Hoss, can you please explain
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elkassassin
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It's Known As OVER-SPRAY according To Dry-Wallers Eel!
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A builder in our area sheetrocked over an entire bedroom. The house was finished and the buyer said, "Hey, isn't this supposed to be a five bedroom house?"
They pulled the plans and found the sheetrocker forgot to cut out the door in the hallway and the other subs fully finished the house.
They pulled the plans and found the sheetrocker forgot to cut out the door in the hallway and the other subs fully finished the house.
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FOLLOW-UP POST -
This is the same builder that sold a house with the dining room lights permanently turned on because the plans didn't call for a switch so the electrician wired them directly into the panel and called it a day.
This same builder's framers left a tail on a 2x4 stud used as part of truss engineering that jutted out into the living space in a vaulted ceiling. Instead of the sheetrocker cutting the tail off, he sheetrocked and mudded around it. The painter taped it off and painted around it and everybody else ignored a fully finished house with a 2x4 stud sticking out into the ceiling of the family room.
This is the same builder that sold a house with the dining room lights permanently turned on because the plans didn't call for a switch so the electrician wired them directly into the panel and called it a day.
This same builder's framers left a tail on a 2x4 stud used as part of truss engineering that jutted out into the living space in a vaulted ceiling. Instead of the sheetrocker cutting the tail off, he sheetrocked and mudded around it. The painter taped it off and painted around it and everybody else ignored a fully finished house with a 2x4 stud sticking out into the ceiling of the family room.
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Is that what you call a brace in utah?
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It was probably a lateral brace but I didn't see it, just heard about it from the super. He just said it was part of truss engineering, I took it to mean it was called out in the truss plans and not just temporary while they were setting trusses or thrown up for blocking, but I can't say for sure what it was.
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Sounds Like A Whole Lot of DGAF!
Anymore You Can See Sshitt That Will Blow Your Mind!
I've Had Electricians Run Wire In Holes I've Already Got Pipe In!
How about Point A to Point B Just as QUICK & CHEAP as They Can Get it There with Absolutely No Pride!
Was Looking at a Tub End Wall one Time,You Didn't Need To Get a Level or a Tape Measure!
They Had Nailed The Top Plate to their Line On One Side of The Wall and The Bottom Plate To the Other Side of Their Line making it 3-1/2" out of Plumb!
Modern Day Lumber is TRASH & CROOKED But Come On Guys!
I've Seen Rough Window Openings so Far Out of Square it Shows Up like a Sore Thumb!
Their Attitude is F'It,Foam Will Fill The Gaps!
I Know Modern Day Shingles Are JUNK!
But I Seen the other Day Where The Wind Had Removed a big Ole Patch on a New House that hadn't Been Shingled for 2 weeks on about a 5/12-6-12 Pitch Roof,Now We Get a Little Wind But We Haven't had any Wind that woulda Ripped These Shingles off already,it'd be Interesting To See Them Close up,Wondering if the Brain Storm Running the Nail/Staple Gun Noticed He'd Run out of Staples/Nails?
The List Goes On & On!
The Best One I Seen Recently Though Was A New House though!
Foundation 3' Out of Square!
Everything Was Perty Quiet Until The Guy Setting the Trusses Got down to the Last couple!
You Think Most Give a Rats Ass anymore?
Anymore You Can See Sshitt That Will Blow Your Mind!
I've Had Electricians Run Wire In Holes I've Already Got Pipe In!
How about Point A to Point B Just as QUICK & CHEAP as They Can Get it There with Absolutely No Pride!
Was Looking at a Tub End Wall one Time,You Didn't Need To Get a Level or a Tape Measure!
They Had Nailed The Top Plate to their Line On One Side of The Wall and The Bottom Plate To the Other Side of Their Line making it 3-1/2" out of Plumb!
Modern Day Lumber is TRASH & CROOKED But Come On Guys!
I've Seen Rough Window Openings so Far Out of Square it Shows Up like a Sore Thumb!
Their Attitude is F'It,Foam Will Fill The Gaps!
I Know Modern Day Shingles Are JUNK!
But I Seen the other Day Where The Wind Had Removed a big Ole Patch on a New House that hadn't Been Shingled for 2 weeks on about a 5/12-6-12 Pitch Roof,Now We Get a Little Wind But We Haven't had any Wind that woulda Ripped These Shingles off already,it'd be Interesting To See Them Close up,Wondering if the Brain Storm Running the Nail/Staple Gun Noticed He'd Run out of Staples/Nails?
The List Goes On & On!
The Best One I Seen Recently Though Was A New House though!
Foundation 3' Out of Square!
Everything Was Perty Quiet Until The Guy Setting the Trusses Got down to the Last couple!
You Think Most Give a Rats Ass anymore?
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In defense of the sheetrocker......we ain't real bright or we wouldn't be sheetrockers to start with.
We moved my mom into a 55+ community. **** built houses, but 3/4 mile from my place. Builder wouldn't let me do drywall.
Muzz deer, elk, rifle deer. So I was out of town, and hadn't checked for a bit. She said sheetrock was up and they started mudding, so I ran down because I knew the drywallers were not so great.
The jack wagon framer had framed a 3x3 square in the wall seperating the living room, and LAUNDRY ROOM. Hangers cut it out, wrapped it in corner bead, tapers mudded it.
I called my mom. Told her to have the foreman and the drywall boss meet me there the next morning. I'm standing there when they both walk in. Looking at the window, where one could watch the washing machine and the TV at the same time.
I say to them, "hey, can you explain this". Dead silence for what seemed like a year.
I handed them the plans. Still nothing. Finally, I asked them if the new style for old folks was watching the dryer and Matlock at the same time. It then donned on both and I got the "well the framer framed it" from the drywall boss.
So they would "fix it". Go down the next evening after work, and the DUMBASSES put a cripple in the middle of the window, glued sheetrock to it, and left the cornerbead attached and tried to float over it.
So, after I took a sheetrock hatchet to their "fix" we met yet again the next morning. 3td try, it got done right.
Long story only to point that even sheetrockers think sheetrockers are 4 brain cells short of a half dozen brain cells.
Never covered a window. Obviously a plug box or 2
We moved my mom into a 55+ community. **** built houses, but 3/4 mile from my place. Builder wouldn't let me do drywall.
Muzz deer, elk, rifle deer. So I was out of town, and hadn't checked for a bit. She said sheetrock was up and they started mudding, so I ran down because I knew the drywallers were not so great.
The jack wagon framer had framed a 3x3 square in the wall seperating the living room, and LAUNDRY ROOM. Hangers cut it out, wrapped it in corner bead, tapers mudded it.
I called my mom. Told her to have the foreman and the drywall boss meet me there the next morning. I'm standing there when they both walk in. Looking at the window, where one could watch the washing machine and the TV at the same time.
I say to them, "hey, can you explain this". Dead silence for what seemed like a year.
I handed them the plans. Still nothing. Finally, I asked them if the new style for old folks was watching the dryer and Matlock at the same time. It then donned on both and I got the "well the framer framed it" from the drywall boss.
So they would "fix it". Go down the next evening after work, and the DUMBASSES put a cripple in the middle of the window, glued sheetrock to it, and left the cornerbead attached and tried to float over it.
So, after I took a sheetrock hatchet to their "fix" we met yet again the next morning. 3td try, it got done right.
Long story only to point that even sheetrockers think sheetrockers are 4 brain cells short of a half dozen brain cells.
Never covered a window. Obviously a plug box or 2
eelgrass
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I have a friend who was the County building inspector. In fact, he inspected my house when it was built in 1976.
One day his office got a call. Someone out in the country turned in his neighbor for building a house without a permit. My friend hated those type of calls. He didn't know if he was going to get shot or what. He went out there and the guy was really pretty nice. He poured a perimeter foundation, ran a bunch of posts vertically and ran all his studs perfectly 16" on center.....horizontally. Yeah, he had to start over, this time with a permit.
One day his office got a call. Someone out in the country turned in his neighbor for building a house without a permit. My friend hated those type of calls. He didn't know if he was going to get shot or what. He went out there and the guy was really pretty nice. He poured a perimeter foundation, ran a bunch of posts vertically and ran all his studs perfectly 16" on center.....horizontally. Yeah, he had to start over, this time with a permit.
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After reading these stories, I will never hire a worker who learned his trade in Utah.
Grouse Legs
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Really not that uncommon on low grade builds. The pm or super should have caught it before paint for sure. Easier to blame the 17 year old amigo drywall installer.
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There’s a ton of Caltards that moved to utah doing construction… I do know that…
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And used Brandon’s illegals….
elkassassin
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Ya!
About 20 years ago & beyond that They Use To Take Their Money Back Home With Them During The Cold/Winter Months!
Not anymore Though!
What Always Made Me Laugh is When They See H20 Freeze!
Guess They'd never seen that Back Home!
They Shake Their Heads & Wonder WTF!
About 20 years ago & beyond that They Use To Take Their Money Back Home With Them During The Cold/Winter Months!
Not anymore Though!
What Always Made Me Laugh is When They See H20 Freeze!
Guess They'd never seen that Back Home!
They Shake Their Heads & Wonder WTF!
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Sounds like a good Superintendant
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I was remodeling my house a couple of years ago and took out a wall in between the kitchen and living room.
When I did I found out that the builder had build a load bearing wall 3' off of the center of the piers put there to support it.
After putting in a Simpson wall and a 32" x 40 ' beam in the ceiling to re-support the ceiling the problem was fixed.
Bad Builders everywhere even in Alaska
When I did I found out that the builder had build a load bearing wall 3' off of the center of the piers put there to support it.
After putting in a Simpson wall and a 32" x 40 ' beam in the ceiling to re-support the ceiling the problem was fixed.
Bad Builders everywhere even in Alaska
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Alaska is worst than most. Very few areas require inspections…
elkassassin
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Ya!
And That JUNK Wood In Alaska Rots Right Away after a few Years!
Most Hillbillies In Alaska Do As They F'N Eh Well Please!
And That JUNK Wood In Alaska Rots Right Away after a few Years!
Most Hillbillies In Alaska Do As They F'N Eh Well Please!
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Funny
Inspection at one time was a check on work.
Now days they are a pinch list writer.
Be careful easy to blame the Latinos. But truth is, they are used often by the same contactor whose mom in law "owns" the company because it's gone bankrupt 3times.
Harder to get a chit contractor out, than a outfitter in Utah
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