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Vent: The 'quick fix' epoxy putty versus a real pipe clamp on a burst line in a school kitchen
Had a 2-inch hot water line let go at 6 AM in a high school cafeteria, and the custodian handed me a tube of that five-minute epoxy putty saying it 'worked last time'. I slapped it on as a temp, but it blew off in ten minutes, spraying 180-degree water everywhere. What's the dumbest 'shortcut' material a client has tried to make you use on a commercial job?
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finley_flores282mo ago
Saw a guy try to fix a roof leak with duct tape and a trash bag.
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gibson.oliver2mo agoMost Upvoted
That's a classic temporary fix, but it won't last through a real storm.
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grantl9417d ago
Used to think that stuff was a miracle worker until I had this exact same thing happen at a rental property I was helping a buddy with. He swore by that putty for everything and I was like sure, it's cheap and easy. Spent a whole morning patching a pinhole in a copper line, felt proud of myself. By lunchtime it was spraying again and the whole basement was a swamp. Now I don't touch that junk for anything above a drip, and even then I'd rather just cut the pipe and do it right. It's not worth the headache when a real clamp or a sharkbite fitting is like ten bucks and actually holds.
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