Oh yeah I totally understand. I’m not at the machinist level, but my friend and I pretty much kick ass. We can replace toilets, water heaters, sinks, Fossetts, all different kinds of water damage with drywall, hanging light pictures, and fans - just every type of odds and ends. Sealing off windows! Everything except electrical. We don’t get involved in that. I don’t want peoples houses to light on fire, and be accountable for damage or death of somebody.

We basically have a real estate agent, and a property owner that we do work for. Then when the real estate agent sells homes, the owners usually want to have stuff done afterwards, and she will give them our number. That’s where we get all of our business. And it’s more than we can handle at times.

But I completely understand having to go to the hardware store, over, over and over. If you can just only have to do it once it’s a miracle isn’t it! Irrigation is my pet peeve, and plumbing. But irrigation above all is such a nightmare, we redid my mom‘s entire front and backyard and still have to keep things flowing smoothly. Lots of leaks from the spaghetti line here in Arizona.

Pro tip if you’re laying PVC for irrigation, use pool noodles, Cut them straight down the middle, and wrap them around the PVC once all the PVC has been laid - before you put the dirt back in. I haven’t had one leak, and generally here in Arizona because of the ground being so hot dry and full of rocks, you’ll get lots of cracks. But not a one!

The hardware store was the one place during the entire pandemic, were The majority of people were never wearing masks. You’re not gonna see a bunch of Chad‘s - trying to do their jobs, in the Arizona heat, wearing masks to buy supplies. It just didn’t happen.!