Appreciation post: My neighbor Rosa told me to stop fixing my own toilet at 11pm and I finally listened
I always figured calling a plumber was a waste of $150, so I spent four weekends trying to swap a fill valve myself. Rosa from 2B heard me cursing through the wall on Sunday and said her brother charges $90 flat and could come Monday morning. He was done in 25 minutes and pointed out I had cracked the tank flange, which would've flooded the place within a month. Anyone else got a home repair they kept fighting way longer than they should have?
Man, my shower drain. Kept dumping that liquid stuff down it every month like clockwork. Two years of that nonsense. Finally my buddy grabbed a $5 snake from the hardware store and pulled out a hair clump the size of a small animal. Done in ten minutes. I felt so dumb. Sometimes the cheap fix is just calling someone who knows what they're doing.