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In reply to the discussion: Why are surgeons paid more than brick layers? [View all]Dragonfli
(10,622 posts)In the winter We used to average about 3 or 4 emergency chimney repairs, it is a reality of winter and the cheapness of folks like you that think it is a job like "floor sweep" to be a tradesman.
In winter water freezes, when water freezes it expands, when you add the idiot that hasn't maintained the tuck pointing on his chimney because "that guy charges to much for such trivial work" the combination leads to chimney lean, bricks falling and a call by one of your neighbors to the city to make you take seriouslty the emergency repair work that must be done before someone is brained by one of your errant bricks that you feel anyone can repair. If that is true try doing it yourself sometime, after you fall off your snow covered roof and you figure out that frozen mortar is not "set" mortar and your repair failed because you lack the chemical knowledge to mix mortar in freezing weather.
Also, there are hurricanes, floods, trees falling on/into houses and even cars that crash through the front door. Those all require mythical emergency building repair.
Thank Goddess there is an expert here to tell me all those jobs I imagined actually happened in my 35 year career never happened at all!