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Old 2/4/09, 10:54 PM
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Default When does a coupling become a pipe?

"Look- I had 18" of pipe and this bag of couplers...."

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Old 2/4/09, 11:04 PM
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"Look- I had 18" of pipe and this bag of couplers...."

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Old 2/5/09, 1:39 AM
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I think someone P***ed off the installer, charged extra for the fittings
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Looks like someone didn't want the left over purple primer go to waste ...




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that had to be some kind of bad joke....



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Kinda like...wierd!! ...ya' know?!!?



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I don't know did you save all this over the years ? Seen some wild posts , surely they didnt come from your inspections
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I've seen this before most on seasonal homes. Seasonally disconnected and the occasional W/H replacement......pretty soon they run out of pipe to reconnect to the system. Obviously, a union would have been ideal, but a union is 5 bucks, a coupling is only 19 cents. LOL
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Please tell me that all of this was not from 1 inspection. Your killing me. And im sure the report killed you.



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Someone sent me a PDF of all these wild photos. They killed me they were so funny I had to share them.



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Thanks for sharing, Im still laughing. Ive come accross some crazy stuff but its hard to laugh with a client standing next to you.



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