In OnlinePlumbingAdvice.com, Mike Quick shares the secrets and observations he’s learned to solve common plumbing problems for homeowners for more than thirty-eight years. After years of listening to customers, good plumbers, bad plumbers, good advice, and bad advice, Mike is uniquely qualified to help you avoid common mistakes.
Readers will learn important details concerning:
• Who you trust for advice.
• How you can avoid major plumbing problems.
• Proper operation and installation of toilets and other plumbing products.
• Proper maintenance of plumbing products.
• How to search for leaks before and after you call a plumber.
• How to tell if you got a good, bad, or very bad plumber.
• Developing an owner’s manual for the home.
• General Contractors-the good, the bad and the ugly
Mike has compiled decades’ worth of notes on plumbing problems and solutions to make it possible for readers to learn from Mike’s knowledge and experience. You can learn from the mistakes of others. You can make smart decisions that will save money, aggravation and time.
This book provides examples of often overlooked details that make the difference between good and bad long-term results. Mike equips readers with the tools needed to solve and prevent plumbing problems. You can learn to do important research in the shortest amount of time. You will learn to avoid overwhelming confusion as you learn to identify trustworthy experts before you invest your time.
This book provides a unique opportunity to benefit from the same advice Mike gives his customers.
How you do research in the amount of time that you have available will have a profound effect on the quality of the decisions you make. Your best decisions will provide the best chance of desirable long-term results.
This book will provide instant answers for many of your immediate plumbing concerns. As you find time to read through it, this book can help you develop a plumbing problem prevention plan. You will quickly learn to keep this book available for future reference as other problems develop.
As families and countries attempt to provide the best health care, preventive health care and the best sanitary living conditions, properly installed and properly maintained plumbing is essential. Mike Quick has noticed major changes in plumbing products, installations and maintenance. He is very concerned that the most recent trend provides dangers that most people don’t seem to realize.
Reliable plumbing requires trustworthy; plumbing products, plumbers and plumbing advisers. In the most resent decade, Mike has noticed a dangerous trend. This trend seems to result from oversimplified, misleading and sometimes incorrect television and other media productions. People create dangerously unsanitary living conditions as a result of this trend. The trend is thinking that plumbing is so simple that anyone can do it. The trend allows promises, guarantees and warrantees to replace trustworthy products and workmanship.
This trend can only change if people begin to focus more on trustworthy content and less on fancy, exciting production. If people stop attacking the messenger and start to appreciate honest trustworthy experts they will begin to see the difference between dishonest advice and trustworthy advice. Dishonest advice and programming is focused on making people feel good and sell products (often at great expense to consumers). Trustworthy content is focused on the best interest of the consumer. Often consumers get angry when they are faced with trustworthy-but-sometimes complicated advice (they often get mad when they don’t get the simple solutions they want). The most recent trend puts lots of money in the pockets of dishonest “experts” while it creates a difficult situation for trustworthy experts.
Eventually, Mike’s concerns will take center stage; meanwhile he hopes this book will convince you to take a more serious look at plumbing and plumbing decisions.