The Construction Thread

[Xander]

It's been approved for fire sprinklers for years. I make good coin repairing all the pipe splits on these one or two day per year freezes.

Today 3/4" type L was $2.09 a foot. Pex is about $ .45.

Interesting analogy re: ms spears.

Well that's probably why. It'll never be approved up here, with this many days of a hard freeze.

Are you talking about 3/4 copper vs. PEX? or 3/4 CPVC vs. PEX?

 

[daylightwarrior]

Well that's probably why. It'll never be approved up here, with this many days of a hard freeze.

Are you talking about 3/4 copper vs. PEX? or 3/4 CPVC vs. PEX?

3/4 copper type L vs. Pex. I haven't a clue about CPVC. I don't even use CVPC for T&P lines for water heaters.

There are too many people down here who want the easy way out. They also have a lot of money to help grease the right palms. Bah! Bah I say!

 

[thør]

3/4 copper type L vs. Pex. I haven't a clue about CPVC. I don't even use CVPC for T&P lines for water heaters.

There are too many people down here who want the easy way out. They also have a lot of money to help grease the right palms. Bah! Bah I say!

I have a guy in the hospital right now, who took 'the easy way'. *grumble*

 

[Xander]

3/4 copper type L vs. Pex. I haven't a clue about CPVC. I don't even use CVPC for T&P lines for water heaters.

There are too many people down here who want the easy way out. They also have a lot of money to help grease the right palms. Bah! Bah I say!

Oh I thought so. Copper is brutal right now. I only have some CPVC just in case I need to goto a trailer and fix their plumbing.

I've seen cpvc used for water heaters. Generally its just f'ed up to beging with.

And whats easier than using pex? really. That stuff is just about as easy as it can possibly get, and still maintain a high quality finished job?

 

[daylightwarrior]

I have a guy in the hospital right now, who took 'the easy way'. *grumble*

Not good.

Did I tell you about the guy who turned the company he worked for to OSHA because he didn't wear his steel toed boots all the time? They fined both him and the company $19,000. He's digging holes under a house today.

 

[Mia62]

...for construction workers, contractors, engineers, architects, tradespeople, and anyone else who works with their hands or makes money off of those that do.

Tell tall tales, bitch about the industry, post pix of jobs you've done, whatever.

At the moment I hate contractors. My husband and I are building a store...okay not from scratch but doing leasehold improvements. The asshole contractor that bid on the project has not done anything he has promised since the corporate franchise office hired him two months ago. We are supposed to be opening up before the end of March but the asshole needs to get his butt in gear...pronto!!!

 

[daylightwarrior]

Oh I thought so. Copper is brutal right now. I only have some CPVC just in case I need to goto a trailer and fix their plumbing.

I've seen cpvc used for water heaters. Generally its just f'ed up to beging with.

And whats easier than using pex? really. That stuff is just about as easy as it can possibly get, and still maintain a high quality finished job?

I agree Pex is tits right now. We had the Quest scare so people are still leery about plastic tubing but this stuff is good!

I was in Lost Wages last year where they "spider web" this stuff, which really looks bad.

 

[thør]

Not good.

Did I tell you about the guy who turned the company he worked for to OSHA because he didn't wear his steel toed boots all the time? They fined both him and the company $19,000. He's digging holes under a house today.

The OSHA folk are checking out the site, right now.

 

[thør]

At the moment I hate contractors. My husband and I are building a store...okay not from scratch but doing leasehold improvements. The asshole contractor that bid on the project has not done anything he has promised since the corporate franchise office hired him two months ago. We are supposed to be opening up before the end of March but the asshole needs to get his butt in gear...pronto!!!

It sounds like the corporate office needs to put the screws to the guy.

 

[daylightwarrior]

At the moment I hate contractors. My husband and I are building a store...okay not from scratch but doing leasehold improvements. The asshole contractor that bid on the project has not done anything he has promised since the corporate franchise office hired him two months ago. We are supposed to be opening up before the end of March but the asshole needs to get his butt in gear...pronto!!!

I don't like to wait. It really ticks me off.

I thought I was a very nice contractor, maybe not.

 

[Mia62]

It sounds like the corporate office needs to put the screws to the guy.

They are...I believe they are coming out for an unannounced site visit next week. Grrr.

 

[Xander]

I agree Pex is tits right now. We had the Quest scare so people are still leery about plastic tubing but this stuff is good!

I was in Lost Wages last year where they "spider web" this stuff, which really looks bad.

Well there is an easy way around that. Take a piece of cpvc and a piece of PEX, is needed a piece of copper. Take some channel locks, and squeeze the hell out of all, just with the strength in your hand. Cpvc will shatter, PEX will flew with the pressure. Copper will become flat.

I'm not entirely sure what you mean about spider webbing PEX material buddy.

Anything in disareay is bad though, Everything needs to be lined up properly. Not sure if that is what you meant though.

 

[Mia62]

I don't like to wait. It really ticks me off.

I thought I was a very nice contractor, maybe not.

It is really ticking us off, too. As long as you don't make people wait and you keep them informed and follow through when you promise to...you would be nice.

 

[daylightwarrior]

Well there is an easy way around that. Take a piece of cpvc and a piece of PEX, is needed a piece of copper. Take some channel locks, and squeeze the hell out of all, just with the strength in your hand. Cpvc will shatter, PEX will flew with the pressure. Copper will become flat.

I'm not entirely sure what you mean about spider webbing PEX material buddy.

Anything in disareay is bad though, Everything needs to be lined up properly. Not sure if that is what you meant though.

Spider web is when the put a manifold block somewhere and just throw the lines all over the place. Looks ugly as sin. I'm sure they save a couple of feet of tubing but still... take some pride in your work.

 

[thør]

They are...I believe they are coming out for an unannounced site visit next week. Grrr.

Such is life with big corporations. They move slow.

 

[Xander]

Spider web is when the put a manifold block somewhere and just throw the lines all over the place. Looks ugly as sin. I'm sure they save a couple of feet of tubing but still... take some pride in your work.

Oh yeah. Thats bad. Never looks good, never will look good.

Everything needs to be properly marked and supported with their own designated clips and hangers, in nice clean lines.

As you said. Take some pride in your work. I'll go a bit further and say, or get the fuck out of here.

 

[Hester]

At the moment I hate contractors. My husband and I are building a store...okay not from scratch but doing leasehold improvements. The asshole contractor that bid on the project has not done anything he has promised since the corporate franchise office hired him two months ago. We are supposed to be opening up before the end of March but the asshole needs to get his butt in gear...pronto!!!

do you have anything in writing?

 

[stirbird]

You've got to lean your head to the right to see this one properly. I scanned it lying on its side.

http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/ii152/rosco_rathbone/scan0006.jpg

This was directly over 4 lanes of traffic: "You fuckos better catch all them rivets!"

I kept wondering what the excuse was going to be when we missed one and it went into someone's sun roof. (you catch them in a sawed-off traffic cone). Nets cost too much to put up?

I can't see the lanes even when I tilt my head. I just get dizzy. God, I am glad I don't have your job, Rosco. :/

 

[stirbird]

The boots on the left were right out of the box...on the right, 4 months (one job) old.

http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/ii152/rosco_rathbone/scan0016.jpg

Four months (low whistle). The ones on the right remind me of a Van Gogh painting...sans the golden grace.

I wonder if the way a man treats shoes is a metaphor for the way he treats women?

 

[Saint Peter]

How many construction workers in this thread cannot change a light switch.

A show of hands. please.

 

[Saint Peter]

How many construction workers in this thread cannot change a light switch.

A show of hands. please.

Could the plumbers please put their hands down? My eyes are starting to water.

Thanks.

 

[daylightwarrior]

How many construction workers in this thread cannot change a light switch.

A show of hands. please.

Ha! almost missed this.

 

[rosco rathbone]

I've got honest reasons for my fear of electricity.

 

[Saint Peter]

I've got honest reasons for my fear of electricity.

Get a circuit tester and be master of your domain.

 

[rosco rathbone]

Get a circuit tester and be master of your domain.

I can see that I've opened a can of ballbreaking worms that is going to make the ice cream cone story pale in comparison.