zzrmark

What kind of moron:
a) lays the water supply pipe from the well to the house on the Florida dirt without digging it in?
b) does it with PVC pipe?
c) puts a PVC ball valve two feet away from the building, so that it can be cleverly camouflaged by fallen leaves?
d) doesn't put a shut off at the well head that works on that particular supply?
Don't these muppets know that PVC goes brittle in the sun and isn't particularly resilient to a two hundred and twenty pound oaf stepping on a well hidden tap???

Muggins has just had to make a 30 mile round trip dash to Home Depot just before closing time and effect a, fortunately very quick but very wet and muddy, repair in the dark, in a nice new puddle, whilst getting eaten by hordes of mossies that inhabit the jungle we live in!!! Thank the good Lord for push-fit fittings
Suppose I'll be adding 150' HDPE pipe to the ever going 'to-do' list.

Not sure if that was the low point of the day, as I discovered, whilst fixing a few non functioning light switches, that every switch cover I got behind has blackened earth wires.
Hard to believe that a house built in 1988 is in need of a rewire and a replumb, despite the fact that it has already had both in the not too distant past, on the positive side the roof-over seems to be holding up well and it only took two days to evict hordes of Carpenter ants!!!

Edit: And just to round things off nicely, I appear to have relocated to the very same zipcode as used in the new TV series 'Claws'. Lawd 'elp us.

scrubbedexpat099

Would not happen around here, would be frozen for a lot of the year, I ran pex in conduit.

mrken30

I love that I live 5 mins from Lowes and Home Depot

scrubbedexpat099

That can be handy, pup likes both, i tie him to my Trolley, paying today and did not notice him heading off into the car park with it.

First time in a long time I got out for less than a 100 bucks.

mrken30

Saturday mornings at mainly HD seems to be dog walking day. I don't see so many dogs at Lowes.

scrubbedexpat099

I could hear someone in the aisle talking to somebody who obviously had a dog and saying what a big dog he was, then they came around the corner and saw my pup sprawled across the floor and he said well maybe not that big, I think he is getting pretty fed up people asking if he is a Polar Bear.

Aaargh, just remembered something I did not get.

scrubbedexpat091

US Home Depot stores allow dogs?

scrubbedexpat099

They certainly allow Polar Bears.

Beaverstate

Have you seen how many contractors bring their dogs to work? Contractors that Home Depot wants to keep away from Lowes.

Pulaski

I see dogs in Lowe's too, in fact more than in Home Depot, though I shop more in Lowe's than Home Depot.

Nutek

We takes ours to both. They always seem happy to have her there.

scrubbedexpat099

And True Value, ACE etc.

Big R has too many temptations.

scrubbedexpat091

No idea. Just surprised me since Home Depot in Canada has big signs on the front door that say no dogs unless a certified service animal.

No idea about Lowes though none near me so I dont go there.

scrubbedexpat091

Always a group in nearly any high growth area the locals blame for high costs, in Vancouver, BC people blame the Chinese, in Oregon it seems to be Californian's.

'Move back': Home, car of couple who moved from California to Portland vandalized - 10News.com KGTV-TV San Diego

scrubbedexpat099

Californians and Texans here.