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To answer your question directly, no I have not. I do wonder if that is a local code where the person made the video. In my professional capacity I cannot tell you how many times I was told it was 'code' to have a specific $$$ product only to find out it was a misinterpretation of the code, or some salesman trying to press product via the inspectors. I've seem them get really pissy about sealing off boxes for air leakage here in the desert.
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I do that to my neighbor all the time just so that he sees it every morning at 7am when his dumb retired ass leaves to go play golf and socialize with his stupid friends.
Jokes on you buddy! I’m over here raising three kids, working 60 hours a week, and still find time to cut my own yard!
Jokes on you buddy! I’m over here raising three kids, working 60 hours a week, and still find time to cut my own yard!
Haus
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So, our fall project here at Chez Haus is interior painting. We both hate painting so we're OK with paying a good painter to come handle up on it. We budgeted $10-15k. We want to minimize the labor expenses so we start boxing everything we can and packing things into areas which won't be painted to minimize prep/movement of shit. We call in the painter we want to get an estimate. We have noted there will be some minimal dry wall work also needing to be done.
I got a bad feeling as we packed things up seeing the number and types of cracks.. but did my best to suppress it.
Painter comes in and 5 minutes in he's like :
*sigh*
So now the fall project is "get foundation squared away". Slab foundation house built in Texas in the mid 60's. So this is par for the course. The foundation place I've used for my mom's house, when I called them and gave them my address, the girl immediately started typing it in and said "Oh.. looks like we've spent a lot of time on your street..." from the number of neighbors who have also had work done by them.
I got a bad feeling as we packed things up seeing the number and types of cracks.. but did my best to suppress it.
Painter comes in and 5 minutes in he's like :
*sigh*
So now the fall project is "get foundation squared away". Slab foundation house built in Texas in the mid 60's. So this is par for the course. The foundation place I've used for my mom's house, when I called them and gave them my address, the girl immediately started typing it in and said "Oh.. looks like we've spent a lot of time on your street..." from the number of neighbors who have also had work done by them.
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Dude said 2 to 4 weeks depending on what's done , 4 would have to be one hell of a bathroom. He is articulating that very poorly but I do kinda agree with him. If he's a small contractor (as it appears) he's probably having to visit one site, get it where it needs to set/dry/etc. then visit the next one. Materials costs were fucking stupid before President Tariff started his bullshit and I bet the guy doesn't even know if he's making money or not. Most contractors judge the business by , well no one repossessed the truck and the lights are still on , so I must be doing good.
BrutulTM
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This is how a lot of ranchers handle their finances as well. "It's almost the end of the year and there's still money in the bank? Better buy something so I don't have to pay taxes!"
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Siliconemelons
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On the flip side, my mother in law had her bathroom "refinished" by this local place- 30k... "3 day job" - 3 people.
She is asian and ocd, they have redone the entire job twice now, replaced half the fixtures and vanity 3 times now and there are still things not right (to her).
First off, that dude can cry a river- no "10k" bathroom should be taking him a month even with "a labor" - no normal bathroom, even a large big house double bath... The "problems" you run into are not that difficult if its a complete rip out- generally once you get the walls and floor out, fixing the "big issues" is not overly difficult--- rotted subfloor? well, your down to it, so rip it up and tack in some plywood, oh so hard-- but "We gatta replace your sub floor" sounds expensive! vs "We nailed in some plywood" - OH MAN ALL YOUR PIPES NEED TO BE REPLACED!
Sharkbite is now certified in wall - there, all your old stuff can be stubbed into PEX or whatever you want and you do not have to bust out ye-ol solder and torch, just a hack saw and sand paper.
Back to my mother in law... they are doing this refinish stuff where they overlay this resin based acrylic sheet over old tile work for the tub, put down fake tile for the floor that is glue n lock- so its all 1 day, no grout etc. They cut out the shower, redid the pipes in pex, put up plywood, overlayed with the same acrylic stuff, tore out the vanity put a new one in, new toilet. 30k my butt... 15k would still be high imo but at least within "reason"
That bro aint doing no 10k bathrooms, and if he is- its some tiny bathroom like mine that costs like 1k in materials and 200$ in mexican tile work.
She is asian and ocd, they have redone the entire job twice now, replaced half the fixtures and vanity 3 times now and there are still things not right (to her).
First off, that dude can cry a river- no "10k" bathroom should be taking him a month even with "a labor" - no normal bathroom, even a large big house double bath... The "problems" you run into are not that difficult if its a complete rip out- generally once you get the walls and floor out, fixing the "big issues" is not overly difficult--- rotted subfloor? well, your down to it, so rip it up and tack in some plywood, oh so hard-- but "We gatta replace your sub floor" sounds expensive! vs "We nailed in some plywood" - OH MAN ALL YOUR PIPES NEED TO BE REPLACED!
Sharkbite is now certified in wall - there, all your old stuff can be stubbed into PEX or whatever you want and you do not have to bust out ye-ol solder and torch, just a hack saw and sand paper.
Back to my mother in law... they are doing this refinish stuff where they overlay this resin based acrylic sheet over old tile work for the tub, put down fake tile for the floor that is glue n lock- so its all 1 day, no grout etc. They cut out the shower, redid the pipes in pex, put up plywood, overlayed with the same acrylic stuff, tore out the vanity put a new one in, new toilet. 30k my butt... 15k would still be high imo but at least within "reason"
That bro aint doing no 10k bathrooms, and if he is- its some tiny bathroom like mine that costs like 1k in materials and 200$ in mexican tile work.
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I don't know how anybody thinks they're going to pay a contactor to remodel a bathroom for 10K. I'm in the middle of a MB remodel that I'm doing myself because paying a contractor for just a 3x4 shower made of some sort of engineered panels was $10k (local cultured marble) to $17k (Kohler panels) alone. Double or triple that for tile. We still have a tub, floors, vanity top, paint, fixtures, etc. to do. I'm in for $4.2k right now and I expect another $2k will finish the job, but I'm also on day 13 and I'm still doing some demo work. It will take me, I estimate, about 8 weeks to finish. The guest bath took me 35 days but it was a smaller and easier job.
Hatorade
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Ours was 10k like 5 years ago(pre covid prices), we moved the toilet to other side, tiled everything, sliding glass door, got nice set of cabinets, counter top etc.
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If I could find a local outfit that did a good job for 15k, I'd book them this second. I've been trying to get our master bath redone for a while now and every quote is more ridiculous than the last. One of those prefab, done in under a week, places wanted 60k. That was with keeping all the plumbing/electrical intact so they could avoid pulling permits. Local plumber came in at 80k. My lowest quote so far has been 42k, which is still over double what I'm willing to pay.
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Hatorade
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May as well just burn the house down and start over at that point.
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moonarchia
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A little guanciale fire that happens to engulf your xmas decorations and turns everything into delicious smelling ash.
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