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.

Dumbest radiator installation i've seen in awhile!

This radiator installation takes the cake for the dumbest installation i've seen recently. The radiator mounted in the ceiling of the kitchen of this school is a Shaw Perkins radiator. The Shaw Perkins is really a convector instead of a radiator. It does a bang up job of creating convection air currents but doesn't do squat for radiation. The people at the school actually had to add ceiling fans to try and get the heat to come back down from the ceiling. A ceiling radiator is dumb to start with, but a ceiling mounted convection style radiator is really dumb. The place was designed this way too! That means a licensed engineer came up with that!