u/Clyde-God

Hello homeowners,

I just moved into a century home and inevitably coming across some issues. It started with a clogged toilet and after diagnostics turns out it’s a cracked sewer drain. They’re also recommending a few updates. So the scope of work would likely include:

1. Dig ~20 feet of concrete from the basement, replace the section of damaged PVC, patch concrete trench.

2. Replace 23 year old Bradford White hot water heater that has gotten regular servicing to this point.

3. Replace water main to the house that, I agree, has some sketchy looking valves of unknown age.

All in they’re asking ~$6,500.

I did not ask them while they were here, but I am assuming that it would be good practice to fill in the area around the trench with gravel or something to support the new PVC pipe rather than having it floating. Is that a standard practice, or something I should explicitly ask?

Anything else I should be inquiring about?

Please don’t let the fact that Ogbert is a snack with his glasses off influence your response. What sort of things are you borkulating and how often?

After seeing the series so many times I still often have it on as background noise.

However, this line from Toofer in the Pilot has always confused me. But hey, he went to Harvard and I only attended the Royal Tampa Academy of Dramatic Tricks (before it sank). Upon restarting the series last night my ear finally heard that he’s saying “the guy’s sensibility is just cretinous”.

Am I the only person who has been hearing this wrong all this time?