I can see you only being happy with your work. I dont mean that as an insult just that you seem like a guy who likes it his own way.I have found a lot of people in the trades lacking.
I have always done all my own work.
And I mean everything.
Can’t stand dealing with idiots.
If this was me, the contractor would be buying some new carpet and hardwood flooring. He can collect from the painting subs.We're building a new home here in Huntersville and we went by yesterday to see how it was coming along since we are closing next month. Upon entering the home we found that most of the paper had been torn off of the hardwood and the plastic was pulled back from the carpeting in the master and removed entirely in the guest room. It appeared that the painters with red mud on their shoes had walked on every floor in the house and where the paper was removed, including carpeted areas that were not covered, right down to inside the master bedroom closet. We're not just talking about a few spots of red mud here and there, we mean everywhere, on all of the exposed hardwood and carpet. We had reservations when we picked the carpet as it is very light but felt good when we found it covered very nicely during the building process. When we talked to the super on the job he said there was an "unfortunate incident". Apparently the cleaning people took the coverings off and then found out the painters were not finished. Then the idiot painters came in with red mud all over their shoes and stayed all day walking all over everything while doing the final paint touch up. Now we have to sit back and hope the builder can get the red lumps of mud out that are ground into the carpet and restore it to it's original condition.
Oh yeah. Love those retard consumers that think looking on the internet for prices makes them right. They think knowledge and craftsmanship is free. Never consider all the cost to be a business. Have no concept of variable and fixed cost. Do it your damn self if you think you know so much. Why call a pro if it’s so simple?The other thing that burns my grits is the Harvey Homeowner who prices materials out at a big box, never thinking to compare quality, then thinking I'm going to put in quality materials at the cheap price that he would pay at the big box. If I buy it for your job, you WILL be paying for it along WITH my time and effort to go GET IT! Otherwise, go hire Pedro.
I envy your bandsaw. Pipe cutter???Talkin to Noah bout da flood...…...We just run a slug through to take care of the muzzle.I’ve got a band saw, and a tubing cutter(which works great in shotgun barrels by the way)
That's what I would do, but I didn't want to get into the "you told me to fix it this way, and....". We did discuss Helicoils though.
We also discussed a new motor.
Oh yeah. Love those retard consumers that think looking on the internet for prices makes them right. They think knowledge and craftsmanship is free. Never consider all the cost to be a business. Have no concept of variable and fixed cost. Do it your damn self if you think you know so much. Why call a pro if it’s so simple?
That will buff right out!Cutting down trees ain’t no big deal. I cut down cactus plants in Mexico all the time. Oops.
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I worked on a job two months ago that they never put j channel around half the windows. Never boxed in the outside lamp fixtures but it didnt matter because the Mexican Sheetrock crew dry walled all outside light switch boxes in the wall.We were up north during construction, the siding crew that did our new home in 1991 did not cut the siding to fit around 24 windows,
they cut and nailed pieces around the windows.
At the walk before closing I pointed that out to the supervisor (who was leaving to work for a competitor), he told me he will have them caulk.
Told him if we got in his truck to look at the siding job on his house it would not need a 'caulk' job. Told him to leave, sent 24 photos FedEx to
Crossland President, 15 min. after delivery his executive secretary called to schedule time for a siding crew to remove and replace the siding.
The master garden tub started leaking from the drain flange, did not know until we had kids and wife used the tub to wash them up,
the new flange would not fit, thought it odd that the threads were only 1/2" depth, found the rest of the old flange inside the drain, turns out somebody used a hacksaw on the flange and left 1/8" metal so they could tighten the flange in place. Fixed it myself but had ceiling damage on the first floor.
Looks like siding and plumber were not getting paid on time.
The pictures I posted are from those I took the last two years. I have a ton more but they are on on another computer.Not exactly on topic, but here are some hvac horror stories for your entertainment: https://hvac-talk.com/vbb/forumdisplay.php?21-Wall-of-Shame-Pictures
If this was me, the contractor would be buying some new carpet and hardwood flooring. He can collect from the painting subs.
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We just spoke to the super on the phone a short while ago since we were supposed to meet with him today. They are putting in all new carpeting and charging it back to the painter. The super promised when they install the new carpeting he will be there to make sure they don't do it again.
I'd bet they screw it up again. Wanna bet?I manage a research and development lab.
I hired a shop to align a 30HP electric motor gen set to smaller motor this week. We're going to instrument the heck out of this thing and look at details of V and I as we do things to the motor. Its a fairly standard configuration.
One of the tasks was to supply a new motor, mill flats into the housing and attach three accelerometers to the cast iron end of the motor (one in each axis) via tapped and threaded holes that would allow a stud to attach the instruments to . These sensors are about as big around as your thumb and cost about $100 each.
The shop delivered the motor stand and we proceeded to begin to wire up the equipment (power, data gathering equipment, etc). One of the folks started to attach the leads to the accelerometer, which promptly fell off. Upon closer inspection, the shop had buggered up the newly threaded holes in the motor housing and stripped them out.
They "fixed" this by re-attaching the instrument with JB weld, I guess thinking we'd not notice.
This sensor was about 1" above a 2.5" solid steel armature. When (not if) this sensor fell off, it would have wrapped the sensor cabling around the rotating armature and yanked about $10,000 of precision instrumentation off the wall mounted grid above the motor stand.
They came out yesterday to try again.