The Penalty Box

• Do not leave a mess when you are done. I understand that you have to cut pipe and that it is a bit of a messy job. Just clean it up afterwards. Do not leave pipe shavings and sawdust in my kitchen.
• I am not here to entertain you. If I am watching playoff hockey, that does not give you the cue to talk over the announcer to make small talk. I don’t care that your new truck is broken. I don’t care that you hate your landlord. Fix my sink, that’s your job.
• If you don’t have a part to finish the job, get it. If the hardware store is closed, get it the next day. Home Depot/Rona does not close on a Sunday. You have not finished a job, so you better make it a priority to finish it. I don’t care if you’ve had a bad day, you’ve made my weekend bad by leaving a leaky sink.
• If you are too busy to finish this job, you should not have accepted it in the first place. Learn to manage your time better.
• There’s more to being a plumber than pipes. There’s customer relations too. Not answering your phone when you have an unfinished job is unprofessional. If you do not wish to deal with customers, hire someone to do that for you. If you cannot afford that, then deal with it and stop acting like a thirteen year old pissant.
• Don’t get all Mike Holmes on me saying the builders did a crappy job with the pipes when you can’t even make a sink stop leaking. There are no specialty parts that you need to order. Stop making excuses.
• Don’t complain that jobs are always more complicated than you expected. It just means you’re unprepared.
• FINISH. THE. JOB.

It’s now been the better part of a week that the kitchen sink is leaking due to old pipes. Once I get the name of the company (he’s self-employed) from my landlord, I will edit this post to inform everyone to never contract the services of this plumber.

Edit: The name of the company is Precision Plumbing.  Tack BC on the end of that, add a .ca extension and you have his website.  I’m not linking it because he doesn’t deserve any help on his Google ranking. For extra lulz, here’s some quotes from his “guarantee” section of his site:

We guarantee your home or business with be treated with the utmost care and respect while completing your project.
We guarantee all excess material or left over parts will be removed from site with minimal or no cost to the home or business owner.
We guarantee all our work will be done right the first time and strive to maintain our name in quality.

Oh yeah, he ended up leaving the dirty pipes behind too. He just said to throw them into the garbage can. So yeah, don’t use this guy. Ever. Tell your friends.