kai564•2mo ago

The plumber who fixed my toilet with a coat hanger and duct tape

I called a local guy in Dayton because my toilet was running nonstop. He shows up, looks at it for 30 seconds, then grabs a wire coat hanger from my closet and a roll of duct tape. He bent the hanger into a hook, pulled out some old part, and wrapped the tape around the float arm. Said it would hold for 2 years easy. Has anyone else had a repair guy use random stuff from your house to fix things?

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jason7522mo ago

2 years easy" is a straight up lie. I mean, I get it, sometimes you gotta do a field fix to get the thing working that day. But duct tape on a float arm? That's gonna dry out and get brittle in a few months, especially in a humid bathroom. A coat hanger is decent for a temporary hook or something but not a long term solution. I've been turning wrenches for years and if a customer saw me rigging up their car with random household trash they'd lose their minds. If you're cool with it then whatever, but I'd expect a real plumber to have the right parts on the truck or order them, not tape up my toilet like it's a redneck repair. That guy sounds like a handyman who calls himself a plumber.

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kelly612mo ago

Wait, did you mean 2 years as an exaggeration or you think that actually holds up? Cause even in a dry climate that duct tape is gonna start peeling by month six, tops. I've seen that stuff get brittle and crack way faster than people expect, especially around water.

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