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Re: Question about plumbers tools.

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Originally Posted by caretaker (Post 11098143)

I think he must have meant that the Canadian ones are Imperial.
A lawyer had a big party on Saturday night and one of his guests plugged the toilet up. The plumber was called and quickly plunged it out. On being presented with the bill the lawyer said, "What! $162.00? You were only here for 15 minutes!" "Yes, replied the plumber, but it's Saturday so it's an emergency call out, and there's a transport fee of $15 dollars, plus the normal minimum of $78 so a 1 hr minimum emergency call is $162.00. The lawyer was outraged, "I'm a top-notch legal professional and I only charge $150.00 per hour!" "Really?, said the plumber, that's what I used to charge when I was a lawyer."

Yeah, my husband is oncall right now. $200 call out fee. He doesn't get that, the company does.

Re: Question about plumbers tools.

I do oncall, $150 residential. $200 commercial. If you expect me to get out of bed at 2am, get all the (necessary) warm clothing on, get my truck warmed up and then unplug your sh#'@y toilet because you put too much toilet roll down there, dam right your going to pay top dollar, I do always smile though (even at 2am covered in sh#' !!!:thumbsup:

Re: Question about plumbers tools.

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Originally Posted by MrHyperPants (Post 11098035)

I gather you left your philips screw drivers behind, as the canadians seem to like the robertson screws.

No, still use cross head here, as much as Robertson.