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Plumbing problems can quickly escalate from minor issues to major disruptions if not addressed promptly. If you notice water pooling under sinks or around your appliances, it’s a sign that something isn’t right. Ignoring such problems could lead to costly repairs down the road. If you live in Reno, Nevada, seeking help from building services in Reno, Nevada, ensures your plumbing system is checked regularly, preventing these issues from becoming emergencies.

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Why Isn’t My Water Heater Working? Common Issues and Solutions

If your water heater has stopped producing hot water, is leaking, or just isn’t working as it should, you’re not alone. Water heaters are essential for comfortable living, but they don’t last forever. When issues arise, it’s crucial to know whether it’s time for a repair or a full replacement. Read on to explore common water heater problems, learn why they happen, and discover when it’s time to call a licensed << plumber near me >>.

Common Water Heater Problems and Their Solutions

1. Water Heater Not Producing Hot Water

One of the most frustrating issues is when your water heater is not producing hot water. Several reasons could cause this:

- Faulty Heating Elements: Electric water heaters have two heating elements. If one or both fail, your water won’t get hot.

- Thermostat Issues: Malfunctioning thermostats can prevent the water heater from reaching the desired temperature.

- Gas Supply Problems: In gas water heaters, a problem with the gas supply can result in no hot water. In many cases, a qualified, licensed plumber can help diagnose and repair these issues. Regular maintenance can also help you avoid cold water surprises.

 2. Water Heater Stopped Working Completely

A water heater that has stopped working altogether may need more attention. Here are possible reasons:

- Power Supply Problems: For electric models, check your circuit breaker. Sometimes, it’s a simple fix.

- Failed Gas Control Valve: This is a more complex repair, best handled by a professional plumber, especially if you smell gas or suspect a leak.

- Sediment Buildup: Hard water (common in many areas) can leave minerals inside the tank, reducing efficiency and causing a shutdown. When your water heater stops working, reach out to a nearby licensed plumber. Fixing issues promptly can prevent further damage to your plumbing system.

3. Water Heater is Leaking

If your water heater is leaking, you may be dealing with anything from a minor drip to a major flood risk. Key areas to check include:

- Tank Leak: This can mean that corrosion has compromised the integrity of the tank. If this is the case, you’ll likely need to install a new water heater.

- Temperature & Pressure Relief Valve: If this valve malfunctions, it can lead to leaks. It’s critical for safety, so don’t ignore this problem.

- Pipe Connections: Loose or worn connections can cause leaks. Our plumber can tighten or replace these connections to stop the leak. Leaking water heaters require immediate attention. Ignoring them can lead to more extensive plumbing repairs and higher utility bills.

 When Do You Need a New Water Heater?

Water heaters don’t last forever. Even with the best care, most units have a lifespan of 8-12 years.

Here are some signs that it may be time for a water heater replacement:

- Frequent Repairs: If you’re calling the plumber every few months, a new unit may be more cost-effective.

- Rusty or Murky Water: Discolored water can indicate corrosion inside the tank.

- Age of the Water Heater: Once your water heater reaches 10 years or more, it’s wise to budget for a replacement.

- Inefficiency: If your water heater is driving up energy bills, newer models can provide better efficiency and savings. Installing a new water heater isn’t just about resolving current issues. Modern water heaters are more energy-efficient and can lower your energy bills over time. An experienced plumber from Emergency Plumbing can help you choose the best option for your home and budget.

Types of Water Heaters for Replacement

When it's time to install a new water heater, consider these types:

- Traditional Tank Water Heaters : These are the most common models. They heat water and store it in a large tank, but they can be less energy-efficient.

- Tankless Water Heaters: These heat water on demand, saving space and energy. They’re a popular choice for homes where efficiency is key.

- Heat Pump Water Heaters: Using heat from the air, these systems are highly efficient, especially in warmer climates. Each water heater type has its pros and cons, and our licensed plumber can help guide you toward the best choice for your household needs.

How a Licensed Plumber Can Help

When water heater issues arise, finding a “plumber near me” is essential for peace of mind and efficient service.

Here’s how a licensed plumber from Emergency Plumbing can help:

- Accurate Diagnosis: With expertise in plumbing systems, a licensed plumber can quickly identify the root cause of your water heater issues.

- Efficient Repairs: From thermostat adjustments to replacing heating elements, experienced plumbers provide fast, effective solutions.

- Safe Installation: Water heaters involve gas lines, electrical wiring, and pressurized water systems. Our professional plumber ensures your installation meets safety codes and standards. Hiring a licensed plumber isn’t just about fixing the issue at hand—it’s about protecting your home and family. Emergency Plumbing professionals are always around and ready to help.

The Importance of Routine Water Heater Maintenance

Routine maintenance helps extend the life of your water heater, especially in areas with hard water.

Here are a few maintenance tips:

-Annual Flushes: Flushing your water heater removes sediment buildup, which can damage the tank and heating elements.

- Anode Rod Replacement: The anode rod prevents rust in the tank. Replacing it every few years can extend the life of your unit.

- Check the Pressure Relief Valve: This valve prevents dangerous pressure buildup. Our  licensed plumber  from Emergency Plumbing can check and replace it as needed. Maintaining your water heater regularly can prevent costly repairs or early replacement.

 Why Choose Us for Your Water Heater installation and repair

 

If you’re dealing with a water heater that’s stopped working, isn’t producing hot water, or needs replacing, we’re here to help. As your trusted plumbing experts for local communities in Highland Park and North Shore area of Chicago Illinois, we offer:

- Affordable Water Heater Replacement: We offer a range of options to fit any budget. Let us help you find the best solution.

- Licensed and Experienced Plumbers: Our team consists of licensed, trained professionals who prioritize safety and quality.

- Fast and Reliable Service: We know how disruptive water heater issues can be, so we’re committed to providing timely, reliable service. Whether you’re dealing with a leak, need maintenance, or want to install a new water heater, we’re the “plumber near me” you can rely on.

Call Us Today for Expert Water Heater Services

 

Don’t let water heater issues disrupt your life. Whether your water heater is not producing hot water, has stopped working, or is leaking, we have the expertise to solve the problem. Call us today to schedule a consultation with one of our licensed plumbers and experience affordable, high-quality service.

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[lizardsfromspace]

Joe the Plumber is the most archetypal of all the Undecided Voters that pop up every cycle bc his question was about how Obama's taxes would hurt his small business. Then it came out he was worrying the taxes might hurt a small business he might hypothetically buy in the future. Then it came out that he wasn't technically a licensed plumber. Is there anything more American than making all political decisions off fears socialism will destroy your company that you don't own and aren't qualified to work for

[mostlysignssomeportents]

You can’t shop your way out of a monopoly

I'm on tour with my new, nationally bestselling novel The Bezzle! Catch me in TUCSON (Mar 9-10), then SAN FRANCISCO (Mar 13), Anaheim, and more!

If you're running a business, you can either invest at being good at your business, or good at Google SEO. Choose the former and your customers will love you – but they won't be able to find you, thanks to the people who choose the latter. And if you're going to invest in top-notch SEO, why bother investing in quality at all?

For more than a decade, Google has promised that it would do something about "lead gens" – services that spoof Google into thinking that they are local businesses, pushing down legit firms on both regular search and Google Maps (these downranked businesses invested in quality, not SEO, remember). Search for a roofer, a plumber, an electrician, or a locksmith (especially a locksmith), and most or all of the results will be lead-gens. They'll take your call, pretend to be a local business, and then call up some half-qualified bozo to come out and charge you four times the going rate for substandard work:

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/31/business/fake-online-locksmiths-may-be-out-to-pick-your-pocket-too.html

Some of them just take your money and they "go back to the shop for a tool" and never return:

https://www.riverfronttimes.com/news/when-a-fake-business-used-a-real-st-louis-address-things-got-weird-32087998

Google has been promising to fix this since the late aughts, and to be fair, it's a little better. There was once a time when a map of Manhattan showed more locksmiths than taxis:

https://blumenthals.com/blog/2009/02/18/google-maps-proves-more-locksmiths-in-nyc-than-cabs/

But GMaps is trapped in the enshittification squeeze. On the one hand, the company wants to provide a good and reliable map. On the other hand, the company makes money selling "ads" that are actually payola, where a business can pay to get to the top of the listings or get displayed on the map itself. Zoom out of Google's map of central London and the highlighted landmarks are a hilarious mix of "organic" and paid listings: the British Museum, Buckingham Palace, the Barbican, the London Eye…and a random oral and maxillofacial clinic in the financial district:

https://twitter.com/dylanbeattie/status/1764711667663831455

Hell of a job "organizing the world's information and making it universally accessible and useful," Big G. Doubtless the average Londoner finds the presence of this clinic super helpful in orienting themselves relative to the map on their phone screens, and it's a real service to tourists hoping to hit all the major landmarks.

It's not just Maps users who'd noticed the rampant enshittification. Even the original design team is so horrified they're moved to speak out about the moral injury they experience seeing the product they worked so hard on turned into a giant pile of shit:

https://twitter.com/elizlaraki/status/1727351922254852182

Now, when it comes to locksmiths, I'm lucky. My neighborhood in Burbank includes the wonderful Golden State Lock and Safe, which has been in business since 1942:

https://www.goldenstatelock.com/

But you wouldn't know it from searching GMaps for a locksmith near me. That search turns up a long list of scams:

https://www.google.com/maps/search/locksmith/@34.1750451,-118.369948,14z/data=!3m1!4b1?entry=ttu

It also turns up plenty of Keyme machines – these are private-equity backed, self-serve key-cutting machines placed in grocery stores. Despite Keyme calling itself a "locksmith," it's just a badly secured, overcaptilized, enshittification-bound system for collecting and retaining shapefiles for the keys to millions of homes, cross-referenced with billing information that will make it easy for the eventual hackers to mass-produce keys for all those poor suckers' houses.

(Hilariously, Keyme claims to be an "AI" company):

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200114005194/en/KeyMe-Raises-35-Million-to-Further-Its-Mission-of-Building-the-Premier-Locksmith-Services-Company-in-the-Nation

But despite the fact that you can literally see the Golden State storefront from Google Streetview, Google Maps claims to have no knowledge of it. Instead, Streetview labels Golden State "Keyme" – and displays a preview showing a locksmith using a tool to break into a jeep (I'd dearly love to know how the gadget next to the Slurpee machine at the 7-Eleven will drive itself to your jeep and unlock the door for you when you lose your keys):

https://www.google.com/maps/place/KeyMe+Locksmiths/@34.1752624,-118.3487531,3a,75y,350.19h,90.21t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1ssHrtqjqvgFir3NBauMy13Q!2e0!7i16384!8i8192!4m15!1m8!3m7!1s0x80c2959cd65dbb1b:0x4b3744cf87492a71!2sBurbank+Blvd+%26+N+Hollywood+Way,+Burbank,+CA+91505!3b1!8m2!3d34.1750025!4d-118.3493484!16s%2Fg%2F11f37_3lq8!3m5!1s0x80c2951cedbf4d39:0xe8ff9fd5872e66e9!8m2!3d34.1755176!4d-118.349!16s%2Fg%2F11mw7nr4fx?entry=ttu

It's pretty clear to me what's going on here. Keyme has hired some SEO creeps and/or paid off Google, flooding the zone with listings for its machines. Meanwhile, Golden State, being merely good at locksmithing, has lost the SEO wars. Perhaps Golden State could shift some of its emphasis from being good at locksmithing in order to get better at SEO, but this is a race that will always be won by the firm that puts the most into SEO, which will always be the firm that puts the least into quality.

Whenever I write about this stuff, people inevitably ask me which search engine they should use, if not Google?

And there's the rub.

Google used predatory pricing and anticompetitive mergers to acquire a 90% search market-share. The company spends more than $26b/year buying default position in every place where you might possibly encounter a new search engine. This created the "kill zone" – the VC's term of art for businesses that no one will invest in, because Google makes sure that no one will ever find out it exists:

https://www.theverge.com/23802382/search-engine-google-neeva-android

That's why the only serious competitor to Google is Bing, another Big Tech company (Bing is also the primary source of results on Duckduckgo, which is why DDG sometimes makes exceptions for Microsoft's privacy-invading tracking):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuckDuckGo#Controversies

Google tells us that the quid-pro-quo of search monopolization is search excellence. The hundreds of billions it makes every year through monopoly control gives it the resources it needs to fight spammers and maintain search result quality. Anyone who's paid attention recently knows that this is bullshit: Google search quality is in free-fall, across all its products:

https://downloads.webis.de/publications/papers/bevendorff_2024a.pdf

But Google doesn't seem to think it has a problem. Rather than devoting all its available resources to fighting botshit, spam and scams, the company set $80 billion dollars alight last year with a stock buyback that was swiftly followed with 12,000 layoffs, followed by multiple subsequent rounds of layoffs:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/21/im-feeling-unlucky/#not-up-to-the-task

The scams that slip through Google's cracks are sometimes nefarious, but just as often they're decidedly amateurish, the kind of thing that Google could fix by throwing money at the problem, say, to validate that new ads for confirmed Google merchants come from the merchant's registered email addresses and go to the merchant's registered website:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/02/24/passive-income/#swiss-cheese-security

Search is a capital intensive business, and there are real returns to scale, as the UK Competition and Market Authority's excellent 2020 study describes:

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5fe4957c8fa8f56aeff87c12/Appendix_I_-_search_quality_v.3_WEB_.pdf

But Google doesn't seem to think that its search needs that $80 billion to fight the spamwars. That's the thing about monopolists, they get complacent. As Lily Tomlin's "Ernestine the AT&T operator" used to say, "We don't care, we don't have to, we're the phone company."

That's why I'm so excited about the DOJ Antitrust Division monopolization case against Google. Trusting one company to "organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful," was a failure:

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-sues-google-monopolizing-digital-advertising-technologies

I understand why people want to know which search engine they should use instead of Google, and I get why, "There aren't any good search engines" is such an unsatisfactory answer. I understand why each fresh round of printer-company fuckery prompts people to ask "which printer should I get?" and I understand why "There are only six major printer companies and they're all suffering from end-stage enshittification" isn't what anyone wants to hear.

We want to be able to vote with our wallets, because it's so much faster and more convenient than voting with our ballots. But the vote-with-your-wallet election is rigged for the people with the thickest wallets. Try as hard as you'd like, you just can't shop your way out of a monopoly – that's like trying to recycle your way out of the climate emergency. Systemic problems need systemic solutions – not individual ones.

That's why the new antitrust matters so much. The answer to monopolies is to break up companies, block and unwind mergers, ban deceptive and unfair conduct. "Caveat emptor" is the scammer's motto. You shouldn't have to be an expert on lead gen scams to hire a locksmith without getting ripped off.

There are good products and services out there. Earlier this year, we decided to install a (non-networked) programmable pushbutton lock. I asked Deviant Ollam – whom I know from Defcon's Lockpicking Village – for a recommendation and he suggested the Schlage FE595:

https://www.schlage.com/en/home/products/FE595PLYFFFFLA.html

I liked it so much I bought another one for my office door. Eric from Golden State Lock and Safe installed it while I wrote this blog-post. It's great. I recommend both of 'em – 10/10, would do business again.

Name your price for 18 of my DRM-free ebooks and support the Electronic Frontier Foundation with the Humble Cory Doctorow Bundle.

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/03/05/the-map-is-not-the-territory/#vapor-locksmith

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Oh shoot I almost forgot

Stupid Chalice of the Gods predictions before the book comes out and ruins my fun:

1. There will be a lecture about how important college is probably from Chiron

2. Student loan joke ftw

3. Maybe a clever jab at how Percy feels like he’s been 17 forever and can’t wait to be an adult

4. Ganymede is Zues’s intern or something like that

5. The fact that Ganymede is god of homosexuality will either be glossed over or will be his entire personality.

6. Alabaster is also looking for chalice and he is a main factor in making it difficult for the og3 to find it.

7. Because of this Hecate promises Percy his second letter of rec if he keeps Al from getting the Chalice but also makes sure Al doesn’t get killed.

8. Alabaster will make a quip about Percy being a literal dog to the gods with how he’s playing fetch for them

9. “Heroes never die, Jackson, fortunately you’re no hero~”

10. Alabaster as main villain

11. Alabaster as anti-hero

12. Alabaster as villain turned protagonist

13. Alabaster encouraging Grover to take up eco-terrorism to help along his duty as Pan’s replacement.

14. Alabaster with an anti-trio (I dunno who the other two would be maybe new original characters or maybe Ethan and some very minor god)

15. Percabeth Will unnecessarily fight to cause drama. XP

16. A comment about how they can’t use their godly parents for the letters because this is a fantasy world where nepotism doesn’t help you get into university.

17. A running joke on “what Percy Will major in” for example: Percy does solves a problem with pure luck and someone says “maybe you should major in being in the right place at the right time”

18. Letter of Rec from Akhlys? More likely then you think.

19. Jason Cameo??

20. “Al: you’re getting this potentially universe changing, power subverting magical object for the most powerful beings in the world and for what? A letter of Rec to get into a demigod college? That’s the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard of…why don’t you just go into trade school or something? I’m sure you’d make a good plumber

Percy: haha 😑because water powers ;:/?

Alabaster: no because you’re full of-

Annabeth: shhh! Do you guys…hear that?”

21. Al makes a quip about how Hecate kids are smart too. “Like Athena kids, but useful” then Annabeth decks him.

22. Percy and Annabeth Save Al’s life and he has to help them because he absolutely does not want to OWE them anything.

23. Percy in his head compares Alabaster (with his dramatic entrances, ability to help them and ability to mist travel) to Nico.

24. Grover as stand in for Pan actually qualifies as a god and gives him his last letter. Loophole!

I think I had more but I can’t remember them anymore. Oh well.

[boileddemon69]

Hello original gangster I would love to hear about this Bad Ben AU of yours 🙏😼

OMG YES FINALLY HELLO!!!

Okay so basically my bad ben "au" (I'm putting It in quotes because I don't even know if this qualifies as an au or not) is mostly focused on his backstory and why he's so like...BAD.

In short, Bad Bens upcoming was pretty similar to Prime Bens except he was more of a trouble maker due to his parents being not like the best at paying attention to him LOL that's why Grandpa Max was like a safe person for him to go to and why he jumped at the chance to go on the road trip. He found the omnitrix and yadda yadda yadda, became like a small town hero. And for a moment, things actually went BETTER for him than for Prime Ben. Like him, Gwen and Kevin were inseparable, and they always helped people out no matter the reason. He actually took people's advice and started working on his temper and whatnot. But everything went downhill when Kevin went all crazy again. He eventually ended up killing people and almost killed Gwen, which is what pushed Ben to his limit. He didn't want to hurt Kevin because that was his best friend, but after what happened with Gwen it was kinda like all the effort he put into controlling his impulses kinda disappeared.

He killed Kevin, sort of expecting everyone to call him a hero for doing so, but instead, Gwen and Grandpa Max became scared of him. Ben, confused and angry, became more erratic and decided to sorta "go rogue" (emo bastard)

He goes on his own, but because he was so blindsided by the rage he felt, he ends up hurting people. When Gwen and Max find him again, they're so concerned for his safety and the safety of others that they decide it's best to take the omnitrix from him and "keep him in a safe place" aka lock him in solitary confinement basically LMAO

So ben is basically in jail for three years(so hes 18), cycling through round after round of therapists and psychologists who always give up on him. Max feels bad for him and decides to recruit a recently graduated Plumber, thinking that having someone around Bens age might help him. So that's where Rook comes into play. He didn't go to Plumber Academy to become a psychologist, but because he was the only one in his graduating class that actually took a semester on it, Max thought he was the best fit and pulled him out of the field to take this job. And Rook is a loser who wants to please anyone who is an authority figure so he accepts it.

And so he becomes Bens therapist. Ben doesn't like him, and purposefully makes his job harder. He wants to be left alone and hates the fact Max thinks there's something about him he needs to fix. But eventually after a bunch of sessions, they warm up to eachother to at least tolerate each other. A year of this goes by and Rook and Max have seen enough growth in him that they think he can maybe, PERHAPS, be let free. Ben is happy about this news but is also kinda like "yknow maybe im not READY to be let out yet"

So like a week before he's meant to be let out, Eon shows up being like "yo join this war to fight other alternate versions of you or I'll KILL you!!" And offers him another omnitrix And Ben's like "beats sitting in a cell forever" and joins him like an idiot loser. Rook and Max are angry because he was literally JUST ABOUT TO BE LET OUT and now he just randomly dissappears?? And when he comes back he tries to convince Rook to hide/help him and rooks obviously like "no fuck you" but eventually gives in because again he's a coward.

Thats..it for now IM STILL WORKING ON IT but that's basically what I have rn..uhhhh hope it's satisfactory

PEACE OUT

[phoenixyfriend]

Sliiightly unrelated, and I absolutely don’t mean this condescendingly (and I don’t mean to keep bothering you either, feel free to ignore ofc) — I’m just in the dark. When you say ‘Trade work’ and ‘learn a trade’… what do you mean by a trade? The only thing that comes to mind with ‘trade’ is being a plumber, woodworker, etc but I’m pretty sure that’s not what you meant ahejdydj

It is! Due to the push for young people to go to college and get jobs that utilize those degrees, the United States has actually seen a concerning decrease across the decades of people who are qualified to do trade work such as plumbers and electricians, etc. As a result, the population in those trades is aging quickly, and we are anticipating that there won't be enough people to do those jobs very soon. A lot of them are nearing retirement age. Thanks to that demographic shift, young people entering those trades are a very high demand, and in many areas, the pay for such a job can be like 50,000 a year, which can be a solid living wage on par with something like teaching. And in most cases, the apprenticeships are paid, which is definitely a consideration for people who don't want to deal with student loans.

@thisarenotarealblog, any input?

[theangrycomet-art]

Technology Officer Warner

finally got around to finishing this guys character sheet

Notes:

Technician/Technology Officer

technically works under Blukic and Driba, but ends up doing 95% of the departments work

the guy who keeps the Earth Plumber HQ running (he took a week off and the place nearly fell apart)

constantly being reassigned tasks outside of his division, which while he is technically qualified to do, aren't in his job description

not notorious is security detail and monitor duty

incredibly grumpy at this, especially since the Plumbers don't consider it over time due to his species cloning abilities

grumpy workaholic

though Max is in charge/higher ranking, Warner prefers to go to Magister Patelliday for reports as Magister Tennyson doesn't tend to take his concerns seriously

actually tries to avoid all of the Tennyson's on principle (he likes his work to remain in one piece)

went to Plumbers academy the same time as Rook, though the two didn't interact beyond a cursory hello in the hallway, they shared a few tech classes

completed his additional technician's course in record time due to taking multiple classes at once (he didn't get a full nights sleep as a whole unit for nearly 2 years straight)

highly intelligent, though limited in-field experience

a surprisingly good singer

does have a mischievous side, as he is known to readily help his fellow officers prank their higher ups or fellow agents (not that any of them can prove it)

[cbk1000]

I still think my favourite work story is the one where Mr. Jenn (a building inspector) called out a plumbing issue on a job he was inspecting, and the contractor got really huffy and offended, and demanded to know why he thought he was qualified to comment on a plumbing error.

And Mr. Jenn, who was a plumber before he was a building inspector, who still holds an active journeyman license, and who also has a certification in plumbing inspection, got to go, "Well, ACTually."

[heavenbarnes]

My boyfriend has been having a super similar experience to your plumber one!! We always have a whole girls night talking about it too, with wine and all.

He works in a theater and they constantly have to let some electricians come by to fix some persistent stage lighting issues and one of 'em is this tall, buff, tattooed guy with thighs that could save lives. Late thirties probably (?) with some pretty rough scars.

He only talks to my boyfriend, no one else. Isn’t even a misogyny thing because there are other male coworkers present (none of them as cute as my man, admittedly). This dude always insist on my boyfriend staying in the room with him, makes him hold tools and whatnot, and at some point even made a comment about how small and soft my boy’s hands are.

My boyfriend isn’t even qualified to oversee these things, he’s there for costuming, but this guy always asks for him and gets all gruff and grumpy when he’s not there. One time he even barged into the wardrobe section to look for my boyfriend.

I don’t blame the man, my boyfriend is ridiculously pretty and such sweetheart (plus he always dresses real cute, likes to steal my earrings and tops <3)

That being said, I would let this guy bend my boyfriend over, but only if I’m allowed to watch.

oh my GOD 😭 YOUR BF IS LITERALLY Y/N OH MY GOD!!

a bit i left out of yesterday’s story is i asked the plumber why he always asked for me and he said “you’re easy to remember” and then after a long pause he said “i’ve never met anyone who looks like you” and i immediately text my bf about it and he said “tell him he’s never met anybody that can fight like me” so that’s it-

my plumber story is a dead end but you and your boyfriend with this electrician are too good 🫶🏼

[emergencyplumbingil]

When Leaks and Clogs Can't Wait.

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[noivern]

after repeatedly asking the landlord to fix our leaking toilet and him attempting to fix it himself (twice) (and making it worse!) he finally called a plumber today, was told it would in fact cost money to fix, yelled at the plumbers in my house and is now ripping up my bathroom floor by himself with random unknown company and then also his sister and friend? just let themselves into my backyard? during this? (theres a gate between our yards (he lives next door(fucking nightmare landlord panopticon situation))) i was too shocked to take a photo of this at the time and was like.... do you want to talk to [landlord]? and they were like no :) and just walked around looking at the yard?? like im fairly sure im legally entitled to a functioning toilet and suitably qualified repairwork and an expectation of privacy but ok!! i feel like i cant actually do anything about this because i enjoy living in a house and theyve made very clear that they barely want to be renting (and whine to us about how hard they have it and renting barely makes any money! like ok! die!) and could probably work to end the lease early for a variety of reasons and ok! ok!!!!! fucking cool! whatever!

[ao3feed-newsies]

RACE AND ALBERT'S MURDER PODCAST! (Or How Two Random and Unqualified Teenagers Solved a Homicide.)

by, orangesand_lemons by orangesand_lemons Tyler James Higgins (Better known as Racetrack) and Albert DaSilva are famously known to their listeners as the two boys who run the not-so-originally named "RACE AND ALBERT'S MURDER PODCAST!", a true crime podcast which specialises in unsolved murder cases. After being invited to speak with famous murder mystery author Katherine Plumber at Murder Con '24 at a true crime panel, their lives are flipped upside down when before the talk, Miss Plumber is found brutally murdered backstage. When they see how the police aren't taking this seriously, Race and Albert take matters into their own hands, attempting to solve a murder despite being most definitely not qualified for the job. Words: 746, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English Fandoms: Newsies!: the Musical - Fierstein/Menken, Newsies (1992), Newsies: The Broadway Musical! (2017) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death Categories: F/F, F/M, M/M Characters: Racetrack Higgins, Albert DaSilva (Newsies), Jack Kelly (Newsies), Katherine Plumber Pulitzer, David Jacobs, Les Jacobs, Buttons (Newsies), Finch (Newsies), Spot Conlon, Joseph Pulitzer, Hannah (Newsies), Medda Larkson | Medda Larkin, Bryan Denton Relationships: Albert DaSilva/Racetrack Higgins, David Jacobs/Jack Kelly, Buttons/Finch (Newsies), Spot Conlon/Katherine Plumber Pulitzer Additional Tags: Modern Era, Murder, Murder Mystery, Not Beta Read, I'm Bad At Tagging, Angst, Fluff, Podcast, Fluff and Angst, Romance, She/Her pronouns for Spot Conlon, Character Death, Autistic Albert DaSilva, Racetrack Higgins Has ADHD, Lesbian Katherine Plumber Pulitzer, Female Spot Conlon, Other Additional Tags to Be Added read : https://ift.tt/NOujT3n - July 10, 2024 at 01:21PM

[h3rmitsunited]

Despite having written an 8k fic on the idea, I still couldn’t get Plumber!Steve and dumbstruck, horny brain Eddie out of my head, and just had to draw this. (This is probably my favorite Eddie I’ve drawn. His dumb face is great.)

If you haven’t read my one-shot, Leaky Pipes, it’s here and full of dumb plumbing puns, disaster gay Eddie, brief trauma dumping get to know you conversations, and a nice healthy dollops of smut (rated E).

Excerpt

"You're an actual plumber."

The man's frown deepened, now looking less like he was in the wrong place, but more like he thought Eddie was the stupidest man he'd ever talked to. And Eddie was kind of into it. Like in a bitchy mean girl kind of way.

"Yes… what gave it away?" he said sarcastically, a hand settling on his hip.

"Sorry," Eddie laughed lightly and shook his head, running a hand through his hair. "I work nights and my brain is still like 90 percent asleep right now.” He blinked at the guy blearily, giving a pointed yawn. “Plus, you don't exactly look like the typical plumber."

The man looked down at himself and then back up at Eddie, raising his eyebrow. “Oh, really? And what’s a typical plumber look like?” He smirked.

Eddie leaned his head back, narrowing his eyes as he looked up at the ceiling. “Uh, I don’t know, man. Middle aged bald dude with half their ass crack hanging out?”

The guy laughed, like an actual genuine laugh, and shook his head, smiling at Eddie.

“Well, sorry to disappoint. But I can assure you, I’m just as qualified to handle your pipes as those other guys.”

[shookysmissingtooth]

Friends! and Lovers? - Chapter 1

pairing: model jjk, producer myg x Makeup artist reader

genre: friends to lovers

wordcount: 1.9k

summary: being an adult in a competitive world isn't easy. especially when you only have two friends. two you would never date. right?

warnings: this story contains smut and is for mature audiences only.

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You are the deepest sleeper you have ever seen. Which is why, when it was time to wake up for the first day of your new job, you probably wouldn't wake up on time. That is if you were living alone. But lucky for you, you have two friends who wake you up in time. Well, one friend since the other one isn't exactly a morning person. 

"Jungkook woke u up too?", Yoongi asks, seeing you walking in the dining room with your pajamas, which usually consisted of a t-shirt and shorts. The thing about living with 2 men is that you always have to wear a bra around the house, so your nipples don't get seen through your shirt. He's now sitting on the chair to your left, shirtless as he probably just woke up.  At first, you got flustered whenever you saw him shirtless, but you're used to it now. Kinda.

"Yeah", You reply. He's on his phone texting his girlfriend. Yup. Yuri. The girl that slapped you back in high school.  Shin Yuri, the girl that you still hate. It's been YEARS since that altercation happened, but what can you say? You hold grudges.  And every time you remember or think about that day, you get even angrier at her. 

 "Morning people!", Jungkook says as he walks into the dining room from the kitchen with two plates of food in his hands. He puts one plate in front of Yoongi and the other in front of you. "Eat up.", he says to the both of you walking back to the kitchen to get his food.

When he comes back, he sits across from you and pounces on his meal. LITERALLY. Like a wild animal, feasting on its prey. He looks up at you watching how you're staring at him in disgust. This man has no sense of table manners. "What?", he asks as he continues eating. He then looks to your left and notices Yoongi's phone in his hands. "Hyung! No phones at the table", now reaching to snatch Yoongi's phone out of his hands. Once he's successful he begins to run away trying to keep the phone out of Yoongi's grasp as they fight for it. He tries to read his messages out loud.

"I miss you baby", Jungkook says trying to imitate Yoongi's voice. "I miss you too", he says trying to imitate Yuri's. You physically cringe at the thought of Yuri calling Yoongi "baby".

"Ok, Ok give me my phone, I'll put it away", Yoongi says slightly annoyed. Jungkook then hands him his phone and says," No phones at the table", giving him a teasing smile. 

"So, first day of your new job ay", Jungkook says getting back into his seat, eyes now on you. Today is the first day of your new job. You recently applied for a job to work as a makeup artist at Calvin Klein.  And you got it.  Now today is your first day. Ever since you graduated college, you have been jumping around from one job to another. You've been a janitor, a plumber, a cashier, a food delivery driver, you name it, but you finally got what you've always wanted..to be a makeup artist, for a big company at that. 

Yoongi and Jungkook have always known what they wanted to be in life. Yoongi has always wanted to be a music producer and songwriter, which he has achieved, Jungkook has always wanted to be a model, which he now is. In fact, he's the global ambassador for Calvin Klein. 

Oh, and they are both famous. Worldwide famous. Yoongi had to work hard for years to build a name for himself in this crazy music industry.  And Jungkook started out just modeling for Calvin Klein. He would wear the seasonal outfits and model for their website. That was until people started to notice his looks and he built a big fan base, eventually giving him a huge social media following. And that's when he became global ambassador qualified.

Dozens of brands reached out to him but Calvin Klein snatched him up before any other brand could. 

You're like their not-so-famous best friend that's severely unknown. And you like it that way. 

Jungkook, for years, has tried to convince you to become a model because he says you're good-looking. He likes to call what you had a "glow-up". 

"You were really ugly back in high school" , he told you that one time the 3 of you were looking at your old photos.

The problem with having 2 famous best friends is that you can't go out with them without worrying if people would film you guys hanging out and come up with absurd rumors about you guys dating.

This has happened once.

The 3 of you went to a restaurant to celebrate your birthday. Yoongi had rented out the place for privacy,   and he was pretty early so the 2 of you waited inside the restaurant to wait for Jungkook.

When Jungkook arrived, he texted you he was outside, so you went outside to see him. The Both of you shared a hug, oblivious to the camera recording the both of you. 

2 hours later you received many texts from you're parents, and one of them sent you a link to an article titled, "Jungkook's New Girlfriend".

The only thing that saved you that day was the face mask you were wearing, otherwise, your face would have been all over the internet. And the last thing you need is people judging your looks, or people comparing your looks to Jungkook's. You're insecure enough as it is.

"Yup, can't wait.", you say, taking a bite of the pancakes made by Jungkook." I'm actually kinda nervous too. What if I make a mistake and get fired?"

"You'll be fine, stop worrying", he says. " Though, we should go over some things first.", You nod your head to his statement before he continues. "Nobody should know that we know each other". He sees the confusion that reaches your face and you ask him why. "Because, I've been working hard trying to avoid dating rumors, and if people see us talking they'll think we're together. Plus it's not normal for makeup artists to befriend their model clients. It's kinda looked down upon if you ask me".

"So let's say I run into you, you want me to ignore you and look the other way?", you ask, and all you get is a nod in return, mainly because there's food stuffed in his mouth. "So I take it we can't go to your shoot together.", and he shakes his head no. Yesterday you received an email letting you know about the shoot you'll be working at today, and it happens to be Jungkook's joint shoot with another model. You then turn to Yoongi with a pleading smile on your face before you ask for his car.

"Fuck no.", he responds. "Not after you scratched it last time"

"i'll give you $50 bucks"

"100. 100 or nothing", he says.

"Fine".

"You know I'm so happy I can finally have the house to myself. I don't have to see your faces all day and I can invite Yuri over.", Yoongi says probably mentally planning this day out in his head. He notices the way you roll your eyes at the mention of Yuri's name. "You're being a baby."

"What are you talking about?", you ask.

"You know you're eventually gonna have to get over the fight you guys had in HIGH SCHOOL. HIGH SCHOOL! You're both now fully grown adults with a whole different mindset and level of maturity. Well, at least one of you does". He says. You can understand why he's tired of your bullshit. It's been years since you and Yuri fought, but the girl hasn't even mustered an apology to you.  She's gonna have to apologize before you can even consider accepting their relationship.

"Yoongi, I'm not obligated to like the girls you date". , you say dryly.

"I'm not asking you to like her! I'm simply asking for your respect. Why should I have to feel guilt, whenever I talk about my girlfriend around you?" The annoyance in his voice is not something that can be ignored. Whenever Yoongi gets upset, he expresses it with his whole body.

"I don't appreciate how you're making me seem like the problem. Yuri doesn't like me either, but you're so blinded by "love", that you can't even see that!", you say, voice laced with anger. "Jungkook, back me up!", You say turning to him.

"This isn't my business", he says shrugging his shoulders and finishing the remnants of his food.

"I'm not trying to make you seem like the problem.", he says sighing. "I would just like to have  the support of my best friend."  He says calmly ending the conversation. He knows that if he says anything else, there will be a fight between the two of you and that's something that he wants to avoid. The awkwardness in the room lingers for a few seconds before Jungkook interrupts it.

"I'm gonna go head to the shower. Don't wanna be late.", he says standing up. You can't even fathom how he finished his food that quickly."You should hurry up too. Don't wanna be late for your first day"., He tells you giving you a calming smile before trailing off, leaving you and Yoongi alone eating in silence.

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"I feel bad". You tell Jungkook. You're brushing your teeth whilst he's in the shower. You like his sink more than yours because of how spacious it is. You even have some of your hair and skin care products sitting on it. He doesn't seem to mind you using his bathroom. Well, that's what you think at least. "Do you think I was being an asshole to him?"

"I don't know.", he says shouting over his loud shower.

"What do you mean? It's a yes or no question."

"I just don't see why my opinion matters. It's not like my opinion is gonna solve things between the two of you." He has a point and you know it. But it'd be nice to hear that someone is on your side. What kind of friend dates the enemy of their friend? "If you feel bad, just apologize"

"Why should I apologize?" Why should you? It's not like you did anything wrong.  

"if you didn't do anything wrong, then why do you feel bad?", Jungkook says, as if he read your mind.

"I hate you", you respond.

 He turns off the water. "I love you too. Now get out, I'm done."

 You leave his bathroom and walk to yours to take your shower.

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Showering Is something that calms you, and is really the only place where you're able to think, and as you rewind breakfast in your head, you can't help but think, "Maybe I am in the wrong.", "Maybe I am the asshole". And now you feel even more bad. 

You got out of the shower and made a promise to yourself that you would apologize to Yoongi before you left the house. 

Today is the first day of your job so you have to wear something that would make a statement. Something that screams, "professional". You scanned through every article of clothing in your closet and decided to wear leggings and a shirt with a blazer on top. You set the clothes on your bed and remove the towel that covers your body. 

"Hey, I just wanted to say that im-", you hear and you rush to reach for your towel and wrap it around yourself again before you turn around and once you turn you see Yoongi with his hand over his eyes. "I'm sorry, I should have knocked". He says before walking slowly to the door, trying not to bump into anything. "my car keys are on the table in the hall", he says and then he shuts the door once he's out. 

Today is going to be a longgg day.