Oh man, these guys are still my mother walkin' heroes!
5pm on a Tuesday afternoon: Literally out of nowhere, whenever we would let the water run--in anything--the pipes in my house rattled so loudly it sounded like a freight train was pulling a steam shovel right down the full length of my hallway. My teeth were nearly chattering from the vibration that was going on in my floors and walls. It was so bad that I would have been totally freaking out had I not known that I had an ace in my pocket.
5:15pm: Wearing a filthy tyvek suit, digging around in the crawlspace under my house, I can't figure it out. The best I could guess was that a poltergeist had settled in, so I decided to pull out that ace and call up Community Plumbing. Just like when I hired these guys six months ago, Eric answers the phone. Greatest guy you ever talked to on the other side of a plumbing house call. 'Yeah', he says, 'we can come out.' 'When', I ask. 'Today, like right now, 'cause if we don't we're busy the next couple of days. In fact Tony--the other one--is in the area, and he'll be right over.' Eric says he'll come over, too.
We hang up, and at about 5:30pm the cavalry arrives. It feels like the car from the Ghostbusters is pulling up in front of my house. Community Plumbing, the big white truck says, and I believe every word of it.
I'm expecting just Eric and Tony, but another guy's there, too. My first thought was: awesome, business is so great for these guys that they're multiplying. So happy; they deserve every bit of it. After I noticed all three were now wearing identical black Doc Martens, I squinted to see what name the new guy had embroidered on the patch of his shirt. I was half expecting it would be either Spengler, Venkman, or Stantz. Nope, it was 'Ant'. Close enough, I guess.
They got to work, figured it out quick, and didn't even come close to raking me over the coals. I was again so happy with them that I booked them to come out again next week for some preventative maintenance I have been wanting to do for a while now. I'm telling you, these guys have class in spades and a price that is way more than fair considering their combined body of knowledge.
After everything was wrapped up we all said goodbye, and I quickly put that ace back in my pocket for the next time it sounds like the world is falling apart. I just hope the guys at Community Plumbing don't decide to leave San Diego before it does.