I wish I'd been there when these idiots showed up. I was out of town and my wife had guests and the guest toilet backed up and began to overflow. She looked for a plumber in the phone book I guess and picked Christian Brothers. Some stupid monkey showed up and ran a snake down the kitchen drain for some ridiculous reason, then told my wife that the floors of the house would have to be torn up in order to fix the clog. Then he charged her $400.00 for his ineffective 15 minutes of lame-ass work. When I returned home I asked why he had not used an auger in the bathroom instead of a snake in an entirely different room. She said he told her it was because the clog was way down the line somewhere. Well, first of all, the toilet backed up immediately when flushed and even backed up int the bath tub (in the opposite direction of the kitchen). This would make it clear to a juvenile retarded gibbon that the clog was right below the toilet. I asked why he did not go to the roof and run a snake down the vent pipe which would get beyond what a toilet auger could reach and would be in the correct section of waste, not in a section obviously beyond the clog like this idiot was claiming. And 400 bucks! WTF was that for? Certainly not this dolt's PHD in plumbing. So the next day I got a referral from a friend. A plumber (a real one) showed up, took his snake to the vent pipe on the roof and cleared the clog in five minutes time. And then came the bill - $50.00. We called Christian brothers to ask for a refund... three times, and we never received the courtesy of a return phone call. These are not the only predator plumbers out there. I remember years ago seeing Jan Ashford and George Brazil Plumbing pulling the same kind of stuff but Christian Brothers takes the prize at 400 bucks for fifteen minutes and not even fixing anything AND lying about what needs to be done in order to get a big fat job tearing up our floors for thousands of dollars. Even if all you need is a washer replaced, do not call Christian Brothers. They are rip off artist. Mmm, not very Christian of them.
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