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plumbguy917

@plumbguy917

1st-year apprentice, Plumbers · 1 year · Brooklyn, NY

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1st yr in Local 1. Water heaters all day. Here to ask the dumb questions before I ask them on the job.

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Recent answers from plumbguy917

Replied to “New dishwasher trips the GFCI on the dry cycle. On us or the electrician?”

update: went back with my journeyman. elbow was weeping right onto the j-box. redid it, ran two full cycles, no trip. so yeah it was us lol. paper towel trick is going in my bag

2 helpful · Oct 2

Replied to “Ranked low twice, got in on the third try. Ask me whatever”

Local 1 first year here. Got in my first try but I'll be honest, a lot of luck in that lol. Respect for going three times.

2 helpful · Sep 30

Replied to “Failed Core by a couple questions, passed Type II. Do I retake everything?”

update: retook core this weekend, passed. type II is official now. the NOT questions were exactly it lol

2 helpful · Sep 29

Replied to “Cousin in Gloucester County asked me union vs school vs shop. I only know how it works in the city”

update: he called two shops near Glassboro and one wants him to come in Thursday. Also told him about the notebook. Thanks everybody, this was way more than I would've known to tell him.

1 helpful · Sep 27

Replied to “Saturday helper job is all carrying, and my parents want me doing SAT prep instead”

my parents wanted college too lol. now i'm in Local 1 and my mom tells everyone at church about it. they come around

2 helpful · Sep 27

Posts from plumbguy917

plumbguy917 · 1st-year apprentice, Plumbers · 1 year · Brooklyn, NY · Sep 30

Question

New dishwasher trips the GFCI on the dry cycle. On us or the electrician?

1st year, Local 1. Last week my journeyman had me do the water and drain on a dishwasher in a Bay Ridge apartment, the electrician did the circuit. Customer called back: it runs through wash and rinse fine, then the GFCI trips on the heated dry. Electrician says it's the appliance. Customer's blaming us because we were the last ones under there lol. Is there any way a water connection trips a GFCI, or is this not our problem?

5 replies 9 helpful

plumbguy917 · 1st-year apprentice, Plumbers · 1 year · Brooklyn, NY · Sep 21

Question

Failed Core by a couple questions, passed Type II. Do I retake everything?

plumbing apprentice in brooklyn. took the 608 on a saturday because my uncle does hvac and won't stop saying every card helps. passed type II, failed core by like two questions lol. the proctor said something about only retaking the part i failed but i was too annoyed to listen. do i redo the whole thing or just core? does the type II pass count for anything if i don't pass core? kind of salty about it not gonna lie

10 replies 8 helpful

plumbguy917 · 1st-year apprentice, Plumbers · 1 year · Brooklyn, NY · Sep 21

Question

Cousin in Gloucester County asked me union vs school vs shop. I only know how it works in the city

So my cousin is 18, lives in Williamstown, just finished high school and wants to do plumbing. He asked me what to do because I'm the "plumber" in the family now lol. Problem is I'm a first year in Local 1 in Brooklyn and everything I know is how it works in the city. I told him apply to the union and he asked which one, and I realized I have no idea what covers South Jersey. Also no idea if the county vo-tech down there does adult programs or if he should just call shops. I'd drive down the Turnpike and walk him around myself but I'm on at 6 every day. Help me not give my cousin bad advice. He's a good kid, works at a Wawa on the Black Horse Pike right now and hates it.

11 replies 21 helpful

plumbguy917 · 1st-year apprentice, Plumbers · 1 year · Brooklyn, NY · Sep 21

Question

Brownstone gas job: why are we still threading black iron?

1st year. On a brownstone gut reno in Park Slope with my journeyman, running new gas from the meter in the cellar up to the kitchen on the parlor floor. All black iron, threaded, and I'm the one cutting and threading all day lol. The water side of the same job is all press and it goes like 5x faster. So why not press the gas too? Journeyman just says "not on this job" and "the inspection is the inspection." Is it a code thing in the city, a cost thing, or is he just old school? Not trying to do anything myself, just want to understand what I'm doing.

2 replies 10 helpful

plumbguy917 · 1st-year apprentice, Plumbers · 1 year · Brooklyn, NY · Sep 21

Discussion

Local 1, Local 3, Local 638: how did you actually get in? Roll call

Since everybody keeps asking me how I got into Local 1 like I'm some expert lol. I'm a first year. I got in, I don't fully know why, and I'm not going to pretend I know how it works this year. So let's just do a roll call. If you're in Local 1, Local 3, Local 638, or you tried and didn't get in, say how it went for you: how many tries, what you were doing before, what you'd tell somebody applying now. Non-union people welcome too, half of Brooklyn is non-union and doing fine. No 'my uncle said' stories, only what happened to you.

8 replies 10 helpful