richard_shah•8d agoMost Upvoted

Unpopular opinion: That guy at the hardware store wasn't wrong about my project

I was at Ace Hardware on 7th street last Saturday grabbing some PVC cement and this older worker named Hank came up and said I was using the wrong primer for my schedule 40 pipe. I kinda brushed him off at first because I've done plumbing before, I know what I'm doing. But then I actually read the can he handed me and it said right there it bonds better in cold weather, which it was like 42 degrees that morning. I had always just grabbed whatever was cheapest, never thought about temperature affecting the weld. He told me he's been fixing homeowners' leaks for 25 years and 9 times out of 10 the pipe fails because of the wrong primer. That conversation hit different because it made me realize I've been cutting corners on small stuff that matters way more than I thought. Has anyone else had some random employee totally change how you approach a basic job?

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dylanwilliams8d ago

Yeah, that "never thought about temperature" part hit me hard, I was the same way.

val2238d ago

Once I started checking it, I realized how much my room temp was messing with my sleep without me knowing.