#MTGA Hey guys i wanted to reach out for your thoughts on something. Been listening to the podcast for about five years now and I love it. You two make my day when a new episode drops. You two really help get through any type of day good, bad, and ugly. I have six years of open shop plumbing experience. Been out on my own for just about four out of the six years. ( in my own truck in the company, not in my own business). The shop I recently worked for taught me everything I know, great relationship with the manager and other plumbers. The owner suddenly cut a good portion of our wages in the sense of commission. We used to make very good money overall with what you guys would say is a low hourly and I would agree. For some context I was in the 20s/hr but the commission made up for it. The owner pretty much cut the commission and made it more of a productivity goal making it difficult to get it at all. We also had 24hr on call which we didn't get any compensation for unless we went out on a call and even then it didn't seem worth it giving up the personal time. This week, I started at a new company making more money up front with no commission. It's a very small shop that's been in business for about 15 years. The first thing I noticed was it seems like the owner doesn't stock much at all and gets a lot of material from the big box stores. This is very different for me since my last shop had just about everything ready to go. The new shop does treat the customer just the same and gets the larger stuff like water heaters and water treatment systems fr

hey guys, it’s Ryan Richard from Vermont. I just listened to the most recent podcast and towards the end talking about the episode of CO monitors. I had reached out to Andy via Instagram and told him about my story. I have the sensorcon the industrial one and I had got called to do a completely different service not even on the boiler in the house . I had never heard my CO monitor go off and then also I heard beeping. I’m like what the hell is that and I look down and it’s just shooting up in ppm. It’s going pretty high and i immediately went to the boiler room turned off the boiler and then I look to the flue and it is blown right out of the chimney. the homeowners after we got outside, opened some windows and they mentioned the last two weeks that she had been feeling sick. It saved their life ! so I know I feel good that I was there and had this low level co monitor . I think these things are a must . I think everyone should have it ,like I was telling Andy when I first got it in the shop I work at everybody was kind of like what are you doing? Kinda laughing about it. the dangers of just even low level CO overtime! so yeah I just wanted to send this out to you guys this way too. I think I’ll do a video or something on low level CO because most homeowners don’t know ! we have the first alert, the combo smoke detector with the carbon monoxide detector, which is on the ceiling, which that makes no sense and how the UL listed it doesn’t go off until 70 -75 ppm after a few hours. that’s a lot so if you’re sitting at 50-60 ppm that’s never gonna r