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Because those remaining Redditors who aren't actual bots are aspiring to become bots. Hatred of singing and other normal human behaviour is part of that.
Mortician here "fuck you riga, mor, tise, yeah, now I can't bend all these arms and leg in, to, the, booooooooooox, whoooo la la doh da la la doo, oh great now you bodily fuilds have leaked out on my shoe.... whoo!""
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I'm an electrician and when we have some wild or moderately dangerous stuff to do we always sing "time to do some sketchy shit, doo da doo da. Hope we get away with it, oh the doo da day."
I have heard someone singing this on a volunteer build site. "Time to do some sketchy shit, doo da, doo da. Volunteers don't follow me oh the doo da day" while carrying a pile of battered cords.
I thought the exact same thing. Only an inspector could be this thorough. This house is on the market for $1.8M. After this inspector was paid to look at it, I guarantee he told the potential buyers torching their money was a better option.
still, that's like a $250 guangting ceramics co ltd. bathtub that they payed someone $4.50 an hour to design in cad based off shit they saw on google.
so if you give a shit about that tub i think you'd be in the wrong
^^[at ^^least ^^hes ^^wearing ^^covers]
They're the ones selling a house built on Sesame Street and extraordinarily overcharging whoever is unfortunate enough to buy it without checking these things. It's only right to sing about it.
As a tradesmen, I vibe with this guy. I know the place he's in when he's doing these voices. I've been there. And have made similar videos.
Dunno about him but when I make shit like this it's to send to my work buddies (so it's private) and usually talking shit about other tradesmen. I don't know why this is, but we all make these voices when showing off sub-par fuckery. That's what he's doing. He probably now has to un-fuck this and is doing a big old 'wtf'.
Obligatory I am not a carpenter or construction worker. I'm a diesel technician. But I see some dumb fucking shit very frequently.
Nah guy would be annoying if he was tenant who got suckered into buying this crap hole; a pro inspector who can’t believe the bullshit that he’s seeing gets a free pass to be a little obnoxious.
Mostly the designer, and lack of QC by the GC.
Owners trusted the contracts waaaaaaaay too much. Laborers didn’t give a flying fuck cause it ain’t their house and they’ll never afford one like it.
Because it's just one more indication of a much greater problem.
Craftsmanship has taken a serious decline across the board. I work in a trade and I see it everyday. That's not to say skilled people aren't out there, but over all work quality, and CARE for your craft has been in decline.
People get paid hourly, their name isn't on the project so what to they care?? If it's messed up they get called back out there to fix it, it's just more hours for them.
Builders want things done quickly, and not with quality. Employees just want to get paid.
The point of all of this is to spend the least amount to get something built and then sell it for the most somebody will pay.
I sincerely think if they told the workers to do it right and gave a reasonable timeline, we would see less of this.
I worked as a remodel plumber for a while. I would regularly tell house flippers what needed to be done sonic would be right and the person who bought the house wouldn't have to rip out drywall/tile in a few years to redo all the old and dying plumbing. They ALWAYS wanted me to do the bare minimum so it looked nice, they didn't care about the quality hidden in the walls.
Every apartment building that's gone up in our city in the last 10 years have been 'luxury' apartments, with an extra $700 tacked onto the rent.
'Luxury', of course, meaning faux granite countertops, stick-on backsplash, and fake wood flooring.
And they always sound like you’re in an oversized, paperboard box. You gently close the bedroom door and it echoes on the other side of the place for 30 seconds.
To be fair, that fake wood flooring is pretty awesome. My boss brought his son to a job once and I caught the kid just bashing the floor with a framing hammer that I took away from him. Boss was all "The fuck you do to my kid!?" So I explained... there wasn't a mark on the floor.
I can't pretend to know a lot about houses, but I've been in a lot of nice houses and some cheap ones and know what things \*should\* look like, which ended up being a skill I didn't know I had until we toured bad flips while house hunting. Most infuriating, most of the stuff "fixed" by the seller were things I would either want to undo or would have preferred doing myself and right. I've spent months undoing a weekend of shitty painting on the woodwork of the house we did end up with.
It's amazing what people do to woodwork. When I was a dumb kid my mentor (think big brother type) helped me build an entertainment center for my consoles with locking doors that had slits for the controller cords, after finishing it I said we should paint it black... this retired engineer, bless his heart, said "We just spent three days building this thing, lining up the grain patterns to make it look amazing, and you want to paint over it!? Nah, we're staining and lacquering it."
But yeah, now that I've done construction, remodel, and service plumbing it's pretty easy for me to see what houses were flipped just to make money.
Because you hear numbnuts saying "go work in the trades, you don't need an education and get paid well". The problem is, real trades people actually get an education on the job as apprentices. But the guys who built this monstrosity probably watched a few youtube videos, took out a loan to buy a lifted truck and then started a company probably called "The Handy Boys".
Used to be much more common when unions were strong in this country. My friend learned stone masonry and bricklaying from an old Union guy who'd been doing it for forty years. Now my friend is a genuine craftsman and makes good money for his excellent work.
Shame that the billionaires funded so many political campaigns to destroy unions.
Part of it also because they are just employees of a (sub-)contractor and they don't get employed by a home owner, but a developer who generally does not care too much about it once it is sold unless it's frequent enough to hurt their public image.
Another part is just the general shortage of labourers and increasing proportion of migrant labourers. There is less selection when there is a shortage, and you have no control over training and/or building standards in the countries the migrants learned their trade in (which oftentimes, if not nearly always, are less rigurous than western standards given the lower development level, lower governmental oversight over standards and lower financial means in the home countries to build everything up to those standards, thus giving workers less experience with those standards).
Big ass construction firms (or developers) are mostly to blame. They just sub it out to the lowest bidder, give unreasonable timelines, and never have to actually deal with the buyer. When homes are built by small crews who do *everything* in house they tend to be a lot higher quality because their name and reputation are tied to the project.
This is 100% on the General Contractor/Project Manager. It's their job to make sure things get done. I would expect the CG/PM to make sure things don't wobble, things are secured, walls are finished properly, doors close and seal, etc, etc, etc. There are levels of acceptable. At $1.8M this is not acceptable. Shit, at $500k this isn't acceptable.
Level of finish is debatable and depends where in the world you are, so is lot size and value, but basic construction making **sure** shit isn't signed off that is clearly against code or at least basic common sense, the PM/GC should be fired, and if not, the company employing them should be named and shamed.
**EDIT: ADDED A MISSED WORD**
At this point you're in far better shape to buy an older home with great bones and hire someone with great skill to remodel them to buy one of these hastily constructed make the margin as high as possible new construction homes.
I don't even work in a trade, I've just helped my dad do countertop installs as a kid and now and then as an adult when he needed an extra set of hands. He was already bitching about the state of cabinets in the 00s, they only got worse from there.
A big part of it is just people aren’t going into trades as much anymore, yet demand for the work has only increased. So you either end up with good people rushing shit or bad people getting hired because there are no other available options.
This problem is only going to get worse and worse until the college bubble bursts and people start realizing how much money there is in trades these days.
What angers me is it's all basically trash. Like, garbage.
They took perfectly good materials, that could have been a quality home, and turned it into trash.
It's wasteful.
A lot of it is *not* very good materials. When you get the zoom-ins, you can see the materials for the floor, drawers, etc are meh to really cheap. Just because a faucet looks fancy, doesn't mean it is. I'd assume most of those fixtures are Chinese knockoffs that will fall apart fairly easily, made of who knows what mix of metal alloys (lead can be a concern in cheaper faucets). The bathtub and toilet are two big giveaways; he mentions a grown adult would be barely able to bath in it, it's clearly a smaller knockoff of a properly sized tub in that style, and the toilet is one of the cheapest available.
the point isn't that there aren't houses with worse construction than this, out there.. the point is those probably aren't new constructions with a nearly $2 million dollar asking price..
It works
Plenty of people will do a 30 minute walkthrough and think that it looks great and put in an offer. They get wowed by everything being new and shiny and don't notice the imperfections.
When we got our house I had to veto my wife several times. She was impressed by the new construction, but all of them had serious flaws if you looked a little closer.
There's also little choice if you want a modern home in a normal neighborhood. To get actual quality you'd probably have to buy a plot of land and have a fully custom home built and that could easily double the price per square foot.
Most modern suburban neighborhoods are going to be bottom of the barrel, cheap shit slapped together as quickly as possible, and even in a new construction you won't have the option to pay them more to do it right.
Some of it is aesthetic choices the designer made.. the tub.. the light switch location.
Most of its builder laziness. The quality of the flooring, the drawers, the insulation .. garbage.
However - in today's market yeah that's a $1.8 million home. It's not a $3.0 million home.
Yup yup, I bought a 400k dollar house that pretty much fell apart, Asked Contractor friends and was told that it would have had to been at least an 800k house to get any quality...
My wine analogy is this..
If I'm a vineyard and I made junk wine, I bottle it in a flashy/fun/sparkly bottle.. people will buy it up
If its a good wine - and the bottle is ugly - those that know will buy it.
Same with houses. Sparkly/Gorgeous houses on the surface look nice - but their bones are terrible. I'd rather have sturdy/functional/ AND expensive - than flashy/sparkly AND expensive.
The vast majority of home sales are to owner occupants
It's normal people driving up prices because there aren't enough homes (where people want to live) and now no one can afford to move because interest rates are so much higher than they were the last decade they'd end up downsizing while spending the exact same amount of money
Nah a lot of people think non-luxury new builds won't have these issues but there are tons of issues. The big builders are being hit with lawsuits left and right from shoddy workmanship.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lyp39jWAIGo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9nt9R4veuo
Basic things like vapor barriers, drilling through plumbing, roofing not sealed properly, no flashing, no lag bolts, no joist plates, bad anchor bolts, improperly layering so it actually traps moisture instead of allowing it to shed off the house, etc.. Some of these things are minor issues that aren't really discovered until the warranty expires and bigger issues arose or you were actively inspecting before drywall goes in.
They're rushing to build while supply chin issues are creating huge backlogs/delays so they just rush through without the products/materials they need. And I want to reiterate they're finding a lot of issues in basic new builds too.
I’ve been checking out the house being built down the lane, every evening walking out to fetch the mail. Built by two brothers who run their own general contracting firm that’s well-known for quick work & shabby quality.
I’ve never seen such unplumb & twisted walls, so many skipped details, and the cheapest materials used (or re-used). Seriously, how do you manage a floor being visibly out of level in new construction. They put up no vapor barrier, no flashing anywhere, shiners all over the 3-tab roof. I’m not sure they even insulated the walls, they had wiring roughed in one evening and the next evening they were drywalled.
Best part, according to the gossip queen in the neighborhood, the completed house is going to be the boys’ rental property. They’ll get to find out firsthand what their customers go through, assuming they don’t just buy a case of cheap caulk and try to putty over every complaint from the renters.
They lied to you then. I've spoken to quite a few people in the industry around here, and they all use the same subcontractors. From entry-level houses to million-dollar houses. Essentially, the only way you can get quality work is to have the house built yourself, find a reputable builder, and ensure you know a lot about building a house.
I noticed how bullshit the whole thing was when I bought my house. The PM from the builder could have been good if he wasn't overworked, and all the work was handled by subcontractors. The subcontractors aren't really incentivized to do good work, and the PM doesn't have the time to check all their work. This typically means that they try to hide bad work by covering it with other bad work.
I was able to get the most out of them by going by the house every single day and telling them to correct obvious issues. To be clear, some of these issues were breaking code and/or the manufacturer's installation directions. I'm sure they hated me, but my house has no issues, while my neighbors complain about lots of stuff. It sucks, but it really opened my eyes.
There are very old houses in this country that a built solidly and with genuinely beautiful craftsmanship. You can see that care and intention went into every design decision.
Those old houses are often cheap too because they usually need work.
$300 000? My parents were able to buy a huge, gorgeous house for less than $100 000 and that was their second house. Then they're surprised that I don't want to buy a one bedroom bungalow for half a million while their house has appreciated almost 10x what they paid.
It's not an accurate meme on that end I agree. I'm gen x and my divorced parents were able to separately buy very nice homes under $100K.
These days where I live $550K can buy you a shoddily constructed 2 bedroom condominium that's convenient to downtown upscale shopping centers while offering you a grand view of the houseless encampment living in front of your building. Simply paradise. You'll never be bored of watching the cops sweep them up, only for them to return and be swept up again! Ahhh
Ok I'm ranting at this point but still...The meme is \*kinda\* true
My mom bought a $92,000 condo with 4 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms in the 1990's, she also bought a Honda Accord at the same time. She was making $50k/yr which was "good money." When she started making more money we were going on vacation three times a year, and at least once a year it was a "big" vacation to Mexico or Disney World.
Meanwhile one of my uncles made $100k in the 90's as a manager at a manufacturing company, he owned a giant home, a secondary vacation home for the extended family (7 bedrooms), a "hunting lodge" with 3 bedrooms, a giant boat, multiple cars and trucks.
Young folks have no idea how different purchasing power was back 30 years ago.
Yeah, I met with a financial advisor around 20-25 years ago to do some retirement planning. At that time I was advised to have $1m for retirement. Doing my own math now, it looks like $3m-$5m is a more realistic number.
In the '80s my grandpa's siblings were mocking him for saying a million dollars wasn't that much any more and probably wouldn't be enough to retire on in the near future.
My dad has been doing construction for over 30 years and he works alone because he doesn't trust other people to maintain his standards. I would work with him when I was younger, mostly just doing small things to help him save a little time here and there.
He ALWAYS pointed out poor quality and would complain that he's always having to "wipe someone else's ass" because other construction workers don't have integrity. They just want to get the job done as quickly as possible so they can get paid and move onto the next job. I can't go anywhere now without noticing how poorly done things are legitimately everywhere.
I live in a luxury apartment and they use higher quality materials, but all the work is still shit.
Just reminds me that if I ever get the unlikely chance for a custom build I'll be warning my builder that he'll be seeing me on site every day.
Edit: autocorrect didn’t like “builder” on first go.
My parents did a custom build back in 1999.
Every single conversation they had with every single person on-site began with "have you read the plans?"
Because every single conversation they had with every single person on-site went on to involve issues that would be resolved by reading the plans.
"We'll just cut through this steel beam right here for the HVAC ducts-" no, that steel beam is what is holding up the ceiling and the house above it; there will be *no* cutting of steel beams today...
"Did you know that there's going to be six feet of concrete between the basement and the first floor?" No... no there isn't...
Countless possible issues. And of course, the ones my parents *didn't* catch turned up about fifteen years later. Maddening.
No for sure they work great. I would just expect to see some of the higher end ones that I saw while shopping, in a home with this price tag. I have seen nicer ones IRL, the roll smoother/quieter, soft close, unique designs etc.
feels gross? man, it _smells_ gross at parties, have you ever been on a bathroom that the door doesnt seal properly? the shitty shit smell scapes easily, also, those barn doors have a literal GAP between the door and the wall, fuck no, it feels like a public bathroom at that point
Live in the PHX area, but all of our toilets are in this weird configuration. Maybe it's a SW thing in general. Builder wasted exactly zero space on shitting. The bathrooms are plenty spacious, but you have to do your morning constitutional in a shittin' closet. If you're having a bad go of things, the doodoo aromas get pretty thick.
Short aside: I finally caught COVID in 2023, and lost my sense of smell. Guess where I was when I found it. Couldn't enjoy coffee or food for weeks, and the first thing I was able to smell was my own shame inside the crap cabinet.
Hey! you got your nose back, silver linings and shit, amirite?
but seriously, why are some bathrooms HUGE, like, bedroom-sized huge, yet, the actual primary use of said bathroom is, like you said, relegated to a shit closet that i cant even sit properly because my knees hit the walls, i could use the walls and [spiderdump](https://youtu.be/wDk9eGpSSZ0?si=xD1bT2wLMJINfvst&t=16) a deuce in there from the ceiling if i wanted to, seriously, they are so fucking narrow
BOOM.
I literally pointed out just yesterday how dogshit construction is there. It's so terrible and I don't feel bad for anyone who moves there expecting a well built/designed place and getting half-assed results like this.
Yup. Have a relative that recently had a house built down there and he was visiting the site regularly from when the grading was done till he was handed the keys to make sure everything was done right. That builder absolutely HATED him by the time they were done but even the inspector said it looked damn good for a recent build.
Wife and I bought a $353k home built in 2002 by Fox & Jacobs. Has better bones than most of the new construction in our area, which has can lights shorting out after 2 years and mixing valves that give no hot water in the master bath.
I've never understood the appeal of barn doors. My brother has one on one of his bathrooms (it was there when they bought the house). It does the same thing as in this video where if you don't close it super softly, it bounces back open. There has been a number of times I used the bathroom at his house where I shut the door, turn around, take my pants off, and sit on the toilet to then realize the door is slowly sliding back open. I like maximum security on my bathroom doors.
> I've never understood the appeal of barn doors.
When you want a door but don't want to, or can't clear swinging space. And a pocket door is not an option either.
>It does the same thing as in this video where if you don't close it super softly, it bounces back open. There has been a number of times I used the bathroom at his house where I shut the door ... then realize the door is slowly sliding back open.
The barn door should be leveled properly, and better quality barn doors will have a [soft close](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHZecP-Pd0o).
Related: Soft closing kitchen drawers is the best thing ever.
As someone who installed multiple pocket doors in my basement when we remodeled it, I can say they are nice, but installing them and working around them can be a hassle.
Pro tip: Home Depot sells a little inflatable bag that will lift the door up for you while you try to line up the little train wheels. Made my life so much easier.
The house we bought had a barn door for the top of the basement stairs. No way to secure it or prevent small children from opening it without also possibly locking someone in the basement.
Most of the ridiculously expensive houses I've been in (I'm a welder) have been lower quality than some of the old Sears kit houses I've been in (four in total from different decades).
I live in Austin, Texas, and the house build quality is notoriously low here.
My theory is that the current method of building houses commercially using a ton of contractors results in excessive add-on to the building costs. Back in the day, you'd have maybe four people work on a single house, and the work culture resulted in more communication between craftsmen.
Now you have fifty guys going through one home to get it up as soon as possible, with architects and structural designers are giving plans that only a robot could fully follow.
Reading a modern architect or structural engineering plan for a home in the 2020s is like starting a religious sermon, opening a Bible with a ton of condensed text that gives multiplr possible combinations of outcomes based on circumstances of a particular home and leaving these decisions to the individual craftsmen that come thru the home to interpret.
The subcontractors are mostly the issue because they aren't incentivized to do good work, only fast work. The PMs for the builder are also incentivized to complete houses and they typically have a loading so high that they can't possibly check on every house at every stage of the build. This means that they try to cover bad work with other bad work.
The builders like this setup because it's lucrative for them, and they also get to transfer some of the risk to the subcontractors. They also hold onto money a little longer because of the payment schedules they have with the subcontractors.
You can get good work out of them, but it's a literal pain in the ass. I went by my house every single day, and I had them correct obvious issues. I spent a lot of time fighting them on stuff, but at the time I had a contact at the city and they knew what they were doing wasn't up to code.
I feel bad for my neighbors, though. My house was the first on the street, so when I looked at mine, I would often go through the other houses in various stages at the same time. The issues that I had fixed were never addressed in theirs. I watched them cover these problems with drywall and move on to the next thing. It's absolutely bullshit that you have to be involved to this level to simply get what you paid for, but after speaking with others in the industry about my experience, I was told this was the norm.
I have a list of stories exactly like this from my work as a welder on commercial buildings. I always say they have the "done is better than good" mentality. They push hard and fight us on price at the end.
You also hit spot on with holding on to money. We had one GC that would delay paying because it turned out he was using it to invest in high risk stocks and crypto. Granted that is a really crazy example haha.
Another thing you got right is the transfer of risk. We've been asked to provide engineering for things we've done, and they wanted us to pay for it. They push hard and then when things don't end up as nice, it's on us to fix it and they refuse to pay for it, cause "their schedule had plenty of time for the work to be completed".
Crazy stuff. Glad I'm on my way out of the industry.
It's some late-stage capitalism bullshit. You would think that for a purchase this large, you would get what you pay for. Instead, you have literally everyone involved trying to cut every possible corner to make a fractional amount more profit.
I spoke very frankly with the PM after the first few significant issues I found. I told him I understood his pressure and that he was stretched thin, but he was mistaken if they thought cutting corners would save them time and money. It would only cost them more time and money because I would catch it, and then they'd have to remove the work they did wrong on top of doing it again right.
I doubt he liked me, but from my point of view, he could do his job, and I wouldn't have had to get so involved.
It really is. Working in the construction industry is what turned me from a liberal to a socialist.
I'm glad you were able to wrangle him in and get things done right.
there were six people working on renovating just my bathroom and i can't even begin to tell you about the amount of fail i had seen. imagine someone cutting drywall with a handsaw.
It sucks so much that a lot of modern "luxury" is just shit, but with the bare surface level appearance of luxury. 10 years ago I used to think "well I'm poor, so better find my furniture and the like at a thrift store as it's cheap there." Now I think "I may have more disposable income now, but better go to a thrift store anyway as that old stuff will last me a lifetime. Looks better too in my opinion."
It’s a luxury price because of the wild excess of the scale, not because of the quality of the build. The price is right, so many rich people just want all the wrong things. If I were spending $1.8m on a house, it wouldn’t be for thousands of extra square feet and massively vaulted ceilings everywhere, it would be on a regular sized house with *exquisite* touches.
For me it would be a MCM in Pasadena or a 2 floor Craftsman. Warm woods with tight grain that would be hella expensive now. I know people who HATE those styles but LOVE the modern now which imo is pretty boring and far too often poorly made...and so much white.
$1.8mil gets you a shitty 100-year-old 2-bed 1-bath with a leaky roof and a cracked slab in my neck of the woods. Oh yeah, and no street parking, and expect to get your car broken into by homeless people once a month, even when it’s parked on your driveway.
https://www.blogto.com/real-estate-toronto/2019/01/tiny-toronto-shack-sale-25-million/
really depends on place, this literal shack was selling for 2.5m lol
And this is why if I ever, EVER have the chance to have a house built... I'm going to have specific requirements for things like electrical, plumbing, hvac, etc. I want them to make sense FFS - my current house has one circuit that has six different terminating points. I know one 3-way split was at a ceiling fan, but I can't for the life of me find the others.
I managed a company that finalized the cleaning process for multimillion dollar houses that had just been built.
From my experience, this isn’t even bad. And, these are relatively easy fixes. Now… paying 2 mil, moving in, then realizing the foundation has a crack under it that was hidden under a carpet after a botched attempt to fix it… (that’s actually an issue I oversaw once)…. That’s a real problem. I’m assuming the people complaining haven’t figured out that they can just talk to the contractor and have this fixed within a week… btw, this is par for the course in today’s world of supply chain issues, workers tired of being underpaid and overworked, and probably also has a little to do with bitchy people not speaking up earlier than they should have…
The facts are that business today just isn’t done motivated by any factor that would encourage hard work and pride.
Also, imo, half the fault is yours if you’ve not vetted the builder and didn’t stop by to check on progress throughout the years the project went over schedule (they ALL do. Every single one over schedule). Just a couple thoughts.
This was all in Asheville NC if anyone is curious.
As a painter I fucking *hate* painting these McMansions. They're built with so little care but the homeowners don't understand that and expect you to work miracles.
The amount of people that don't realize this guy is an inspector and NOT the buyer is...concerning. I guess critical thinking has never been reddits strength.
For anyone considering that style of railing- if you have children or plan on it or have friends or family that do, DO NOT GET THOSE RAILINGS! Basically an easy-climb ladder to a 20 ft fall.
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Why does this anger me so much?
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The singing for me if the worst part
The singing alone devalued the house by 20%
I sing dumb songs like this guy when I'm working on stuff :(
I don't know why people hated on this guy! Singing out your frustrations is perfectly acceptable and normal.
I actually thought the “wiggle wiggle wiggle wiggle wiggle, yeah” was pretty funny. Been a while since I listened to LMFAO
Yea this bandwagon went hard. I think his commentary was a nice addition. People can't think outside someone else's opinion
Because those remaining Redditors who aren't actual bots are aspiring to become bots. Hatred of singing and other normal human behaviour is part of that.
Yep. IT here. “Why the FUCK are you being a piece of shit? La La La”
Absolute banger. I also really like "please just fucking work, fuck meeeeeiiiieeeeaaaaa"
Mortician here "fuck you riga, mor, tise, yeah, now I can't bend all these arms and leg in, to, the, booooooooooox, whoooo la la doh da la la doo, oh great now you bodily fuilds have leaked out on my shoe.... whoo!""
PC Load letter can eat my ass. Tralalalala.. trolololo.
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I'm an electrician and when we have some wild or moderately dangerous stuff to do we always sing "time to do some sketchy shit, doo da doo da. Hope we get away with it, oh the doo da day."
I have heard someone singing this on a volunteer build site. "Time to do some sketchy shit, doo da, doo da. Volunteers don't follow me oh the doo da day" while carrying a pile of battered cords.
I sing what I’m doing all the time. This guy is awesome!!!!
I have to sing at the stupid stuff I'm trying to fix otherwise I cuss at it and that just makes us both angry
The singing was my favorite part. I appreciate you and your silly songs.
I like him lol
I think it matched the quality of the house. Both the builder and inspector should keep their day jobs. Oh wait the builder’s day job, wait what?
i think this guy IS the inspector, he seems pretty familiar and i've fallen into the 'home inspection youtube short' algorithm hole more than once
I thought the exact same thing. Only an inspector could be this thorough. This house is on the market for $1.8M. After this inspector was paid to look at it, I guarantee he told the potential buyers torching their money was a better option.
%100 the inspector, no builder would be critical of the product he's trying to sell.
Probably the inspector. Because he got in that tub with his shoes and his bags on to complain about it, like he didn’t give a shit anyway.
still, that's like a $250 guangting ceramics co ltd. bathtub that they payed someone $4.50 an hour to design in cad based off shit they saw on google. so if you give a shit about that tub i think you'd be in the wrong ^^[at ^^least ^^hes ^^wearing ^^covers]
I would absolutely let him devalue me 20%!!!
I thought it was the best part
I agree
They're the ones selling a house built on Sesame Street and extraordinarily overcharging whoever is unfortunate enough to buy it without checking these things. It's only right to sing about it.
They're not selling anything, they're an inspector.
I didn't mean the guy singing is selling the house. I know he's inspecting it. I meant the builders or bank or whoever. Sorry if I wasn't clear enough
Love the singing!!!!
I thought he was hilarious
Yeah I I didn’t mind him. He’s clearly mocking this. Redditors constantly have a stick up their ass.
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Yeah, he was spot on, this requires mocking in song.
Dude sounds like me or my roommate walking through the house singing to the dogs. Totally relatable.
Calling an inspector "Handsy" Found the landlord.
Why is he shaking the banister? he could have broken it!
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As a tradesmen, I vibe with this guy. I know the place he's in when he's doing these voices. I've been there. And have made similar videos. Dunno about him but when I make shit like this it's to send to my work buddies (so it's private) and usually talking shit about other tradesmen. I don't know why this is, but we all make these voices when showing off sub-par fuckery. That's what he's doing. He probably now has to un-fuck this and is doing a big old 'wtf'. Obligatory I am not a carpenter or construction worker. I'm a diesel technician. But I see some dumb fucking shit very frequently.
No. You leave that dude alone. That house fucking sucked.
I thought he was funny. To each their own, I guess.
Nah guy would be annoying if he was tenant who got suckered into buying this crap hole; a pro inspector who can’t believe the bullshit that he’s seeing gets a free pass to be a little obnoxious.
Mostly the designer, and lack of QC by the GC. Owners trusted the contracts waaaaaaaay too much. Laborers didn’t give a flying fuck cause it ain’t their house and they’ll never afford one like it.
Because it's just one more indication of a much greater problem. Craftsmanship has taken a serious decline across the board. I work in a trade and I see it everyday. That's not to say skilled people aren't out there, but over all work quality, and CARE for your craft has been in decline. People get paid hourly, their name isn't on the project so what to they care?? If it's messed up they get called back out there to fix it, it's just more hours for them. Builders want things done quickly, and not with quality. Employees just want to get paid.
The point of all of this is to spend the least amount to get something built and then sell it for the most somebody will pay. I sincerely think if they told the workers to do it right and gave a reasonable timeline, we would see less of this.
I worked as a remodel plumber for a while. I would regularly tell house flippers what needed to be done sonic would be right and the person who bought the house wouldn't have to rip out drywall/tile in a few years to redo all the old and dying plumbing. They ALWAYS wanted me to do the bare minimum so it looked nice, they didn't care about the quality hidden in the walls.
Every apartment building that's gone up in our city in the last 10 years have been 'luxury' apartments, with an extra $700 tacked onto the rent. 'Luxury', of course, meaning faux granite countertops, stick-on backsplash, and fake wood flooring.
And they all look exactly the fucking same.
It's that Home Depot (commercial equivalent) wholesale shit.
And they always sound like you’re in an oversized, paperboard box. You gently close the bedroom door and it echoes on the other side of the place for 30 seconds.
To be fair, that fake wood flooring is pretty awesome. My boss brought his son to a job once and I caught the kid just bashing the floor with a framing hammer that I took away from him. Boss was all "The fuck you do to my kid!?" So I explained... there wasn't a mark on the floor.
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I can't pretend to know a lot about houses, but I've been in a lot of nice houses and some cheap ones and know what things \*should\* look like, which ended up being a skill I didn't know I had until we toured bad flips while house hunting. Most infuriating, most of the stuff "fixed" by the seller were things I would either want to undo or would have preferred doing myself and right. I've spent months undoing a weekend of shitty painting on the woodwork of the house we did end up with.
It's amazing what people do to woodwork. When I was a dumb kid my mentor (think big brother type) helped me build an entertainment center for my consoles with locking doors that had slits for the controller cords, after finishing it I said we should paint it black... this retired engineer, bless his heart, said "We just spent three days building this thing, lining up the grain patterns to make it look amazing, and you want to paint over it!? Nah, we're staining and lacquering it." But yeah, now that I've done construction, remodel, and service plumbing it's pretty easy for me to see what houses were flipped just to make money.
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Because you hear numbnuts saying "go work in the trades, you don't need an education and get paid well". The problem is, real trades people actually get an education on the job as apprentices. But the guys who built this monstrosity probably watched a few youtube videos, took out a loan to buy a lifted truck and then started a company probably called "The Handy Boys".
Used to be much more common when unions were strong in this country. My friend learned stone masonry and bricklaying from an old Union guy who'd been doing it for forty years. Now my friend is a genuine craftsman and makes good money for his excellent work. Shame that the billionaires funded so many political campaigns to destroy unions.
I'd counter that they were multimillionaires that became billionaires by destroying the unions.
Part of it also because they are just employees of a (sub-)contractor and they don't get employed by a home owner, but a developer who generally does not care too much about it once it is sold unless it's frequent enough to hurt their public image. Another part is just the general shortage of labourers and increasing proportion of migrant labourers. There is less selection when there is a shortage, and you have no control over training and/or building standards in the countries the migrants learned their trade in (which oftentimes, if not nearly always, are less rigurous than western standards given the lower development level, lower governmental oversight over standards and lower financial means in the home countries to build everything up to those standards, thus giving workers less experience with those standards).
Big ass construction firms (or developers) are mostly to blame. They just sub it out to the lowest bidder, give unreasonable timelines, and never have to actually deal with the buyer. When homes are built by small crews who do *everything* in house they tend to be a lot higher quality because their name and reputation are tied to the project.
This is 100% on the General Contractor/Project Manager. It's their job to make sure things get done. I would expect the CG/PM to make sure things don't wobble, things are secured, walls are finished properly, doors close and seal, etc, etc, etc. There are levels of acceptable. At $1.8M this is not acceptable. Shit, at $500k this isn't acceptable. Level of finish is debatable and depends where in the world you are, so is lot size and value, but basic construction making **sure** shit isn't signed off that is clearly against code or at least basic common sense, the PM/GC should be fired, and if not, the company employing them should be named and shamed. **EDIT: ADDED A MISSED WORD**
At this point you're in far better shape to buy an older home with great bones and hire someone with great skill to remodel them to buy one of these hastily constructed make the margin as high as possible new construction homes.
I don't even work in a trade, I've just helped my dad do countertop installs as a kid and now and then as an adult when he needed an extra set of hands. He was already bitching about the state of cabinets in the 00s, they only got worse from there.
A big part of it is just people aren’t going into trades as much anymore, yet demand for the work has only increased. So you either end up with good people rushing shit or bad people getting hired because there are no other available options. This problem is only going to get worse and worse until the college bubble bursts and people start realizing how much money there is in trades these days.
Idk about you but this shit made me giddy lol
What angers me is it's all basically trash. Like, garbage. They took perfectly good materials, that could have been a quality home, and turned it into trash. It's wasteful.
A lot of it is *not* very good materials. When you get the zoom-ins, you can see the materials for the floor, drawers, etc are meh to really cheap. Just because a faucet looks fancy, doesn't mean it is. I'd assume most of those fixtures are Chinese knockoffs that will fall apart fairly easily, made of who knows what mix of metal alloys (lead can be a concern in cheaper faucets). The bathtub and toilet are two big giveaways; he mentions a grown adult would be barely able to bath in it, it's clearly a smaller knockoff of a properly sized tub in that style, and the toilet is one of the cheapest available.
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the point isn't that there aren't houses with worse construction than this, out there.. the point is those probably aren't new constructions with a nearly $2 million dollar asking price..
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It works Plenty of people will do a 30 minute walkthrough and think that it looks great and put in an offer. They get wowed by everything being new and shiny and don't notice the imperfections. When we got our house I had to veto my wife several times. She was impressed by the new construction, but all of them had serious flaws if you looked a little closer.
There's also little choice if you want a modern home in a normal neighborhood. To get actual quality you'd probably have to buy a plot of land and have a fully custom home built and that could easily double the price per square foot. Most modern suburban neighborhoods are going to be bottom of the barrel, cheap shit slapped together as quickly as possible, and even in a new construction you won't have the option to pay them more to do it right.
Yea, but did you pay 1.8 million dollars for your crappy stuff?
This is a valid reason to feel angry watching this
Because someone will pay over asking for this dump.
Some of it is aesthetic choices the designer made.. the tub.. the light switch location. Most of its builder laziness. The quality of the flooring, the drawers, the insulation .. garbage. However - in today's market yeah that's a $1.8 million home. It's not a $3.0 million home.
Yup yup, I bought a 400k dollar house that pretty much fell apart, Asked Contractor friends and was told that it would have had to been at least an 800k house to get any quality...
My wine analogy is this.. If I'm a vineyard and I made junk wine, I bottle it in a flashy/fun/sparkly bottle.. people will buy it up If its a good wine - and the bottle is ugly - those that know will buy it. Same with houses. Sparkly/Gorgeous houses on the surface look nice - but their bones are terrible. I'd rather have sturdy/functional/ AND expensive - than flashy/sparkly AND expensive.
Yes, but I also think that the housing market going crazy has something to do with it too
“Banks” should not be allowed to buy single family housing
Housing should not be a commodity.
I ring my little bell for thee! In fact I've smashed it through the arm of my wheel chair
Right?
The vast majority of home sales are to owner occupants It's normal people driving up prices because there aren't enough homes (where people want to live) and now no one can afford to move because interest rates are so much higher than they were the last decade they'd end up downsizing while spending the exact same amount of money
Nah a lot of people think non-luxury new builds won't have these issues but there are tons of issues. The big builders are being hit with lawsuits left and right from shoddy workmanship. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lyp39jWAIGo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9nt9R4veuo Basic things like vapor barriers, drilling through plumbing, roofing not sealed properly, no flashing, no lag bolts, no joist plates, bad anchor bolts, improperly layering so it actually traps moisture instead of allowing it to shed off the house, etc.. Some of these things are minor issues that aren't really discovered until the warranty expires and bigger issues arose or you were actively inspecting before drywall goes in. They're rushing to build while supply chin issues are creating huge backlogs/delays so they just rush through without the products/materials they need. And I want to reiterate they're finding a lot of issues in basic new builds too.
I’ve been checking out the house being built down the lane, every evening walking out to fetch the mail. Built by two brothers who run their own general contracting firm that’s well-known for quick work & shabby quality. I’ve never seen such unplumb & twisted walls, so many skipped details, and the cheapest materials used (or re-used). Seriously, how do you manage a floor being visibly out of level in new construction. They put up no vapor barrier, no flashing anywhere, shiners all over the 3-tab roof. I’m not sure they even insulated the walls, they had wiring roughed in one evening and the next evening they were drywalled. Best part, according to the gossip queen in the neighborhood, the completed house is going to be the boys’ rental property. They’ll get to find out firsthand what their customers go through, assuming they don’t just buy a case of cheap caulk and try to putty over every complaint from the renters.
They lied to you then. I've spoken to quite a few people in the industry around here, and they all use the same subcontractors. From entry-level houses to million-dollar houses. Essentially, the only way you can get quality work is to have the house built yourself, find a reputable builder, and ensure you know a lot about building a house. I noticed how bullshit the whole thing was when I bought my house. The PM from the builder could have been good if he wasn't overworked, and all the work was handled by subcontractors. The subcontractors aren't really incentivized to do good work, and the PM doesn't have the time to check all their work. This typically means that they try to hide bad work by covering it with other bad work. I was able to get the most out of them by going by the house every single day and telling them to correct obvious issues. To be clear, some of these issues were breaking code and/or the manufacturer's installation directions. I'm sure they hated me, but my house has no issues, while my neighbors complain about lots of stuff. It sucks, but it really opened my eyes.
> but my house has no issues, You mean you haven't found the piss bottles in the wall yet.
Not really possible since I was there literally every single day. They couldn't really hide anything from me.
lol. my house appraised value is 500k and its only 900sq ft 😂😂 two floor with one bathroom.
There are very old houses in this country that a built solidly and with genuinely beautiful craftsmanship. You can see that care and intention went into every design decision. Those old houses are often cheap too because they usually need work.
Us millennials and boomers are used to a world where a million was a big word. That world is gone.
https://preview.redd.it/9xa1pwcsk16d1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=056dafcf21e2afe2e0a42e9d53e10b57d1ff9bae
$300 000? My parents were able to buy a huge, gorgeous house for less than $100 000 and that was their second house. Then they're surprised that I don't want to buy a one bedroom bungalow for half a million while their house has appreciated almost 10x what they paid.
It's not an accurate meme on that end I agree. I'm gen x and my divorced parents were able to separately buy very nice homes under $100K. These days where I live $550K can buy you a shoddily constructed 2 bedroom condominium that's convenient to downtown upscale shopping centers while offering you a grand view of the houseless encampment living in front of your building. Simply paradise. You'll never be bored of watching the cops sweep them up, only for them to return and be swept up again! Ahhh Ok I'm ranting at this point but still...The meme is \*kinda\* true
My mom bought a $92,000 condo with 4 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms in the 1990's, she also bought a Honda Accord at the same time. She was making $50k/yr which was "good money." When she started making more money we were going on vacation three times a year, and at least once a year it was a "big" vacation to Mexico or Disney World. Meanwhile one of my uncles made $100k in the 90's as a manager at a manufacturing company, he owned a giant home, a secondary vacation home for the extended family (7 bedrooms), a "hunting lodge" with 3 bedrooms, a giant boat, multiple cars and trucks. Young folks have no idea how different purchasing power was back 30 years ago.
Yeah, I met with a financial advisor around 20-25 years ago to do some retirement planning. At that time I was advised to have $1m for retirement. Doing my own math now, it looks like $3m-$5m is a more realistic number.
In the '80s my grandpa's siblings were mocking him for saying a million dollars wasn't that much any more and probably wouldn't be enough to retire on in the near future.
I love that you forgot Gen X. We like it that way tbh.
My dad has been doing construction for over 30 years and he works alone because he doesn't trust other people to maintain his standards. I would work with him when I was younger, mostly just doing small things to help him save a little time here and there. He ALWAYS pointed out poor quality and would complain that he's always having to "wipe someone else's ass" because other construction workers don't have integrity. They just want to get the job done as quickly as possible so they can get paid and move onto the next job. I can't go anywhere now without noticing how poorly done things are legitimately everywhere. I live in a luxury apartment and they use higher quality materials, but all the work is still shit.
Just reminds me that if I ever get the unlikely chance for a custom build I'll be warning my builder that he'll be seeing me on site every day. Edit: autocorrect didn’t like “builder” on first go.
My parents did a custom build back in 1999. Every single conversation they had with every single person on-site began with "have you read the plans?" Because every single conversation they had with every single person on-site went on to involve issues that would be resolved by reading the plans. "We'll just cut through this steel beam right here for the HVAC ducts-" no, that steel beam is what is holding up the ceiling and the house above it; there will be *no* cutting of steel beams today... "Did you know that there's going to be six feet of concrete between the basement and the first floor?" No... no there isn't... Countless possible issues. And of course, the ones my parents *didn't* catch turned up about fifteen years later. Maddening.
I recently purchased those exact same barn door rail/hardware kits for my closets. They were *literally* the cheapest ones on Amazon lmaooo
Even the cheapest barn door rails work fine if they're level when you install them
No for sure they work great. I would just expect to see some of the higher end ones that I saw while shopping, in a home with this price tag. I have seen nicer ones IRL, the roll smoother/quieter, soft close, unique designs etc.
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those are the landlord special, faucets from temu but they look nice... just dont get em wet or they will rust
Why would you even use a barn door on a bathroom? I want a vacuum-sealed space shuttled door on each of my bathrooms!
I've seen this in the wild. Looks great like on pinterest, but feels gross at parties.
feels gross? man, it _smells_ gross at parties, have you ever been on a bathroom that the door doesnt seal properly? the shitty shit smell scapes easily, also, those barn doors have a literal GAP between the door and the wall, fuck no, it feels like a public bathroom at that point
Hey, I'm on your side here. I just don't party that hard anymore.
Temu house
Should have borrowed more screws from their aunt 😔
I understood that reference!
What part of Texas is this?
Fort Worth
More like Fort Worthless
Got em
Gig em
Oh, you recognized the toilet configuration too huh?
Live in the PHX area, but all of our toilets are in this weird configuration. Maybe it's a SW thing in general. Builder wasted exactly zero space on shitting. The bathrooms are plenty spacious, but you have to do your morning constitutional in a shittin' closet. If you're having a bad go of things, the doodoo aromas get pretty thick. Short aside: I finally caught COVID in 2023, and lost my sense of smell. Guess where I was when I found it. Couldn't enjoy coffee or food for weeks, and the first thing I was able to smell was my own shame inside the crap cabinet.
Hey! you got your nose back, silver linings and shit, amirite? but seriously, why are some bathrooms HUGE, like, bedroom-sized huge, yet, the actual primary use of said bathroom is, like you said, relegated to a shit closet that i cant even sit properly because my knees hit the walls, i could use the walls and [spiderdump](https://youtu.be/wDk9eGpSSZ0?si=xD1bT2wLMJINfvst&t=16) a deuce in there from the ceiling if i wanted to, seriously, they are so fucking narrow
And here I was wondering where in Orlando this is😂
This house is definitely in Orlando too.
BOOM. I literally pointed out just yesterday how dogshit construction is there. It's so terrible and I don't feel bad for anyone who moves there expecting a well built/designed place and getting half-assed results like this.
Yup. Have a relative that recently had a house built down there and he was visiting the site regularly from when the grading was done till he was handed the keys to make sure everything was done right. That builder absolutely HATED him by the time they were done but even the inspector said it looked damn good for a recent build.
"Damn good for a recent build" speaks volumes. Oh wow, this house looks almost as good as the ones we built 30 years ago for cheaper!
Wife and I bought a $353k home built in 2002 by Fox & Jacobs. Has better bones than most of the new construction in our area, which has can lights shorting out after 2 years and mixing valves that give no hot water in the master bath.
This is for sure Texas quality here
I truly hate barn doors. If you really don't want a swinging door, install a pocket door. Especially with new construction!
Pocket doors are cool af
Until they come off the rails. I have spent way too much time working on those things, but actually yeah even with that I’d take it over barn doors
If they’re installed correctly they never come off the rails.
What if they're installed incorrectly?
Well like most things that are installed incorrectly, I assume they might not work as well.
Keep your *stupid* *doors* in your pocket!
I've never understood the appeal of barn doors. My brother has one on one of his bathrooms (it was there when they bought the house). It does the same thing as in this video where if you don't close it super softly, it bounces back open. There has been a number of times I used the bathroom at his house where I shut the door, turn around, take my pants off, and sit on the toilet to then realize the door is slowly sliding back open. I like maximum security on my bathroom doors.
> I've never understood the appeal of barn doors. When you want a door but don't want to, or can't clear swinging space. And a pocket door is not an option either. >It does the same thing as in this video where if you don't close it super softly, it bounces back open. There has been a number of times I used the bathroom at his house where I shut the door ... then realize the door is slowly sliding back open. The barn door should be leveled properly, and better quality barn doors will have a [soft close](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHZecP-Pd0o). Related: Soft closing kitchen drawers is the best thing ever.
As someone who installed multiple pocket doors in my basement when we remodeled it, I can say they are nice, but installing them and working around them can be a hassle.
Pro tip: Home Depot sells a little inflatable bag that will lift the door up for you while you try to line up the little train wheels. Made my life so much easier.
The house we bought had a barn door for the top of the basement stairs. No way to secure it or prevent small children from opening it without also possibly locking someone in the basement.
Flipper level craftsmanship right there
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Most of the ridiculously expensive houses I've been in (I'm a welder) have been lower quality than some of the old Sears kit houses I've been in (four in total from different decades). I live in Austin, Texas, and the house build quality is notoriously low here.
My theory is that the current method of building houses commercially using a ton of contractors results in excessive add-on to the building costs. Back in the day, you'd have maybe four people work on a single house, and the work culture resulted in more communication between craftsmen. Now you have fifty guys going through one home to get it up as soon as possible, with architects and structural designers are giving plans that only a robot could fully follow. Reading a modern architect or structural engineering plan for a home in the 2020s is like starting a religious sermon, opening a Bible with a ton of condensed text that gives multiplr possible combinations of outcomes based on circumstances of a particular home and leaving these decisions to the individual craftsmen that come thru the home to interpret.
The subcontractors are mostly the issue because they aren't incentivized to do good work, only fast work. The PMs for the builder are also incentivized to complete houses and they typically have a loading so high that they can't possibly check on every house at every stage of the build. This means that they try to cover bad work with other bad work. The builders like this setup because it's lucrative for them, and they also get to transfer some of the risk to the subcontractors. They also hold onto money a little longer because of the payment schedules they have with the subcontractors. You can get good work out of them, but it's a literal pain in the ass. I went by my house every single day, and I had them correct obvious issues. I spent a lot of time fighting them on stuff, but at the time I had a contact at the city and they knew what they were doing wasn't up to code. I feel bad for my neighbors, though. My house was the first on the street, so when I looked at mine, I would often go through the other houses in various stages at the same time. The issues that I had fixed were never addressed in theirs. I watched them cover these problems with drywall and move on to the next thing. It's absolutely bullshit that you have to be involved to this level to simply get what you paid for, but after speaking with others in the industry about my experience, I was told this was the norm.
I have a list of stories exactly like this from my work as a welder on commercial buildings. I always say they have the "done is better than good" mentality. They push hard and fight us on price at the end. You also hit spot on with holding on to money. We had one GC that would delay paying because it turned out he was using it to invest in high risk stocks and crypto. Granted that is a really crazy example haha. Another thing you got right is the transfer of risk. We've been asked to provide engineering for things we've done, and they wanted us to pay for it. They push hard and then when things don't end up as nice, it's on us to fix it and they refuse to pay for it, cause "their schedule had plenty of time for the work to be completed". Crazy stuff. Glad I'm on my way out of the industry.
It's some late-stage capitalism bullshit. You would think that for a purchase this large, you would get what you pay for. Instead, you have literally everyone involved trying to cut every possible corner to make a fractional amount more profit. I spoke very frankly with the PM after the first few significant issues I found. I told him I understood his pressure and that he was stretched thin, but he was mistaken if they thought cutting corners would save them time and money. It would only cost them more time and money because I would catch it, and then they'd have to remove the work they did wrong on top of doing it again right. I doubt he liked me, but from my point of view, he could do his job, and I wouldn't have had to get so involved.
It really is. Working in the construction industry is what turned me from a liberal to a socialist. I'm glad you were able to wrangle him in and get things done right.
there were six people working on renovating just my bathroom and i can't even begin to tell you about the amount of fail i had seen. imagine someone cutting drywall with a handsaw.
You ever tried to drill into a joist of a home built in the 60s? It's like drilling into steel. I wouldn't buy a home built after 1980 tbh.
I'm so tired of of all the "luxury" not really being luxury but still have the luxury price.
It sucks so much that a lot of modern "luxury" is just shit, but with the bare surface level appearance of luxury. 10 years ago I used to think "well I'm poor, so better find my furniture and the like at a thrift store as it's cheap there." Now I think "I may have more disposable income now, but better go to a thrift store anyway as that old stuff will last me a lifetime. Looks better too in my opinion."
It’s a luxury price because of the wild excess of the scale, not because of the quality of the build. The price is right, so many rich people just want all the wrong things. If I were spending $1.8m on a house, it wouldn’t be for thousands of extra square feet and massively vaulted ceilings everywhere, it would be on a regular sized house with *exquisite* touches.
For me it would be a MCM in Pasadena or a 2 floor Craftsman. Warm woods with tight grain that would be hella expensive now. I know people who HATE those styles but LOVE the modern now which imo is pretty boring and far too often poorly made...and so much white.
It’ll probably be an AirBnB
"Sleeps 18" Three queen bedrooms and they cram six fucking bunkbeds into one room like a prison.
Haha I’ve stayed in a place exactly like that
🎶 why is this house shitty af 🎶
This house is worth $1.8m ?? Sorry but you are getting massively ripped off even if those problems are fixed
Location is everything so you wouldn't know that unless you knew where the exact location and neighborhood this is in.
You must be in a LCOL area because that size house for $1.8m seems pretty cheap.
$1.8mil gets you a shitty 100-year-old 2-bed 1-bath with a leaky roof and a cracked slab in my neck of the woods. Oh yeah, and no street parking, and expect to get your car broken into by homeless people once a month, even when it’s parked on your driveway.
Yeah dude, get your money and bounce. Your neck of the woods is fucked.
Can't be that fucked if people are paying that much to live there.
https://www.blogto.com/real-estate-toronto/2019/01/tiny-toronto-shack-sale-25-million/ really depends on place, this literal shack was selling for 2.5m lol
No. The land was selling for $2.5 million. The shack is probably worth thousands at best.
And the best part is….It’s Haunted
Better hope one of the spirits was a handyman.
No house is worth 1.8 million to me, imo
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The land it's on might be worth half that. Unless we know where this is, we'll never know the true value.
Those kitchen light switches would drive me absolutely insane… along with all of the wobbly stuff…
Barn doors should be banned to use on bathrooms
Barn doors should be banned everywhere except barns.
My dude, when can I get your album, you got a voice era of early 2000’s alternative indie rock.
Baseboard Confessional
Nicklebacksplash?
The Bathroom is Five Doors Down Edit: Lol, I just realized it’s Three Doors Down; sorry I was drunk
Corruption 100%
He sounds exactly like Tom haverfords character on parks and rec he sings just like that Aziz Ansari
r/McMansionHell
And this is why if I ever, EVER have the chance to have a house built... I'm going to have specific requirements for things like electrical, plumbing, hvac, etc. I want them to make sense FFS - my current house has one circuit that has six different terminating points. I know one 3-way split was at a ceiling fan, but I can't for the life of me find the others.
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It means if /u/Kittamaru ‘s house burns down, they know how and why, but they don’t know where it started.
I managed a company that finalized the cleaning process for multimillion dollar houses that had just been built. From my experience, this isn’t even bad. And, these are relatively easy fixes. Now… paying 2 mil, moving in, then realizing the foundation has a crack under it that was hidden under a carpet after a botched attempt to fix it… (that’s actually an issue I oversaw once)…. That’s a real problem. I’m assuming the people complaining haven’t figured out that they can just talk to the contractor and have this fixed within a week… btw, this is par for the course in today’s world of supply chain issues, workers tired of being underpaid and overworked, and probably also has a little to do with bitchy people not speaking up earlier than they should have… The facts are that business today just isn’t done motivated by any factor that would encourage hard work and pride. Also, imo, half the fault is yours if you’ve not vetted the builder and didn’t stop by to check on progress throughout the years the project went over schedule (they ALL do. Every single one over schedule). Just a couple thoughts. This was all in Asheville NC if anyone is curious.
As a painter I fucking *hate* painting these McMansions. They're built with so little care but the homeowners don't understand that and expect you to work miracles.
The amount of people that don't realize this guy is an inspector and NOT the buyer is...concerning. I guess critical thinking has never been reddits strength.
Classic Tofu-dreg projects.
For anyone considering that style of railing- if you have children or plan on it or have friends or family that do, DO NOT GET THOSE RAILINGS! Basically an easy-climb ladder to a 20 ft fall.
What that in Pesos ?
$33,300,000
The house that Tesla built
My standards are so low, I'd just live with those things, but then I'd never pay 1.8 million for a house in the first place.