The Construction Thread

[Sean]

I like to ask the electricians if they can fix my toaster.

I like to stamp on plumbers' pipes when they've done first fix.

Carpenters=Chippy
Electrician=Sparky
Plumber=Cunt.

 

[thør]

FYP!

yw

What flavor do you want?

 

[rosco rathbone]

If you set the heat correctly, the slag just peels off.

Were you smiling at the time of impact??

Well, that explains that. I was right out of trade school, fixing loader buckets in a concrete plant for seven bucks an hour. I was the only one not on work release.

 

[Saint Peter]

Well, that explains that. I was right out of trade school, fixing loader buckets in a concrete plant for seven bucks an hour. I was the only one not on work release.

We had a job in the mountains. Work was plentiful and not many brothers wanted to travel a couple hours a day, so the company I was working for leased a couple of fifteen passenger vans and cranked up the money to offset the long days. One van stopped at the jail to pick up the brothers on work release. The other van stopped in the casinos on the way back to town.

 

[Sean]

We had a job in the mountains. Work was plentiful and not many brothers wanted to travel a couple hours a day, so the company I was working for leased a couple of fifteen passenger vans and cranked up the money to offset the long days. One van stopped at the jail to pick up the brothers on work release. The other van stopped in the casinos on the way back to town.

Meh, I laboured for a plastering gang in Ireland. Got picked up at 6, arrived at the job at 8.30, same on the way home. Got paid for 8.30 to 4.30, for a 12 hour day.
I fucking hate plasterers, too.

 

[chillywilly2]

Yeah. In 120 days. Maybe.

Thats what pisses me off about commercial work. Im not used to being in the banking industry and issuing interest free 60 to 90 day loans.

But Im in it, and do all the time.

your'e a lawn boy

get outta the mens thread

 

[chillywilly2]

I like to stamp on plumbers' pipes when they've done first fix.

Carpenters=Chippy
Electrician=Sparky
Plumber=Cunt.

Bricklayers= whiners

 

[SkAoUt]

Meh, I laboured for a plastering gang in Ireland. Got picked up at 6, arrived at the job at 8.30, same on the way home. Got paid for 8.30 to 4.30, for a 12 hour day.
I fucking hate plasterers, too.

Got work in Puerto Rico as a labourer on the then developing elevated transit line. Bussed to work in a 15 person van. Easy labouring at 20$/hr. and the van stopped at the beer store on the way home so we had refreshments for the ride. It was the best 2 months of my life. I Puerto Rico.

 

[Sean]

Got work in Puerto Rico as a labourer on the then developing elevated transit line. Bussed to work in a 15 person van. Easy labouring at 20$ and the van stopped at the beer store on the way home so we had refreshments for the ride. It was the best 2 months of my life. I Puerto Rico.

You ever laboured for four plasterers?

 

[Bert Notorius]

I design and draw $800k worth of agricultural buildings a week. It's like an architectural sweatshop. All, well a lot of, those little white dots you you see in the corn fields as you fly back and forth between the cultural shores of this great country in which we live, they're mine.

I'm rehabbing a 100 year old farmhouse in one of those cornfields. So far I've done: 15 new windows, asphalt shingle roof, 200 amp breaker panel, total plumbing redo, 2 bathrooms, new well, vinyl siding, added a 30x30 L-shaped addition, blowin-in fiberglass, gas fireplace, furnace and central air handler, 3 exterior doors, a 6x18 trex front entry deck w/brushed aluminum rails.



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[SkAoUt]

You ever laboured for four plasterers?

Nope and to be honest when I say labour it was a labour contract but I was more of a *laugh* plasterer. Parging walls and columns in a man lift. Shirt totally soaked within an hour of starting.

 

[Xander]

Tricks of the trade.

I know we all have a few up our respective sleeves. And since there is a wide spectrum of construction workers here. It would be nice to hear a few from fields in the biz that we're maybe not all that familiar with.

As a plumber, to maintain the correct pitch on drain pipes.
Take a 4 foot level, and put a 1/4 inch piece of wood, or something else 1/4 inch, at the end of it.
When leveling pipes for pitch, keep the bubble in the middle, and you always have the proper pitch on your pipe.

 

[blizzmf]

I design and draw $800k worth of agricultural buildings a week. It's like an architectural sweatshop. All, well a lot of, those little white dots you you see in the corn fields as you fly back and forth between the cultural shores of this great country in which we live, they're mine.

I'm rehabbing a 100 year old farmhouse in one of those cornfields. So far I've done: 15 new windows, asphalt shingle roof, 200 amp breaker panel, total plumbing redo, 2 bathrooms, new well, vinyl siding, added a 30x30 L-shaped addition, blowin-in fiberglass, gas fireplace, furnace and central air handler, 3 exterior doors, a 6x18 trex front entry deck w/brushed aluminum rails.

Sounds and looks like fun.....Any good CAD software for remodeling on the market?

 

[TurdFergeson]

As a plumber, to maintain the correct pitch on drain pipes.
Take a 4 foot level, and put a 1/4 inch piece of wood, or something else 1/4 inch, at the end of it.
When leveling pipes for pitch, keep the bubble in the middle, and you always have the proper pitch on your pipe.

Hehe .. only need to know one thing to be a plumber:

Shit runs downhill.

 

[blizzmf]

Hehe .. only need to know one thing to be a plumber:

Shit runs downhill.

LMAO....and it stinks when it does...

 

[Xander]

Hehe .. only need to know one thing to be a plumber:

Shit runs downhill.

Actually more than that. But yes the two important ones are. Shit runs downhill, so does water.

A few other important ones would be:

Water pressure will not exceed 40 psi.
Flushing female products is a cardinal sin
You're responsible for your line until it hit's the city mainline
If you flush something you dont want to be found, dont call a plumber to fix your problem.

 

[TurdFergeson]

Actually more than that. But yes the two important ones are. Shit runs downhill, so does water.

A few other important ones would be:

Water pressure will not exceed 40 psi.
Flushing female products is a cardinal sin
You're responsible for your line until it hit's the city mainline
If you flush something you dont want to be found, dont call a plumber to fix your problem.

Also, snaking toilets is 100 bucks minimum.

 

[Xander]

Also, snaking toilets is 100 bucks minimum.

A service call is 100 bucks minimum yes. But that involves a hell of a lot more than just snaking the toilet. Plus if it's just that. You gotta pull it, and snake it from boths the front and the back. because there is no way you can get everything out just by snaking it through the front.

 

[SkAoUt]

Tricks of the trade

You want an exposed sidewalk. 1st order a nice exposed mix from the plant. Lay the walk making sure not to work the top too much. Put your cuts in or zip strip making sure the mix gets all around the zip strips (Or none at all if your going to saw cut them in later...). Ok now the magic. Mix a 500mg bag of brown sugar into a 3 gallon piss/spray can. Wait a couple hours and spray that mixture on the top. A cheap alternative to a commercial surface retarder product. Wait a couple more hours and pressure wash or hose and brush off the top layer of cream. Its not that cool but its neat chemistry.

Oh and if you want to fuck the competitions load of mud up fire a 2 liter bottle of coke into the business end of the turning drum. It'll be the weakest concrete they ever pour.

 

[thør]

Hehe .. only need to know one thing to be a plumber:

Shit runs downhill.

PLUS, payday's on Friday
and , don't lick your fingers.

 

[rosco rathbone]

I'm enjoying these tricks of the trade, fellows, but I don't really have any to add that are applicable outside of heavy construction. Keep 'em coming, though.

Other than "Bondo covers a multitude of steel sins".

"You can never have too many comealongs & portapowers"

Skaout, I live right near the Concrete Laborer Apprentice School. Every class, they rip up their sidewalk and redo it.

 

[daylightwarrior]

Actually more than that. But yes the two important ones are. Shit runs downhill, so does water.

A few other important ones would be:

Water pressure will not exceed 40 psi.
Flushing female products is a cardinal sin
You're responsible for your line until it hit's the city mainline
If you flush something you dont want to be found, dont call a plumber to fix your problem.

You forgot about eating fried chicken while snaking out a 4" main.

 

[Xander]

Another trick.

When testing waterlines after a complete plumbing job. Dont test it by turning on the water.
Hook an air compressor up to the system and apply 40 psi to the whole system and let it sit over night.

If the pressure has not fallen. All water lines are good to go and it's safe to turn on the water.

 

[Xander]

You forgot about eating fried chicken while snaking out a 4" main.

HAHAHA I though that goes without saying.

Wouldn't it be better to throw this one in here.
When opening the clean out in your basement. NEVER stand in front of it.

 

[rosco rathbone]

Another trick.

When testing waterlines after a complete plumbing job. Dont test it by turning on the water.
Hook an air compressor up to the system and apply 40 psi to the whole system and let it sit over night.

If the pressure has not fallen. All water lines are good to go and it's safe to turn on the water.

What kind of adaptor or fitting? I can't picture it.