pettyartist:

gloomdraws:

pipcomix:

Thank fucking god for plumbers who are willing to go behind their corporate bosses’ backs and be like “yeah don’t pay the 150 dollar emergency fee just gimme 40 bucks under the table, also, don’t buy a water heater from us, my boss will charge u like 800 bucks. go to Lowe’s and ask for a Scratch n’ Dent, they’ll give you for like 200 bucks. Call me tomorrow and I can install it for you in like an hour” wow… solidarity

PSA: If a workman tells you that something needs to be replaced, get an itemized quote for the work and do your research. My AC unit went out in the middle of a Texas July, and the guy we had come to try and repair it said we needed to replace a capacitor, I believe it was. Quoted $980 for the job. Said the part was specialized and hard to fine and would be something like $700, and would take four hours of labor to replace. I thanked him for his time and told him I’d be in touch. My decision to not further engage his services was cemented in his parting comments that his competition would attempt to, and I quote, “Jew me out of my money.”

I found the part for $60 bucks and swapped it out in 20 minutes.

Anyway, it’s not that you have to (or should) do it yourself, but be careful. Find the people that will help you out, and learn the costs of things.

Also, if you’re intimidated by replacing anything yourself, I GUARANTEE you someone has either made an ehow or a youtube tutorial on how to do the thing.

Seriously, I once got a part at work that I had no clue how to attach, so I took a pic, image searched using the picture, found the part name and then was able to use that to get a tutorial on how to attach it.