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[charlie]

know your not out of line. i live in Atlanta and it cost me 275.00 to have a sink put in on a job, about a hour's work.

[Chief]

I've been remiss in telling the latest on this story. Since I was planning on installing a new toilet on my visit next month, Mom passed on having a plumber friend of a friend look at it. After some persuading, she caved and let the nice guy come over to look at the commode. He said he can't see any sign of a crack. Maybe the original plumber didn't do anything at all to stop the leak, all the while planning on coming back and offering to install a new toilet for $309 on top of the $341 for the first service call. That $309 was reduced by half of the $282 for the original repair. Their normal cost for a new toilet is $450 installed.

The plumber, the affordable one, told her to fill the tank back up and call him if she had any more water on the floor. While he was there, he put a new washer in the shut off valve so the water to the whole house didn't have to be turned off to service the toilet. He wouldn't let her give him anything for the washer. The original plumber wouldn't do the shut off valve repair because that would have been an additional service that he would have had to charge her for.

Well, now she's got the name and number for a good plumber that will get plenty of good press in the neighborhood.

[SOKOOLJ]

Glad to hear the update and know that your mom is being taken care of.

[iski]

Sounds like the first plumber did not know what he was doing, or KNEW what he was doing the first time and hoped to turn a $50 or so normal service charge (plus washers) into a little bonanza for his company.  Wonder if they work on a commission basis?

Thanks for the update Chief.

[Chief]

Sounds like the first plumber did not know what he was doing, or KNEW what he was doing the first time and hoped to turn a $50 or so normal service charge (plus washers) into a little bonanza for his company.  Wonder if they work on a commission basis?

Thanks for the update Chief.

Since all this has happened, we have found out that the offending company is well known for their practices. Their listing in the phonebook is now highlighted with a black highlighter.