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What a strange feeling. My website contains an anecdote about our DIY plumbing mishap (now thankfully fixed). Via the magic of links, our household is now, I gather, a cautionary tale about the dangers of doing your own faucet-fittings (ours is the one labeled "Plumbing Mishap"). The linkage is provided by a company in Long Island that does home repair.

Now all of this is dandy - I am not one of those nutters who thinks they can control who links to WoT, in both the immediate and the global sense. What does squick me a little bit is that now my cautionary tale is being used in a more-than-tangential way to sell home-repair services. "See? See what being self-reliant does for you?" it seems to say, slowly wagging an admonishing finger. "Call in the professionals, or this might just happen to you." My squawking about the insanity of doing DIY home repair is apparently being taken quite seriously on Long Island.

So, I would like to reiterate: we did have some issues with the sink. John was able to fix them. It took some time, but he did it. We now have faucet fittings that don't cause nausea in someone of ordinary aesthetic sensibility. I've got nothing against hiring professionals, but let the record show: in this instance, the amateur job did work.

Posted: Thursday - July 14, 2005 at 07:39 AM         | |

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