stevennharp
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All, I am looking for a sainity check regarding my last dealings with a plumber.
I had a leaking Delta show faucet in my house that I had been unable to repair. When I tried to take it apart nothing would budge so I thought perhaps I was doing something wrong. The plumbers were coming to my house to flush my heating system so I asked them to look at it. I explained to them what I had tried before they started.
Plumber number 1 took out a 12 inch pair of channel locks and after some struggle moved everything about a 1/32 to 1/16th of a turn. He then said to plumber number 2 I am not sure about this. I told both of them if they did not want to work on this they could stop. Plumber number 2 took the channel locks and tweaked on the fittting in both directions. Again nothing budged. As the bad feeling started to rsie in my stomach number 2 said to number 1 trun the water on slowly and surprise surprise the body of the valve was now leaking
Neither of them told me that part of thier "repairs" would or might be breaking the faucet. This story ends with me having them put in a new faucet from there shop and receiving a $450 bill for the job.
As you may have guessed I feel like I was taken for a ride on this one. I know things can break but I would have like to recieved a warning. I think the "right" thing for the pumbers to do would be to charge me for the parts but eat the labor. I am curious as to what others think.
Steve
I had a leaking Delta show faucet in my house that I had been unable to repair. When I tried to take it apart nothing would budge so I thought perhaps I was doing something wrong. The plumbers were coming to my house to flush my heating system so I asked them to look at it. I explained to them what I had tried before they started.
Plumber number 1 took out a 12 inch pair of channel locks and after some struggle moved everything about a 1/32 to 1/16th of a turn. He then said to plumber number 2 I am not sure about this. I told both of them if they did not want to work on this they could stop. Plumber number 2 took the channel locks and tweaked on the fittting in both directions. Again nothing budged. As the bad feeling started to rsie in my stomach number 2 said to number 1 trun the water on slowly and surprise surprise the body of the valve was now leaking
Neither of them told me that part of thier "repairs" would or might be breaking the faucet. This story ends with me having them put in a new faucet from there shop and receiving a $450 bill for the job.
As you may have guessed I feel like I was taken for a ride on this one. I know things can break but I would have like to recieved a warning. I think the "right" thing for the pumbers to do would be to charge me for the parts but eat the labor. I am curious as to what others think.
Steve