Weekly Poll - June 19th, 2005
Well, we aren’t performing brain surgery as we work on our respective projects – at least in the regards to orderliness of the operating room. Nearly a third of us have “Good Intentions” when it comes to keeping our work area tidy and clean, but if you’re anything like me, very quickly the tool you need is laying across the room beneath a pile of other tools. The rest of us are pretty evenly split: 20% are “Neat”, 20% are “Disorganized”, 20% are “Pretty Clean” or “Well Organized”. Only 13% of us admit work areas that are in “Complete Disarray”.
This weekend Trissa and I replaced our plumbing stack, a project that took 6 hours (not including cleanup.) We started with a trip to the Home Deposit at 8AM on Sunday, and returned twice more for fittings we either forgot or realized later that we needed. What’s your record count of trips to the hardware store or lumber yard in a single day?
2 Comments
Derek·June 20, 2005
I think plumbing is the worst for having to go back to the store. There are just so many pieces. My neighbour just buys more parts than he needs, then returns the extras.
Greg·June 20, 2005
When I ran all new copper in my house last year I came up with a ratio. It was something like, the number of feet of pipe, plus the number of fittings you think you need, and then divide that by 15, and that is the number of trips to the hardware store you will be making for the job. It was something like that. You divide by a different number depending on your skill level. Novice 15, Intermediate 20, Skilled 30.
So, if you had 100 feet of pipe, plus 10 fittings, divided by 15, equals 7 trips to the hardware store for a novice to finish that job. The initial trip is included in that count.