May 1, 2009 I got a emergency call from a parish in Arlington Hts (another long time customer) to fix a couple leaks in a galvanized supply pipe, covered in asbestos (I have had asbestos removal training). I never saw the church so thank full (in a long time). A miracle that the church found some one they can count on, to save the day.
April 30, 2009 I need to replace a faucet in a fast food hot dog place for a 3 compartment sink. I will create a miracle by not inflating price, work or making a mountain out of a mole hill. Update, I found a spout that fit and just replaced that. I could have replaced the hole faucet and make more money, instead, just replaced the worn out spout and made nothing.
A merchant on Colfax called me to rod out a drain (steady customer (I would say over 3/4 of the business/houses/apartments on colfax, I've done work at, a few (4), I would not work for again, ha, opposit ends, George town, Rio's, discount muffler and Inverlief?)), business is slow for him, so this time, I lowered my price and gave him a residential rate vs commercial rate. Less money in my pocket.
yesterday April 29, 2009, I do another miracle in Arlington Hts. A customer of a couple years, called me to rod his sewer, water in the basement. A few years earlier had another guy dig up his yard and fix the 6" boozy valve. Apparently the guy did not fix any thing (flapper is gone, bonnet bolts broken off (thus the slice/knife gate don't work), the wheel is welded on the wrong side of a rod). The flapper is probably stuck at the main, the 2 floor drain connected sump pits that discharge to the out side are actually sanitary pits (even though unsealed clay crocks and that's the way the house was built, floor drains must discharge into building drain) and should be discharged into sanitary drain. That, when he had new gutters installed and the guy abandon the under ground down spout drains, concrete might have fallen into the risers, which has totally disabled the drain tile. I rodded out his line again (only with 4" cutter, 6" would not go through), got the sewer open and told him exactly what the story is. The lies came to a end.
Today April 27, 2009 I do another miracle in Palatine. A bunch of years ago, when Kurt was around, we dug up a sewer and installed a clean out, roded out the line. Last year the owner called a guy to rod out the sewer. He pulled the toilet and rodded the sewer. The same guy was back Friday to rod out the sewer, he spent all day Friday, Saturday all day with help of another man, they could not open the sewer. They got ahold of me. Monday (today) I spent 45 minutes and removed every root from the sewer line. The miracle was that they called me and I did what others could not do. I saved this guy a $9,000 sewer repair bill. I don't know what he paid the other guy. My bill was $225, I miss calculated this job, I thought it would take me 30 minutes, it took me 45.
This is normal for me, if a person can find me, chances are good I can create a miracle.
Today April 14, 2009 I do another miracle in Palatine. It seems a couple years ago, the husband was out of town and the wife called a plumber from Carol Stream? because her sump pump was not working. The plumber came out and put in a Weil pump (I had to put my head in the pit cause I never saw a Weil sump pump before (it's huge, cast iron, submersible, blue, with a pressure switch, expensive?, only one sales company in Illinois)). Installed a back up pump and replace the water heater. I opened their sewer (plugged up sewer) from in the crawl space, no more, no less. I provided a miracle to these people today.Yesterday I did miracle for a Dr. in Arlington Hts.
Bill, (new mayors dad) I have seen do miracles also.
I have seen Bill take twisted, cracked, tore apart, bent, mangled, pieces of steel and make them look like it's suppose to look like again. Bill has provided miracles to other people also.