Crappy Construction: The Four POs of the Housepocalypse

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grover: Jan 23, 2002; PEW PEW PEW

Remulak posted:

Who the hell put laminate down without fixing the floor first? He (or she) should know it's a repair job waiting to happen that they'll get blamed for.

Yeah, if it's as bad as you say, the laminate is gonna fail for sure. The installer needs to take it back up, level the floor, and reinstall.

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grover: Jan 23, 2002; PEW PEW PEW

jackyl posted:

I've found the same thing, where Lowe's far outclasses HD, 84 Lumber (when we still had it) or local yards. This has applied to everything, including building lumber, paint grade shelving / cabinet stock, stain grade material, all of it. Except for white oak, which was a bitch to track down when I did my steps. Everything else, though, Lowe's was the easy winner. And that was for two different Lowe's at both of our houses, so now with your comments, I'm taking this as a truism.

No matter where you source your lumber, if you get #2, it's going to have a fair % of lovely lumber in there. You need to buy #1 or select if you want every board to be quality. It's funny- the building codes actually had to be changed a few decades ago to reflect that modern tree-farm lumber is not as strong as virgin old-growth lumber the codes were originally written for. If you pick through the bin long enough at Lowes/Home Depot, you can usually find some #1 quality marked as #2. It's just not practical to do that for big projects, though.

Doesn't excuse the carpenters for using lovely-rear end boards that should either have gone on the discard pile or been cut up for firestop or cribbing or something else where it doesn't matter the 8' 2x4 had a 4" warp in it. But no, they throw it on the wall anyhow and now your wall has a giant-rear end bow. Also, is it REALLY that goddamned hard to use a tape measure, square and plumb-bob?

grover fucked around with this message at 16:24 on Jan 18, 2013

# ¿ Jan 18, 2013 16:18

grover: Jan 23, 2002; PEW PEW PEW

Rotten Red Rod posted:

They have a full set of furniture they got on the spot from some guys driving around the neighborhood selling it out of a truck, and it seems to be good stuff.

Of course it's good- they stole it from a very nice house.

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