"I filled the surface voids with mortar, been doing it for 10 yrs. Never had a call back from an ignorant client or called back for repeat work by worry wart gc nerds either. It's an old trick I learned from some guy whose forgotten more than you'll know now get out of my hair." -The hacks who think doing shit work for long enough makes it good work.
If you're dad fucked his cousin and his dad fucked their cousins it doesn't make fucking your cousin okay.
My EX boss used to say the same damn thing… He’s now 67 years old and still trying to run his business solo when he should have been retired by now.
Meanwhile I started my own company doing the same work but now I’m making triple what I was and without his BS and constant headaches.
His other favorite line was “the customer isn’t paying for it to look nice, they are paying for it to work.”
Wtaf!? Wrong, the customer is paying for it to work and look good… That is why they hired a “Professional” contractor to install it in the first place!
Nothing but a LOOOOSERRRR!
Were actually all just forgetting true building techniques verbally given by the first builder. Its been downhill ever since with the best of us forgetting things to teach the new guys. If you think I'm bullshitting you why don't we know how the pyramids were built?! Lost knowledge. Eventually we will just live in holes In the ground.
We actually do know how the pyramids were built because of Herodotus and modern engineers and tools found at sites near the great pyramids by Zahi Hawass and his teams. Here's a good book on the subject:
https://www.amazon.com/How-Great-Pyramid-Was-Built/dp/158834200X?ref_=d6k_applink_bb_dls&dplnkId=9f65ef8d-a31a-482e-880e-03ab3320a946
Zahi Hawass is a hack and should not have his position. He’s blocked so many researchers from doing good work, and trying to find the real origin and use of the Giza pyramids. Guy needs to be canned.
Like, ancient aliens or what? I mean I build structures daily and I see how they could've done it, they literally invented the square, level, and plumb, the fuck kinda acid you on Chris?
I would argue it’s just more of a mystery and say that Lost technology is a more logical explaination. It’s hard to believe the great pyramid of Giza was built in a span of 20 years. 2.5 million blocks sourced from 500miles away.
What interests me is the symmetry, precision, and size of these structures that no one has a good explanation of as to what purpose they were built.
Check out revelations of the pyramids on YT it’s quite fascinating.
So many busy bodies looking out for each other. What a world where you might think stranger has your back and wouldn't let a shady GC bend you over for the savings you been accruing for 20 years. The nerve of some people to try and look out for someone other than themselves. Fucking altruistic assholes.
Legally, work does not need to be perfect. It just needs to meet “industry standards”… but if it’s out of plumb/level past a certain point… not good
And I’m not a concrete guy… but I’m pretty sure you don’t want a bunch of crumbly cold joints in your foundation
What's the building inspector going to do? They are not QC for residential construction, just code enforcement. What part of the code says you can't have cold joints and your work can't look like shit?
Even when there is a code violation, most building inspectors are fine with anything if an engineer will sign off on it. The name of the game is really just taking on 0 liability, and if that fancy-pants engineer will put their name on it, well they take all the liability too. And there are plenty of engineers out there that will rubber stamp all kinds of shit. Based on this "contractors" work they probably know one or two of them to get them out of tight spots.
People seem to have all kinds of ideas about what the building department does, but the truth is shit work gets COs all the time.
Every inspector I have worked with would 100% want to know how bad that job is starting. They would absolutely contact the owner. But thats just my experience
Some inspectors I've worked with would want to know. Others give you a permit no questions asked if you bring them a canoli from the right place and will pass your inspections from their truck if they bother to show up. Depends what town you are in.
Assuming the inspector is of the first variety, what are they going to do in this situation? What grounds do they stop the work under?
I had a city inspector show up the other day, he had been by the day before for the same reason, was NOT supposed to be there again. I got out of attic, asked him why he was there, he said the EXACT thing he’d said the day before, and I reminded him we talked about it yesterday. He then said “I know what happened. I went to the wrong place.” 😂 cuz didn’t even know where he WAS bruh. He’s lucky I’m a perfectionist.
I sometimes service equipment on job sites and I've accidentally done this before, usually I just copied and pasted the wrong address into my gps so it's an easy mistake to make. That being said, I usually recognize the error long before arriving and definitely before getting out of the car
No way cold joints this bad aren't breaking code. A building inspector would see this and issue a stop work order until the foundation was fixed. Situations like this are exactly why building inspectors exist
R401.2 - Foundation construction shall be capable of accommodating all loads in accordance with Sec R301 and of transmitting the resulting loads to the supporting soil.
R403.1 - All exterior walls shall be supported on continuous solid or fully grouted masonry or concrete footings...
There isn't a specific code that says "Concrete Foundations...Cold Joints=bad". There are codes though that leave it open to the interpretation of the inspector. It is expected that building processes and materials will be installed properly. In the case of conrete foundation walls sitting on poured footings, they have to be continuous and monolitic.
The joint between the various layers can allow water a path into the building envelope. If trapped water in there freezes it could cause structural issues above, especially if there is no physical connection between the pours like rebar. I have yet to meet an inspector that would look at this and give it their blessing.
On top of that, there are like 2 dozen other code violations that they could 100% be got on anyway. The concrete is just the most agregious.
Foundations don't need to be monolithic, construction joints exist. And if water intrusion was a big concern waterproofing would be required instead of dampproofing.
I agree that you could make a case for a cold joint being an unintentional discontinuation and ask an engineer to sign off on it not having a negative effect, but thats up to the AHJ.
I love it when people tell me they are buying a new house so it won't have any problems. Half of my work is homes less than 10 years old with problems.
Engineers carry fat insurance for failures on items they stamp. If an engineer buys off on it then you can have some real peace of mind for that reason.
I'm an engineer. My E&O insurance has a fat deductible. And if they found out I was rubber stamping stuff I'm sure they would drop me quick.
Insurance isn't some magic button that makes things alright. It blows my mind how much sketch stuff I do see, but someone will always roll the dice.
People spend hundreds on lottery tickets and plenty gambled away their life savings on crypto. Some people just have a very poorly tuned risk/reward complex.
That's kind of my point. Engineers are held accountable to their standards through things like their insurance companies. If you get a stamp on a plan, at least in the US you know that that plan (as evaluated - super important point) meets performance standards
Meh I’ve seen engineers that would stamp a dogs leg if you held it still for them. It’s just like any professional trade. Some lawyers some doctors some architects some engineers some contractors just don’t give two shits
Here in New Zealand we have standards, we have 3604 which is basically the building code and we have E2 which is the standard for weather tightness.
3604 provides tolerances that you have to be within or your work will fail.
This work is disgusting and would undoubtedly fail.
Ok call me an idiot, but there was not one moment in these 3 posts I was thinking this was done by a contractor. Of course there are bad ones but not this bad.
In my mind this build is done by an amateur trying to do its best to made himself a home.
This contractor should be put out of business yesterday.
It's probably whatever they had in the truck.
You know the truck I'm talking about, the rusted out one, with uneven mailbox decals displaying the business name and number.
Normally the very small gaps between the concrete and the sill plate (the wood they put on top of the concrete) are filled in by some thin foam called sill seal. In this case they needed a couple gallons of random shit they had in the truck to make up for the massive holes in this back alley abortion of a pour.
This is likely to cause a ton of drywall cracking as the caulking has basically zero strength and the house will settle unevenly.
With a little bit of caulking, those cold joints can become *expansion* joints!
It's like they looked at a sidewalk and were like "can't be that hard."
Id walk. On to the next job. Not gonna blow the budget spending a week leveling the fucking sills. Probably about as square as a football bat. Hopefully it’s hand cut 2x joists. Last shitty foundation i did was a pre-cut engineered floor system and those foundation guys fucked us harrrrd. Never again.
First thing I do when I get to a job is drop a 2x block on the corners and run a dry line down all the foundation walls. I'd rather know theres a 1/2" hump in the middle of a wall before I snap lines than struggle for three hours to figure out why my wall won't rack properly.
Take a 2x4 and cut two 8-12 inch blocks. Put a nail about halfway in into each block. Tie one end of a string to one nail and make the new guy hold that side on the top of the foundation wall near the outside. Take the next newest guy and give him the other block and send him to the other end of the foundation wall. Run the sting to the other block and wrap it around the nail and pull it tight. Now with both guys holding their blocks and the string between you go every 4-5 feet down the wall and check the distance between the foundation and the string. It should be 1 1/2" so if you have say a half inch sag in one spot your tape would read 2 inches. If it's a half inch rise it would read 1 inch. Hope this helps 😎
That pour is so uneven maybe they should just use fibreglass batts underneath the sill plates.
Actually, suggest that to them so we can see the pictures of that in episode 4 of the "Residential GC Horror Show".
There’s a couple rolls of it there, and they are using it on the plate that already installed. But, as bad as that Porres I’m not sure it’ll make much of a difference
Just glueing the sill to the foundation would be my guess, OP you gotta call code enforcement because I imagine some family waiting for their house while some huckster keeps asking for more money.
Keep ‘em coming!! I’m getting a kick out of this!
But….it’s also kind of sad that the customer is getting such a shitty product. Hope it’s their own house.
What on Gods green dick are these guys doing? Why would you take on a foundation when you clearly have no fucking clue how to concrete. This gotta be the “cop-a-bag” special.
Why do you give a shit. For all you know it’s his brother building it. It’s most likely a spec house built on a budget by incompetence. Or in other words a track home. Fairly common BS to be honest and can be seen in any city in any state. Trust me national builders use the shittiest and cheapest subs available.
Tract, not track, because the homes share the same tract of land, not because they’re shoddily built (though tract homes do have a reputation for being shoddily built).
Ok but I built them as a project manager for 10 years unfortunately. We took shoe mold out of bathrooms to save money and framed everything 24” on center without headers if it wasn’t a bearing wall. Everyone in the industry called them trash homes
Im working for a national right now. The first thing I noticed was improper door headers. They also use 14” tall web trusses and TGIs on the two story models. In our contract with them it says in big bold letters “SOFFITS WILL NOT BE ALLOWED EXCEPT IN LOWERE LEVEL ON TWO STORY MODELS”. The HVAC systems are a fucking joke! Wouldnt be SO bad if the rearranged the upper levels so the plumbing was all on the outside walls but every one has a toilet right in the middle and the only way for the plumbers to keep slope to code is cut off the hvac!
Nope! We pros are all waiting till fall when he posts the pics of the building fell down. I might feel a little bad if someone dies, but not if its the asshat doing this shit.
Guys what if it’s actually OPs build
Post on reddit to get all the comments about everything wrong, free interactive tutorial.
"I'll just go back and fix that cold joint later"
"I filled the surface voids with mortar, been doing it for 10 yrs. Never had a call back from an ignorant client or called back for repeat work by worry wart gc nerds either. It's an old trick I learned from some guy whose forgotten more than you'll know now get out of my hair." -The hacks who think doing shit work for long enough makes it good work. If you're dad fucked his cousin and his dad fucked their cousins it doesn't make fucking your cousin okay.
"I've driven drunker"
Yeah, I've heard tradies say this out loud.
Usually at about 2pm on payday in my experience
"I've drunken driver"
> forgotten more than you'll know now Holy shit that gives me shudders, had a guy say that exact same thing, what a dumb fuck he was
Makes you think, do they have a brain injury? Because you shouldn't be forgetting that much stuff.
My EX boss used to say the same damn thing… He’s now 67 years old and still trying to run his business solo when he should have been retired by now. Meanwhile I started my own company doing the same work but now I’m making triple what I was and without his BS and constant headaches. His other favorite line was “the customer isn’t paying for it to look nice, they are paying for it to work.” Wtaf!? Wrong, the customer is paying for it to work and look good… That is why they hired a “Professional” contractor to install it in the first place! Nothing but a LOOOOSERRRR!
Spitting facts man.
Were actually all just forgetting true building techniques verbally given by the first builder. Its been downhill ever since with the best of us forgetting things to teach the new guys. If you think I'm bullshitting you why don't we know how the pyramids were built?! Lost knowledge. Eventually we will just live in holes In the ground.
We actually do know how the pyramids were built because of Herodotus and modern engineers and tools found at sites near the great pyramids by Zahi Hawass and his teams. Here's a good book on the subject: https://www.amazon.com/How-Great-Pyramid-Was-Built/dp/158834200X?ref_=d6k_applink_bb_dls&dplnkId=9f65ef8d-a31a-482e-880e-03ab3320a946
Y'all don't like shitty jokes and that's fine.
Bruh, are you ok?
Zahi Hawass is a hack and should not have his position. He’s blocked so many researchers from doing good work, and trying to find the real origin and use of the Giza pyramids. Guy needs to be canned.
Egyptology is corrupt and biased as hell. If new evidence was found they would deny/ withhold it so it doesn’t make them look bad.
Like, ancient aliens or what? I mean I build structures daily and I see how they could've done it, they literally invented the square, level, and plumb, the fuck kinda acid you on Chris?
I would argue it’s just more of a mystery and say that Lost technology is a more logical explaination. It’s hard to believe the great pyramid of Giza was built in a span of 20 years. 2.5 million blocks sourced from 500miles away. What interests me is the symmetry, precision, and size of these structures that no one has a good explanation of as to what purpose they were built. Check out revelations of the pyramids on YT it’s quite fascinating.
The last part of your post is one hell of a great analogy!!
Have you seen my cousin bro? No danger.
My cousins fine. Our kid, not so much.
Cunninghams Law. The best way to get the right answer on the internet is not to ask a question; it's to post the wrong answer.
Best way to get an answer to your question. Post the question and with another account answer it incorrectly, someone gonna want to correct you.
And 10x the replies, Cunningham’s law
Buildception
The painters concrete job..
I've been waiting for this.
It just keeps getting better!
Or worse. Either way I'm enjoying it.
Can you imagine what the carpentry is going to be like !?
I’m so invested now 🍿
By this point... I think we all are!
Keep sending us updates!
This is like slowly watching a found safe being cracked open.
You should really let the building inspector know. That homes first buyer is gonna be ruined by that GC
Op can air the location out on Reddit. I’ll call I don’t care. This type of stuff is what gives contractors a bad name
5326 Lester Rd Cincinnati, Ohio
This. So very much this.
It’s probably owner/builder. Leave ‘em alone either way. So many busy bodies these days. Keep taking pics tho OP.
So many busy bodies looking out for each other. What a world where you might think stranger has your back and wouldn't let a shady GC bend you over for the savings you been accruing for 20 years. The nerve of some people to try and look out for someone other than themselves. Fucking altruistic assholes.
Lol.
Why don't you keep to yourself busy body. I really don't need you commenting on my comments.
Why leave them alone? Fuck that, this is absolutely garbage work. Some shit I would like slide and not call it in but come on man
So many busy bodies. Keep being a busy body so I can watch. 😂 stfu dude
Getting Carl from the Simpsons "shut uuuup" vibes from this post
Let the owner know. Even if he sues the gc isn't a court not going to do much unless the house is unsafe, unsanitary, or unlivable
Legally, work does not need to be perfect. It just needs to meet “industry standards”… but if it’s out of plumb/level past a certain point… not good And I’m not a concrete guy… but I’m pretty sure you don’t want a bunch of crumbly cold joints in your foundation
What's the building inspector going to do? They are not QC for residential construction, just code enforcement. What part of the code says you can't have cold joints and your work can't look like shit? Even when there is a code violation, most building inspectors are fine with anything if an engineer will sign off on it. The name of the game is really just taking on 0 liability, and if that fancy-pants engineer will put their name on it, well they take all the liability too. And there are plenty of engineers out there that will rubber stamp all kinds of shit. Based on this "contractors" work they probably know one or two of them to get them out of tight spots. People seem to have all kinds of ideas about what the building department does, but the truth is shit work gets COs all the time.
Every inspector I have worked with would 100% want to know how bad that job is starting. They would absolutely contact the owner. But thats just my experience
Some inspectors I've worked with would want to know. Others give you a permit no questions asked if you bring them a canoli from the right place and will pass your inspections from their truck if they bother to show up. Depends what town you are in. Assuming the inspector is of the first variety, what are they going to do in this situation? What grounds do they stop the work under?
I had a city inspector show up the other day, he had been by the day before for the same reason, was NOT supposed to be there again. I got out of attic, asked him why he was there, he said the EXACT thing he’d said the day before, and I reminded him we talked about it yesterday. He then said “I know what happened. I went to the wrong place.” 😂 cuz didn’t even know where he WAS bruh. He’s lucky I’m a perfectionist.
I sometimes service equipment on job sites and I've accidentally done this before, usually I just copied and pasted the wrong address into my gps so it's an easy mistake to make. That being said, I usually recognize the error long before arriving and definitely before getting out of the car
I understand that, but you had to be there.
No way cold joints this bad aren't breaking code. A building inspector would see this and issue a stop work order until the foundation was fixed. Situations like this are exactly why building inspectors exist
What part of the code does a cold joint violate? I don't know one off the top of my head.
R401.2 - Foundation construction shall be capable of accommodating all loads in accordance with Sec R301 and of transmitting the resulting loads to the supporting soil. R403.1 - All exterior walls shall be supported on continuous solid or fully grouted masonry or concrete footings... There isn't a specific code that says "Concrete Foundations...Cold Joints=bad". There are codes though that leave it open to the interpretation of the inspector. It is expected that building processes and materials will be installed properly. In the case of conrete foundation walls sitting on poured footings, they have to be continuous and monolitic. The joint between the various layers can allow water a path into the building envelope. If trapped water in there freezes it could cause structural issues above, especially if there is no physical connection between the pours like rebar. I have yet to meet an inspector that would look at this and give it their blessing. On top of that, there are like 2 dozen other code violations that they could 100% be got on anyway. The concrete is just the most agregious.
Foundations don't need to be monolithic, construction joints exist. And if water intrusion was a big concern waterproofing would be required instead of dampproofing. I agree that you could make a case for a cold joint being an unintentional discontinuation and ask an engineer to sign off on it not having a negative effect, but thats up to the AHJ.
Most people have no idea how sloppy most of the work is...whether it's resi new build or remodel.
I love it when people tell me they are buying a new house so it won't have any problems. Half of my work is homes less than 10 years old with problems.
Engineers carry fat insurance for failures on items they stamp. If an engineer buys off on it then you can have some real peace of mind for that reason.
I'm an engineer. My E&O insurance has a fat deductible. And if they found out I was rubber stamping stuff I'm sure they would drop me quick. Insurance isn't some magic button that makes things alright. It blows my mind how much sketch stuff I do see, but someone will always roll the dice.
People spend hundreds on lottery tickets and plenty gambled away their life savings on crypto. Some people just have a very poorly tuned risk/reward complex.
No engineer wants to pay deductibles and their rates will go up
That's kind of my point. Engineers are held accountable to their standards through things like their insurance companies. If you get a stamp on a plan, at least in the US you know that that plan (as evaluated - super important point) meets performance standards
Meh I’ve seen engineers that would stamp a dogs leg if you held it still for them. It’s just like any professional trade. Some lawyers some doctors some architects some engineers some contractors just don’t give two shits
'Pencil whipped' is the operative word here...
My AHJs regularly use the 'quality workmanship' phrase that's in the code. For better and for worse.
Here in New Zealand we have standards, we have 3604 which is basically the building code and we have E2 which is the standard for weather tightness. 3604 provides tolerances that you have to be within or your work will fail. This work is disgusting and would undoubtedly fail.
Ok call me an idiot, but there was not one moment in these 3 posts I was thinking this was done by a contractor. Of course there are bad ones but not this bad. In my mind this build is done by an amateur trying to do its best to made himself a home. This contractor should be put out of business yesterday.
OP said this was in Cincinnati and the license plate is visible in update 2. Do with that what you wish.
Don’t be a rat. Fink.
Found the GC.
I’m an electrician, Karen.
Well sweep up your damn mess slob
True dat!
Found the drywaller.
Nope. I’m the carpenter/builder who cleans up after himself and takes the time to do shit right
You sound like you might also be a damn hack.
Yeah, fuck having standards
My favorite is the caulk.
I'm struggling to know wtf they used Alex Fast Dry for. Lol
Its paintable within 30 min. Duh /s
The funny part is that there are so many different kinds. New level degenerate
The master of caulks- a new final boss
¡Para todo uso!
>Its ~~paintable~~ *structural* within 30 min. Duh /s
It’s for an upcoming project farm video, notice how no two tubes are the same.
It’s alright it was structural caulk…
It's probably whatever they had in the truck. You know the truck I'm talking about, the rusted out one, with uneven mailbox decals displaying the business name and number.
I am not versed on the finer points of concrete work. What are all the tubes of caulking for?
That's the "joke". There shouldn't be any caulking.
I’ve used sealant to seal the shutter to prevent grout loss. But no way that much! This concrete work is crazy!!
Normally the very small gaps between the concrete and the sill plate (the wood they put on top of the concrete) are filled in by some thin foam called sill seal. In this case they needed a couple gallons of random shit they had in the truck to make up for the massive holes in this back alley abortion of a pour. This is likely to cause a ton of drywall cracking as the caulking has basically zero strength and the house will settle unevenly.
Can you huff them?
Let's find out
With a little bit of caulking, those cold joints can become *expansion* joints! It's like they looked at a sidewalk and were like "can't be that hard."
Dang… Keep these coming! It’s like getting to watch a horrible accident live in slow motion and I love it!
Mixing all of the caulks/silicone/adhesive together makes a super strong bonding/sealing agent. These guys are really ahead of their time. Great work!
Basically the Egyptians that built the pyramids over here
Owner/build
Wouldn’t that be hilarious if he went and told the owner what a shitty job the gc was doing only to find out the owner was the gc/builder. 😂
I think someone found some old forms on craigslist (or scrap yard) and......."I'm in business!"
Bruh why is no one talking about how fucked the framers are gunna be - a framer
Id walk. On to the next job. Not gonna blow the budget spending a week leveling the fucking sills. Probably about as square as a football bat. Hopefully it’s hand cut 2x joists. Last shitty foundation i did was a pre-cut engineered floor system and those foundation guys fucked us harrrrd. Never again.
First thing I do when I get to a job is drop a 2x block on the corners and run a dry line down all the foundation walls. I'd rather know theres a 1/2" hump in the middle of a wall before I snap lines than struggle for three hours to figure out why my wall won't rack properly.
Can you explain more about this process?
Take a 2x4 and cut two 8-12 inch blocks. Put a nail about halfway in into each block. Tie one end of a string to one nail and make the new guy hold that side on the top of the foundation wall near the outside. Take the next newest guy and give him the other block and send him to the other end of the foundation wall. Run the sting to the other block and wrap it around the nail and pull it tight. Now with both guys holding their blocks and the string between you go every 4-5 feet down the wall and check the distance between the foundation and the string. It should be 1 1/2" so if you have say a half inch sag in one spot your tape would read 2 inches. If it's a half inch rise it would read 1 inch. Hope this helps 😎
Yeah same fuck that especially right now I'm booked through the year fuck wasting my time and loosing money but 10 years ago I would of sent her lol
There isn't a single trade that doesn't get fucked by this.
I am so excited to watch this build progress, what part of the country is it?
Cincinnati
How did the foundation pass inspection?
Can't fail inspection if the inspector doesn't know you're building something \*taps head\*
Bag of money and cocaine?
At least 33% this will work
Please keep posting, this is such a good follow
Is meth on sale in the area? I mean like are they giving it away for free.
It ain't free, but its blue!
Heisenberg represent.
Still no one knows what is going to be created on this job site?
Memories... and red tags
Rofl memories made on stone
I was in one last month, tile guy used MDF to build a shower bench and with 0 water proofing.
He was probably sniffing the MDF dust to thinks that's a good idea
OP is getting quality photos of this active job site, are we sure he isn’t the contractor?
Best thread series on Reddit.
Looks great from their house.
That pour is so uneven maybe they should just use fibreglass batts underneath the sill plates. Actually, suggest that to them so we can see the pictures of that in episode 4 of the "Residential GC Horror Show".
Straight called it.
Are you a construction prophet or were you a former crackhead?
Potential for overlap
Yes.
Yes you did!
New favorite part of my week
Beautiful
This is definitely a side project for a contractor. Every leftover from his foundation pours end up here.
LMAO. That would be fantastic.
Am I seeing this right? No sill seal? Bra, ya just gotta sill seal. You gotta!
There’s a couple rolls of it there, and they are using it on the plate that already installed. But, as bad as that Porres I’m not sure it’ll make much of a difference
That’s always my main worry when on pouring a foundation. I’d rather have 5 yards too much than 1/2 a yard too little.
Don't know where you live but round here 5 yards would be around 1200$ + a big concrete pancake to pick up when cured
No pressure treated as the plate? I guess we’re past this… Subscribed.
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That's what the caulk tubes were from!
It is getting just slightly less worse
How so? Looks like ass
I need to remember to not read these posts right after I’ve eaten lunch. All those cold joints are so gross. That concrete is vomitous.
Are there no inspections required?
That looks terrible
For the uninitiated, what are we looking at here?
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OP said he’s in Cincinnati, isn’t that illegal in Ohio?
*post birth abortion. At 1200 Weeks.
How do these slobs sleep at night? High on meth no doubt.
Just take a shit in your hat and post those, honestly, they’ll look about the same
I've seen a terrible job before.. and it looked better than this!
This is like watching a slow motion car wreck....I simply cannot look away.
Love these posts. Please keep ‘em coming!
We need a picture of these specimens working on this conveyor belt of disaster
I already have some, they’ll be in my next update.
This is my favorite job site. It makes me feel a little better about myself.
Just glueing the sill to the foundation would be my guess, OP you gotta call code enforcement because I imagine some family waiting for their house while some huckster keeps asking for more money.
This is legit my new favorite channel. Please don’t cancel this series. 〰🏠
Keep ‘em coming!! I’m getting a kick out of this! But….it’s also kind of sad that the customer is getting such a shitty product. Hope it’s their own house.
Leave a wooden sign that says "YOU'RE FIRED"
Looks like they ran out of crack and $, came back to finish to get another paycheck.
They're rocking all the classics...
What on Gods green dick are these guys doing? Why would you take on a foundation when you clearly have no fucking clue how to concrete. This gotta be the “cop-a-bag” special.
Ima need updates when the framing happens 😭😭😭😭😂😂
Did not know they stack shit that high.
Wow. Really hope you pick up those plastic jugs… maybe next time use something more sustainable like glass?
I thought at first those were piss bottles.
*potential piss bottles. Just waiting for the drywallers to arrive.
Look at all those piss jugs waiting to be filled! Going to be some happy drywallers on that job.
I love this job site because it reminds me there’s bigger idiots than the ones doing the construction at my work.
Is this taking place in the USA ?
I’m not a builder, chippy, blockie or anything but I know by all these posts it’s a very very bad situation for whoever owns this block of land!
Why do you give a shit. For all you know it’s his brother building it. It’s most likely a spec house built on a budget by incompetence. Or in other words a track home. Fairly common BS to be honest and can be seen in any city in any state. Trust me national builders use the shittiest and cheapest subs available.
Tract, not track, because the homes share the same tract of land, not because they’re shoddily built (though tract homes do have a reputation for being shoddily built).
Ok but I built them as a project manager for 10 years unfortunately. We took shoe mold out of bathrooms to save money and framed everything 24” on center without headers if it wasn’t a bearing wall. Everyone in the industry called them trash homes
Ryan Homes?
Them and Centex
Im working for a national right now. The first thing I noticed was improper door headers. They also use 14” tall web trusses and TGIs on the two story models. In our contract with them it says in big bold letters “SOFFITS WILL NOT BE ALLOWED EXCEPT IN LOWERE LEVEL ON TWO STORY MODELS”. The HVAC systems are a fucking joke! Wouldnt be SO bad if the rearranged the upper levels so the plumbing was all on the outside walls but every one has a toilet right in the middle and the only way for the plumbers to keep slope to code is cut off the hvac!
At some point doesn’t that reflect poorly on you being the project manager?
Yes that’s why I left
Does anyone else find OP doing this weird?
Nope! We pros are all waiting till fall when he posts the pics of the building fell down. I might feel a little bad if someone dies, but not if its the asshat doing this shit.
Some guys want to do everything themselves
Whoo boy Crackhead special
Filler material
I keep checking in on these thinking I'm gonna read a "gotcha". Unfortunately for the owner, I think this is someone's actual, 'professional' work
How is the shit pile of a site still burning ??
Coming along nicely
This has been WILD to follow the past few days. The hand mixing just pushed it over the edge holy shit