Main Vents

Main steam vents need to breath. They exhaust air as the steam pushes it out of the pipe, and when the system shuts down, they let the air back in in order to break the vacuum created by the collapsing steam. Unless of course an insulator does this! In which case the main vent may as well not be there.

Big Brother...Oh Brother

Now the EEOC wants to tell me that I can be sued if I were to not hire a minority member who has a CRIMINAL record....humm..lets see..if your my customer how would you feel if I sent someone to your house who was a convicted criminal?....yea, thats what I thought too..I think big brother is overstepping his bounds on this one..me thinks on a one to five scale, i'll give him the middle finger on this one.

Green Building ?

I was just reading an article on a new building being constructed in New York that is covered in solar panels, etc. to make it very energy efficient and 'green'. The article was very impressive until I got to the point where it said that much of the cost was paid for with grants from the government. That kind of pissed me off. That means that you and me paid for this clown to build his building, or at least part of it. If that method of construction is so grand, than how come it can't stand on its own two legs? When I installed a steam system in my house that is more efficient than the forced air it replaced, I didn't ask my fellow man to pay the cost of it.

I like good advertising.

Not some lame crap like Chevy uses with hippies dancing around a car. (Like thats supposed to make me buy anything other than a gun). But something like how Toyota slams a brake drum down on a counter and says, this is a standard truck brake, then they hold up theirs and all they say is 'this is the one you want'. Nuff said. Short, sweet, and to the point. Kind of like the ad here which most plumbers have by now seen, but I think is my all time favorite ad. Short, sweet, truthful and enough said!

Perfect Radiator Cover

This is about as good a radiator cover as they get. The sides are grilled. There is an air space at the bottom, free area above the radiator, area above the radiator for the heat to escape the cover, and a nice marble shelf to deflect the heat into the room instead of just letting it rise to the ceiling. About the only thing that would perhaps make this a tad bit more perfect would be a greater free area on the grill work. But its still the best cover I've seen yet.

Customer says- My shower drains slow

No Joke! Really

Dang roots can climb!

We replaced a section of sewer and the lavatory sink drain because we could not snake the lav sink without kinking the heck out of our small drain cable and we kept bringing back roots. When we cut the lav sink drain 5 feet above the floor, we found the roots had climbed right up the pipe to the first floor! Check out these pictures. I would never have expected the roots to climb vertically up the pipes like that.