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bill plumber (FL)
Got a call to unstop a kitchen sink last week. It was at an apartment complex. I pulled the trap and ran my drill snake in the drain. I heard screaming and the neighbor ran outside in her panties. It seems I punched through her trap on the other side of the cross and ran my snake out the cabinet and across her kitchen floor. I hate drain cleaning! but she didn't look bad in them panties. 
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HytechPlumber (LA)
Not sure I understand your situation. Can you post a piture ? "LOL"
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................ Good Luck .....................
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Author:
hj
quote; Does not your code require a double "Y" on back to back kitchen sinks
No "good" code allows a double "Y". They should require a "back to back fixture fitting" which is similar, but different. Some inspectors allow crosses, which this person must have encountered, even though they also are not permitted.
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avdhuman (MI)
What color were the panties?
Edited 1 times.
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dlh (TX)
when i was younger i loved cleaning drains from the roof in the summer. being quite as possible until i started the machine and watching sunbathers jump at the sudden noise. got a few good shots that way from the ones that didnt like bikini lines
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PLUMBERS "Protecting The Health Of The Nation"
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Nayman's Drain Services (Non-US)
Oh, the visuals. Just what I needed today.
So far, Bill, you have neglected to answer some pertinent questions from others.
More info is needed, and they are valid questions.
Around here here, one T-Y stacked on another is now code.
The only other way is to use a "down-head" on the older style crosses.
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waukeshaplumbing (WI)
never had anything exciting like that happen to me...a few came down in robes asking when the water heater would be done....no underwear.
a drain cleaning friend had an physical payment offer once...he's 60 years old....how poor do you have to be to want to do it with a 60 year old man with sewage all over him?
maybe there is some kind of fetish for drain cleaners...when feet are no longer exciting maybe you go to drain cleaners?
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NICK (CA)
That's funny about your friends proposition, maybe that's an indicator that his prices are too high. The only panties and bras I usually see are hanging up on the shower door header or a towel bar. I come across a lot of back to back tubs and sinks in apts. Usually have to go through the roof and once in awhile there is no direct vent above like on a bathtub awhile back. Had to break open the wall and drill through the horizontal connector going to the toilet stack.
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Nayman's Drain Services (Non-US)
I'm still waiting on answers to "HyTech"s, avdhuman (MI)s, questions. lol
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hj
I hear guys talking like this all the time, but have NEVER had a proposition in 60 years, so I have to think most of it is just bluster.
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Shoemaker2 (MA)
I had a woman come to the door with her bathrobe wide open and her patch in full view, I asked her to cover that thing up before I lost my breakfast. Haven't had one worth seeing ever since.
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Fixitangel (NC)
Be VERY Careful with that drill drain snake. Next one could be a 300 lb Sumo wrestler in a thong.
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bill plumber (FL)
White with tank top. Sorry no pics you will just have to use your imagination. The complex was old and had a cross with corroded chrome p-traps. A Wye would cause an s-trap. When I was a plumber in the airforce I was fixing a lav in the female latrine. There was a bank of 8 lavs and a female airman asked me if she could come in and brush her teeth because she was late for work. She chose the lav right next to the one I was laying under. She had just a short t-shirt on. God bless her for making my day. I have many other stories guess I'm just lucky.
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birddoggiest (ID)
Man it must be good to be a service plumber! I usualy se "I am not that kind of plumber". I gess I should be. I only see construction workers 
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hj
I AM a service plumber, and have NEVER had that experience in 60 years, and the guys who say they do are not always the most reliable, since they have a tendency to embellish and NEVER let a few facts get in the way of a good story.
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bill plumber (FL)
Sorry for your bad luck Hj. I have never been propositioned but I have been in the right place at the right time quite a few times. I'd love to tell you about the time I left my sunglasses on a countertop and went back to get them but you might not believe me..
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Author:
hj
quote; Sorry for your bad luck Hj.
Might not be bad luck. It is sort of like the story my union business agent told me once.
Two brothers ran a ice truck back when people had "ice boxes" in their kitchens. (We had one for years until my dad brought home a used GE refrigerator with the coil on top of it.) People would put a card in their window with the size ice block they needed. Then one of the brothers would grab the block of ice with his tongs, go up to the apartment, and put the ice in the box. Then collect the money. One day, after delivering the ice the lady came out in her negligee and said she didn't have any money, but was there some other way she could pay him? He told her, "I am not sure. I will have to talk to my brother to see if we can **** away any more ice today." The story was told in the context of plumbers giving away portions of their business, such as bathroom towel racks and accessories because they did not want to do them. And eventually, when they ****** away too much they would regret it when business slowed down.
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Author:
bill plumber (FL)
I'm not selling ice.
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Author:
hj
It was a parable.
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Author:
CanuckWolf (Non-US)
about 13 years ago i was a second year apprentice, we went to install a fireplace at a house and the lady took her sweet time to answer the door...hiding behind the door she appologizes and says "i was in the shower and heard the door, sorry, ill be back in a second ok? im not wearing anything...see..." and moved the door to show herself nake-nake.was embarassing for her when she realized what she had done. my journeyman at the time was pissy as he was just coming up the driveway and only sorta seen the situation.about late 30's lady.thinking back about that one, never did a service or install call to her house ever again...jeeze when you lose a client because you are "overpriced" i can see, but for this...c'mon. 
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