on plumbers

8 Responses to “on plumbers”

1. posted by Ronni at January 23, 2008 5:12 pm :
   

   Be kind. We’ve had great experience with Scott Hawkins the electrician and of course who could forget the fabulous plumbing work by Emerson.

2. posted by jenni@thirteeneleven at January 23, 2008 5:34 pm :
   

   Our plumber is a HOTTIE!!!! EYE CANDY and does a good job. ( I guess, too distracted.)…. LOL …at least everything works and nothing leaks..
   Now we’ve had rotten luck with electricians… HATE them.

3. posted by john m at January 23, 2008 7:09 pm :
   

   Ronni: but they were working independent, not as part of a larger company. That, I guess, is the lesson.

4. posted by Jennifer C. at January 23, 2008 11:26 pm :
   

   I love our plumber. He’s an independent-bordering-on-fly-by-night, but he knows his way around a waste pipe.

   Electrician-wise, the only ones we’ve ever dealt with were the (company-affiliated) ones sent by our insurance company after our old fusebox went kerflooie and nearly burned the house down. Not so impressed with them, particularly when I went on a mission to find out why one of our outlets continually stopped working. One of the ones upstream had supposedly been converted to a GFCI, but not only did they not ground it (which is sort of the point) they’d just wrapped the outlet with electrical tape when the wires wouldn’t stay jammed in the lazy-installer holes.
   Next time I’m calling the guy who I know not as an electrician, but as a normal friend-person. This stuff isn’t that hard to do right if you’re not a slug.

5. posted by BML at January 27, 2008 3:00 pm :
   

   I haven’t had major work done (yet)…actually most of it has been HVAC related — but so far, I’ve felt treated well by Carroll Plumbing — expensive, no doubt, but the guy that has been here twice for my furnace over the last few years seems to be a good guy that does good work.

6. posted by john m at January 27, 2008 3:44 pm :
   

   Carroll Plumbing — expensive, no doubt

   They are the company that inspired my little rant above, actually.

7. posted by Bookstore Piet at February 17, 2008 8:38 pm :
   

   You should try CMR. Family run business. I had them do several small jobs that included plumbing and electrical before having them build us a new kitchen in our Battery Park home. Gutting to completion took about 6 weeks for a good price. A number of times they went beyond what was in the contract in order to ‘do it right’. The bill, however, remained the same.

8. posted by Sean at May 8, 2008 3:17 pm :
   

   I have become a huge fan of carroll plumbing… our guy, Sid, saved me SO much money on a drain issue. one of the guys who came to help knew exactly about the 1920’s tub, in and out.

   also, i get a phone call the next day that there was an error and i was overcharged by $94.00. i tried to leave it as a tip, but ended up getting my boiler serviced.

   i guess not all plumbers even within a company are created equally.

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