Yah i know about those studs lol my dad is a carpenter haha so yah
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Me and my Dad
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A carpenter? The folks who put up my baseboards for $3.75 per linear foot (!) were definitely not carpenters. I've spent a lot of time with the caulk, wood putty, sandpaper, and paintbrush recently. Sand / post / paint / post / scrape paint off floor / post / spackle / post / paint / etc. I wish your father was here....I can't find anyone who knows how to measure and cut wood who's available before autumn. But I've become deft with the spackle knife and paintbrush. And soon I will be covered with drywall mud on top of everything else, and full of paint thinner fumes.
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Lmao he would fix you up in a jiffy, hes so great with it, ive helped build a couple side jobs with him, what he knows how to do is amazing, hes been building houses for 26 years now, but he stoped doing carpentry couple years ago but still does a side job here and there.
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You would not believe how hard it is to find good contractors around here. The good ones are busy forever, and the questionable ones are a crap shoot. And no one who's worked on anything in my house has worn any kind of eye protection. One guy turned on the mitre saw with a piece of wood on the blade...it shot right into him. The guy who was drilling through concrete to put up vertical blinds got an eyeful of concrete dust.If only I has a circular saw and mitre saw and impact drill, I could do all this stuff myself. I'm just really slow...but the money I'd save would pay for the tools several times over .I could give them away at the end of the project and still come out ahead.
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Damn my dad got some concrete dust up his nose once, it fucked him up lol i bet the eye is three times worse, yah no offense but im guessign there all cubans and mexicans?
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Gotta be straight here. I have worked construction, and have a wood shop, but I only wear hearing protection. But, I am good. No ego. It is simply the truth. No more construction for me, though. Too old to be a rafter rat. Yes, good contractors are always busy.I have gotten some great tools from pawn shops. You can get good quality ones, DeWalt, Milwaukee, etc. for half the price. One mans misfortune...
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All together, not much English spoken. My Spanish is pretty weak. Sometimes I had to use gestures. "No, that's no good" is not that hard to convey. The workers were from Nicaragua, Venezuela, Mexico, Cuba, and other places. I'm not sure who was working legally.When I told the main floor guy what the flooring place was getting, his eyeballs almost exploded. He was clearly getting a lot less than they were. What a waste of my money.The flooring project was a bit advanced for me, but I think I could have cut and nailed the baseboards. 4 1/4" baseboard is only 79 cents a foot at Home Depot! I could screw up a lot of cuts without it costing much.And I can't believe I painted someone to put up towel racks. I grabbed one and it came off the wall in my hand. This is after we agreed that they needed to be anchored into the drywall. Sheesh. I drilled holes in the wall and inserted toggle bolts. And I actually took 10 seconds with the tape measure to make sure the rack was straight.And don't get me started on the door hanging job! The guy who did it is a painter and had no idea how to hang a door, or handle wood! Now that I have a set of wood chisels, I'll do it myself next time. My new door handlesets should arrive tomorrow...I'll be chipping wood this weekend.So, basically, I pay to have work done, don't like the results, and re-do it myself.OK, I've vented and feel much better now.[v: I got a really good on-sale deal on an 18-volt Ryobi drill with 2 batteries at Home Depot. It's not as good as Milwaukee, but good enough for my purposes.)
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Damn sounds like your going to have a fun weekend, yah that shit has to suck. If you want it done right do it your self. yah know
http://www.putfile.com/media.php?n=loobia99
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Too late. It's gone.
I don't have much painting left to do. All the annoying stuff is done. I'll probably install one handleset a day...the doors to the outside are already done.
I don't think I could get paid to do this kind of stuff. I need to keep stopping and do something else.
I don't think anyone else in my family ever built anything, except my grandfather, who was a plumber.
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Whats gone, that site i wanted you to see?
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Whatever was posted there was replaced with an "inapropriate content" message.
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Lmao, alright ill PM it to you
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AHH damn that sucks, yah they must have took it off, sorry dude
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In reply to: but im guessign there all cubans and mexicans? I'm guessing they're not very good at whatever they're doing where yall are from but here in Hickville, the Cubans and Mexicans are the only ones you can trust to get the job done right. It's the drunk hicks you have to watch out for.
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Haha thats odd around here and i dont live in the city, the hicks get it done fast and good, atleast thats how its been for me.
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I have to laugh. I have a good friend down in the southwest of the country. He is a handy man, and sometimes goes to Home Depot to get a daylaboror. Many Maxicans hang out there just for that reason. My friend will ask in Spanish if anyone does drywall. One hundred hands raise. Then he asks if anyone is a good painter. Again, one hundred hands. Then he might ask for a one who knows plumbing. And again, the hundred hands. After a few times doing that, he became disgusted. I cant blame them, though, I have lied myself into a few jobs when younger, but I pick up things quickly ( NOT refering to shoplifting lol!) and so it worked for me and the employer. But out of any group of people who do a job, it is a given that most will be either average or mediocre, as that is typical in society in general.I also had a friend who finally got off the sauce. He was a roofer, but had to learn to roof all over again, since he hadn't roofed sober for twenty years. A drunk hick is a drunk hick, and a drunk craftsman is a drunk craftsman, and again, the performances of these two types on their jobs will reflect their skill level, sober or drunk. I do know several guys that I would as soon let do work for me drunk, as opposed to many that I would not want to do work for me sober. But, it is best to do as much myself as possible. Quality control, self reliance, and the more I can do myself, the stronger I am, for I don't need to rely on others and try to fit my needs into others time tables. At this point, I am a very strong person.And no, Football, I really don't kick my dog. You know I was kidding, right?
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Haha i had a feeling you were i just wanted to make sure
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I'm guessing they're not very good at whatever they're doingWell, I wouldn't say that. In Boston I worked on my house with a Brazilian guy (he actually did all the worlk). He was fast and good and precise. Man, that guy could do good baseboard.What makes me unhappy is that I went to a flooring contractor that charged a pretty reasonable amount for labor on the whole job (maybe too little), but a lot for labor on the baseboard. (The material itself was pretty expensive: $5.50 per s.f. for the flooring). They then sent subcontractors to do the installation who they didn't pay very well, and who were not experienced enoungh with things besides flooring. The didn't inspect the boards before putting them down. They and the main contractor had no idea about matching wood (used for door thresholds). Acckkk. Their target was to get it done in a 2 or 2 1/2 days. Ridiculous. If they knew exactly what they were doing and did perfect work, it would take 5 days.The problem is,if you deal with a main contractor, they will often find really inexpensive people to do the labor. Americans generally won't work for such small money. Some immigrants, especially if their status is illegal, will.The vertical blind place at lest had their own guys on salary. But I paid a lot (really a lot! more than I would have elsewhere. I saw exactly what they were doing, so I think I'll do the next one myself (it involves drilling through concrete).The bottom line is, if you want something done right, you have to fine each person yourself, or you have to find a main contractor who a saint. Keep in mind that if you buy kitchen cabinets, window treatments, flooring, etc., you usually don't know who they will send to do the work. It's a real crap shoot.[Wow, that was long and boring, but theraputic for me. Dealing with contractors and their workers is almost always very, very stressfull.]
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Well my dad is a Hispanic immigrant, but he is educated, unlike the majority of Hispanic roofers and bricklayers and people like that. He is an infertility specialist in Nashville and has an M.D. from the Catholic University of Chile. He has now been in private practice for 10 years, but he has been on the medical school faculty at Univ. of MD (Baltimore Campus), Wayne State University in Detroit, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison, Thomas Jefferson Univ. in Philadelphia, and Vanderbilt Univ. in Nashville. He is too smart. His whole family is like that too, except I have never met them b/c they live 4000 miles away and speak like 10 words in English. I know some Spanish, but probably not enough to effectively communicate with them. Oh well, all Hispanic ppl aren't poor, minimum wage workers.
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I'd assume that if anyone gestured me to the side of the road, they were planning to hijack my car. People drive around with handguns in Florida.
True story:
Old woman in Miami comes out of the supermarket and heads to her car where she sees 4 young black men sitting in the car apparently about to drive away. She pulls her handgun out of the bag, forces them to get out of the car, then gets in and drives away.A few miles down the road the police pull her over and eventually it's realised that although the car she's driving is the same make, model and colour as hers, it's not actually her car and she has in fact unintentionally hijacked it :smile: