u/cornbunglio

I know I'm not supposed to cut it down if I don't want it to spread more. Last year I bought some Roundup Brush Killer - mainly triclophyr- and tried drilling a lot of holes in the trunk and saturating it. This year I will most likely try cutting a few branches, fitting pieces of tubing snugly over each cut branch, and filling these with herbicide. I really hate buying and working with chemicals, though. Could I prune the Tree of Heaven heavily every year to keep it's size down without encouraging it to spread?

I was in a vacant apartment doing some touch up cleaning and realized I could greatly improve the appearance of the toilet. I did, and after I washed my hands I heard a steady drip. I discovered it was in the plumbing for the bathroom sink drain. I submitted a maintenance request and the maintenance person came and got me to show him where it was. He ran some water, didn't find the drip, felt around the fittings, and, with his finger visibly wet from where he felt for the leak, gave up on it and left!

It wouldn't bother me so much except that most of the job postings I see for maintenance people expect a person to be on the level of a journeyman plumber and HVAC person and a master carpenter to even be considered for a position. There is such a big contrast between what is expected on paper and actual performance.