My first rant (on iboats)

[Fishin' Jeff]

If anyone in the K.C. area needs a plumber, DO NOT CALL POOR JOE'S PLUMBING!

We had our kitchen sink back up, so I try to snake it first with my 25' hand snake. No luck there as I could not get it past the first 90 degree bend. One of my best friends is a maintenece man for about 4 apt. complexes and he wouldn't be able to get to it 'till this weekend. So my wife calls this rasafrasin egg-suckin riff-raff poor excuse for a plumber. Says he hits something solid at 46' into the line. First line of B.S. right there. He then gives my wife a bottle of this stuff called liquid alive and tells her to pour it down the drain and if that don't work, he'll have to come back with a camera and charge us $290. He then leaves the job with the job being undone!

I wouldn't have been so pizzed if my buddy had't come over with his power snake yesterday and was hitting something at about 15'. Quite a difference between 15 and 46! After he pulls out the solid object (dishrag) we have a beer and he says I should call the guy and get my $70 back that he charged for the job that was left unfinished. I called their answering machine this morning and told them that if I didn't get my money back, he'll be reported to the better business beurau(sp).

OHHH I WOULD JUST LIKE TO THROTTLE THE JERK!

There, I feel much better now.

 

[Ron G]

Re: My first rant (on iboats)

Cut your loses.....all plumbers arent like thatdHow did a dishrag get down the sink?just wonderingdso do ya feel better?good.

 

[Fishin' Jeff]

Re: My first rant (on iboats) UPDATE

Re: My first rant (on iboats) UPDATE

Okay, after calming down a bit (thanks iboats) I called and left a message on the guy's machine and told him how unhappy I was with his work (snowjob). He retuns my call and says it was a big misunderstanding between him and my wife-that the camera option was a last resort and not the next step like my wife swears it what he said. He agrees to refund the $70 service call fee less the $17 for the bottle of liquid alive. Great. But what about the next housewife he visits. I'm happy about the refund, but I really think he was trying to get some easy money.

Mr. and Mrs. Ladyfish, what does this sound like to you?

 

[LadyFish]

Re: My first rant (on iboats)

It's kind of strange that the plumber didn't use his snake rather than resort to a liquid drain cleaner/declogger.

Incompetence is the first thing that comes to my mind. He also suggested using a camera at a fee of $290? Thats ridiculous without trying a snake first.

Maybe there's a reasonable explanation for this but I can't think of it.

Sorry for your experience, there are a lot of good, honest and dependable plumbers out there.

 

[Mr.Ladyfish]

Re: My first rant (on iboats)

The few times we've had to call a plumber they have always just snaked or roto-rootered the plug out of the line. The only time I've ever TV'd a line was in my civil engineering work where we TV'd whole sewer systems to determine where they needed point repairs. That's for the municipal system not private home lines.
Methinks he was trying to take advantage of your wife and probably does it to others as part of his SOP.

 

[KaGee]

Re: My first rant (on iboats)

Question: Did the plumber use duct tape? 8)