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Thread ID: 106452	2010-01-09 02:42:00	Get the plumber or not?	Morgenmuffel (187)	PC World Chat

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847215	2010-01-10 09:58:00	Those Hepworth plumbing fittings work wonders when you have a leak in a pipe. Easy to use and reliable and avoids having to call in a plumber.	robbyp (2751)
847216	2010-01-10 19:33:00	Just remember that plumbers are the most expensive tradesmen . After computer technicians that is . ;):D I charge $75 an hour . He charges $45 an hour . Both of us tend to do a flat fee though instead of counting the hours . I continually moan at him for the pathetic amounts he comes home with after being somewhere for ages . He says he charges for what the job was worth rather than how long he might have been there, especially if the customer is helping . Like some leak at the butcher the other week, he charged $60 and was gone for hours .	pctek (84)
847217	2010-01-10 19:37:00	Hi PCTek, ask hubby the cost please as i think I would feel guity if I didn't at least look at getting it fixed He says its hard to say because it all depends why it is leaking, he said it might be around $100 if you rang one of the Invy plumbers. With materials. Depends whats causing it and he said he can't for sure tell you without more info. He said if you really want to know ring him, but he also said with bad houses round here sometimes it's best not to touch anything cause next thing you find there's some other underlying thing and it spirals. He recommends you run away now seeing as it's sold. He said you don't anything about any leak.	pctek (84)
847218	2010-01-11 00:51:00	He says its hard to say because it all depends why it is leaking, he said it might be around $100 if you rang one of the Invy plumbers. With materials. Depends whats causing it and he said he can't for sure tell you without more info. He said if you really want to know ring him, but he also said with bad houses round here sometimes it's best not to touch anything cause next thing you find there's some other underlying thing and it spirals. He recommends you run away now seeing as it's sold. He said you don't anything about any leak. This is a major problem in NZ houses, which is hardly ever talked about www.house-buying-downunder.com	robbyp (2751)
847219	2010-01-11 01:01:00	He says its hard to say because it all depends why it is leaking, . Indeed,this is the origins of the now famous leaky house syndrome.	Cicero (40)
847220	2010-01-11 02:14:00	Indeed,this is the origins of the now famous leaky house syndrome. I was told by my plumber that it is like a secret leaky building crisis, because noone likes to talk about it, and they don't want their house to be known to have this problem. Basically it means replumbing the house in the long term, so you are talking hundreds of millions probably to fix all houses.	robbyp (2751)
847221	2010-01-11 02:46:00	My builder/renovator friend tells the same story, also how many of the so-called builders during the housing boom really only knew how to build using a glue gun....and horror stories of outer walls made of polystyrene stuff that you could kick holes through. There was certainly some shoddy work going on with little quality control anywhere.	Terry Porritt (14)
847222	2010-01-11 02:58:00	I charge $75 an hour. He charges $45 an hour. Both of us tend to do a flat fee though instead of counting the hours. I continually moan at him for the pathetic amounts he comes home with after being somewhere for ages. He says he charges for what the job was worth rather than how long he might have been there, especially if the customer is helping. Like some leak at the butcher the other week, he charged $60 and was gone for hours. Its because your husband is what is called in the trade a good bugger. There are a few around.	prefect (6291)
847223	2010-01-11 03:05:00	pretty much all our piping is copper, the bit going onto the cistern is copper as well	Morgenmuffel (187)
847224	2010-01-11 03:10:00	Coppers easy just use a crox nut and seal on it. In the old days they soldered or flared them.	prefect (6291)
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