Hi all.
I've been thinking of some things lately that you may find funny. Things that I have either come across personally, or have happened to reliable sources close to me. Mostly plumbing related...
I went to a customers house a couple of weeks ago to fix their RO. They had purchased it from Water Depot and installed it themselves. We call it cash and carry. They read the instructions, hooked it up, and couldn't make it work. So the service tech gets dispatched... After I checked all the filters, tap, and followed all of the tubing, I started disconnecting tubing and running water into a pail. Filters were ok. Post membrane was ok. Pressure tank seemed ok. Had water running out the drain line. I was baffled. Then I took the drain saddle off. Low and behold, they hadn't drilled a hole in the ABS drain. So I drilled the hole, Hooked it back up, and handed them a bill for $95+tax.
Another one that I have never forgotten, happened to my Journeyman. He went to a house where a guy had a leak that wouldn't stop dripping. The customer had replaced all of the copper pipe in his house. And only 1 leak. Upon inspection my journeyman found yellow goo all over the copper pipe around where the guy had tried to stop the leak. Apparently he went to Home Depot bought all the copper pipe and the Home Depot employee told him to use ABS glue to seal the copper instead of soldering...
I had a customer in Ingersoll call me up to ask why their RO water "tasted funny". I went over and they explained that they had a plumber over to take the RO out, so they could replace the cabinets. They had also noticed that the plumber took quite some time to replace the RO, then made a hasty retreat at the end of the job. I checked it over then followed the tubing. Water in - ok. Filter housings not leaking - ok. Then noticed that there was a T before the membrane, where there shouldn't have been one. There was another T post membrane. So to shorten the story the membrane had been bypassed, and they were drinking filtered tap water. If you have ever drank water in Ingersoll, even filtered, you would not be impressed. Our city water has a flavor AND an odor.
Anything like these happen to you???
I've been thinking of some things lately that you may find funny. Things that I have either come across personally, or have happened to reliable sources close to me. Mostly plumbing related...
I went to a customers house a couple of weeks ago to fix their RO. They had purchased it from Water Depot and installed it themselves. We call it cash and carry. They read the instructions, hooked it up, and couldn't make it work. So the service tech gets dispatched... After I checked all the filters, tap, and followed all of the tubing, I started disconnecting tubing and running water into a pail. Filters were ok. Post membrane was ok. Pressure tank seemed ok. Had water running out the drain line. I was baffled. Then I took the drain saddle off. Low and behold, they hadn't drilled a hole in the ABS drain. So I drilled the hole, Hooked it back up, and handed them a bill for $95+tax.
Another one that I have never forgotten, happened to my Journeyman. He went to a house where a guy had a leak that wouldn't stop dripping. The customer had replaced all of the copper pipe in his house. And only 1 leak. Upon inspection my journeyman found yellow goo all over the copper pipe around where the guy had tried to stop the leak. Apparently he went to Home Depot bought all the copper pipe and the Home Depot employee told him to use ABS glue to seal the copper instead of soldering...
I had a customer in Ingersoll call me up to ask why their RO water "tasted funny". I went over and they explained that they had a plumber over to take the RO out, so they could replace the cabinets. They had also noticed that the plumber took quite some time to replace the RO, then made a hasty retreat at the end of the job. I checked it over then followed the tubing. Water in - ok. Filter housings not leaking - ok. Then noticed that there was a T before the membrane, where there shouldn't have been one. There was another T post membrane. So to shorten the story the membrane had been bypassed, and they were drinking filtered tap water. If you have ever drank water in Ingersoll, even filtered, you would not be impressed. Our city water has a flavor AND an odor.
Anything like these happen to you???