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[ManBearPig]

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[MontyAC]

Check your local yelp ratings.

 

[Legios]

Check for Crack, the bigger the better.

 

[highland145]

Check for Crack, the bigger the better.

Beat me to it.....but my bro is 6'1" 175lbs and he's pretty damn good.

OP call a local supply house or 2. "Who's good?"

Expect to pay for quality work.

 

[iRONic]

Send a PM to Phuckeneh. I read he can reccommend a gem.

 

[BoomerD]

$500? So...he's just gonna come give you an estimate?

 

[DrPizza]

How do you know it's going to be about $500, if you haven't gotten a plumber to give you an estimate?


What type of work do you need done??

 

[alkemyst]

Beat me to it.....but my bro is 6'1" 175lbs and he's pretty damn good.

Are you referring to he's pretty damn good with his crack? *shiver*

 

[highland145]

$500? So...he's just gonna come give you an estimate?

Bro does charge $85.00 Says he could be turning a wrench making the same thing.

Are you referring to he's pretty damn good with his crack? *shiver*

When he introduces me to people, he says he's the good looking brother. I tell them I'm fine with that because if we get locked up he's the one that's going to get pounded in the bum.:biggrin:

 

[Jimzz]

I don't know but its one thing I am glad I know how to do so I am not stuck having to trust someone like this.

But as said what do you need done and how did you come up with the $500 number?

 

[ManBearPig]

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[JamesV]

Don't do what I did lately, and hire a handyman who has plumber skills.

The whole idea was to save some money on clearing the drain my washing machine empties into. So the guy snakes out that line, but can't get far down it, so he goes down the other two access points there (I have three bathrooms), and gets a bunch of root pieces out of the pipe.

Took him a little over an hour, and he wanted $270. "It's $90 per snake", he says...

I didn't get mad, but he could tell I was shocked by that price, and not happy, so he amends his first price saying "Well, if you can pay in cash, I'll drop the price to $160".

What a rip-off; I could have bought a snake for that price and done it myself.

 

[ManBearPig]

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[highland145]

Yeah, if i get this done I want it done right by a company who is insured and knows what theyre doing. We've been burned too many times in the past by "handymen", lol.

A lot of companies "flat rate". If they take up your toilet..$125. If they take the sewer snake off the truck...$100....etc. Doesn't matter if they actually fix the problem.

 

[alkemyst]

What a rip-off; I could have bought a snake for that price and done it myself.

You do realize many home fix-it jobs are more costly than the tools to do them. Also even with snaking a drain, you can cause more issues if you don't know what you are doing.

 

[zinfamous]

red hat, suspenders, large mustache, testudophobe.

 

[BoomerD]

 

[Midwayman]

I have had good luck with contractors off angie's list. YMMV.

 

[BD231]

Are you referring to he's pretty damn good with his crack? *shiver*

A man with a 70k post count 3 ex-wives none of which bore his children that drives a BMW and still wears levi's doesn't do coke? Give that plumber a break,, bro.

 

[alkemyst]

A man with a 70k post count 3 ex-wives none of which bore his children that drives a BMW and still wears levi's doesn't do coke? Give that plumber a break,, bro.

I have 2 ex wives. One was pregnant and miscarried. I wear Levis, but I also have designer denim.

Sorry I made fun of your favorite job type to bone at night.

I just lay pipe, but I ain't no plumber. Your mom appreciates that.

 

[ManBearPig]

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[DrPizza]

Back on topic, we installed a water softener where one had never existed before. Cutting into the line, bypass, etc., took about 30 minutes. Installed a whole house filter ahead of the water softener while we were at it.

If you wanted to save about $400 out of that $500, the installation would be pretty trivial to do if you used sharkbite fittings & Pex.

 

[ManBearPig]

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[DrPizza]

Yeah, I can do that, and would do that, but where we want to install it is amazingly complicated lol. If I could just install it in the same room were the main water line shut off is, I wouldn't have posted this.

What could be amazingly complicated? All the water entering your house goes through the softener; then exits the softener. Unless the softener has a bypass built into it, you stick a bypass between the in and out. Or, you don't have to soften *all* the water - you could (as I did) not soften the water that goes to outside spigots. (And turn your siding orange, requiring a lot of work to unstain, if your water is as hard as mine.)

 

[Red Squirrel]

With pex, plumbing is really easy these days, and even if it's copper, it's not that hard to learn. I would just do it myself. Analyze what you have, figure out where everything goes, and it wont look that complicated. Drain pipes are pretty easy to work with too. Just don't do anything stupid like not putting a P trap under a sink, or putting a P trap with no cleanout. It's common sense. P trap prevents sewer gas from coming up as some water stays in it. Cleanout makes maintenance easier. (it's like the cover on your computer, but for poop)

A typical house does not really have all that much plumbing, it just looks complicated if it's done the traditional way as opposed to manifolds, as it just looks like everything goes all over since you just tap from whatever is closest to where you want water. Makes for a messy looking setup, but once you figure out where everything goes it's not that bad.

Electrical is kinda the same way. you look at all the wires going into the panel and everywhere and it looks super complicated but once you break everything down to it's own circuit it's not that bad.