GALLERY OVERVIEW

Work on an empty stomach? Not this plumber. The Homemade Café will pack me a lunch but often I don’t have time to wait, so it can be ‘fuel on the fly’. It’s hard to beat the workingman’s sandwiches that Larry, Conlan and Javier build at Young’s, in the heart of my customer base, the Berkeley Hills.

No matter how diligently I keep my truck supplied (wholesale plumbing suppliers), there’s always a time I need a good hardware store. Ellis and Kensington have my back.

And for pure pleasure, I weekly cruise Urban Ore to see what new gems might have arrived. Ragnar’s ‘The Sink Factory’ and Steve’s ‘Ohmega Salvage’ are two more, weekly, “must visit” emporiums of plumbing excitement.