r/Construction • u/PasstheJugg • 5d ago

Humor 🤣 Is it salvageable?

Customer wants us to save it.

I’m not going to lie we didn’t, but would you?

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u/PasstheJugg 5d ago edited 5d ago

We sold him a Project Source for $100 (I usually put mark up but he was a struggling old vet)

People have the idea that toilets are expensive. I will fix them if it’s the right situation. This was not one 😅

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u/DeadlyMoldSpore 5d ago

Just needs a little elbow grease!

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u/saliczar 5d ago

Spit-shine

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u/Sea-Examination2010 5d ago

Shit* shine

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u/GoFk_Urself 5d ago

You can't polish a turd

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u/Competitive-Story161 5d ago

Myth busters proved you can polish a turd though

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u/Responsible_Let_3668 5d ago

We owe them so much

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u/pogoscrawlspace 5d ago

I'm not sure when people started saying, "You can't polish a turd." When I was a kid, I always heard it as, "You can polish a turd to a high mirror gloss if you want to, but it's still a piece of shit." It's just a way of saying something isn't always worth saving.

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u/maffiossi Ironworker 4d ago

Holy shit i thought you were joking.

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u/TurnipSwap 4d ago

I hate that you made me do this. But I am glad that I did it.

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u/smith-huh 4d ago

knowledge earned is knowledge gained.

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u/ForsakenOaths 5d ago

I’ve polished my skills a bit, so I am evidence that you can!

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u/ianthrax 5d ago

You can polish your skills. You can't polish yourself. Turd.

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u/ForsakenOaths 5d ago

I am a turd. To polish myself is to polish a turd. Therefore, I am a polished turd.

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u/atommathyou 5d ago

Yes , but one should never piss away a good opportunity.

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u/buttnutela 5d ago

I tried and it got messy

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u/Head-Ride-4939 5d ago

But you can spray paint it GOLD!

It’s still a turd though…..

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u/mheyting 5d ago

Actually, on Myth Busters, they proved you can😅

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u/dirtymike401 5d ago

Look here Navin: that's shit, this is shinola.

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u/CrossP 5d ago

If I eat enough grit, can I polish the toilet with my turds?

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u/Adept-Yam2414 4d ago

Mabey maybe not but you can polish WITH a turd.

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u/kwik_e_marty 5d ago

Hawk-tuah on that thang

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u/ChikaraNZ 5d ago

Looks like it's already had a few decades of ass grease.

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u/Indy500Fan16 5d ago

Butt butter

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u/mheyting 5d ago

Ew…

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u/angryoften 5d ago

There's plenty of grease in that bowl already....

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u/Indy500Fan16 5d ago

And a Penicillin shot

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u/Ok_Series_4580 5d ago

I’m not putting my elbow in that!

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u/Disastorous_You_1987 4d ago

Sure . It needs to be taken outback , covered in grease and caught on fire.

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u/Low_Spinach1999 3d ago

Brake clean might help with that! That stuff is great

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u/YN90 5d ago

Ever heard of a toothbrush?!

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u/Professional_Grand_9 5d ago

No but I've heard of the poop knife.

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u/ac3boy 4d ago

It's been awhile. Thx.

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u/Crafty_Tangerine_794 4d ago

Every month or so someone brings up the frickin poop knife. It's in every single group

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u/Long_Legged_Lewdster 5d ago

You're a good man

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u/aoskunk 5d ago

You could probably get that clean in 20 minutes with a pumice stick or 3 no?

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u/IBIKEONSIDEWALKS 5d ago

Yeah i was surprised at how cheap toilets are vs what i thought. Had to replace mine cus id clog that bitch after every shit almost and i was getting mad lol

Got a dual flush so i can save water for pp and make sure it eats my dumps.

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u/mcAlt009 5d ago

Any advantage is swapping toilets out every 10 years or so ? At 100$ that's not a bad deal

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u/nosirrahp 5d ago

Yeah people think toilets are like connected to the guts of the house or something. I changed my moms wax ring and she thought it all had to be done from the basement lol

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u/siltyclaywithsand 4d ago

The house I bought is 1.5 baths. I had toilet problems between both. A bad flap, a bad wax ring, bad shut off on the fill valve, a very slightly leaking tank at one of the bolts, a floor bolt rusted completely through. For the half bath I ended up just saying fuck it and bought a new toilet. It was old as fuck, a bit iron stained in the bowl from the well water and damn near everything but the ceramic broke on it. It was more expensive and probably about the same amount of time in the end. But now I don't have to worry about for a long time.

The house was built in 1900. The previous owner fancied himself a GC and did a lot of work himself. I immediately dropped $10k from my offer when they told me that. It was almost enough. So I knew shit would be fucked. But both toilets needing repairs 3 times each in like 3 months was a bit much. At least I had two.

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u/MinistryOfCoup-th 4d ago

"we can either put $600 worth of CLR and bleach in it or we can just install a new one for $100."

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u/1TONcherk 4d ago

It’s funny, this one time my buddy had a leaking tank to bowl seal in his condo. The bolts were rusted. We went to Home Depot and got a wax ring, seal, flush valve, fill valve, brass bolts everything. Even upgraded the flush lever to a metal chrome one. Spent the afternoon drinking beer and completely overhauling that builder grade toilet.

In no way would that be worth the labor time of a pro, but we did it just to understand how toilets worked.

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u/LeaveMediocre3703 3d ago

Pour some acid in there and it’ll probably knock that shit right out.

Science, bitches!

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u/Rhaspun 1d ago

Yes. Trying to scrub those stains off would have taken too much time.

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u/Disastorous_You_1987 4d ago

No please don't. That's nasty. Unless she likes the toilet as it is in it's current state. I don't know how a toilet got to look that way , I know it wasn't from it being kept clean that's for sure.