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He's fat, not tall. I have one sink that's hard to access underneath, but its difficulty is a function of my height. Crawlspace? It's tight, but being 100 lbs heavier than I am wouldn't make it much more tight.
Your comment makes you sound young, lol. I'm not sure how old this plumber was but if I was carrying around an extra 100-150 lbs and needed to crawl around on my knees, I tell ya I'd be absolutely miserable and in tons of pain. As you age, that extra weight paired with the compromising positions will get to you.
Height or weight, doesn't matter. His body is going to be destroyed doing that kind of work so overweight. In fact, I saw it happen in my wife's family. Her uncle was in the plumbers union and he got seriously overweight in his later years. It ended up hurting his body beyond repair and he died fairly young (high 50's).
Your comment makes you sound young, lol. I'm not sure how old this plumber was but if I was carrying around an extra 100-150 lbs and needed to crawl around on my knees, I tell ya I'd be absolutely miserable and in tons of pain. As you age, that extra weight paired with the compromising positions will get to you.
Height or weight, doesn't matter. His body is going to be destroyed doing that kind of work so overweight. In fact, I saw it happen in my wife's family. Her uncle was in the plumbers union and he got seriously overweight in his later years. It ended up hurting his body beyond repair and he died fairly young (high 50's).
Not to mention that 100 pounds lighter still puts him a 275-300 est.
Your comment makes you sound young, lol. I'm not sure how old this plumber was but if I was carrying around an extra 100-150 lbs and needed to crawl around on my knees, I tell ya I'd be absolutely miserable and in tons of pain. As you age, that extra weight paired with the compromising positions will get to you.
Height or weight, doesn't matter. His body is going to be destroyed doing that kind of work so overweight. In fact, I saw it happen in my wife's family. Her uncle was in the plumbers union and he got seriously overweight in his later years. It ended up hurting his body beyond repair and he died fairly young (high 50's).
Yes, we have a young male CNA at the nursing home I work in who has to weight 400# at least. He is literally covered head to toe with sweat with even a little bit of exertion. We have been concerned on a couple of occasions he might have a heart attack, and I don't think he's even near 30. I feel bad for him, he comes in our office sometimes on his break and looks up "healthy snacks" and other things like that, so I think he knows how bad his health is due to his weight. Nursing home residents can be pretty filterless at times too.
Yes, we have a young male CNA at the nursing home I work in who has to weight 400# at least. He is literally covered head to toe with sweat with even a little bit of exertion. We have been concerned on a couple of occasions he might have a heart attack, and I don't think he's even near 30. I feel bad for him, he comes in our office sometimes on his break and looks up "healthy snacks" and other things like that, so I think he knows how bad his health is due to his weight. Nursing home residents can be pretty filterless at times too.
I can't even imagine being that heavy. I'm 68 and weigh @205 now (up from 185 or so two years ago) and feel fat.
I had held the 185 for years (sort of, I gained a bunch of weight in the mid-90s but lost it. Stopped eating bread and rice for a couple months). That 185 was 10 pounds heavier than I'd weighed at my last flight physical in 1982.
Is having a water heater in an attic common? I've never heard of that before. Is that an E Coast thing like oil heaters?
It’s a warm weather thing where there is mostly slab construction and they don’t have to worry about really cold temperatures. If you’re in a Southern state where it’s sweltering and your attic is equally unbearable, that’s less work the water heater has to do. For those of us in colder areas, that would probably render a water heater inoperable in winter.
Good idea,he works for a large company,and came with a company van loaded with parts and tools.
they could easily provide him with an aluminium ladder.
or he should know to have one/
Someone before him broke the lower rungs,it still work but he is rather heavy,he said he weighs 375 lbs,my guess he weighs north of 400.
He called his manager,some one in his company had an accident and was out for 9 months,so his company probably does not want anything happen to him.
They sent a guy who weighs less.
I was looking at attic ladder,it looks like Lowe has a few and they would install and remove the old one=steel,wood or AL
I asked a plumber to go to the attic to turn the water heater back on and flush it.
He pulled down the ladder and examined it carefully,he said not enough support,and the lower rungs are broken,he called his manager and they are going to send a skinny guy.
He said he weighs 375 lbs,I suspect he weights 400 plus lb.
Reminds me of a "Curb your enthusiasm" episode where Larry hired a morbidly obese guy to fix his roof. And was worried he would fall though. And did fall through. Sometimes life imitates art.
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