Lowest bidder quality

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• MNByChoice@midwest.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Sad part is, the work could have been subbed out to the cheapest while homeowners paid much higher.

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  • njm1314@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I could have been I think you mean almost certainly

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  • 5in1k@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I got a quote from a local big roofing place for my garage 12 years ago and they made me watch a video of the owner crying about his dead dad then threw out a $4500 quote. I just didn’t do the roof. Fast forward to 2023 and I get an actual roofer to do the roof and replace wood because I waited too long. The price of building materials was sky high, it was $2500. Probably the same guys they subcontract.

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    • MNByChoice@midwest.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      they made me watch a video of the owner crying about his dead dad

      Glad you didn’t reward that behavior. WTF

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• geogle@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  And the vent still leaks

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• jmiller@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  And the person who found it isn’t doing a good job either, putting new shingles over old. The old should be removed.

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  • Atropos@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Eh, going over one layer is fine as long as there are no decking or other structural problems. From what I can see here the older ones are in good enough shape.

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    • MotoAsh@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Ah yes, inches worth of snow in extra weight is tooootally fine… yep, no downsides to increasing deadwwight at all, nope, nosiree, engineers all agree, dead weight needn’t factor in to calculations at all.

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  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    What are shingles? Pieces of tar?

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    • jmiller@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      A fiberglass mat core with asphalt around it and grit stuck in the asphalt on the top.

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    • ohwhatfollyisman@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      it’s a tennis match that Sean Connery plays without a partner.

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• expatriado@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  my 2 bathrooms extractor fans are like that, home inspector never caught it

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  • nogooduser@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That’s what I’m thinking. The homeowner installed it to fake meeting code.

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    • lightnsfw@reddthat.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That was my first thought when I saw it. “That’s something my dad would do to get past an inspection”.

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  • Akasazh@feddit.nl ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Why are you all getting your homes inspected?

    Serious question, I’m not from the home of the free

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    • expatriado@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      when I bought it, previous owner tricked me

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• boaratio@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I used to live in a brick rowhouse, and the arched transom started to crack. I thought I’d diy repoint it myself, only to find out that a previous contractor had “fixed” it by jamming cardboard in the cracks and filled it in with caulk. Totally legit.

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  • barsquid@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I will be DIYing everything for the rest of my life because that’s apparently the only way to hire someone who gives a fuck.

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• jg1i@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Cy: People buying million dollar homes think they’re getting the A-Team. They’re not. It’s the same builders that build the cheap homes.

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  • derf82@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s the same builders that build the cheap homes

    What cheap homes? No one is building those these days, other than maybe Habitat for Humanity and companies making mobile/prefab homes.

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  • Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    “million dollar home” can mean vastly different houses depending on location

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• Carighan@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  What am I looking at here? Something on a roof?

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  • someguy3@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Supposed to be a vent, but there is no hole in the roof.

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    • Carighan@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Damn, that’s a good building expression of the shit I see at work coding software. 😅

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    • Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Maybe there’s a hole but the roofers shingled over it. They noticed, then put the raincap on-top to protect the shingled hole.

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  • Maalus@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That cap is there to protect a hole from getting rained on. Usually vents or something. The thing is there but no hole.

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• altima_neo@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Cy is having an aneurysm

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  • someguy3@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Who?

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    • rmtworks@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      There is a guy who goes by “Cy” who posts videos online of homes he inspects in Arizona. There’s been some crazy stuff he’s found. I enjoy watching his content.

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    • altima_neo@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Guy on YouTube/TikTok who does home inspections and see the laziest shit by builders. He seems like a good dude who stands up for the homeowners to get their new homes fixed up when builders try to avoid responsibility.

      youtube.com/@cyfyhomeinspections

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• finitebanjo@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  M O U L D

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• TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  you can’t park that there

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