A Licensed Plumber Wouldn't Do This.........

[Lawdwaz]

I was working in a basement last week yanking out a bunch of wet sheet rock and stumbled onto THIS little gem..........

 

 

 

 

 

I seriously doubt a licensed plumber would use an old cassette tape as a shim, but in a pinch?? 

 

 

 

[Jeremy K]

What band was it ?

[Lawdwaz]

Are you crazy?  I'd of had to disturb the EXACT balance of the system to discover who the artist was.

 

Not me,  man.  Nooo  way.

[BUCKANDAQUARTER]

Hot shot homeowner, just smart enough to be dangerous?

[Jeremy K]

I can't stop thinking about the person who did that and the mindset they were in when they grabbed the cassette tape as the " problem solver " , too funny.

[BUCKANDAQUARTER]

Maybe they got it at the pluming section in Kmart.

[bluecoupe]

What band was it ?

 

Sly and the Family Stone?

 

I Want To Take You Higher

[ants]

Hey ..give the guy a little credit!! He would have had to use at least 4 or 5   CD"s to accomplish the same thing.  LO! 

[growalot]

 

I seriously doubt a licensed plumber would use an old cassette tape as a shim, but in a pinch??

 

At the very least a licensed plumber, would have found a matching wht. cassette to use...lol

[Culvercreek hunt club]

Seems like a good solution. Wasn't Out of level enough to need and 8 track. Lol

[fu2lmao]

leave it in place, maybe in  a few more years that tape may be worth some bucks

[New York Hillbilly]

Oh crap......I wondered where I left that!

[wooly]

Don't laugh.... I had an apprentice working under me and let him set up the water heater in a $500,000 new home one day.

There was some gravel in the basement from the concrete guys tromping through the mud and then running down to pizz in the sump pit.

My "helper" set the heater up on top of the gravel and then decided to shim it with a mountain of ciggarette butts he swept neatly into a pile underneath it on the low side. I never noticed it untill hooking up the gas line when the tank started rocking and seperated the flu pipe vent. That could have ended bad if that came apart after the new homeowners moved in.

 

[growalot]

Did you send him off to "help" someone else after that...lol

[wooly]

Did you send him off to "help" someone else after that...lol

 

It wasn't my call. Unfortunately, my boss loved this dumbass and he wouldn't get rid of him.

I would let him take naps in the van for hours just to keep him out of my way,lol

[landtracdeerhunter]

The installer must not of know how easy it is to transfer a cassette tape into a CD compact disc, LOL.

[Dinsdale]

You find all kinds of stuff when doing demo.

One project someone doubled up some magazines to shim out the end of rafters that were cut short of a ridge.

Another were the homeowner wired together used lamp cords adding 5 together for each section of "run" to make more conductor......for a 220V dryer circuit! I can't believe that craphole didn't burn down.

But sometime in the future I'll be the butt of the joke. I needed a half dozen washes for a job and just drilled a few pennies to act in a pinch. My helper dude at the time had a fit I would drill MONEY. Hey, it was damn cheaper than the time to go to a hardware store 30 miles away for some one cent washers and these had a nice copper cladding. LOL

[Bowtoons]

Being a contractor for 20 yrs. I've seen some pretty good ones. More from other contractors than home owners. One of my recent finds were a contractor installed new vented soffit and never removed the old solid wood soffit.

[Lawdwaz]

One of my recent finds were a contractor installed new vented soffit and never removed the old solid wood soffit.

 

Seen it.........................

[PREDATE]

We just found all the scrap pieces of armored BX cable left by the union "sparky's".... in the walls of the cubicles. Also inside the wall, we found the makers mark of the drywall hanger. He wrote his name on a Budweiser can and titled it, "Tom's wall 1997".

 

[Kot2B]

I betcha it was a "how to tape" on how to do your own plumbing.

[NY Indy]

COOL, finally a use for the 100s of cassettes I have in my basement!

[WNYBuckHunter]

Ive been doing some renos in my house. Two bedrooms upstairs need to be redone, so I started stripping out the drop ceiling n the first one. What did I find? A drywall ceiling above it, but they had installed the drywall with the paper side out. Waste of perfectly good drywall and more work for me....

[outdoorjay]

Maybe they added the extra dry wall because the ceiling wasn't low enough when the inspectors went through the house last . It happened to me when I bought my first house.

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