tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3948677340500742474.post495233596525144314..comments2023-08-22T09:56:18.941-05:00Comments on Eric and Emily's Adventures: Plumber TalesEmilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04624952545651275644noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3948677340500742474.post-53681556595008104432008-12-11T20:36:00.000-06:002008-12-11T20:36:00.000-06:00Hi Emily!It's the first time I read your blog, and...Hi Emily!<BR/>It's the first time I read your blog, and I am enjoying it very much. I am a Brazilian girl(originally from BH) living now in China (before I lived in US for 3 years). I completely understand your frustation about your plumber issue. I have to admit that even Brazilians have the same irritating troubles sometimes. hahahahaah<BR/>Next time you need to find something to fix on your apartment try to go to Telha Norte or Leroy Merlin shops. They are not the same as Home Depot or Lowes, but quite similar.<BR/>Btw, HAPPY HOLIDAYS!<BR/>DoraDora Dolabelahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13177605630489579405noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3948677340500742474.post-25546957352900762822008-12-10T17:12:00.000-06:002008-12-10T17:12:00.000-06:00Justin,A. No Home Depots or Lowes. (Where the he...Justin,<BR/>A. No Home Depots or Lowes. (Where the heck do you buy a valve anyway?!?) <BR/>B. This valve is the sole water cut-off valve for the bathroom, which leads to no other shut off valve in our apartment.<BR/>C. Turns out, you have to turn off the water to our entire half of the building's bathrooms to make the repair - that's 10 apartments without water to their bathroom. (We'd much rather blame any delay on someone else!)<BR/>D. We paid R$70 (US$28) for labor. If we run that through the engineering decision making matrix (and considering that his wife's distress counts for very little), it is financially more beneficial to have Eric at work and Moe the Plumber fix the valve.Emilyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04624952545651275644noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3948677340500742474.post-28331824493210108352008-12-09T14:27:00.000-06:002008-12-09T14:27:00.000-06:00Given the number of engineers in our family, I'm s...Given the number of engineers in our family, I'm surprised I'm the first to ask why Eric didn't fix it himself ;)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3948677340500742474.post-17693108341344461262008-12-05T22:13:00.000-06:002008-12-05T22:13:00.000-06:00Your plumber story is hilarious!!It sounds like yo...Your plumber story is hilarious!!<BR/>It sounds like your plumber lacked professionalism to say the least.<BR/>We have professional plumbers here but they do charge an arm and a leg for anything you need done.<BR/>Last November we needed a plumber to clean the soot from our furnace and drain air out of the pipes from our "base board" hot water heater, and it cost us U$770.00, we have never managed to have the plumber here to do any job that we had to pay less than U$500.00.<BR/>But they do get the job done correctly and they know what they are doing.<BR/>I don't know what it's best, well, you got your valve replaced and your problem taken care of and I am almost 100% sure you paid less than 500 bucks...Ray Adkinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00956436835497979546noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3948677340500742474.post-9890102208383118462008-12-05T13:30:00.000-06:002008-12-05T13:30:00.000-06:00Sounds like next time I should just send over my h...Sounds like next time I should just send over my husband to do your fix-it jobs :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3948677340500742474.post-16779637623819498512008-12-05T11:24:00.000-06:002008-12-05T11:24:00.000-06:00Márcio, House cleaning habits are quite different ...Márcio, <BR/><BR/>House cleaning habits are quite different in the US actually. Less throw-water-all-over-the-floor and more just damp mopping/scrubbing with a bucket of water and a mop. (And with a 'real' mop - not a rag wrapped around a squeegee!) It's sort of hard to describe, but we use a lot less water on our floors. Because our construction usually involves a lot of wood (as opposed to concrete like in Brasil) we would actually have terrible issues with rot, mold, etc. if we flooded our floors with water while cleaning as is the custom here!<BR/><BR/>That is one advantage I have, I guess. It is at least possible to clean my apartment here the way I know how! (A Brasilian moving to the US would have trouble cleaning the same way that they did in Brasil!)<BR/><BR/>Now, see, you're making me all dangerous by teaching me these kinds of comments. ;) Sometimes it's just best that I don't know exactly what the phrase is in Portuguese!!! heheheEmilyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04624952545651275644noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3948677340500742474.post-17739888397690071132008-12-05T11:07:00.000-06:002008-12-05T11:07:00.000-06:00Oh, it's so irritating, isn't it? We live with tha...Oh, it's so irritating, isn't it? We live with that here, but it doesn't means that we think it's normal.<BR/><BR/>"I've never been more thankful that bathrooms here all have a drain in the floor!" <BR/>How is it in the USA? How do you manage to clean the place without a drain?<BR/><BR/>"See, I told you so"<BR/>Here we say "Depois não diga que eu não avisei" before the fact, and "Eu disse" or "Eu te avisei" after. (with the same "face" of "I told you so")Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com