EMERGENCY-PLUMBING

We’re proud of this letter to Holmes on Homes!

Dear Mr. Holmes,

Like you I write for the Globe, but on science.

I'm also a North York Suburbanite who's just had an en-suite renovation.

You must get foam-at-mouth letters from people with horror stories.

Mine was the opposite: My contractor's a gem.

He's a smart, quiet Romanian who's dead honest and whose work is like a Swiss watch. He gave me a turnkey price on the renovation and when I said I'd get the hardware he shrugged and said, 'My quote stands. Just deduct what you pay from the total.' How, I asked him, did he know I wouldn't buy gold-plated everything and leave him with $1.98? Shrug. 'I trust you.'

He and his crew were here every day, all day, from start to finish.

When his window sub was late and then left the job half-done, he worked all weekend to clean it up before the painters arrived.

When I asked if he had any ideas for a baseboard, he nodded and said nothing; I arrived home that night to find he'd cut and installed floor tiles around the circumference of the room to a height of 4", exactly matching the shower base.

The tile work was done to fractions of a millimetre and the whole effect is fabulous.

His name's Dumitru Paraschiv, his firm is Emergency Plumbing, and he's at 647-402-7382.

Best regards
Bill Atkinson

PS. Love your common sense and technical knowledge - I worked for the National Research Council's Division of Building Research and boy, have you got the fundamentals right!

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