Re: [BlindHandyMan] power drain cleaning story

2010-01-05 Thread Spiro
oh what a hoot!




On Sun, 3 Jan 2010, Lenny McHugh wrote:

 I have a friend that owns a tool rental shop. He has a power drainer that he
 will only rent the root cutting one to a licensed plumber. One guy came in
 and insisted upon  renting that unit. He told Frank that he worked with a
 plumber for ten years and has used the machine in the past. Frank made him
 sign a paper stating that the shop is not responsable for any damage caused
 by the machine. The unit came with 25 feet of  cable. Shortly after the guy
 came back for more cable for the machine. He was given another 50 feet.
 about an hour later he came back for more cable. After he had about 200 feet
 he brought the machine back. He told Frank that when he was out about 180
 feet the neighbor called him asking what is that thing flying around in my
 yard.
 He actually cut through his drain line about 3 feet from where he fed in
 the cleaner. Frank drove past the guy's home the next day and there was a
 back hoe in the front yard.
 He  will never again rent that machine to anyone but a licensed plumbing
 contractor that shows proof of insurance.
 ---
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Re: [BlindHandyMan] power drain cleaning story

2010-01-04 Thread Max Robinson
The last time we had to call a plumber was when our kitchen sink was plugged 
up.  He snaked out the line and installed a Y connector just past the trap. 
He explained that the next time I could take the plug out of the end of the 
Y connector and run the snake down it bypassing the trap.  He said I could 
also run water down the drain while snaking.  I did it last month and it 
worked exactly the way he said it would.  As soon as the  end of the snake 
cleared the clog the water drained away.  The snake I have is very simple. 
One end chucks up in the drill and the other end has that spring on the end. 
No gears.  The middle part is covered with some kind of rubbery plastic.

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- Original Message - 
From: Blaine Deutscher b.m.deutsc...@sasktel.net
To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sunday, January 03, 2010 9:14 PM
Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] power drain cleaning story


 so what does this snake do? Just eat through the junk that is in the 
 draine
 clogging it. I'm just picturing this thing destroying a bathroom, how? if
 anything touched me as I was sitting there I would scream and run out of 
 the
 bathroom with clothes down. no matter if anyone saw me. thanks for the
 imidge. never going to sit on public toylets the same. *shivers*

 Blaine
 - Original Message - 
 From: Dale Leavens dleav...@puc.net
 To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com
 Sent: Sunday, January 03, 2010 9:39 AM
 Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] power drain cleaning story


 Something like 25 years ago I was remodeling a building for a clinic. Some
 of this involved rearranging washrooms and of course old drains which were
 not draining. Some highly respected expert was brought in with his
 rotorouter and all stood around in fascination as he snaked down the old
 toilet hole describing as he went how he could feel the snake turn left 
 out
 of the building then left again toward the street then meeting some
 resistance .. . .

 About three or four minutes into the process there was a shattering sound
 behind the wall and a thrashing. Turns out there was a toilet on the other
 side of the partition feeding into the same common drain. His snake went
 down one hole and right back up the other largely destroying the washroom 
 in
 the facility at the rear of the building. thankfully the unit was nothing
 more than a store house for a contractor in the next building and no one 
 was
 sitting on the throne at the time.

 My skepticism at the time about the intelligence of the operating fingers
 and their sensitive touch has not improved with that experience or the
 passage of time since.

 If I was Han Solo I'd probably pet my wookie

 - Original Message - 
 From: Lenny McHugh lmch...@verizon.net
 To: handyman-blind blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com
 Sent: Sunday, January 03, 2010 6:32 AM
 Subject: [BlindHandyMan] power drain cleaning story


I have a friend that owns a tool rental shop. He has a power drainer that
he
 will only rent the root cutting one to a licensed plumber. One guy came 
 in
 and insisted upon  renting that unit. He told Frank that he worked with a
 plumber for ten years and has used the machine in the past. Frank made 
 him
 sign a paper stating that the shop is not responsable for any damage
 caused
 by the machine. The unit came with 25 feet of  cable. Shortly after the
 guy
 came back for more cable for the machine. He was given another 50 feet.
 about an hour later he came back for more cable. After he had about 200
 feet
 he brought the machine back. He told Frank that when he was out about 180
 feet the neighbor called him asking what is that thing flying around in 
 my
 yard.
 He actually cut through his drain line about 3 feet from where he fed in
 the cleaner. Frank drove past the guy's home the next day and there was a
 back hoe in the front yard.
 He  will never again rent that machine to anyone but a licensed plumbing
 contractor that shows proof of insurance.
 ---
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[BlindHandyMan] power drain cleaning story

2010-01-03 Thread Lenny McHugh
I have a friend that owns a tool rental shop. He has a power drainer that he 
will only rent the root cutting one to a licensed plumber. One guy came in 
and insisted upon  renting that unit. He told Frank that he worked with a 
plumber for ten years and has used the machine in the past. Frank made him 
sign a paper stating that the shop is not responsable for any damage caused 
by the machine. The unit came with 25 feet of  cable. Shortly after the guy 
came back for more cable for the machine. He was given another 50 feet. 
about an hour later he came back for more cable. After he had about 200 feet 
he brought the machine back. He told Frank that when he was out about 180 
feet the neighbor called him asking what is that thing flying around in my 
yard.
 He actually cut through his drain line about 3 feet from where he fed in 
the cleaner. Frank drove past the guy's home the next day and there was a 
back hoe in the front yard.
He  will never again rent that machine to anyone but a licensed plumbing 
contractor that shows proof of insurance.
---
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Re: [BlindHandyMan] power drain cleaning story

2010-01-03 Thread Lee A. Stone

to my knowledge Lenny there is no longer any  tool rental  places in 
our county. there is one plumbing firm who has the contract for the  
roto rooter with those cutting blades and there   is a woman who has 
the Lady rooter. she has a high   pressured water blasting system.  I 
thought we were in good shape with our otside plumbing.  sewer line as 
it is a  straight shot to the street with cast iron  installed in 1978 
but I am told by plumbers that this clay soil we have will crush and 
move cast iron . it is exactly 43 feet from inside my  basement wall to 
the main  town sewer line  as we marked if off on our one inch wide  
flat snake. . I also found out we can dig and install our new sewer line  
up to the edge of the blacktop and then the town says we  need a 
professional  plumber to  rip up the edge of the street and do a 
connection to the town linebut that sewer line job is still on the 
to-do   list.  Lee

 
On Sun, 
Jan 03, 2010 
at 06:32:08AM 
-0500, Lenny McHugh wrote:
 I have a friend that owns a tool rental shop. He has a power drainer that he 
 will only rent the root cutting one to a licensed plumber. One guy came in 
 and insisted upon  renting that unit. He told Frank that he worked with a 
 plumber for ten years and has used the machine in the past. Frank made him 
 sign a paper stating that the shop is not responsable for any damage caused 
 by the machine. The unit came with 25 feet of  cable. Shortly after the guy 
 came back for more cable for the machine. He was given another 50 feet. 
 about an hour later he came back for more cable. After he had about 200 feet 
 he brought the machine back. He told Frank that when he was out about 180 
 feet the neighbor called him asking what is that thing flying around in my 
 yard.
  He actually cut through his drain line about 3 feet from where he fed in 
 the cleaner. Frank drove past the guy's home the next day and there was a 
 back hoe in the front yard.
 He  will never again rent that machine to anyone but a licensed plumbing 
 contractor that shows proof of insurance.
 ---
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 with many resources for the blind.
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Re: [BlindHandyMan] power drain cleaning story

2010-01-03 Thread Bob Kennedy
You can save yourself a fortune if you dig and run your own line.  But you'll 
lose more than you save if you try tapping into the main line.  They are pretty 
serious about their fines if you do your own tapping.  

I've done a lot of things that might require permission from one city or 
another.  But I've never tapped the main sewer line.  I won't even end that 
with a yet.  It's not that I'm afraid to try, I know the cost of the fines in 
many places.  Figure if you have to be bonded before you can receive a permit, 
you're already on the record for a bunch.


  - Original Message - 
  From: Lee A. Stone 
  To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Sunday, January 03, 2010 6:58 AM
  Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] power drain cleaning story




  to my knowledge Lenny there is no longer any tool rental places in 
  our county. there is one plumbing firm who has the contract for the 
  roto rooter with those cutting blades and there is a woman who has 
  the Lady rooter. she has a high pressured water blasting system. I 
  thought we were in good shape with our otside plumbing. sewer line as 
  it is a straight shot to the street with cast iron installed in 1978 
  but I am told by plumbers that this clay soil we have will crush and 
  move cast iron . it is exactly 43 feet from inside my basement wall to 
  the main town sewer line as we marked if off on our one inch wide 
  flat snake. . I also found out we can dig and install our new sewer line 
  up to the edge of the blacktop and then the town says we need a 
  professional plumber to rip up the edge of the street and do a 
  connection to the town linebut that sewer line job is still on the 
  to-do  list. Lee

  On Sun, 
  Jan 03, 2010 
  at 06:32:08AM 
  -0500, Lenny McHugh wrote:
   I have a friend that owns a tool rental shop. He has a power drainer that 
he 
   will only rent the root cutting one to a licensed plumber. One guy came in 
   and insisted upon renting that unit. He told Frank that he worked with a 
   plumber for ten years and has used the machine in the past. Frank made him 
   sign a paper stating that the shop is not responsable for any damage caused 
   by the machine. The unit came with 25 feet of cable. Shortly after the guy 
   came back for more cable for the machine. He was given another 50 feet. 
   about an hour later he came back for more cable. After he had about 200 
feet 
   he brought the machine back. He told Frank that when he was out about 180 
   feet the neighbor called him asking what is that thing flying around in my 
   yard.
   He actually cut through his drain line about 3 feet from where he fed in 
   the cleaner. Frank drove past the guy's home the next day and there was a 
   back hoe in the front yard.
   He will never again rent that machine to anyone but a licensed plumbing 
   contractor that shows proof of insurance.
   ---
   Please visit my home page; it is motivational, inspirational and humorous 
   with many resources for the blind.
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Re: [BlindHandyMan] power drain cleaning story

2010-01-03 Thread Dale Leavens
Something like 25 years ago I was remodeling a building for a clinic. Some 
of this involved rearranging washrooms and of course old drains which were 
not draining. Some highly respected expert was brought in with his 
rotorouter and all stood around in fascination as he snaked down the old 
toilet hole describing as he went how he could feel the snake turn left out 
of the building then left again toward the street then meeting some 
resistance .. . .

About three or four minutes into the process there was a shattering sound 
behind the wall and a thrashing. Turns out there was a toilet on the other 
side of the partition feeding into the same common drain. His snake went 
down one hole and right back up the other largely destroying the washroom in 
the facility at the rear of the building. thankfully the unit was nothing 
more than a store house for a contractor in the next building and no one was 
sitting on the throne at the time.

My skepticism at the time about the intelligence of the operating fingers 
and their sensitive touch has not improved with that experience or the 
passage of time since.

If I was Han Solo I'd probably pet my wookie

- Original Message - 
From: Lenny McHugh lmch...@verizon.net
To: handyman-blind blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sunday, January 03, 2010 6:32 AM
Subject: [BlindHandyMan] power drain cleaning story


I have a friend that owns a tool rental shop. He has a power drainer that 
he
 will only rent the root cutting one to a licensed plumber. One guy came in
 and insisted upon  renting that unit. He told Frank that he worked with a
 plumber for ten years and has used the machine in the past. Frank made him
 sign a paper stating that the shop is not responsable for any damage 
 caused
 by the machine. The unit came with 25 feet of  cable. Shortly after the 
 guy
 came back for more cable for the machine. He was given another 50 feet.
 about an hour later he came back for more cable. After he had about 200 
 feet
 he brought the machine back. He told Frank that when he was out about 180
 feet the neighbor called him asking what is that thing flying around in my
 yard.
 He actually cut through his drain line about 3 feet from where he fed in
 the cleaner. Frank drove past the guy's home the next day and there was a
 back hoe in the front yard.
 He  will never again rent that machine to anyone but a licensed plumbing
 contractor that shows proof of insurance.
 ---
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 with many resources for the blind.
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RE: [BlindHandyMan] power drain cleaning story

2010-01-03 Thread William Stephan
Having been in the tool rental/leasing business for 15 or so years, I can
sympathise with old Frank.  Sadly, there's a huge body of case law out there
where rental houses have been held accountable under product liability
statutes etc. even when they've done all they possibly can do to educate
their customers.  
For a mon and popp rental outfit, the cost of product liability insurance is
staggering.

-Original Message-
From: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com [mailto:blindhandy...@yahoogroups.com]
On Behalf Of Lenny McHugh
Sent: Sunday, January 03, 2010 05:32
To: handyman-blind
Subject: [BlindHandyMan] power drain cleaning story

I have a friend that owns a tool rental shop. He has a power drainer that he

will only rent the root cutting one to a licensed plumber. One guy came in 
and insisted upon  renting that unit. He told Frank that he worked with a 
plumber for ten years and has used the machine in the past. Frank made him 
sign a paper stating that the shop is not responsable for any damage caused 
by the machine. The unit came with 25 feet of  cable. Shortly after the guy 
came back for more cable for the machine. He was given another 50 feet. 
about an hour later he came back for more cable. After he had about 200 feet

he brought the machine back. He told Frank that when he was out about 180 
feet the neighbor called him asking what is that thing flying around in my 
yard.
 He actually cut through his drain line about 3 feet from where he fed in 
the cleaner. Frank drove past the guy's home the next day and there was a 
back hoe in the front yard.
He  will never again rent that machine to anyone but a licensed plumbing 
contractor that shows proof of insurance.
---
Please visit my home page; it is motivational, inspirational and humorous 
with many resources for the blind.
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Re: [BlindHandyMan] power drain cleaning story

2010-01-03 Thread Blaine Deutscher
so what does this snake do? Just eat through the junk that is in the draine 
clogging it. I'm just picturing this thing destroying a bathroom, how? if 
anything touched me as I was sitting there I would scream and run out of the 
bathroom with clothes down. no matter if anyone saw me. thanks for the 
imidge. never going to sit on public toylets the same. *shivers*

Blaine
- Original Message - 
From: Dale Leavens dleav...@puc.net
To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sunday, January 03, 2010 9:39 AM
Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] power drain cleaning story


Something like 25 years ago I was remodeling a building for a clinic. Some
of this involved rearranging washrooms and of course old drains which were
not draining. Some highly respected expert was brought in with his
rotorouter and all stood around in fascination as he snaked down the old
toilet hole describing as he went how he could feel the snake turn left out
of the building then left again toward the street then meeting some
resistance .. . .

About three or four minutes into the process there was a shattering sound
behind the wall and a thrashing. Turns out there was a toilet on the other
side of the partition feeding into the same common drain. His snake went
down one hole and right back up the other largely destroying the washroom in
the facility at the rear of the building. thankfully the unit was nothing
more than a store house for a contractor in the next building and no one was
sitting on the throne at the time.

My skepticism at the time about the intelligence of the operating fingers
and their sensitive touch has not improved with that experience or the
passage of time since.

If I was Han Solo I'd probably pet my wookie

- Original Message - 
From: Lenny McHugh lmch...@verizon.net
To: handyman-blind blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sunday, January 03, 2010 6:32 AM
Subject: [BlindHandyMan] power drain cleaning story


I have a friend that owns a tool rental shop. He has a power drainer that
he
 will only rent the root cutting one to a licensed plumber. One guy came in
 and insisted upon  renting that unit. He told Frank that he worked with a
 plumber for ten years and has used the machine in the past. Frank made him
 sign a paper stating that the shop is not responsable for any damage
 caused
 by the machine. The unit came with 25 feet of  cable. Shortly after the
 guy
 came back for more cable for the machine. He was given another 50 feet.
 about an hour later he came back for more cable. After he had about 200
 feet
 he brought the machine back. He told Frank that when he was out about 180
 feet the neighbor called him asking what is that thing flying around in my
 yard.
 He actually cut through his drain line about 3 feet from where he fed in
 the cleaner. Frank drove past the guy's home the next day and there was a
 back hoe in the front yard.
 He  will never again rent that machine to anyone but a licensed plumbing
 contractor that shows proof of insurance.
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