Awesome! On both counts.

Hey! I just found a plumber today, too! No young lady discount for me, but he wasn't that expensive.

nkaru: i am cursed, so everything ends up being a bigger deal than it should be. like today...a relatively simple task? nope, he could not complete it, gonna have to go into the wall from the other side, so has to schedule for another visit once they've got all the other stuff they will need.

last one was a waterfall in my walls. which turned out to be a series of in wall waterfalls, and any time they looked at a pipe, it split open.

I had to hire an emergency plumber after we moved in for a tub drain issue and I was so fucking delighted when they arrived and it was TWO LADIES!!! Their husbands own the company and they do the emergency calls for them when they are busy. 10/10 experience and I didn't pay over $100 for it either.

apple_dismantled: oh, sweet!! i do a lot of my own plumbing, in part due to a long series of bad plumbers, and pretty much only call on the pros when i know it's going to be a thing that requires more upper body strength than i have, hahah

Allegory: Same though. I usually take and hire out for the stuff where it's in the wall. That's where I draw the line, literally and figuratively. Anything outside of it 110% confident, though I do need a spotter for toilets But now that we're renting I let them do anything that requires parts or tools.

What black magic did you employ to find a good plumber?!

pruememo: depending on how much fb stalking you wanna do, look for the wife's profile and if she seems really happy, he's probably a good one. LOL

pruememo: i've been looking for one for over a decade, this guy just fell into my lap! i wasn't even trying to get a plumber really at the time, it was for a shower remodel and then he was all gushing over the toilet in the room, and welp you like that? i have another one you can fix for me,

AND HE DID. (old toilets, colours! he fixed the sky blue one, as i couldn't QUITE get the hose tightened enough, there was no bloody room with the walls, and i couldn't manage to quite get it all the way tight)

it was also a really super good thing, because it's been one plumbing nightmare after another since. had to call in the guy who came today to get a pipe replaced because it was NOT going anywhere (this kid is massive and the boss was telling stories about how they strapped a water heater to his back to get it upstairs- and even he took hours to get the damn

thing to budge). the boss (who was the one who showed up the first time and fixed that toilet) took a cast iron pipe from the basement to the second floor out to get rid of my in wall waterfalls a couple of weeks ago. today it was a frozen cartridge but also my walls and tile are impossible, so they're going to have to do it the hard way.

When they redid tile in the bathroom here, I asked them to put it on a masonite panel that could be removed fully from the wall it was on. The guy thought I was a fucking genius because I saved him the hassle of making 2 access panels. Now we got one big one that makes everything for bathroom and kitchen ez

(almost 50 year old plumbing, the toilets are all from the 70s. mind you, i also have a peach and a mint toilet from the late 40s in the parents' place, but no plumber THERE that fix shit, this is why we own one of those pipe cameras)

that is indeeeeed genius. i'm very sad that the access panel behind today's shower is too low and won't be of use for the part that needs to be fixed this time

If he's got a hook up on any old avocado sinks, let me know

i doubt even the place in LA with the old fixtures would have that. it's a great option (they salvage and resell), but while they have old stuff, it's rarely the interesting old stuff. you might be able to get parts that fit your toilet, but they will be white.

i will have to look them up and pass it along to you though, i do not recall the name/website at the moment

i am currently enjoying not having a basement flood though. it's been THREE fucking floods in the last couple of years (one was not plumbing related, it was underground lake due to ground squirrel related). also these guys get a kick out of the existence of the basement at all, it's not a thing here.

I was gonna say, I said goodbye to basements in NY, I've not seen anyone with one here yet.

my house is like a nesting doll of weirdness. at least it's not a faraday cage, like the other house my grandfather built (brick house. actually full of metal everywhere), but it has its quirks, and that's one of them. also we have a xylophone in the basement, which they also got a kick out of, so it's not like he was the only weird one in the family.