My partner consistently did our plumbing, and he hated the task, even though he did it fairly well, then last year, he changed all the pipes in the house.
He said plastic pipes would not rust or corrode and need changed as often. He told myself and others every one of us would save cash on leak repairs by putting in the plastic drain pipes! Two weeks after putting in the new pipes, every one of us had a leak. He couldn’t understand why the pipes were leaking. He called his friend, who was a plumber, and asked him to come over. After looking at the pipes our partner installed, he said he did a fantastic task, even though he wanted to believe where the orange pipe glue was, my partner looked confused and asked what he was talking about. His neighbor told him that when using plastic pipes, you had to scrub the pipe with alcohol and then apply this orange stuff that smelled horrible, however helped the pipes to bond. It was a staple in every plumber’s bag. John reminded his neighbor he wasn’t a plumber, and he didn’t believe this. He said there are such things as guidelines. Had he called him and asked for help with the plumbing repairs and upgradement, he would have told him the necessity for the orange glue and other things that needed done, and now, they had to take all the pipes apart and use the regular materials to put them back together. John did an amazing task of putting the plumbing together, just not in how he joined them to keep them from leaking. He didn’t save as much cash on leak repairs as he thought he had.