Links to government documents and primary sources listing retail prices for products and services, as well as wages for common occupations. Fellow plumbers, how do you respond to " why is it so expensive?!" I've been a plumber for a couple years now and I hear this literally every. Single.
Day. So often That I'm so sick and tired of it. I don't have the time or the patience to explain every single day about insurance, tools, vans, skills, etc.
Daily bathing was simply too inconvenient, more a luxury than a necessity. But while I'm reminiscing about the not-so-good old days, I'd like to take you even farther back in time - way back to the earliest days of plumbing in America. The following is a description of the earliest plumbers' lot in life.
ACK in the good old times, which were not always so good, plumbers worked 100, then 120, then 150 days a year. Now most any plumber who wants to keep busy practically all of the time can. With an outlet for waste water, indoor plumbing and working water closets were getting closer to fruition.
Unfortunately, bad plumbing and the stench from open sewer connections made some new homes uninhabitable. Early in the 19th century, the stack was vented through the roof, but no one knew how to properly size the pipe. Display Visuals 1, 2, and 3, Standard Plumbing advertisements, one at a time for stu-dents to review and then discuss the following: Advertising Interpretation Questions What strategies were employed to sell indoor plumbing to Americans in the 1920s?
Servants? Ice? (Why so much?) Clothes for Zelda? Plumber? (Why so much?) Clothes for F. Scott? Total monthly expenses? Clothes for their daughter, Scotty? Why Was Plumbing So Expensive In 1923.
知乎，中文互联网高质量的问答社区和创作者聚集的原创内容平台，于 2011 年 1 月正式上线，以「让人们更好的分享知识、经验和见解，找到自己的解答」为品牌使命。 知乎. Ice? (Why so much?)$129.63 Probably had an ice box instead of a refrigerator and, again, they were hosting lots of parties. Plumber? (Why so much?)$205.88 And what happens when people drink too much? Ew.
Total monthly expenses?$34,899.63 Whoa! Fitzgerald was a successful writer, but he wasn'tthissuccessful. Clothes for t heir daughter, Scotty? "House liquor" and "wild par ties" combined? Ice? (Why so much?) Plumber? (Why so much?) T otal mont hly expenses? Charity? 2. What wor d did Fitzgerald misspell twice? (T ake comfor t in knowing that even great writers aren't necessar ily.