My husband always did our plumbing.
He hated the job, but he did it fairly well.
Last year, he changed all the pipes in the house. He said plastic pipes wouldn’t rust or corrode and need changed as often. He told me we would save money on leak repairs by putting in the plastic drain pipes. Two weeks after putting in the new pipes, we 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 my husband installed, he said he did a good job, but he wanted to know where the purple pipe glue was. My husband looked confused and asked what he was talking about. His friend told him that when using plastic pipes, you had to clean the pipe with alcohol and then apply this purple stuff that smelled horrible, but helped the pipes to bond. It was a staple in every plumber’s bag. John reminded his friend he wasn’t a plumber, and he didn’t know this. He said there are such things as directions. Had he called him and asked for help with the plumbing repairs and replacement, he would have told him the necessity for the purple glue and other things that needed done. Now, they had to take all the pipes apart and use the proper materials to put them back together. John did an amazing job of putting the plumbing together, just not in how he joined them to keep them from leaking. He didn’t save as much money on leak repairs as he thought he had.