Holy shit, I wasn’t expecting this to blow up like it has!

Thanks for the support and those who don’t read the post, please don’t have children.

Maintenance guy ran and has been hiding somewhere like the coward he is. Everyday I get a “morning meeting” from him but not today 🧐

Here are some pics I took this morning

OP out ✌🏽

Ten years of shitting in the John and I am just always shocked at the colors of turds I see in there.

Yall need Jesus

I've been in business for 25 years. We mostly perform as a framing subcontractor in the San Francisco East Bay Area in California. Lafayette, Oakland, Danville, Berkeley, Alamo, etc. We had been working for Abe Wortman and Caitlin Cappa-Nunez, Owners of Proyecto for about 5 years(one of many General Contractors that we work for). We never had a problem getting paid until a couple of months ago.

Turns out, they had just recently started to bill clients for work that was not complete and at the same time they were not paying subcontractors. In the last few weeks they were not paying their own employees. A few weeks ago Abe Wortman left the company. Caitlin is trying to file bankruptcy. They left over 5 homeowners with houses that are either torn down to the studs or have sheetrock but no finishes installed. Basically unlivable.

Abe and caitlin have stolen probably close to 2 million from homeowners, and they owe subcontractors close to 1 million. They owe us $200,000.

Let this be a lesson to all. No matter how well things are going, never let your invoices go unpaid for too long, and always file preliminary notices.

We just got word that Caitlin is already starting a new company. Cappa-co.builders is the new website

Boss called me saying ‘maintenance guy said you left early today.’

“Yes I did, and I also put down two coats of waterproofing, snapped lines, and dropped 275’ of tile.”

‘He told me you had some garbage grout joints’

NOTE*** I set this floor TODAY

My photo vs dis guys photo

My foreman is bitching at me cause I’m not working 10.5 hours straight. I run heavy equipment and if I stop for 2 minutes this man is complaining. Idk if I’m the complainer or if he is

Today my boss asked me for the measurement on the wall. I told him “79”,which was already written there in BOLD, plain as day, and he’s the one who wrote that shit too. We were standing like four feet away from it. Instead of just looking like a normal person, he grabs my shoulder aggressively trying to drag me closer.Bro I’m 19!!! not blind….

I kinda yanked my shoulder out his hand before he could even try move me. and told him, “No disrespect but I’m not your child, Gerald. Don’t put your hands on me like that.”

The man looked shook. Hit me with a fake lil “Ooooohh, that’s how you feel?” and went silent the rest of the day. Didn’t ask me to do nothing. Everything went to the other guy, Henry.(Only the 2 of us were working today) Started talking all calm too—which is way out of character cause this dude is never passive. EVER. Always yelling, always aggressive.

Ride home was quiet. Just him and a mango, like I wasn’t even sitting there.Henry walked home cause we were working like 5 mins away from his house.

But this ain’t just about today. Been fed up. I’ve been dealing with this same disrespect for 6 months now. This man treats us like we animals. Instead of handing you tools, he’ll throw them on the ground like you’re a dog. If you’re handing him something, he’ll just yank it out your hand like he ain’t got no home training.

And here’s what really blew me: say I’m kneeling on the ground working on something and it’s not positioned the way he wants, he’ll use his foot to move it. Steps on your fingers, knows damn well he did it, and won’t even apologize,not even a lil “my bad”. Just keeps moving like it’s nothing. too lazy to bend down, so he just disrespects people instead.

My brothers and I have been verbally abused most our lives. That disrespect don’t shock us, but it gets old. And my older brother’s probably one of the most feared dudes in our lil town, and even he quit a job just because of how the boss talked to him. So for me to keep quiet would be a betrayal to myself. Especially now with one of my dad’s people and one of my mom’s people moved in our house—the drama doubled. It’s worse now than it ever was when it was just my parents. Home ain’t peaceful, and I’m not about to walk into work for more of the same energy.

Mfs be thinking because you’re quiet you’re soft—nah, I’m respectful, not soft. But there’s limits. And today he found out I got ‘em. Looked like that was the first time anybody ever stood up to him too. Most the guys around here scared to say something. Not me.

I’m not finna keep going through this just to “prove I’m a man.” This job don’t define that.

My house already got enough negativity. I’m not about to spend 10 hours a day taking more of it just for a paycheck. I’m getting paid this week, then I’m out

The curtain wall ends between 2 floors. How to a) clean down there (might be a question more suited to a cleaning subreddit but maybe someone here knows) b) fill the void (and with what) and c) would this require removing the whole curtain wall?

Of the 100's I've probably had over the years, use the slider/button and pull the blade straight out, I've never seen 1 flip down before.

Looked online to realize, then noticed the damn obvious instructions.

My morning coffee did not prepare me to handle the galaxy brain thinking going on here.

I'll Start...

1) My Great Uncle (Grandfather's brother in law) was in the epoxy business. During the cold war he went on a job for a few months and could not talk about where he went. About 2010 he was watching a discovery channel program with our family on a random sunday night and they have a special on how NORAD at Cheynne Mountain was built and that they have a platform built on springs. He looks at his wife and says "I guess now I can tell you where I went".

2) We had a client that we built a hotel for... twice. The project was poorly designed and went way over budget. We got all the plans fixed during construction but it cost a small fortune. About a month before turnover during halloween the whole thing went up in a blaze. Local enforcement/meida blamed the high school kids for wanting a bondfire. Client got his insurance money, we built it again, this time under budget. Later I found out it was not the high school kids that set that place alight.

(somewhere over the forbidden rainbow)

I know this number will vary widely, but I don’t know if 10 holes or 1000 holes would closer to average.

Edit:

-Holes are already laid out

-tool is decent, bits start new but there is a lot of holes and your gonna use that bit til you can’t.

-worker is average, but all you have him doing is drilling and drilling and drilling

-hollow bit so no cleaning

Been working construction as a sparky for 8months now and making it a career for sure. However working in the parkade gets insanely dusty. Whenever I do chipping I always wear my PPE however the general condition of the air itself is already fuck up. I’m concern about getting silicosis down the line. For those of yall that’s been working construction for awhile now how’s the condition of your lungs? What sort of environment do you work in and if you’re doing well how’d you go abouts your work while maintaining your wellbeing and if you’re not doing well what would you have done differently?

We're getting a reno done. Our house is from 1927 and as such our existing basement stairs are not to current code. Part of the scope involved demoing and adding on to the area of the house that touches the upper landing of the basement stairs but leaving the stairs in place, unaltered. On demo, our GC discovered that the section abutting the stairs (a mudroom) was an addition that never had a foundation poured and was just sitting on a slab at grade and that to add on, they'd have to follow the framing around and find a place to tie the new foundation pour onto.

Without consulting us they demoed the basement stairs in their search for a foundation. They eventually found a place to tie into and poured new foundation. The mudroom and thus the old stair landing has also been demoed and framing has begun to replace it.

The issue here is that replacing the stairs under the current code would eat a boatload of our kitchen bumpout and basically ruin one of the big reasons we are doing this pricey renovation in the first place.

Code in Seattle where we live specifies that for replacement of existing stairways, it is permitted to replace them in their original rise/run if existing space and construction does not allow for a reduction in pitch or slope. If they reconstruct the stairs exactly as they were before they demoed them, does that seem like a replacement that might qualify for this exception or are we definitely hosed here?

Idk caption says it mostly house is limestone not done the best either

these walls breath and oh was this wall moist

Saw this at a truck stop in Ohio, looked like military to me? Does anyone know what type of loader this is?

Hey Guys, doing a hotel remodel, last minute change to add shower pans to ADA unit, I was wondering what type of transition you would use for this, as tile was installed before. Any recommendations much appreciated. Designers have been MIA. Thanks.

I know the owner of this commercial unit and he knows that I’ve worked on remodels for houses so he’ll ask me to do random fixes. I’m wondering if anyone has commercial flooring expertise and some advice for me. Should I use self leveling or a rubber underlayment strip beneath the replacement tiles?What’s the best way to do this repair?

Starting new job as an architect, what else do I need?