I bet during the late 90s and early 2000s you’d never have imagined you’d enter a conversation with a Saints supporter, in which you’d both bond over how equally awful and pathetic your football teams currently are and have it all culminating with your colleague telling you how he got his arm amputated.
Work places can be amazing and unique experiences.
I used to go into work wearing my essendon scarf. Or have it draped over my chair. I only admit to barracking for Essendon if asked.
It’s the look of genuine pity from some people that tells me how far we’ve fallen.
Guy: Is there much scope for career progression here, HG?
HG: Yeah, but opportunities are rare so if one comes up you’ll have to take it with both hands.
we had a guy missing his left arm start at work a while back.
Whenever asked if I was responsible for something, I could no longer use my go to phrase -
Depends what your concern is.
If it is dirty and has sediment, and you run it for thirty minutes without change, then it is a main supply issue. Perhaps they have done pipe repairs or the filters at the treatment station are farked.
If it has a chemical smell, then it is probably the water treatment process that is being over-dosed at the treatment station or the water quality tests being done, show high levels of something not nice, hence the high doses of chemical. Again a mains supply issue.
If you are feeling sick with stomach pains and the sh!ts, then the water is contaminated. Can be a supply issue or a local issue; needs to be checked.
If your water tastes bad, then welcome to modern water supply. Melbourne had sweet water once, now it is moving towards the stuff they pump out of the river in Adelaide.
I majored in bacteriology at University last century and my first real job was in the Testing Labs of Melbourne Water (formerly MMBW). The place was run by engineers and accountants, and their only concern is that water comes out of your tap, they have little concern for the quality. Nothing would have changed.
Any chance his favourite character from Bluey is Bandit?
Query re installation costs for a split system a/c unit.
Retail is around $2400.
Bloke wants $4370 for fully installed.
Does 2 grand seem right to take out the old unit, fit and supply the new?
I just a unit moved on a balcony so we can seal the tiles underneath and it cost $1100 just to unhook , move it and then move it back.
Are they using the existing copper piping and location of the external compressor?
If they are, dm me and I’ll give a contact that charged me twice well under $1k for new installs.
In Melbourne.
This just isn’t true. Melbourne’s water is still remarkably good on a world scale. It’s around 50 ppm dissolved solids (salts). Adelaide is more like 350…
Cheers Joe, it’s an outer Perth job. Suspect I’m paying the going rate. Every tradie here drives a Bentley.
If anyone has a similar situation in Melbourne I’d be happy to pass on details. Send me a DM.
Melbourne Water has never been as good as the engineers want you to believe. Since the early 1970s, the chemicals added has increased and you can taste them in the water and sometimes smell them when you shower.
Good reason for this treatment, as E Coli levels increased with less closed catchments and other bugs were looked for and found including Pseudomonas aeruginosa which led to small water reservoirs in the Eastern Melbourne suburbs in particular being roofed to keep out birds. This Pseudomonas aeruginosa bug caused major respiratory infections in high risk groups which in the 1970s was anyone over 65.
Some of the major reservoirs supplies are also high in sediments and filtration gets a lot but after some weather events it get through to supply mains.
My understanding is it’s not really “melbourne water” ?
If you live in the east you’re getting it from maroondah or sugarloaf, if you live in the north it’s from Yan yean and if you are unfortunate enough to attempt subsistence in the west there’s a bloke with a bucket scooping out of the Werribee poo farm.
Surely the reservoir in Reservoir is the source for inner north?
Listen don’t let facts get involved in my Westie bashing
My understanding is that the Reservoir reservoir is a holding pond, its gets water in from Yan Yean (the pipe goes under the median strip of Cheddar road), and then gets pumped on to inner north.
BTW, I’ve recently moved up to Sydney, and the water actually seems better up here, which surprised me. Noticeably less calcified deposits in our kettle.
Really, it’s not.
Brisbane is THE worst though.
Water in the non-closed catchment of Sugarloaf gets full treatment (flocc/filtration etc). Because it’s basically water from the Yarra. Which is waaaaay better than say water from the lowers Murray, where it’s run off from land subject to dry land salinity, and been in and out of town water supplies (via sewage treatment plants for a small proportion of it) and agricultural areas through the former marine basin that the Murray drains. You know all that sandy soil wheat belt is deep in former coastal dune sand, right?
There’s bits and pieces of small treatment plant at localised areas, but by and large, Melbourne’s water from its overwhelmingly closed catchments (making it one of two cities in the world with largely closed catchments - yep TWO) is allowed to settle out in the large storages, and needs only chlorination/fluoridation before sending out.
The most likely source of contamination for most houses is lead in brass fittings…
I’d be interested in the last time anyone noticed coloured or badly odorous water in Melbourne’s supply. I can’t recall it ever.
I can recall it in Hobart (where the water for years tasted like wet hessian- not that long ago) and when I lived in Melton, where overdosing with chlorine was common enough to cause iron slimes in the supply pipes to slough off and turn washing red-brown…