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Title: Esso, weigh in!
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Published: Mar 1, 2022
Author: me
Post Date: 2022-03-01 20:50:31 by Lod
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Comments: 19

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#2. To: Lod (#0)

I'm OK, arthritis is acting up. Watching the moronic SOU speech.

Esso  posted on  2022-03-01   21:35:41 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

Watching the moronic SOU speech.

Because the dentist's office is closed this late, and you can't get a root canal?

StraitGate  posted on  2022-03-01   21:50:52 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

Because the dentist's office is closed this late, and you can't get a root canal?

I got called to to look at my buddy's duplex project last weekend. I would've rather had root canals done. Here's what 10 hours Saturday and 6 hours Sunday found:

Locksets in entry doors that looked like they were installed with an axe. (I thought he suffered a break-in at first)
Leaking PVC sewer pipes in the basement of the front unit.
Missing and improperly installed PEX supply pipes.
Kinked HVAC refrigerant lines.
Damaged and improperly installed cabinets.
HVAC guys drilled through several electrical circuits with a holesaw.
Wrong type door and a door missing in the firewall.
Missing firestops in the firewall.
Furnaces that were improperly placed blocking crawlspace access.
PVC furnace venting leaking. (Looked like a 4 y/o did the work.)
Condensate pumps that just drain into the crawlspaces.
Missing electrical circuits.
(Edit) A sewer cleanout sticking up a foot right in the middle of a sidewalk. (My favorite)

That's just off the top of my head. Monday the owner called me and screamed for a half an hour. (I'm not the contractor.)

I told him, "You don't need an engineer, you need a fucking lawyer."

I have no idea how some of that can be repaired. The project is already a couple hundred thousand over budget. He better pray for blind inspectors from the building department.

I've never seen such a fucked up program.

Esso  posted on  2022-03-02   9:14:12 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

Having spent most of my life in the South, I have long wondered whether this slipshod workmanship was just a Southern thing. But lately I've come to believe that worthless contractors obtain widely both North and South -- as your report corroborates. My mother called such people "slovenly slobs"; I call them worse things.

People don't do what they say they're going to do, what you pay them to do, or what they ought to do.

Last year I walked through a house being built nearby. Slab foundation, and surprisingly, the concrete looked good -- level enough, and finished well (but I don't know how well the soil was compacted, or whether the reinforcement was done right). The framing was another story. I don't think I ever heard a hammer being used -- just air powered nail guns. Bang-bang-bang, bang-bang-bang-bang-bang, ... The lazy slobs even framed the windows with a nail gun, and it looked like Obama.

Nice looking metal roof and metal siding. But the gutter contractors didn't know how to secure a downspout. Straps wrong, holes drilled in the wrong place. Siding permanently marred.

StraitGate  posted on  2022-03-02   10:50:26 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

Always remember, the closer to the equator, the shittier the construction.

My personal preference is one story, accessible, houses with 4' eaves. Zero gutters. Keep things stupid simple on the exterior and as elaborate as you can afford on the inside.

Lod  posted on  2022-03-02   11:58:26 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

Equator. Interesting. I'll have to ponder that one...

What kills me is the crazy rooflines new houses are using. Forty-leven angles every which way for no good reason. I just designed our single story dream house with a single ridgeline for both house and attached garage. But property around here has gone up 4-10x in the last 5 years. So has the noise in my formerly quiet and country neighborhood. That's why we have to get out of here.

Are people using that plastic vinyl faux fencing out in Texas? Plastic fence around a 3/4 million dollar house. Kills me. Pipe fence kills me, too, like they use out in West Texas. But it doesn't kill me as bad as plastic fence.

StraitGate  posted on  2022-03-02   13:50:19 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

from the mid-80s

Traveling from Vienna (one of the most lovely cities we ever visited) via Eurail south toward Rome, the quality of the construction, and the maintenance thereof, deteriorated almost kilometer by kilometer.

By the time we were approaching Rome, and being cathedraled-out, we decided to do a 180 and head north to Geneva and visit Pam's sister and family there in that gorgeous city.

Drill-stem fencing is the best, and by far the most expensive for farms and ranches, while red cedar plank privacy fencing is the most popular for urban/suburban uses here.

Lod  posted on  2022-03-03   9:49:01 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

Thanks for the good info.

I didn't know that pipe fence was made from drill stems and sucker rods from oil drilling rigs. Interesting.

StraitGate  posted on  2022-03-03   13:20:05 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

#15. To: StraitGate (#14)

Do homeowners in SC have fencing?

When I first visited OH back when, I was absolutely flabbergasted that there were no back yard fences.

Lod  posted on  2022-03-03 15:59:42 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

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