D&D and the rising pandemic

[The Green Hermit]

Hardware stores and takeout are closed here. The stores can supply trades not the general public.

Tradies are only allowed to do essential work so if you want your bathroom renovated tough luck, they can fix your water/electricity/windows etc.

So you have to hire somebody to reframe/replace your shower after a major leak instead of doing it yourself? Same with reflooring after said leak?

Not that I know from immediate experience or anything . . .

 

[Zardnaar]

So you have to hire somebody to reframe/replace your shower after a major leak instead of doing it yourself? Same with reflooring after said leak?

Not that I know from immediate experience or anything . . .

In theory they'll fix the leak and leave the shower.

Some tradies have told some trying to game it to get bent.

The tradie doesn't have to do the work.

Some idiot threw a brick through wife's cousins window. Student town drunken idiots do things like that.

Setting couches on fire and 1000 people street parties have stopped.

 

[FrogReaver]

Around here, at least, hardware stores are a necessary resource for all kinds of construction & repair businesses.

Very little construction or repair is actually essential at this time.

Someone's roof leaks or toilet breaks or fridge breaks then that's essential enough - but that isn't really the typical type of business the hardware stores are getting right now is it?

And not everyone out there cooks. I know too many people who don’t, and rely on takeout for most of their meals.

It's more like not everyone cooks well - but when push comes to shove you'll find something you can bear to eat in the grocery store - even if it's tv dinners, beans, bologna, bread, ramen noodles and spaghettios. You may not prefer having to eat what your non-cooking self gets from the grocery store but that doesn't make takeout is essential. It's completely non-essential.

 

[FrogReaver]

Hardware stores and takeout are closed here. The stores can supply trades not the general public.

Tradies are only allowed to do essential work so if you want your bathroom renovated tough luck, they can fix your water/electricity/windows etc.

Another reasonable approach.

 

[Zardnaar]

Not only is takeout non essential it may spread Covid.

I wouldn't be getting it even if they were open here.

 

[Zardnaar]

Another reasonable approach.

National trait you should see the memes on Facebook and Reddit atm.

Think our PM has won re-election already. Something like 93% approve if what she's doing.

We don't really have approval ratings but she's over 80% overall and 70% with the opposition voters.

 

[The Green Hermit]

In theory they'll fix the leak and leave the shower.

Some tradies have told some trying to game it to get bent.

The tradie doesn't have to do the work.

Some idiot threw a brick through wife's cousins window. Student town drunken idiots do things like that.

Setting couches on fire and 1000 people street parties have stopped.

That theory doesn't work when you had to pry all the tiles off the shower, breaking enough of them that they can't be replaced, and the wall is rotten behind it. (Leaking much longer than we had known.) Also, in order to remove the tub basin so we could repair underneath it, we had to take a sledgehammer to it and break it up -- old cast iron from the 70s.

Also, we do our own repairs. We have always done our own repairs. We are not going to pay several times the cost of the materials and equipment when we do not have to.

 

[FrogReaver]

National trait you should see the memes on Facebook and Reddit atm.

Think our PM has won re-election already.

Nice.

So my new Argument...

Since New Zealand can do without hardware stores and takeout then they aren't essential.

 

[Zardnaar]

That theory doesn't work when you had to pry all the tiles off the shower, breaking enough of them that they can't be replaced, and the wall is rotten behind it. (Leaking much longer than we had known.) Also, in order to remove the tub basin so we could repair underneath it, we had to take a sledgehammer to it and break it up -- old cast iron from the 70s.

Also, we do our own repairs. We have always done our own repairs. We are not going to pay several times the cost of the materials and equipment when we do not have to.

Tradies discretion I suppose.

There is a dob in line for rule breakers and the police can legally enter your house without a warrant in regards to Covid.

If you don't have Covid they can apologize later.

The PM called rule breakers idiots and the Grace period is over.

 

[FrogReaver]

That theory doesn't work when you had to pry all the tiles off the shower, breaking enough of them that they can't be replaced, and the wall is rotten behind it. (Leaking much longer than we had known.) Also, in order to remove the tub basin so we could repair underneath it, we had to take a sledgehammer to it and break it up -- old cast iron from the 70s.

Also, we do our own repairs. We have always done our own repairs. We are not going to pay several times the cost of the materials and equipment when we do not have to.

I get it. But you can either wait to start that repair for a few months, order the stuff online and wait a few weeks or call the pro if it's immediately necessary. Sorry your stuff had to break in the middle of a pandemic but you paying a little more to do what you could have done yourself today if the hardware store was open is not a good essential reason to keep it open.