The World is being taken over by morons

[TechnoViking]

At least the HOA has rules about painting your wall baby-poo yellow

[lane912]

Originally Posted by Martin Smith

At least the HOA has rules about painting your wall baby-poo yellow

+1

od job, is the hoa

[Hugh R]

Originally Posted by cmccuist

I guess I don't understand why it would cost hundreds of dollars to replace a leaking PVC fitting. Can't you just cut the pipe upstream and downstream of the fitting, glue in some couplings, and replace the leaking fitting? While you're at it, glue in some unions as well where you need to get access to pumps and valves.

I had placed a flange where the inlet pipe daylights out of the concrete well. This imbecile cut it off and glued in a slip fitting right at the concrete wall so no place to cut and re-glue/flanger without digging up the dirt behind the concrete well. Also he placed every glued fitting so close to each other that there is no room to cut where you have enough pvc to make another joint. Then he glued every single threaded fitting together. This idiot gave no thought whatsoever to it every having to be taken apart again in the future.

[Porsche-O-Phile]

Originally Posted by Hugh R

I had placed a flange where the inlet pipe daylights out of the concrete well. This imbecile cut it off and glued in a slip fitting right at the concrete wall so no place to cut and re-glue/flanger without digging up the dirt behind the concrete well. Also he placed every glued fitting so close to each other that there is no room to cut where you have enough pvc to make another joint. Then he glued every single threaded fitting together. This idiot gave no thought whatsoever to it every having to be taken apart again in the future.

Sure he did - it's called "job security".

Don't think for one minute that contractors don't think of these things.

If you want it built a certain way, you have to put it in your specs. Yes, even for something this simple.

[jyl]

My sister's HOA was dominated for a decade by two ladies who had nothing else to do and mean dispositions. In addition to extreme favoritism to their friends and bombaring everyone else with endless email and denials, they would do things like search Google Earth for evidence of unauthorized changes in backyards.

Finally the neighborhood had enough, and persuaded my brother-in-law to run for a vacant seat on the HOA last year. He won, and this year the two ladies are up for re-election. They decided not to run again. Victory for the sensible folks.

I wouldn't buy in an HOA area myself. Have never lived in one. Sure, the eccentric lady a block down painter her house Pepto-Bismol Pink, but no-body bothers me about my non-op vanagon in the street or the un-permitted treehouse in my yard.

[jyl]

My sister's HOA was dominated for a decade by two ladies who had nothing else to do and mean dispositions. In addition to extreme favoritism to their friends and bombaring everyone else with endless email and denials, they would do things like search Google Earth for evidence of unauthorized changes in backyards.

Finally the neighborhood had enough, and persuaded my brother-in-law to run for a vacant seat on the HOA last year. He won, and this year the two ladies are up for re-election. They decided not to run again. Victory for the sensible folks.

I wouldn't buy in an HOA area myself. Have never lived in one. Sure, the eccentric lady a block down painter her house Pepto-Bismol Pink, but no-body bothers me about my non-op vanagon in the street or the un-permitted treehouse in my yard.

[Por_sha911]

Originally Posted by Hugh R

The World is being taken over by morons

Originally Posted by herr_oberst

The lowest common denominator has been pandered to for so long that the rest of us are now in the minority.

Isn't it funny how we think that we're right and the rest of the world are idiots. On some other issue I guess to they'd say we're the idiots.
In the words of Pogo "We have seen the enemy and he is us"

[idontknow]

Originally Posted by Hugh R

I had placed a flange where the inlet pipe daylights out of the concrete well. This imbecile cut it off and glued in a slip fitting right at the concrete wall so no place to cut and re-glue/flanger without digging up the dirt behind the concrete well. Also he placed every glued fitting so close to each other that there is no room to cut where you have enough pvc to make another joint. Then he glued every single threaded fitting together. This idiot gave no thought whatsoever to it every having to be taken apart again in the future.

Have you tried breaking the coupling itself? Usually I take a sawzall or grinder w/ cutoff wheel and notch 2 seams for the coupling to split along.

[924slover]

Well in my parents neighborhood there isn't an hoa just a b*tchy old couple across the street that liked to complain about everything. they would always call the cops on us for stuff like test running our boat (under 10 minutes). Now we did this at noon on a saturday and the houses are fairly spaced apart. the other neighbors never care because we put up with all of there stuff (band practice, yappy dog at midnight, constant yelling etc......

[Hugh R]

Yeah, I'll trying breaking off the coupling first. I can always hire someone to dig the pipe which is 3' underground if I have to. It just amazes me that they put this stuff together with no thought whatsoever about doing repairs in the future.

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by Hugh R

Yeah, I'll trying breaking off the coupling first. I can always hire someone to dig the pipe which is 3' underground if I have to. It just amazes me that they put this stuff together with no thought whatsoever about doing repairs in the future.

You should see the way the original crew put together our pond plumbing. They went to the same school of "I don't care about future repair, glue everything, it will not leak." I had to remove everything around the old pump with a saws-all. I put in one universal in the system and now I can pull the pump out for servicing with ease.