Re:Toys ‘R’ Us Plans Bankruptcy Filing Amid Debt Struggle
by Pxtl on Monday September 18, 2017 @11:23PM
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Either way, the fact that you can even have that conversation with a person at the store is a huge difference from the kid who'll read you the card on the display if you ask him about a product at Best Buy.
And yeah, I used sharkbite to book my dishwasher up, but it's definitely on the list of "get that replaced next time a plumber is in the house".
Re:Toys ‘R’ Us Plans Bankruptcy Filing Amid Debt Struggle
by BeetleB on Tuesday September 19, 2017 @12:22AM
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FWIW, my friend is a plumber and he thinks Sharkbite is one of the best things that happened to plumbing. Of course he didn't use it for every job because the cost isn't always justified.
I suck at plumbing. For people like me who do the occasional repair around the house, Sharkbite is a godsend.
Re:Toys ‘R’ Us Plans Bankruptcy Filing Amid Debt Struggle
by linsomniac on Tuesday September 19, 2017 @10:57PM
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... until it isn't. I'm just finishing up a kitchen/dining room remodel due to water damage, so I'm probably gun shy here. :-)
(clarification: Unrelated to sharkbite, but I appreciate the damage water can cause)
A friend recently told me about a time he sent his wife in to Home Depot with a list of things to get, and she came home with a different set of things that an employee recommended. My friend went back there to raise a stink about being sold the wrong things, found out the employee was a out of work plumber, and that "sharkbite" is great stuff.
"That's funny" I told my friend, "Literally yesterday I was talking with my plumber and he pointed out that I had sharkbite running to my sprinkler system. I told him I didn't know what his opinion of it was, but I didn't love sharkbite, he said he didn't love it either."
Mostly I go to my local hardware store because it's 2 minutes away rather than 15. Lowes is another 5+ minutes further, but it seems to have a lot more choice in some things, and I've had a bad experience with a couple Home Depot employees that I just can't let go of.
Home Depot does seem to have a weird set of things they do stock and don't. Like all their thinset mortar didn't seem to be labeled as modified or unmodified last weekend...