| ▲ | codegeek 3 hours ago |
| This is such an important point. My plumber that we always call is extremely busy and usually doesn't have availability for at least a week. He is a one man shop and prefers it that way. You call his phone, leave a voicemail and he calls you back whenever he is able to. I asked him if he wants to get more business by automating his incoming calls and he said "not really, I am already very busy and have enough business. I don't need these tools". So we cannot always assume that the business owner (especially the solo mom and pops) wants more business. Good ones are already very busy. |
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| ▲ | ryandrake 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| This seems to be true with every trade shop in my area. HVAC, plumbing, electrical, landscaping, appliance repair, and so on: Nobody picks up the phone, and when you do get someone, they don't seem to be very interested in your job unless it sounds like big money to them. Everyone already apparently has as much work as they want, and if you're a small fish you're out of luck. |
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| ▲ | encom 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | Electrician here. I had zero unemployment time between my current job and the last. Sent ~5 applications, had two interviews. Current employer called me in the afternoon offering me a job, after interviewing the same morning. Y'all are in the wrong business :D |
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| ▲ | chucksmash 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| That's wild. Plumbing especially seems like a field where if you need a plumber you need them right now, not a week from now. I guess as a plumber having enough of the type of jobs that can wait a week that you can turn away the urgent calls might be one of those feature-not-a-bug type situations. |
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| ▲ | dylan604 an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | It depends. If you need a faucet changed out with this new fancy one, or if you want to replace a toilet with a new one using less GPF, or any other kind of update/remodel. Not every job a plumber does is an emergency situation. I used a plumber to help me setup a backyard project to set up a portable propane tankless gas water heater. I took a look at buying at the parts and pieces I would need, but they needed special tools that would only be used once if I were to buy them. Instead, I had the plumber do it for me with all of the necessary parts/pieces on the truck plus the tools to do it. It cost me less than it would have to buy everything. Now, I just need a cold water feed, and I have a portable hot/cold running system. | |
| ▲ | tren_hard 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | You can break it down by, new construction, planned renovations/improvements, and emergency repairs. Not everyone works all three or wants to do more than one of these groups. There’s different levels of demand, pay, competition at each. | |
| ▲ | aziaziazi an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | > you need them right now You can shut the entire network off, shower/poop at neighbours places or work, laundry at the local self-laundry shop and brush you teeth with a bootle of water. Inconvenient sure, but it would as much problematic to be denied electricity for a long time: lights off, fridge off, no heating, boiler off… there’s alternatives but the usual way for us is to share a long electric cord by an open window… so obligatory work-and-stay-at-home if you’re lucky to have an appropriate activity. | | |
| ▲ | b112 an hour ago | parent [-] | | Emerg. solution. Get a 5 gallon bucket with lid. Put garbage bag inside. Put toilet seat from broken toilet on it. Use it, remove refuse if needed, put lid on. | | |
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| ▲ | tayo42 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | There's emergency plumber companies out there you could call |
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