Oh Lawd…

When the new plumber said he installs water heaters on the side I thought he meant evenings or something!
What could go wrong anyway 🤷 pic.twitter.com/GACBFthf0S

— TB1™️ 🇺🇲 (@TB1Kinobe) September 6, 2024

I'm still perplexed at just even wanting to put them in attic space… never makes sense to me from a risk/reward analysis. Just stick it in a garage or closet somewhere..

It's a dealbreaker for me when looking at houses to buy. I used to live in a house where it was in the attic above the master bathroom. I heard every noise it made and while running, and it was a constant reminder that if anything went wrong, I'd be looking at water coming down through my ceiling. So glad to be out of that house!

Let him cook pic.twitter.com/499SICspkx

— Interesting As Fuck (@interesting_aIl) September 10, 2024

He gets an A for ingenuity but a F on intelligence. Man, those sharp edges are gonna cut!

I would never post any of my projects here.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C_oiEUcSFAZ/?igsh=eGh0bHA1YzBic3o1

A couple this crowd will appreciate.

Doing a bathroom remodel at our house, shower glass guy put three screws into a water line, couldn't believe it until I saw it. Plumber came and fixed it on the back side thankfully.

Shoddy work because who runs a water line drop that far from the valve

Narrowly avoided a family project that would make this thread. College daughter called last week about building a stand for them to put a tv on in their sorority house room (think really small for two girls and not allowed to put holes in the wall.)

I told her to send me dimensions and I should be able to put something together for them.

Just got a facetime from her at Home Depot with a cart full of at least 6 8 foot 2x6 or 8 boards. She explained a vague plan involving glue. Asked what kind of glue.

To her credit this is my kid that doesn't ask for help much. She would routinely go grab the tool she thought she needed and just go do it herself. Sometimes that led to rather poor fastener choices and large wall holes......

Told her I thought it would be better to send me the dimensions and let me put something together that she can take back up there when she is down this weekend to go with us to the MO game.

Kids.....

The only thing I will admit to on this thread was when I first bought my home I wanted to update the oven and microwave that were built in on top of one another. At the time I didn't fully understand that 'built in' microwaves were really just normal countertop microwaves that had a nice faceplate that you had to overpay for.

The width of the oven opening was 30" and so I was searching for microwaves that were 30" wide to go above it. Which was exclusively over the range microwaves. I was about to purchase and shove a vented microwave meant for over the range into a rectangular hole in the cabinet with no clue how I was going to make the edges look nice.

My dad was quick to ask me, 'What the hell are you doing?'

Saved me from this thread.

I encountered a new one this weekend.

My dad had a bunkhouse built at the ranch last year. Come this year, 2 of 4 exterior doors are not latching.

I started on the first one and knew right away that it wasn't just sag and was pretty sure it wasn't a foundation issue as it all looked good that i could see. So, I decided to take the interior trim off. Oddly I noticed a lot of flex in the door frame while taking off trim.

Ended up finding that the door frame was fastened with exactly ZERO nails or screws, and was friction fit with a odd ball trim board arrangement. Turns out that they had 4" door frames in a 6" wall. Instead of just installing normally and trimming the gap, they installed a 4" trim board in the rough opening, toward the outside edge, and then forced the frame into it. It was a really tight damn fit as neither the door nor exterior trim board had ANY FASTENERS, shims or anything. WTF? So, I got to take it entirely rehang that door from a bare rough opening.

On the second one, they at least had finish nails in the trim but the same force fit for the door.

As near as I could tell, the other 2 didn't have any fasteners that I could see or find with a magnet but I was tired and just secured them in and said eff it for now since they are latching, not how I planned to spend the weekend.

Great one from a one year builder warranty inspection today.

Homeowner had already had the builder redo part of the master shower due to excessive and weird tile cracking. See if you can figure out why that was happening from the pictures of the demo.







They declined tearing out the whole thing even though they were "shocked " about the construction methods. Assured the homeowner that nothing else could possibly be wrong with the installation.

So of course my inspection found it was leaking in other areas.







Fun Fun! I will push for a complete down to the studs repair with a mold inspection.

That's terrible.. and there is no water barrier on there either. Total junk.

Hopefully everyone noticed that they used exterior siding pieces for the backer board in the shower. A new and inventive cost cutting method! I mean come on, it is waterproofish.

Honestly pretty stunned. This was an established production builder in the DFW area, not some one off independent in the country.

Not sure I would have believed it if the homeowner hadn't had the pictures, and I find leaking shower enclosures ALL the time from shoddy workmanship and have a really low opinion on new construction quality control.