The Shoddy Workmanship Thread..

I'll start off... :mad:

Had the roof replaced in 2009. There's one spot on the face board the the paint looked weird. I've been keeping an eye on in since September last lear. This morning I hear a bird doing bird things along the roof line in back. Upon locating the bird it looks like it wants in and has been poking at the spot where I've been eyeing.

Well Mr. Bird said it's time to go and take a look at that spot. Once up there I see it's all rotted. Seems the roofer didn't put the flashing on correctly. It stopped short of the shingles and water has been getting into the soffit.

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I weather proofed it for now. I don't know if I want to do it or hire someone. Had one person out today, two more Monday.
 
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Building this house:
- Gomez screwed up the drainage on and outside the foundation, bowed out the foundation wall packing the garage base with rock & gravel, then we discovered he purrs the garage slab 4” too low, after I already fired him. Had someone else pour another 4” in the garage 3 years ago, and had Atlantic redo the drains inside the crawlspace this week.
- Derek at Southern something, forever known as WD (Whistle Derek), screwed up the grading/landscaping 3 ways till Sunday. Cut the line to the septic tank, effed up the repair. Cut the phone line to the house after being instructed to not start until NoDig arrived and marked it. Plus there’s more, then WD tried to sue me for @ $12k for firing him. I’m still redoing his shite.
 
rdinatal said:
@Pink_Vapor mine pales in comparison to that.
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I’ve got to redo the gutter lines that are supposed to be min 4” below the surface, some are visible.
We paid a contractor to repair our road, 2 year warranty. He came back and did repairs within a year, out of business (Me thinks) and we’ve a mess.
Thankfully the home’s amazing, it’s just going to cost more to make it right.
 
I don't have pictures, but shortly after we bought our house back in 2001 I noticed a water stain on the ceiling of an upstairs bathroom. I went into the attic to investigate, and found that there was a leak in the roof near the chimney. Someone (I suspect the previous owner) had attempted to "fix" (or maybe just temporarily hide) the problem by smearing silicone caulk on the underside of the roof deck (i.e., inside the attic). I had a roofer come out and redo the flashing around the chimney.
 
I'm redoing part of the floor in my daughters bathroom this weekend due to the crappy sub floor the contractor installed. I almost went through it removing the old floor covering.
 
A guy re-do the tile in the master bath a few years ago. About 6 months after he was done the floor tiles started moving. Not sure WTH he did but nothing cracked they just aren’t stuck to the floor. Of ourse, he won’t answer my calls.
 
rdinatal said:
I'll start off... :mad:

Had the roof replaced in 1990. There's one spot on the face board the the paint looked weird. I've been keeping an eye on in since September last lear. This morning I hear a bird doing bird things along the roof line in back. Upon locating the bird it looks like it wants in and has been poking at the spot where I've been eyeing.

Well Mr. Bird said it's time to go and take a look at that spot. Once up there I see it's all rotted. Seems the roofer didn't put the flashing on correctly. It stopped short of the shingles and water has been getting into the soffit.

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I weather proofed it for now. I don't know if I want to do it or hire someone. Had one person out today, two more Monday.
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Honestly doesn’t look to bad after 29 years. Looks like the fascia board was in a weird location sticking out on the roof which caused the water to pool. I’m definitely no roofer but not sure how to deal with flashing with a board sticking out on the roof like that.
 
Carolinatlc said:
Honestly doesn’t look to bad after 29 years. Looks like the fascia board was in a weird location sticking out on the roof which caused the water to pool. I’m definitely no roofer but not sure how to deal with flashing with a board sticking out on the roof like that.
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How did I miss that? 2009, not 1990!

One expert said it was a builder issue and should have been cought/fixed when the roof was replaced.

Shoddy work x 2... :mad::mad:
 
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I'm a remodeling contractor and the stuff I could put into this thread..................

There are quite a few in the trades that shouldn't be allowed anywhere near a construction site/project
 
I manage a research and development lab.

I hired a shop to align a 30HP electric motor gen set to smaller motor this week. We're going to instrument the heck out of this thing and look at details of V and I as we do things to the motor. Its a fairly standard configuration.

One of the tasks was to supply a new motor, mill flats into the housing and attach three accelerometers to the cast iron end of the motor (one in each axis) via tapped and threaded holes that would allow a stud to attach the instruments to . These sensors are about as big around as your thumb and cost about $100 each.

The shop delivered the motor stand and we proceeded to begin to wire up the equipment (power, data gathering equipment, etc). One of the folks started to attach the leads to the accelerometer, which promptly fell off. Upon closer inspection, the shop had buggered up the newly threaded holes in the motor housing and stripped them out.

They "fixed" this by re-attaching the instrument with JB weld, I guess thinking we'd not notice.

This sensor was about 1" above a 2.5" solid steel armature. When (not if) this sensor fell off, it would have wrapped the sensor cabling around the rotating armature and yanked about $10,000 of precision instrumentation off the wall mounted grid above the motor stand.

They came out yesterday to try again.
 
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JohnFreeman said:
I manage a research and development lab.

I hired a shop to align a 30HP electric motor gen set to smaller motor. We're going to instrument the heck out of this thing and look at details of V and I as we do things to the motor. Its a fairly standard configuration.

One of the tasks was to supply a new motor, mill flats into the housing and attach three accelerometers to the cast iron end of the motor (one in each axis) via tapped and threaded holes that would allow a stud to attach the instruments to . These sensors are about as big around as your thumb and cost about $100 each.

The shop delivered the motor stand and we proceeded to begin to wire up the equipment (power, data gathering equipment, etc). One of the folks started to attach the leads to the accelerometer, which promptly fell off. Upon closer inspection, the shop had buggered up the newly threaded holes in the motor housing and stripped them out.

They "fixed" this by re-attaching the instrument with JB weld, I guess thinking we'd not notice.

This sensor was about 1" above a 2.5" solid steel armature. When (not if) this sensor fell off, it would have wrapped the sensor cabling around the rotating armature and yanked about $10,000 of precision instrumentation off the wall mounted grid above the motor stand.

They came out yesterday to try again.
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You need a new shop.
Ask them if they’ve ever heard of a Heli-Coil.
 
We're building a new home here in Huntersville and we went by yesterday to see how it was coming along since we are closing next month. Upon entering the home we found that most of the paper had been torn off of the hardwood and the plastic was pulled back from the carpeting in the master and removed entirely in the guest room. It appeared that the painters with red mud on their shoes had walked on every floor in the house and where the paper was removed, including carpeted areas that were not covered, right down to inside the master bedroom closet. We're not just talking about a few spots of red mud here and there, we mean everywhere, on all of the exposed hardwood and carpet. We had reservations when we picked the carpet as it is very light but felt good when we found it covered very nicely during the building process. When we talked to the super on the job he said there was an "unfortunate incident". Apparently the cleaning people took the coverings off and then found out the painters were not finished. Then the idiot painters came in with red mud all over their shoes and stayed all day walking all over everything while doing the final paint touch up. Now we have to sit back and hope the builder can get the red lumps of mud out that are ground into the carpet and restore it to it's original condition.
 
I bought a house that was build in 1955 by a man who ran a plumping and electrical supply business.
The house has been upgraded over the years to include plex pipe which I like.
However he was a plumper/electrician and NOT a carpenter.
Some of the crap he did should have him making little rocks from big ones in my opinion.
My dad and grandfather were carpenters and would have beat him before running him off their sites.
 
Pink_Vapor said:
You need a new shop.
Ask them if they’ve ever heard of a Heli-Coil.
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That's what I would do, but I didn't want to get into the "you told me to fix it this way, and....". We did discuss Helicoils though.

We also discussed a new motor.
 
I thought this would be a thread about MY shoddy DIY jobs
 
This was couple weeks ago. The main plenum has 22” of duct then flexible duct off the plenum. Never going to get proper airflow and the coil will freeze up then destroy the evaporator coil.

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60’ feet of flexible duct coming off the unit times 8 outlet runs. Never was any air coming out of the registers of four of those runs of flex.

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Guy was doing HVAC as a side job.
 
New package heatpump on the roof of a commercial building. No supports or glue on the PVC. You think that p-trap is doing it’s intended job.
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You think the return air is coming from the retail space or the 140 degree attic? Maybe the ducting needs to be installed.

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What do you mean a drop cord to an outlet is not a proper electrical repair in Huntersville? Your garage door open and closes doesn’t it? Thanks for the $400.00 check.

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All you gotta do is duck when you enter the garage. We put wire nuts on it so it was safe. Hahaha

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So you're telling me is gas pipe needs to be run into that hole for it to produce heat? Man I teach HVAC at a community college. I’m a damn expert PhD HVAC side job guy. If you don’t believe me then why did the government let me teach these guys?

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But the gas line already has black paint on it when we bought it. Screw that code book. I can’t be lower cost than other people if I do it right. Jeez those licensed guys just rip people off. I’m $1500.00 cheaper.
 
I found some old rotten lumber behind the store to level up the AC new unit. Hope you don’t mind. I have no idea why curb is too big to set the unit on.
 

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BatteryOaksBilly said:
I'm amazed there are this many posts and no mention on The Battery Oaks Gunsmithy!!! Our specialty is lopping off barrels.
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I’ve got a band saw, and a tubing cutter(which works great in shotgun barrels by the way)
 
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