What are the biggest construction fuckups you've ever encountered?

[Anonymous No.1872932]

[Anonymous No.1872945]

A woman worked with an architect to design a house that sprawled all over the place, which is terrible for heating and cooling, so they agreed to spend extra to frame it with 2x6 instead of 2x4 giving it 50% more insulation. The architect was the general contractor as well, so his guys purchased the materials and made the blueprints and hired the same subcontractors that had been building his custom houses for decades.

The house was nearly finished before anyone noticed that the framing was 2x6. I think they agreed to refund about 50 thousand dollars and leave it as is.

Side note: the house included an elaborate guest cottage over the enormous detached garage. After she had lived alone in the main house for a few years, she mentioned that if she did it all over again, she'd just build the guest cottage and live in it. The cool thing about being filthy rich is that mistakes don't really matter.

[Anonymous No.1872947]

>>1872945
I was building a $30,000 fish tank in this guys massive house. He told me he was going to get the roofing replaced and it would cost over 50k. He said if he could go back he would get a smaller house because he only used 1/4th the space. Problem is it’s hard to find nice small houses in nigger free areas of Dallas

[Anonymous No.1872965]

>>1872947
>>1872945

First house I bought was almost 4,000sq ft. Cost a fortune to heat and cool. Bought my next house 900sq ft looked nice until I moved all my furniture in and it got too small too quick

[Anonymous No.1873067]

>>1872965
yeah thats fucking retarded.

[Anonymous No.1873073]

>>1872932
t-that's just a really bad case of dry rot, right? they're not actually building skyscrapers out of sawdust, are they?

[Anonymous No.1873079]

>>1873073
That is cement anon, cant you tell

[Anonymous No.1873082]

>>1873073
https://youtu.be/XopSDJq6w8E
That is normal for China. They just fill the wall with trash and stucco over it. I think something like 8000 schools collapsed the last time they had a big earthquake m

[Anonymous No.1873100]

One of my favorites was watching owners at work demand a structure be built to cover some plants for winterization. Plan was use pallets to build little walls, then drape a heavy cloth over top to cover them. Took them about 1.5 months to complete a 30ft strip. Took about 1 week for the thing to fall apart. Wasn't the worst, but certainly the funniest shit I've seen, thank god I got out of that job/industry, what a shithole.

[Anonymous No.1873121]

>>1873082
I was going to say this. In china of course, they usually fill the concrete with cardboard rather than dirt.

[Anonymous No.1873128]

This isn't an actual construction fuckup, but it was a major fuckup. On a hot summer day we went to spray the exterior of a house. The mom asked us to not hurt the baby birds in a nest close to the house, and that her little girls had been watching the birds so it was really important. I said, "don't worry ma'am, we are professionals", and we covered the tree with clear plastic film.

And being brain-dead painters, we forgot about it until we were cleaning up at the end of the day, and all the baby birds had been cooked to death by the sunlight. I went and told the mom, and as I recall it she didn't say anything, just looked at me. Imagine that conversation when the girls got home from school.

[Anonymous No.1873130]

>>1873128

Oh no...the poor children were confronted with reality.

[Anonymous No.1873140]

>>1873130

A depressing reality with a novel lesson undoubtedly - that sometimes we set out to not fuck up something very specific but end up doing so extravagantly in some other unfortunate oversight, and that here is more than one way to fry a chicken.

[Anonymous No.1873141]

>>1873128
>We're professionals.
Always a sign of quality.

[Anonymous No.1873142]

>>1873140
Things go wrong, more often than naught, much more so than they go right, intentions regardless. I wish more kids got that drilled into their heads.

[Anonymous No.1873145]

>>1873130
>Oh no...the poor children were confronted with reality.
yeah, never hire "professionals" to touch anything that you care about. if it's that important, learn the trade, master the skills, and do it yourself. that's why we're here.

[Anonymous No.1873148]

>>1873140
>chicken

[Anonymous No.1873150]

>>1873142
Bah! You are absolutely correct. Life is the mother of all omelettes. There are few masterstrokes in this abstract piece, but nonetheless we gotta make sense of the fucker. Messy work.

[Anonymous No.1873157]

>>1872932
I haven’t personally encountered it but in the city I work in there was an elementary school that was built where they put on the moisture barrier for the insulation backwards. It caused the moisture to lock into the building and created an entire mold infestation. The school had to be abandoned and the original GC that did the project went bankrupt years ago prior to the mold surfacing so the taxpayers are going to have to foot the bill. The last news I saw of it is that they’re going to have to demolish the entire school.

https://www.lcsun-news.com/story/news/education/lcps/2018/09/06/columbia-elementary-las-cruces-closes-mold-abatement-centennial-high/1215469002/

https://www.lcsun-news.com/story/news/education/2019/02/19/las-cruces-school-board-votes-demolish-and-rebuild-columbia-elementary-school/2916676002/

[Anonymous No.1873235]

>>1873073
>>1873079
Looks like dirt. Dirt is easy cheap concrete filler... just not for skyrises.

[Anonymous No.1873246]

>>1873140

[Anonymous No.1873262]

>>1873145
What, no. I work hard at my job so I can hire people to do the shit I don't want to do. I don't paint your walls so don't trim my trees

[Anonymous No.1873267]

>>1872932
What's wrong with the webm?

[Anonymous No.1873290]

>>1872945
why cant you use 2x6?

[Anonymous No.1873298]

>>1873290
>why cant you use 2x6?
It reads like they used 2x4s before they realized their mistake. 2x6s are fine as wall studs, you are just going to pay more for finish carpentry.

[Anonymous No.1873411]

>>1872945
that behaves like lots of quick repair jobs do, using sack masonry instead of concrete. bet someone order the wrong shit and built that and left it.

[Anonymous No.1873429]

Not the biggest fuckup encountered or which I've done but last week was doing something as simple as laying out landscape lights as I've done many times before, ofc I didn't spool out enough burial wire for one light that was going to get laid out after the landscapers were finished placing a couple of trees, just wasn't paying attention, always great when going full retard after bossman was like "great job!" the previous week

[Anonymous No.1874250]

>>1872932
whaaaaaat

[Anonymous No.1874289]

>>1873157
wow that fucking sucks, huge waste of taxpayer money.

[Anonymous No.1874295]

>live in a swamp in north Florida
>city managment and local government is corrupt as shit
>purchase land for a school, lie to feds about quality of land
>they fucked up and bought wrong piece of property
>school lot has a massive sink hole in the center of it
>they pay to dredge it, 4 months of scum sucking and nothing
>they syphon money to fill it with concrete, takes days of pouring until it "works"
>build school, lowest bidder is son of the mayor
>by end of construction, one of the wings has fuck off massive cracks running up walls 3/4 way down
>spackle over it and ignore
>year in, gym floor is bowed down as it is right over sink hole
>drains constantly fucked due to plumbing issues
>tile floor looks make you feel drunk if you look at them while walking
>air conditioning unit replaced twice because ground was swallowing it
Fuckers got funding for a k-8 school for the county, slapped it it together in 4 months for a school half the size of the town. All this while being under federal investigation for discrimination for not paving streets of blacks, for the second time in 3 years even though they were given money to do so.

[Anonymous No.1874334]

>>1874295
florida.jpg

[Anonymous No.1874342]

>>1873128
Amusing

[Anonymous No.1874358]

>>1874295
wew lad

[Anonymous No.1874681]

>>1873157
That's because they thought it was more important to hire "diverse" contractors instead of "qualified".

[Anonymous No.1874692]

>>1872932
Replacing some trim and columns for a small 2nd story deck. Dude was rich, big house, and had this small 2nd story deck off of a bedroom covering part of the back porch. We go to rip off the 1x fascia and the entire deck starts to drop down. Turns out it was installed with a header not rated for exterior use... A fuckin 1x10 on edge was holding this thing up. Smushed that header down to within an inch or two of the columns. Wasn't comforting being under that thing while it happened. Anyway, had to leave it to go get 2x4s to frame a temporary wall for it, then eventually got lally columns to jack it back in place and put a proper 400+lb header in there.

Probably have some other stories of construction butchery, but I think that was the most dangerous one

[Anonymous No.1874700]

Worked as a industrial electrician for awhile, at the end of one project we ran 1in conduit to a new valve, at the last second the plant added a second valve by the first and told us to pull the wiring in the same conduit. We told them it wont fit, they told us to do it anyways. Suprisingly both wire bundles fit, rather tightly, until we get to a LB. Nobody can pull it thru the other side so we get our skylift on it, trying to be gentle. Still nothing so I get a small flat tip and start wiggling it back and forth in the LB. All of a sudden the wire along with the flat tip get sucked in, say fuck it and put the cover on the LB, move on with the project. I miss that screwdriver.

[Anonymous No.1874707]

>>1872945
>wants 2x6
>gets 2x6
what am I missing?
Also fuck big houses. it's not an investment and all your equity is tied up and can't be used. unironically better to leave cash under the mattress

[Anonymous No.1874715]

>>1874707
No, she wanted 2x6, but they didn't realize until most of the way through construction that she wanted 2x6 and had been installing 2x4.

[Anonymous No.1874719]

>>1873290
I think he had a typo

[Anonymous No.1874721]

>>1873128
kek

[Anonymous No.1874733]

>>1874681
It was an all white contractor that was three generations deep into being family owned.. You don’t know what you’re talking about.

[Anonymous No.1874736]

>>1872932
I don't know anything about building construction. Is that shit supposed to be a facade, or load bearing?

[Anonymous No.1874738]

>>1873130
You sound like a piece of shit when you say stupid things like that, you know?
Of course the kids were confronted with reality. The reality wasn't "shit dies". Every kid learns that early on. The reality was "some dipshit killed the birds you'd grown familiar with".
You seem to think kids are sheltered more than they are. Every kid sees dead baby birds on the street, that have been dropped by egg thieves. Raccoons hit by cars. Dead pets. Relatives.

[Anonymous No.1874747]

>>1874733
Oh, isbthisbonebof the jobs from madame senator's husband?

[Anonymous No.1874766]

>>1874295

I'd bet cash kentucky only gets away with being so shitty because florida exists

[Anonymous No.1874785]

>>1873082
>>1873121
Sometimes they get a bit over creative, too.

[Anonymous No.1874800]

>>1873130
Because wrapping a tree in plastic is something mother nature does often. Fkn retard.

[Anonymous No.1874828]

>>1874785
>Talks shit about insects
>posts picture for ants.

[Anonymous No.1874833]

>>1874707
yeah, i know

[Anonymous No.1874905]

>>1874828

[Anonymous No.1874908]

>>1874828
Why don't you put those trade skills to use then and make yourself a pair of glasses

[Anonymous No.1875053]

>>1872965
There's a middleground around 1500 thats perfect as long as you have a garrage and a swach of lawn to grow plants.

[Anonymous No.1875071]

>>1872932
I did some house-sitting once in Falls Church Virginia. The house was constructed by some complete hack and some very strange things were nonstandard. The stairs from the main floor up to the second story were 50% taller in tread height than standard, but the flight down to the basement used standard riser height. Any time during the day where I came from the basement then tried to go to the top floor in sequence I would trip due to muscle memory from the prior flight of stairs.
Going down was less of a problem.

[Anonymous No.1875240]

>>1872932
An architect actually signed off on this.

[Anonymous No.1875260]

>>1875240
ill never understand the fascination of brick + vinyl siding on every new build
who is it for, who thinks it looks good?
why arbitrarily not doing the entire front in fake brick?
why arbitrarily only the front?
why fake brick at all?
why?

[Anonymous No.1875262]

>>1875240
This is only ugly and stupid. Well, the architect has a brother who is a roofer in that town.

[Anonymous No.1875264]

>>1875260
Brick is good, Vinyl is a sin.

[Anonymous No.1875265]

>>1875053
Eh, I live in a 950sqf house with a wife and child and I dont use all the space. I have a spare room and a room thats not shaped well for anything.

[Anonymous No.1875275]

>>1873073
It's the ch*nese, do you expect any less from the place that uses oil from sewers for food?

[Anonymous No.1875291]

>>1874295
>under federal investigation for discrimination for not paving streets of blacks, for the second time in 3 years even though they were given money to do so.
Hello based department, yes it's an emergency.

[Anonymous No.1875293]

>>1874295
>under federal investigation for discrimination for not paving streets of blacks, for the second time in 3 years even though they were given money to do so.
Hello based department, yes it's an emergency.

[Anonymous No.1875305]

>>1875260
I can't stand it - it's even worse than just bricking the facade, let you see it is commonplace in more affluent areas. And the double gable.
And how the hell is the roof getting bigger as it gets taller? Instead of the million corners and bullshit, would it not be easier to make a nice, traditional home? What the fuck is wrong with people? If you're that goddamn invested in gables, put some traditional ones on here that are actually useful. Fucking three different sized windows!

[Anonymous No.1875310]

>>1875240
And how does this happen? One fucking row of shingles? Genuinely, was the architect blind or retarded? Jesus, Christ!! You can't adjust this shit on a shingle to offset a SINGLE FUCKING SHINGLE? This is your masterpiece? Front and center?

[Anonymous No.1875347]

>>1875240
buying a home with a fuck huge garage dominating the front would be like choosing to be born with a five-head

[bb /b/oi No.1875348]

this and I still got to fix it. lmao. need to put thin brick over it.

[Anonymous No.1875362]

>>1874707
>it's not an investment and all your equity is tied up and can't be used
what if my goal in life is to own a big house?

[Anonymous No.1875685]

>>1875362
Then you'll have a very shallow existence and be a slave to your house and job until you die.

[Anonymous No.1875693]

>building wastewater treatment facility
>digesters(big round tanks that process the sewage) have floating lids on them made of steel
>need ballasts to weight them down
>build the lids, approximately 30’ across, four of them
>build metal frame, then have crane lower ballasts in
>ballasts are big concrete blocks, approximately 4’x3’x3’
>ballasts rest on ledges, every other ledge gets a ballast
>once ballasts are in, finish installing panels around frame until lids are complete
>have even bigger crane come in to lower lid onto digester
>digester walls are about 15’ high, small man door to get in, have to climb down ladder another 15’ so once inside tank lid is close to 30’ above
>set lids, a week later engineer comes by, asks our foreman why we only put half the ballasts in
>he told us every other ledge needed a ballast, turns out every ledge needed a ballast
>we have to order more, then spend a week using chainfalls and come-alongs to manually hoist the cocksuckers into place
>every single ballast is covered in graffiti accusing foreman of being a homosexual

[Anonymous No.1875698]

>>1874785
old fashioned corncob insulation, they used to fill walls with dry sand as well

[Anonymous No.1875723]

shitty school portables that somehow managed to have rats living in the roof, but not on the ground under them

[Anonymous No.1875747]

>>1872932
When I was in vocational school at the local community college we went to a house to wire it up. Everything is nearly finished until one of my classmates decided to park his truck in the owner's yard instead of the extra driveway. It broke all of the waterlines to the house and from what I heard the owners just paid someone else to fix it.

[Anonymous No.1875748]

>>1873130
That contractors are braindead, dishonest retards? Point taken

[Anonymous No.1875919]

>>1875685
i want to put it in the middle of bumfuck nowhere Montana, and i want to fill every room with a son or daughter

[Anonymous No.1875959]

>>1875919
Not Montana
The Californians already took over

[Anonymous No.1875962]

>>1875693
nice

[Anonymous No.1875993]

>>1873298
2x6 door ways are fucking ugly.

[Anonymous No.1876267]

>>1875698
>>1874785
Are those really corncobs?

[Anonymous No.1876306]

>>1876267
i would assume that it is a somewhat informal way to refer to a particular shape of insulation material, and that those are not in fact actual cobs of corn

[Anonymous No.1876312]

>>1872932
>American building: Collapsed under force from a plane 50% larger than what was around at the time of building it

>Chinese building: gRaViTy

[Anonymous No.1876326]

>>1876312
>the chad terrorist attack vs the virgin poor construction quality

[Anonymous No.1876327]

>>1872932

I work in a multi-discipline engineering company and the construction people needed to build a highway bridge for the client (which was some city).

Their initial design values were not in line what the reality was but this was not noticed before the project was done.

The inspection company simply said that they will not give their approval, thus the bridge could not be used at all because the bridge must pass an inspection and have approval documentation before anyone uses it.

TLDR: they built a highway bridge, then mostly tore it down, then rebuilt it while paying tens of millions out of the company's pocket.

[Anonymous No.1876356]

>>1876312
Remember. If the originally specced asbestos insulation had been used, there would have been enough time for everyone to get out.

[Anonymous No.1876401]

>>1875693
why do you need ballast on a giant metal lid made of steel?

[Anonymous No.1876403]

>>1876401
According to the engineers the methane gas was so powerful the weight of the steel lid wasn’t enough to keep it floating, it needed additional weight to keep the gasses from flipping it. Sounds like bullshit to me but that’s how it was designed and to my knowledge it’s still working fine.

[Anonymous No.1876449]

>>1876306
No, it's actual corn, lol

[Anonymous No.1876460]

>>1876327
>which was some city
Was it Windsor Ontario? Something like that happened with beams in the news.

[Anonymous No.1876463]

>>1876460

Northern Europe

[Anonymous No.1876492]

[Anonymous No.1876526]

>>1872965
>Start with 5 bed mcmansion
>Correct to 1 bed cuckshed
Female logic

[Anonymous No.1876553]

>>1876492
>state enforced homosexuality

[Anonymous No.1876577]

>>1875240
it's like a child's drawing of a house

[Anonymous No.1876586]

>>1876577

[Anonymous No.1876587]

>>1876577
>>1876586
The problems are there's someone dumb enough to say 'that looks good. Here's $400K. Build it' and the fuckers actually build them

[Anonymous No.1876588]

If this were an animal, you'd put it out of its misery, not live in it.

[Anonymous No.1876620]

>>1875053
You can live literally anywhere, as long as you have a garden and a laptop.

[Anonymous No.1876687]

>>1876587
>6 different types of windows just on the front

[Anonymous No.1876692]

>>1873145
>Taking the advice of a bunch of autists on a Malaysian gazebo building website

[Anonymous No.1876701]

My father is a really good guy, which means that he usually gives work to his long time friends or people that are out of job. The problem is that these people are out of job for a reason, they fucking suck at what they do.
My father remodelled his two houses at the same time (first retarded idea) and hired his friends that work in construction to do so. Well, not only the "remodelling" of his first home and the one I was raised with was retardedly expensive, they """"improved"""" things that didn't need improvement and overal his "friend" just did it to inflate the price of the work. Things like solid wood doors getting painted over some shitty matte brown which defeated the purpose of having solid wood doors with their texture. What's worse, the paint thickened the doors and now they can't be closed properly. Then all the bathrooms, which had a colonial-esque design were changed into "modern" shit which has design flaws everywhere, for example, the handwashers clog all the time because of their shitty design.
The second house he's remodelling also had a complete idiotic friend of his in charge. The remodelling took ages, the retarded guy in charge was like 6 months late, the construction had to be stopped, my uncle had to chip in with the costs and now a home that me and my siblings were supposed to inherit will belong to my uncle. That wouldn't mind me that much, the thing that fucking made me cringe was the fact that they actually had this huge as beam which served as support and actually looked cool and the retarded motherfuckers paint it grey! What the flying fuck.

My parent's remodelling shennanigans scream so much of nuveau riche it hurts.

[Anonymous No.1876705]

>>1876701
>My parent's remodelling shennanigans scream so much of nuveau riche it hurts.
Sounds like they're trying to become nuveau poor. :^)

[Anonymous No.1876708]

>>1876705
My father doesn't even have money lmao
It's his retarded friends and family who always try to find ways to leech off him.

[Anonymous No.1876722]

>>1876708
>It's his retarded friends and family who always try to find ways to leech off him.
So... you? :^)

[Anonymous No.1876724]

>>1876722
You seem way too invested into insulting someone who you don't know.

[Anonymous No.1876726]

>>1876724
I'm just taking a piss on ya'. Relax.

[Anonymous No.1876741]

>>1876701
>Things like solid wood doors getting painted over some shitty matte brown which defeated the purpose of having solid wood doors with their texture. What's worse, the paint thickened the doors and now they can't be closed properly
I have painted solid wood doors, am I retarded too? Solid wood doors are better at sound proofing, while also feel better to use (most people like doors with some weight to them) and are less easily damaged. Basically they're not cardboard pieces of shit, which is plenty enough justification to use them.

You complained about color choices twice in a construction fuckup thread. That's purely cosmetic shit, which is the easiest thing to fix, really almost to the point of a non-issue. I'm getting the feeling you know more about 'style' and less about construction, and are just pissed other peoples tastes don't match your own. Oh and to fix those doors, just get a couple 3" screws and suck those fuckin jambs right into the stud. Easy 2 min fix

[Anonymous No.1876746]

>>1876741
The point is that having huge wooden doors that really needed absolutely no work on them and were actually of a high quality material which showed through the texture got painted over for absolutely no reason aside from the fact that his friend could charge him from even more unneeded paint jobs and in the process, the doors thickened to the point of not being able to close properly.
And what's the fucking purpose of "remodelling" a house and then fixing the fuck ups of said remodelling?
I also complained about the fact of painting a grey beam of the color grey for the same reason, redundancy just to take more from my dad's pocket. Also, construction IS design, dumbo.

[Anonymous No.1876769]

>>1872932
Three Gorges Dam is about to collapse, apparently. When western inspectors were brought in to inspect it in the 90s they claimed it wasn't going to hold up to a major flood and were accused of being racist.

[Anonymous No.1876786]

>>1874908
Those are, at best, blurry cylinders. If you don't know corn cob insulating is something that has ever been done, that pic isn't going to convey that without explanation.

[Anonymous No.1876790]

>>1876746
laying paint on a door so thick it no longer closes is something I have a hard time believing even the highest crackhead could do that. more likely they swelled with the humidity.
You complained about the beam being painted because you thought it looked cool beforehand. Now you don't like the color.
Construction is not design, they're not even synonyms. Knowing how to do one does not mean you know how to do the other. I would not hire a framer to be an architect, and I would not hire an architect to be a framer

[Anonymous No.1876797]

>>1876492
imagine how funny that would be in a boys locker room, tho
you square up the one right with your dick out while bashing the dude takin a piss in the left one with a big loud "ah shit 'scuse me there bud ah sorry" and everyone gets a big laugh

[Anonymous No.1876801]

Only slightly related:

Once saw a carpenter flip a contractor table saw upside down and use it like a circ saw

[Anonymous No.1876802]

>>1876790
>Construction is not design, they're not even synonyms.
then how come there are all those people a dozen or so posts up bitching about how those houses/drawings look?

[Anonymous No.1876805]

>>1876802
because they are also mistaken, even if from a design standpoint those houses are shit

>>1876801
based

[Anonymous No.1876813]

>>1876790
Construction involves lots of design what the fuck are you smoking?
Do you know a profession called architecture?

[Anonymous No.1876816]

>>1875347

Its all good if you stick a machining center and a lathe in said garage.

[Anonymous No.1876943]

>>1876701
>uncle contributes 15k to cover the last little bit of a remodel, now he is going to get the house

The fuck? It was never yours to begin with maybe you misunderstood something

[Anonymous No.1877042]

>>1876586
Assuming this is two stories how small is the first floor, 7ft?

[Anonymous No.1877044]

>>1876769
Chinks have been fucking up their rivers since the beginning of recorded history.

[Anonymous No.1877062]

>>1877042
7ft ceilings on the living floors with a 20ft tall attic.

[Anonymous No.1877789]

>>1874785

[Anonymous No.1877818]

>>1877789
how does it somehow cost less to collect these things than to simply use concrete?

[Anonymous No.1877875]

>>1877818
assuming that they have actual access to it maybe
stuff lie ke this ia done because of logistics
"oh the hardware store is 210 miles away and we only have a mule drawn cart"
"ok fuck it corn it is"

[Anonymous No.1878342]

>>1873100
>job/industry
what job/industry builds that kind of shit?

[Anonymous No.1878346]

>>1876492
Finally, a urinal for the cross-eyed.

[Anonymous No.1878348]

>>1874700
>electrician
>valve
>screwdriver sucked in
I'm missing something here.....

[Anonymous No.1878349]

>>1877818
>>1877875
feed corn. farmers wind up with a mountain of cobs after stripping the corn off. About the only thing they are good for is fire starter.

[Anonymous No.1878352]

>>1876587
this looks like those slums where add-ons are built in different decades.

[Anonymous No.1878358]

>>1878352
This can't be real?

[Anonymous No.1878366]

>>1872932
one time i was called to a place, they said they had an intermittent leaking pipe and a leak from the bathroom into a lower room. pretty standard stuff. probably a waste pipe i thought.
but when i get there the woman is drinking and tells me
>IT ONLY HAPPENS WHEN IT'S RAINING.
some idiot had run a copper pipe through a hole they had made in a roof tile, rather than go under the eves or through the wall, tried to seal it with silicone, which didn't work and water was running down this pipe when it rained. ok so she can kind of be forgiven for that one but...
The bathroom was unfinished but they were still using it.
holes in everything, exposed timber, tiles with no grout, missing tiles in shower cubicle and around the shower pan was a massive gap, which is where the intermittent leak was coming from (mostly).
But the woman had tried to seal it! she had put a line of silicone on the tiles, about an inch above the actual gap. not even smoothed it down.
then she asked me to have a look at another possible improvement i could make... see, their washing machine was outside, because the water connections for it WERE OUTSIDE. rather than inside the kitchen. where the pipes had been run out from- not unheard of, but to get to the kitchen, i had to pass through hoarder levels of junk, and a room in which her filthy neckbeard son was playing counter strike or COD or some shit while her 2 year old daughter looked on from a baby walker thing.
She tells me her husband/ex's are not living with her but they "help out" and "look after her"
>It was at this point I knew, she was retarded.
The place was such a clusterfuck of weird shit like an attic room you could only access through a tiny room with a ceiling so low you had to crawl. it was carpeted and painted though- it was intentionally built like that and someone had been using at at some point.
With all that on top of white-knighting ex's who may be unhappy with my inability to polish a turd, I never went back.

[Anonymous No.1878397]

>>1878352
>>1878358
It's not real, you can see the repeat pattern of photoshop. The real building stops after the first wood 45deg support.

[Anonymous No.1878399]

>>1878397
Yeah, but was there really a hammock hanging off the side?

[Anonymous No.1878402]

>>1878352
>>1878397
Oh shit. Now that you mention it, I think I remember the thread where that shop was made.

[Anonymous No.1878435]

>>1878397
>>1878402
yeah it's shooped
Ac unit is repeat too
hammock is probably shopped in too.

[Anonymous No.1878460]

>>1878342
Sounds like agriculture. They'll assign light construction like that to the guys that pick and water the plants with the assumption they'll be able to rig something up. It probably took so long because they weren't given any time to do it. It sucked because they were dumb

[Anonymous No.1878461]

>>1878352
>having to crawl into that hammock to get away from the kids

[Anonymous No.1878462]

>>1877789
>Gentlemen!
>I bring you
>corn!

[Anonymous No.1878504]

>>1878348
It’s not uncommon in industrial applications, specifically process piping, for valves to be air or electric actuated by either an automated system or a central control panel.

[Anonymous No.1878557]

>>1876586
Architect here, what the fuck is wrong with Americans? Not only do your houses look like dogshit, they are made of cardboard. Haven't you heard of bricks?

[Anonymous No.1878575]

>>1872932
Interned at a construction firm.
Landlord and his architecht forgot to draw fire barriers between apartments so we didnt build them. Landlord and architecht bitched and moaned for months untill we showed them similar drawings from the same architecht with fire barriers. Architech got real silent really quick when he found out that he hadnt described any fire portection anywhere in the project.

[Anonymous No.1878603]

>>1878557
whats your cunt, cunt

[Anonymous No.1878605]

Basically anything on any naval warship ever is a massive clownshoes operation documented solely on napkin drawings and implemented by actual retards (usually ex-military who have retired and dont give a fuck on top of being retarded hicks)

I can't think of many good specifics that aren't long tl;drs but a good one recently is that contractors came and wired up the whole ship to get "public" wifi installed. basically, going from a 4g antenna to some wireless access points for crew comfort and to stop having to ask port services for expensive (and more easily compromised) wifi boxes.

they wired up the entire ship with unshielded CAT5 cable. the specification called for fibre optic line. so they had to pull it all out and then it took them forever to get the proper stuff installed. (btw we NEVER use unshielded copper for infra. ever. not even patch panels. it's an emsec thing and also just good practice)

also one time our UHF antennas were held on with duct tape and didn't work because the final amp guts kept getting wet and the thing itself wasn't grounded properly anyway. that one pissed me off because people were shitting on me for being "too quiet on the radio" and complaining that my troubleshooting skills weren't up to par when the thing was literally not fucking installed properly

also a minor one but we got new halyard lines recently, like for signal and ceremonial flags. they are all the EXACT length from the block at the top to the tie-down cleat. meaning, you can't actually tie them down unless there's something to extend the line.

>>1873082
not construction but in cored wires it's common to find obvious clothing scraps just twisted tight instead of proper braided rope. one guy managed to pull an entire baby diaper's outer cover out of one once

>>1875240
it's incredibly ugly but it looks like it at least wont fall over
this is typical for american homes

[Anonymous No.1878621]

>>1878603
Australia, cunt

[Anonymous No.1878622]

>>1878621
lol

[Anonymous No.1878709]

>>1874736
I mean either way it's bad even if it's only a facade.
Imagine walking below that and suddenly a bunch of the shit falls on you because it's stormy out.

[Anonymous No.1878721]

>>1878605
>spec is fiber optic
>thry try to get away with cat5
Why would you even try

[Anonymous No.1878730]

>>1873298
>>1875993

It changes a lot of the schedules as well.
Windows, doors, plumbing, etc..

[Anonymous No.1878843]

>>1878721
>Why would you even try
illiteracy

i think what happened is someone just straight up didnt read the documentation and just told their team "we are wiring up HMCS NeverSail for WiFi" and the subordinates grabbed their spool of "Networking Cable" because they're high school dropouts who only have the job they have because they are ex-"comms techs" who spent their careers putting in work orders rather than actually doing anything themselves

[Anonymous No.1878914]

>>1878605
sup johnny

[Anonymous No.1878980]

>>1874295
yeah that sounds like florida

[Anonymous No.1878982]

>>1876492
finally!

[Anonymous No.1878983]

>>1876588
looks like every suburb house in the midwest to me

[Anonymous No.1878985]

>>1878605
>they are all the EXACT length from the block at the top to the tie-down cleat. meaning, you can't actually tie them down unless there's something to extend the line.

This made me laugh because I can see exactly how this happens.

[Anonymous No.1879036]

>>1874715
Ooooooohhhh you didn't say that lmaooo

[Anonymous No.1879038]

>Bought a house built in 1915
>Stairs are trash and take up way too much space in the kitchen
>Decide to rearrange stair cases in the existing stairwell and add kitchen space
>Stairs aren't square anymore anyway
>Basement stairs collapse on last trip down from water damage
Not the big problem tho
>Tearing out upstair
>Built with 3 2x4 stringers and angle cut strips the risers and treads attach to
>A 10 stair run with 3 2x4 stringers is attached to a single 2x4 running from the load bearing wall to an unsupported 2x2 thickness wall
>They nailed in a 45° "support" within the wall to a horizontally run 2x4 the stair header was hanging on

I'm a 280lb bodybuilder

After about 10 trips, those fucking stairs would have collapsed

[Anonymous No.1879042]

>>1876586
>Lost of space, cheap to build, easily position on any hill

That's a 90s thing tho.
Modern houses are moving away from multi-level design because it looks 70s

[Anonymous No.1879043]

>>1876492
Lost

[Anonymous No.1879059]

>>1875310
The bird shit will seal and mask that.

[Anonymous No.1879179]

>>1874719
DID YOU JUST ASSUME THAT PERSON'S PRONOUNS?!?!?

[Anonymous No.1879254]

>>1878982

[Anonymous No.1880425]

>>1879254
glad someone saw it before mods got it

[Anonymous No.1880684]

>>1876790
>Construction is not design
Confirmed for never working construction.

[Anonymous No.1880700]

My brother was an exterminator and got a call from a frantic woman about rats in her walls. She's pissed because apparently she had an old house, it was falling apart, (busted pipes, cracked plaster everywhere, floors that were sinking on one side from rotting joists), and she had just paid a contractor to gut and completely remodel the place. Supposedly she spent around $60,000 and she figured they must not have sealed the walls properly because the rats had to be coming up through the crawl space beneath the house.

My brother said his first clue something was wrong was that there was a five inch step up leading into the front door and the hallway walls were almost a foot thick. Turned out the contractor had no idea how to remodel a house, took the money and just used a small stack of furring strips to mount new drywall on top of the old shit then used 2x4's to make a new floor on top of the old one. The sound of rats was just the old plaster continuing to break apart and fall down inside the new walls.

[Anonymous No.1880801]

>>1874295
>america
>first world country

[Anonymous No.1880838]

>>1880425
I’m just made that guy has two and they’re both bigger than my one.

[Anonymous No.1881457]

>>1874295

cringe until the last sentence

[Anonymous No.1881462]

>>1876312

collapsed under force from explosives planted my mossad kikes