1 minute ago, Kato said:

It's possibly a glitch, other members were talking about upload errors a week or two ago. I seldom upload, most of the photos I want to post I host on Photobucket or Flickr, so I never run into problems.

I'm backlogged on uploading posts, I was planning on catching up this weekend. Yea, I don't use many apps

 

[Forum Picture upload problem]

Hey guys!! For some reason when I try to upload a picture I keep getting a error. I was able to post pictures yesterday but then at night time I couldn't. I haven't loaded one picture so how could I be out of space. Is anyone else having a problem on the Forum?? Some how I was able to post this screen shot here but I can't post pictures anywhere else. If anyone know whats going on let me know. Thanks!!

[Failing Sewer line]

That sucks Mikey I hate unexpected repairs especially expensive ones, at least its fixed now. I have only seen a liner job on YouTube, the first place I saw it was on a channel called Swift Plumbers maybe 5 years ago. I don't think anyone does it here, we just dig it up and replace. It gets super expensive when the pipe inside the house fails, you basically have to tear half the house down. The homes are on slabs here so you have to chip out most of the floor and slab to change pipe. I don't think this system works on wye's, tee's, or combo's just on straight pipe. I could be wrong

[New Sharkbites]

33 minutes ago, JimboS1ice said:

Is it double post Friday?

Jimbo

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Haha, it said error or something like that and than bam!! I didn't realize till you said something, You would think being lazy you would also be a penny pincher 

 

44 minutes ago, comp56 said:

there are a lot of people that shouldn't do any plumbing and they still do.....so if they can sell it by all means.....

As long as it doesn't leak and $h!t goes down hill your good to go right..lol

[Pop.mech. on Ridgid new palm impact]

I remember returning a sprinkler and some other stuff, when I got home and read the receipt I only got a penny back for the sprinkler :/ This happened a few years ago that HD burned down karma's a bitch..lol 

[Pop.mech. on Ridgid new palm impact]

21 minutes ago, JimboS1ice said:

Yea looks pretty cool, go check your HD out they've had a 4.0 ridgid 12v battery on clearence forever who knows it may even penny out

Jimbo

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The only thing I got for a penny from HD was a pool pump basket maybe 15 years ago

[Dryer vent cleaning]

4 minutes ago, DR99 said:

Yea it was a gas dryer. I caught it super early before the fire got really crazy

 

We don't have that many gas dryers here which is good because its crazy to have an open flame next to dryer lint. There's just a sheet metal tube thats open in the front and the flame in the middle. If you open up a gas dryer you would see lint on top the tube singed as well as every were else in the dryer. Its more difficult for an electric dryer to catch fire, there would need to be a spark from the motor or else where to start a fire. A gas dryer should not be used imo, they do preform better than electric and cost less to run but what good is it if it burns the house down.