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Rant about not giving a shite
Posted on 3/7/26 at 6:02 pm
Posted on 3/7/26 at 6:02 pm
A million dollar plus gray box is being built across the street from me. The house has been wrapped for a minute and the windows just came in. None of the windows done so far are flashed correctly. On a few of the windows, the contractor cut back the house wrap too much. Instead of installing more wrap, they applied the adhesive flashing directly to the OSB decking, and still didn’t shingle the flashing properly.
I know I’m an old man. I know it’s not my house. I know it’s not my problem. But some poor fool is going to buy that house, thinking the people hired to build it were qualified and did the job correctly. They’re going to pay a shite ton of money and have rotted out decking and possibly worse a few years down the road, with no recourse against the contractor. It’s just a shite deal.
Rant over.
I know I’m an old man. I know it’s not my house. I know it’s not my problem. But some poor fool is going to buy that house, thinking the people hired to build it were qualified and did the job correctly. They’re going to pay a shite ton of money and have rotted out decking and possibly worse a few years down the road, with no recourse against the contractor. It’s just a shite deal.
Rant over.
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Posted on 3/7/26 at 9:20 pm to GeauxldMember
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know I’m an old man. I know it’s not my house. I know it’s not my problem.
You could enjoy a beer with a lot of us that think the same way about subjects in our wheelhouse. And you see that shite every, single day.
Posted on 3/8/26 at 7:50 am to LemmyLives
Posted on 3/8/26 at 4:45 pm to GeauxldMember
Everything is crap these days. I quit hiring people to work on things because most of the time they don’t know what they’re doing and I can do a better job with google and giving a shite how it turns out.
Maybe it’s always been this way and getting older exposes it but it sure seems like people used to care more.
Maybe it’s always been this way and getting older exposes it but it sure seems like people used to care more.
Posted on 3/8/26 at 5:29 pm to GeauxldMember
Welcome to Florida construction right now. I just bought one of those million dollar gray boxes. With the way some of the finish work was done, I can not imagine what lies beneath that we will find later.
The construction here is total shite
The construction here is total shite
Posted on 3/8/26 at 5:34 pm to OysterPoBoy
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Maybe it’s always been this way and getting older exposes it
I don’t think so. Back when we were a society that built things, we had a group of tradesmen who took pride in the ability to build things that would last and fix them when they failed. We have been a disposable society for a while now, and that is now reflected in the trades. It’s been learned.
By the way, there are still people who take pride in what they do, so I don’t mean to imply there aren’t. They’re the minority now, however.
Posted on 3/8/26 at 6:45 pm to GeauxldMember
Houses are NOT built properly these days.....thats a fact.
Posted on 3/8/26 at 8:40 pm to GeauxldMember
You could always let someone you see looking know what you saw. Had a woman looking at the house next door once. She said it smelled funny. And was nitpicking things. It didn’t smell. It had been remodeled and everything was new. Then she asked if anyone had died in it, she still swore it had a smell. I told her yes, the old man who lived there did die there. She didn’t buy it. Had a nice, young family move in later on. Glad she didn’t, she seemed she would have been a troublesome neighbor.
Posted on 3/8/26 at 8:48 pm to GeauxldMember
The $500k glorified carboard sheathed homes in Dallas are what blows my mind. Its accepted so the builder can tell the young family buying the house that it was "100% built to code". In 30 years I'm not sure if they will even be worth remodeling.
A problem with building codes is that they have lulled the public into thinking that if it was inspected and "to code", that its a solid and responsible buy. Obviously not true.
A problem with building codes is that they have lulled the public into thinking that if it was inspected and "to code", that its a solid and responsible buy. Obviously not true.
Posted on 3/8/26 at 9:13 pm to Turnblad85
I got an independent inspection on every house I've bought, including two I've built.
There was a gringo superintendent on the last house, and before the drywall went up, *I* was the one that had to notice the gas chimney flue left the fireplace, then took a 45" angle down, before venting back up vertically. WTF. I'm not a carpenter or anything close to it, but I know how gas moves. That builder (Trendmaker, $650k home) could have killed a family with that crap.
There was a gringo superintendent on the last house, and before the drywall went up, *I* was the one that had to notice the gas chimney flue left the fireplace, then took a 45" angle down, before venting back up vertically. WTF. I'm not a carpenter or anything close to it, but I know how gas moves. That builder (Trendmaker, $650k home) could have killed a family with that crap.
Posted on 3/8/26 at 9:19 pm to GeauxldMember
Rarely have I seen a house wrapped properly they frame it sheet it wrap it and leave it for months just put the damn siding and windows in within a week NOPE that would mean they had their shite together and ordered the siding and window on time
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