Archive for 'Editorial'
How to wind up your extension cord without getting a knot
Written by Mike Johnson.
I was out plumbing on a service call a while back when I watched a home owner struggle to get the knots out of his extension cord. About 20 minutes later he watched me pull out my own cord for some drilling and said “How the heck do you wind these up without getting it […]
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(Plumbing Break) – How to give yourself a raise and change your life
Written by Mike Johnson.
Forget craigslist and newspapers, call my friend Marcie If you turn on the news it’s easy to get the impression great jobs are in short supply. That’s not true. The best careers are often times found through a special agency. The key to finding the right agency is to know the right person who can […]
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Josh Kerslake and a T-Bone steak
Written by Mike Johnson.
Many years ago I was a bartender. One time, on a busy Friday night I ended up washing dishes in back. We were short handed. Washing dishes in a restaurant is pretty hectic. The water is boiling hot, dishes are flying everywhere, and the staff is literally running to get the customers food delivered to […]
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What’s wrong with this drain?
Written by Mike Johnson.
I’m not sure what to think about this photo. It was sent to me from a customer in Waukesha on a trip up north Wisconsin to the town of Fountain. It’s not a root, it’s a plant. The home is located on a farm and It looks to me like a seed had fallen off during […]
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Oconomowoc Plumber takes a bow!
Written by Mike Johnson.
As a plumber I’ve been surrounded by some of the top architects and designers in the country. I will take a bow to this home owner though. When the subject of a Kohler Farm sink model K-12700 came up I assumed it would be business as usual, just put it in like I’ve always done […]
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Rare look inside a Rheem water heater!
Written by Mike Johnson.
In this article I will completely disassemble a Rheem 75 gallon water heater A customer in Hartland called me last week because his water heater was leaking. On the phone the customer told me it was leaking pretty bad so I was pretty sure I would be plumbing in a brand new water heater. When I […]
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What would you do with an extra hour?
Written by Mike Johnson.
I was between service calls. I wasn’t unclogging a toilet in downtown Oconomowoc, fixing a garbage disposal in your local restaurant, or troubleshooting a leak coming from a mystery location somewhere on the 2nd floor of an old farmhouse. Nope, instead I was between service calls at home digging through paper work for my plumbing […]
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