That time a plumber told me my vent pipe was fine when it clearly wasn't

I had a leak in my bathroom wall last summer and called a guy out. He looked at the vent pipe on the roof, said "looks good to me" and left after 10 minutes. A week later I tore the drywall off myself and found a crack in the pvc joint that was dumping water down the studs. He charged me $150 for that look and I still had to fix it myself. Anyone else had a pro brush off something obvious?

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the_susan3d ago

My neighbor's HVAC guy did the same thing with our furnace last winter. Said "she's running fine" but I found a cracked heat exchanger after it started setting off the carbon monoxide alarm. Ended up costing me $800 for a new unit and a lot of lost sleep. Makes you wonder how many other "professionals" are just eyeballing things and hoping for the best, doesn't it?