I'm dealing with one of those idiots now, did an extensive repair and then the homeowner talked to another roofer that says I should have done this and that for so much less. The other roofer? Some Chuck in a truck without a license, liability insurance and workmen comp. My margin is still smaller for the more extensive repair done right but the guy got his panties in a wad and cancelled the check. Friggin people, the best candidates for covid never get it.
Frustrated looked at a place that was beautiful log home on 3 acres, inside the house was all updated and move in ready. The kitchen was what my wife would order to have built, great big deck the place had it all. But there are stairs to the lake many many stairs to get down to the lake, about 100' in elevation. There is an ATV trail down to the lake, I would have to buy a side by side. Second issue is no garage would require excavation and a retaining wall to put in an acceptable garage. Third is that for the price they are asking there is a lot of debris, a junky little shed with a lot of crap scattered around, a canvas covered quansite hut filled with various dimensions of rough sawn lumber and another tin covered structure with more rough sawn lumber all of it a minimum 2-1/2 inch thick. The wood has little to no sale value and it was near the top of my range, the hunt goes on, still listing the house after next weekend. Watch I will get a great offer and end up homeless.
Take a look at how long has it been on the market. A long time and they may take a lower offer. Sent from my SM-G960U1 using Tapatalk
Right on! (could be Bigfoot, or my decoy... The sun's not up yet) Sent from my SM-G960U1 using Bowhunting.com Forums mobile app
Over 300 days but it is priced high, to be honest even at a much lower price the travel from the house to the dock is a deal breaker.
If you are ever in NC then you should try the tenders at Smithfield’s Chicken ‘N Bar-B-Que. They are damn good. Actually their regular fried chicken is pretty good too. And they’ve got great bar-b-que. Plus their Brunswick stew is real tasty. And they have good fries and hush puppies. Their sweet tea is pretty good too. Oh, their banana pudding and pecan pie is a real treat too. I guess it’s safe to say pretty much everything they have is good. Even the popcorn shrimp is decent. They make all their stuff in store from actual raw ingredients so really it’s more like regular sit down restaurant food except you have the option to get it passed to you through a window.
I have the utmost respect for concrete finishers. That is some truly hard labor. Back when I was a project manager for a commercial GC I had a job where we needed to get a transformer pad poured that day so we could set the transformer and get the electrical connections done in time to pass the inspection we had scheduled in a few days and get our temporary power permit. Of course our concrete guys were nowhere to be found so me and the superintendent decided the 2 of us would form and place the pad. It wasn’t a very big pad - like 10’ X 10’ and 12” thick. We finished laying the stone, forming the pad, and doing the rebar in no time. I remember the superintendent and I were waiting for the concrete truck and were so confident in our abilities that we were talking about doing all the equipment pads ourselves to cut some cost. Then the concrete arrived.... We knew the truck wouldn’t be able to back up all the way up to the pad so we had to wheelbarrow it about 50’ uphill then place it and finish it. We had them use ice in the concrete mix to give us extra time and since it was only like 3-4 yds of concrete we weren’t too concerned. We were wayyyy to overconfident - by the time we were finished with the pad we could barely walk the 200’ or so back to our jobsite trailer. I have never been so tired in my entire life that night. The next morning I was so sore that when I got in the shower I could barely lift my arms high enough to wash my hair. I was concerned that I had actually seriously injured myself and even considered going to the hospital. I told myself after that that I will never mess with concrete again. Every single part of placing it and finishing it is hard labor - even just pushing it around with a shovel to spread it out from the edge of the pad where the wheelbarrow dumped it is exhausting. I have no idea how y’all go out and do that 5 days a week. If I tried to do that as a career I know for a fact that I would keel over dead by the 3rd or 4th day on the job. There is only one job in construction that I would want less than concrete finishing and that’s the guys who spray the fireproofing on the structural steel. Not because that’s such a hard job, but because being covered from head to toe with that god awful stuff looks like it would be absolute torture.
Yea it can be hard to realize how much goes into it some days being around it all the time. I dont feel for the most part kill myself every day but other days it feels like on the run whole day. We get lucky alot of times and take as much "work" out of it as can with the use of equipment but doesn't always work that way. Use a pump/belt truck as much as can to pour but that's not alwasy feasible. On some of bigger flat pours can usually back the truck where needs to be or on rare occasions use skid loader or just shoot it and drag. Those days suck ha. Also have trackhoe and bucket can use but that's pretty slow goin. Especially on flat work. We have a spin screed use to strike it off, and its not that bad. Honestly the days I despise the most is when we haveta strip forms off walls. Especially basements. Use the forms that have ties and metal rods, gates style forms. So you haveta cut all the ties and rip rods off before go around and kick forms off. But overall pretty lucky, we got a small crew and everyone pretty much has their job and that's what focus on. We've all worked together long enough it usually all flows pretty good. Sent from my SM-G950U using Tapatalk
