1/ Got a quote on doubling up our house heating oil tank this morning. I can understand why some people get intimidated into things they don't really want. I had an idea in my head, and this guy - while very nice - "knew better", so kept trying to steer me in another direction
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2/ why? bc he was trying to save me $500. ...at a cost of losing like 100 square feet of my basement. Money is not tightly bounded. I can work some extra hours, but I can not easily replace those square feet. I'm pretty articulate and reasonably forceful, so I had no problem
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3/ asking "are you saying this is IMPOSSIBLE, are you saying this is a POSSIBLE BUT A TREMEMDOUSLY BAD IDEA, or are you just saying that your DEFAULT is to do it my way?". Turns out "oh, sure, we can do it that way". ...but I've run into this before.
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4/ Chimney repair guy wanted to cut through our plastered and textured wall, right in the living room, and install a big steel access door. Why? Well, it would save him half an hour doing a thing the right way.
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5/ yeah and this is terrible I'm prob in the top 1% of white collar folks who are able to talk to tradesmen and ask relevant questions (e.g. why do you need to go through the wall? Couldn't you use an SDS diamond coring bit and go through the concrete?)https://twitter.com/jkrwld/status/1504821554974232579 …
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