<wpwrak>
plumber week screwed with my internal clock :( next week will be no better ...
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<enyc>
wpwrak: what do you mean 'plumber week' ?
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<wpwrak>
enyc: oh, long story. some 1.5 years ago, we had a small gas leak in the building where i live. someone called the gas company. they shut down the entire building. before they would reconnect anyone, numerous changes in regulations had to be implemented. about almost a year the first apartments finally got their gas back.
<wpwrak>
enyc: alas, they detected a minor pressure leak in mine. so they had to be fixed first. gas man came, searched, couldn't pinpoint it but identified a likely area. alas, that pipe would be very messy to access and repair (passes under bathroom, stairs, half of the living room). so they decided to close that pipe and add a parallel one.
<wpwrak>
enyc: for this, they had to first remove the parquet along the path. just the night after they finished removeing the wood tiles, the downstairs neighbours returned home to torrantial rain in their bedroom.
<Joerg-Neo900>
don't forget the collateral damage
<wpwrak>
enyc: turns out the weak hammering needed to dislodge the parquet also caused an already failing joint in a major freshwater pipe to fail more - to the point where it produced that rain. (luckily, it didn't fail complete, else they'd have gotten several tons of water in their bedroom, raining down at substantial pressure)
<wpwrak>
enyc: so plumbers came, found the water pipe and the leak in it, wrapped a rubber sheet around it, fixed it with wire, and promised to be back on monday (that was on a saturday - things of this sort always happen on a weekend)
<wpwrak>
enyc: that was ~6 months ago. last week they finally came to apply a more permanent fix. they replaced the temporary rubber with more solid rubber. that was last week's entertainment. now that this is done. the work on the gas can proceed. which will be my fun for at least next week.
<Joerg-Neo900>
next year
<Joerg-Neo900>
scnr
<wpwrak>
enyc: of course, they always say they'll start at 9 or such, then don't show up until 11, if at all. so this also messes quite a bit with my daily schedule.
<wpwrak>
Joerg-Neo900: entirely possible :)
<Joerg-Neo900>
can't you conditionally pay those suckers, only when they finish their damn job in time?
<Joerg-Neo900>
if they would tell me they come next week to continue their work, and after a month nobody shown up, I'd hire a new plumber and not only not pay the first one but actually send them an invoice from the second one, for the additional work that second plumber had to clean up the mess the first left behind
<Joerg-Neo900>
gah, I hate winter: sunset in 10 minutes
<ravelo>
Joerg, how do recommend to install CSSU thumb?
<ravelo>
i'm not sure which file to install
<ravelo>
there is testing and testing-thumb
<wpwrak>
Joerg-Neo900: i don't pay them directly. and the major delays come from lack of money, not from them not wanting to continue.