Then there’s me; 7 pm, looking to buy both the appliance that’s shat the bed, and the installation/haul-away service for it, because frankly, I’m getting too old for that.
When I had my house re-plumbed after I bought it, I specified ball valves for everything that they were replacing, for exactly that reason. I have exactly one gate valve, and it’s the hose bib on the front yard, because sometimes I do actually need the flow control that it provides.
I have a separate rant about the remaining galvanized supply lines in the attic that I won’t bore you with; suffice to say, I’m never using the plumbing company that re-plumbed the house ten years ago. (They had full run of an empty house for three days- how the HELL do you miss an entire f%&king bathroom?!?!!?)
The last plumbing adventure I did myself was replacing the kitchen faucet with a nicer one with a spray hose, and putting in a filtered water dispenser and filter setup.
