Hello -
If you are a plumber, please don't take offense to the title of my post. It was just that I'm so freaking mad at the guy who has been working on my toilet that I wish I could just choke the life out of him!
Long story short: I've been getting some increasingly bad leaks out of the base of my toilet for the past two or so weeks. I get a plumber out of the phone book - someone local, nice ad, I figure he looks like a solid enough guy.
He shows up, tells me that I need to replace the entire toilet, pulls it up by smashing it! Which causes water to blast all over the place, which caused water to drip down on the floor and into my basement, which got all over my entire collection of People magazines! Ruining at least thirty issues from the early 80's - not easy to replace.
He tells me that it's the price of plumbing, an unfortunate casualty. Frick that! He should pay for these issues, shouldn't he? But he won't!!
And to cap it off, two days later the new john starts leaking!!!! I call him and he tells me he'll get to my house sometime 'before the New Year'!!!!
Goddamnit, this guy is ruining my life! What am I going to tell my family when they come over for Christmas!? To just ignore the fricking water all over the bathroom floor? To use the toilet at the Quizno's down the street??!?!
Is there any line of recourse on this, legal or otherwise? Please help me.
Thanks-
Dustin