What is the contractor's equivalent of "spitting

>>1041931
Probably calling his contacts and advising them to not do business with you.

>>1041931
leaving egg inside wall/under the floor.

pointing out your opinions of what other trades did way too late in the process

>those can lights dont look lined up
>hmm this tile doesnt really feel level
>is that a nick in the bathtub?
>those cabinet handles look a little goofy where they're drilled

>>1041931

roadkill/fish under or behind the cabinets.

trash/dead things under/behind the bath-tub.

ball or other object dropped down the sanitary vent stack.

small wire gauge drill through drain or roof near a valley.

>>1041931
Using/doing one or more of the following:

OSB/Plywood/MDF
Drywall
Asphalt Shingles
Face nailing slate
Breaking old slate so it can't be salvaged
Twist-on wire connectors
Cellotex
Vapor barriers
Aluminum roofing nails
Softwood studs
"Structural" foam insulation under concrete floor

The list goes on. Basically, everything you can possible do to lower the life of the structure to ensure job security.

Shitting in your house.

Feathers in chimney/vents.
They stop air circulation and are impossible to remove by throwing down metal ball (or whatever it's called, the one for cleaning chimneys).

>>1041992
They have things for that.

>>1041931
pissing in poured concrete

Putting the screws on switch plates and outlet plates crooked instead of straight up and down. That or just keeping the panel cover until we get paid

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>>1041974

>>1041941
Maybe you shouldn't have hired the lowest bidder without further research or just asking him what he uses?

>>1041938
>mfw I do hvac and my coworkers pull this shit all the time
At least the electricians who run our low voltage are chill

>>1041931
I was part of a firm that was doing a sizeable job in London, the client was a cunty woman who thought she knew better than we did and was rude as fuck to us, so we just did everything she said exactly as she asked us to do it, even when we knew it was wrong, nothing outright dangerous you understand but not as good as it could be if you know what you are doing, we got it all in writing which she thought was protecting her but we let her hang herself with her own paperwork, when it came time for building inspections all the little birds came home to roost, lots of remedial work needed and nothing she could do because she was the one who ordered it, it ended up costing her £20,000 ($30,000) extra and another month of work to put right.

>>1041941
What's wrong with aluminium roofing nails?

>>1042054
Do tell. What were her demands?

>>1042054
what sort of work?

>>1042066
Doors in the wrong place with no planning permission for the door in the first place, she wanted cheaper lower grade wire, didn't want the soak away as big as it needed to be, fire alarms were not fitted or not fitted right because she didn't want to pay for the right system for the property and the use she was going to use it for, no fire exit signage, flooring was cheap shit that would only last a year or two before being junk, there were just so many it's hard to list all of them and since I did mostly ground work (footings and foundations) most of it is what I heard from other guys who were still working on it, but she got a real fright I know that much.

>>1042071
She had her nose in all of it right from day one, she even tried to get us to use an inferior grade of concrete for the foundations, and she pissed and moaned about the cost of the rebar too!, I was glad to get out of there early in the job.

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>>1042080
>she wanted cheaper lower grade wire
>fire alarms were not fitted or not fitted right because she didn't want to pay for the right system for the property
>flooring was cheap shit that would only last a year or two before being junk
>she even tried to get us to use an inferior grade of concrete for the foundations, and she pissed and moaned about the cost of the rebar too
Was she North Korean?

>>1042084
Chinese actually.... how did you know!?

>>1042104
Both countries build to similar standards.

>>1041974
There is an art to this. I've seen it all. More than just shitting in the walls (drywallers). Seen it duct work, under insulation, in aluminum soffit, under concrete. If you are ever new man on a crew never, ever oblige the foreman when he says "I need a bucket! Quick go get that one over there in the trees".

>>1042065
Very rarely people use aluminum roofing. You're lucky to get aluminum flashing. Two different metals cause galvanic corrosion. Using them with slate is utter shit. Using asphalt shingles is also shit.

>>1042045
I've never hired a contractor. I do all my own work.

A pane of glass hidden inside a brick chimney after a mason found out that the homeowner was going to try and screw him out of the rest of his payment. 3 months later he gets a angry call, says he'll fix it for what's owed him and then shows up and drops a brick down the chimney.

>>1041931
if a client is absolute shit we just do a decent job enough for him to have no real leverage and never work with him again.

don't do a shit job out of spite, in the end it will fuck you and your reputation/business over. or you can do stuff like
>>1042156

>>1041941
Twist-on wire connectors are standard here in the U.S. and as long as the person using them is competent and not using the cheapest wire nut possible you will never have a problem. I've opened joints that were twisted together with porcelain wire nuts that were still good. Always twist the wires together before putting the nut on though. Drywall isn't that bad-pros and cons to it compared to other methods.

>>1041941
most of the shit on this list is standard

>>1042225
>Always twist the wires together before putting the nut on though
I've always heard that you leave the wires straight and let the nut do the twisting as you apply it. Is that a stranded vs solid core thing or what?

>>1041941
So i'm looking into slating a roof in the future. Arent you supposed to tap two holes in the back then hammer through the face?

>>1042239
The instructions say to not twist them. But I usually twist them reverse.

burying all the construction/demolition trash on the lot, and not telling the owners.

>>1041931

Contractor here.

Cutting every corner possible so that their home is almost literally put together with twine and ducttape. Then completely cutting contact so that a year or two down the road when their house starts crumbling around them they have no way to reach you.

>>1041931
Telco here

Only offer one way to complete the job. Advise them I will only work for premium time for this job because it's so shit.

Just leave and tell them to clean up their shit if the cat/dog/human piss/shit is too bad, just leave. I feel bad for the guy hanging out and working with the smoker, but fuck them, man. I don't need to put up with hoarders and shit. Tie a phone jack down and throw it inside on top of the pile, there's your PUC mandate.

>>1042265
This, you bury it eight inches down exactly where you know in a couple of years they'll want to plant a flower border.

We had one job where we planted Japanese knotweed in a few hidden places in the back yard, that stuff is so invasive it's driven people to suicide trying to get rid of it.

>>1042265
>digging drainage for brick BBQ in backyard because it's apparently 1950
>get down 6 inches
>fucking nails, broken brick, tile, PVC chunks, shingles, a fucking spoon, and what appeared to be one side of the casing for an alternator

>>1042357
There was an existing 3ft deep raised bed with lumber surround. Dug it out and planted everything from 4m3 busted up slate floor tiling, rolls of sisalation, tile ground leftovers, roofing iron, hell a magnet would stick to the bloody wood. Compressed down and reburied. Extra dirt went out front. Owner had demanded that we dispose of waste on our dime and time, but wanted us to pick up some dirt for his front garden. He then proceeded to fuck off on a hot date (daytime) woth fuck buddy from trailerpark.

Ps: he was v happy with the front garden. Prob get a call when he digs the back one for planting ahahaha

>>1042265
if you are really lucky, you'll have the trashpit for 5-10 houses from your subdivision in your backyard. right where you wanted to build your shed.

even more of a 'spit' is to add any kind of environmental cleanup. bury all the empty hydraulic oil barrels you can - when they go to put in some additional parking at that business 10 years down the road and have to do a phase 1/2 site remediation.

My most amusing one was burying a bunch of "services below" tape under a few inches, then the other mob the turf over....

>>1042242

You can use two roofing nails, (copper or stainless nails or else theres no point in having slate) Or use metal "hooks" that go under the slate and wrap up around the bottom of the tile to hold it down. The hook method is how you patch in broken slates too since you cant get to the nails on a finished roof, but I've seen new roofs use all hooks as well.

spit in their house

I was retiling my floor and found a shit ton of cigarette buds filling up space with the cement. I hate Chinese people.

idk if it was intentional, but we found a jacket and a pair of pants in the sewage pipe after our house was built.
Sometimes makes me wonder if anything happened to one of our contractors...

>>1041931
Coming in to renovate a dinning room and seducing your whore of a wife, eventually leading to an expensive divorce and your children telling you every other fucking weekend how cool Jorge (whore-hey) is mother fucking cock sucking bastard contractors...that's the equivalent hypothetically

>>1041941
>Drywall
>Asphalt Shingles
STFU you know nothing summerfag

Contractor here:

I've rubbed my dick on the door knob, spit inside, farted in the master bedroom, literally left boogers on every surface of the house and did all of this with a smile and a handshake to the faggot owners.

Where did I learn this you say? Every other contractor.

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>>1042225
I've read you're actually supposed to solder the wires before putting the nut on, according to NEC

>>1042580
that is what every /diy/ person wants when replacing a ceiling fan, light fixture, switch, or plug; some fucking soldered wires.

>>1042265
this. my father went apeshit when he discovered literally half his garden (exactly the space left where there was enough space for the herb garden) was used to bury demolition trash with a small layer of grass above it. took months to get those fucking garden beds erected

>>1042590
this

they took our stone wall shed down with tiles on the roof,

I remeber thinking
>hmm, they cleaned that up pretty quick

year later i wanted to dig some part of my garden up, oh there is all the fucking stone.

filled up a 6m3 container witht he fucking shit that they put in the ground.

Hiding japanese knot weed in someones house

>>1042606
well, in my case my father just bought an old house that was in very bad shape so someone must have mistreated the previous owner who was an actual dick.

but yeah, i can relate to the container thing. Probably also was a stone shed once, but with these waveform asbestos roof things cracked and buried.

>>1042607
explain

>>1042609
Japanesr knotweed fastly sprouts roots really deep and fast, soon their destroy the floor underneath and
A: the building will have to be demolished
Or
B: spend alot of money and time on groundwork and specialists to destroy it

>>1042612
Thats awesome,
going to mess with a friend's new house
Thanks

>>1042612
i loved that shit as a kid. once its dried, its prime toy boat material

satanic symbolism on the inside of your wall

>>1042239
I twist them before placing the wire nut.
The only exception is when I'm connecting stranded and solid together since they don't like to twist together.

>>1042306
i dont know what the fuck you're responding to or even talking about

>>1042580
I just looked it up in my code book because i thought you were full of shit, but sure enough you are correct.
I can't even imagine having to solder every fucking connection.

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a few electricians like using these. no stray wire that didn't catch the wire nut threads

>>1042357
>that stuff is so invasive it's driven people to suicide trying to get rid of it.

woah
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/10735346/Man-kills-his-wife-and-himself-after-fearing-Japanese-knotweed-invasion.html
>A man bludgeoned his wife to death with a perfume bottle and then killed himself after becoming convinced their home was being invaded by Japanese knotweed.

>Lab technician Dr Kenneth McRae, 52, killed his 55-year-old wife Jane claiming the balance of his mind had become “disturbed” at the thought of the invasive plant spreading into his garden.

>In a suicide note found by his body he wrote that fear over the damage the plant could cause to the value of his mortgage-free property had convinced him he had no option but to take his life.

>He added that he had decided to kill his wife because he did not want to leave her a widow without an income.

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>>1042679
>>1042585
>>1042580
"Well we need to bring in a specialist to weld all the wiring so it's up to code, and that's union labor"

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>>1042752
wat
i mean yeah it spreads like shit but as long as its in the garden its pretty manageable. My mom went through it with a machete once a year and kept an eye out for the little sprout shits and all was well. the stuff was maybe 10-15 meters away from our house though.

My friend's dad is a contractor in England

>gets hired to redo a bathroom in the basement
>finish some part of it and the home owner doesn't like it
>tear it down and redo it
>still doesn't like it
>tear it down and redo it
>STILL doesn't like it, the homeowner is being difficult
>fires my friend's father and his coworker
>says he's going to hire someone else to do the work
>no usable toilet through the entire process of the renovation
>friend's father "forgets" the shit and piss bucket him and his friend have been sharing for the job in the basement.

Stealing

this guy.there's a video towards the bottom.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/sussex/7361422.stm

>>1042084
>North Korean
how many north koreans do you know where you have this stereotype about them?

>>1042580
Nope. Section 110.14 of the 2014 edition of the NEC (page 38)

It reads like a legal book, so you have to carefully examine the way they word things. 'Shall' and 'may' are two fine example. One is mandatory, one is not. In 110.14 (B) it says "Conductors shall be spliced or joined with splicing devices identified for the use OR by brazing, welding, or soldering with a fusible metal or alloy. "OR" is the keyword. It further goes on to specify if you were to solder the wires they must be mechanically secure before hand-so the electrical connection does not depend on the solder. No one solders their connections anymore. Most knob and tube is pulled out instead of being added onto, and new circuits are generally added in those situations anyhow. K&T are about the only times I can think of when soldering would even come up as a possible method of connection.

>>1042563
>hypothetically

Heard about some bricklayers putting multicolored bricks into a wall for like a McDonald's or something. They got pissed off for some reason, put a bunch of darker bricks in in the shape of a cock. No one noticed until opening day.

>>1041931
Working like a contractor.

I'm cynical, I know, but it comes from hiring contractors to build houses.

>>1042944
This is sickening.

>>1042944
>had been driven to distraction
BBC news. Degenerate.

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>>1042156
That clever bastard.
It warms my heart to hear about such righteous revenge.

>>1042752
To be fair the article makes it pretty clear he had some kind of mental illness.

>>1043390

Naw man. It is just britfags being british

Some shit bag real estate fucko owed me $XXX for work, and wouldn't pay. So I got creative.

1. I tossed a dead skunk on his roof one night up near a place where you couldn't see it. Smelled up his nice yard for weeks in the summer until crows pecking at it dropped part of the carcass on his deck.

I deemed this wasn't bad enough, so:

2. Ordered 3 containers of "J-Lube" and mixed up one of them up in a 10 liter plastic jug and dumped it down his uphill driveway one evening. This worked better than intended as he came DOWN the driveway the next day, and crashed through the fence and onto his lawn. He was drinking that day and slightly under the limit so his insurance company refused to pay.

>>1042853
Use RoundUp, its the only way to be sure.

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Sotry Tiem?

I was working as a technician on a freelance basis for a certain institution. The supervisor (and most of the regular staff) were terrible at communication and had zero regard or respeck for the us techs - even though we did 90% of the work.

I was one of their best techs, they disliked me less than most of the others so they always offered me max hours on a weekly basis. I worked there for a year as their star tech, did most of the training for them, etc. I was still being paid poorly, they were totally taking advantage of me having me do as much of their jobs as they could get away with. The communication and social skills of my supervisor were terrible - techs would come-in at 8am to work and she would stop them in their tracks "you don't have any hours today - if you DIDN'T get an email from me finalizing your shift YOU DON'T have a shift". She was always fucking around with everyone and being totally poor at communication and everyone would get thrown under the bus - including me at times.

Whelp, after kicking ass for them for the year they offered me a full-time position. They said I wouldn't get a raise just yet, for the new year, because when my full-time position starts I'll be getting a sizeable raise. Just after the Christmas break I get an email from her saying "hi Anon, the situation has changed and we can no longer offer you that full-time position but you can still work your normal tech shifts with us if you like - let me know if you're available".

Without any explanation I got pulled off the promotion AND they got away with not giving me the normal raise I otherwise had earned. I wrote back saying "Yes I can still do my normal shifts. See you then!".

Whelp, she never sent an email finalizing/confirming my shift. :^) So I said fuck it, I'm not showing up. The week came and I get a call from her at 8am wondering where the fuck I am. The whole department fell on its ass and 3 people ened-up getting fired :^)

>>1043495
Roundup, or it's ingredient glyphosate is actually pretty shitty at controlling heavy brush. You'll be lucky if you even make it yellow.

>>1043512
I've posted this before

>be me working in London for the same company for five years
>facilities manager is a lesbo hambeast feminazi who hates men with a passion
>the building we work in is older than some countries so te AC is a retrofit and shitty
>need desk fans in summer to stay cool, my fan is one I inherited when I arrived at the company and it broke
>go to hambeast and ask for new fan
>she gives me a fucking lecture about being careful with company property and then tells me they don't have any so I'll have to buy my own or wait for a new order to to arrive
>ask her if she has ordered any for the next delivery and she says no, she is enjoying this
>asked her if she will order one for me then, she says she will "look into it" (no fuck off)
>couple of days later I'm on another floor and a new member of staff (a girl) has a brand new fan, so I asked he where she got it
>she told me that she got it from the hambeast on a promise to keep it quiet or everyone will want a new fan, even if they don't need one!?!!
>THIS IS WAR!!
>spend the next two months videoing the hambeast as she arrives for work because she is always 20 - 45 minutes late
>I also find her times sheets and note what time she puts down she arrived
>spend a whole weekend editing the video, with three sets of figures on the bottom
>what time she arrived, what time she claimed to arrive and how much the company paid her for work she did not do
>every time the figures change I added a "Ding!" noise
>then I Emailed the video to the top five managers from an anonymous Email account
>by a week later she was gone and I found six new fans sitting in the stock room with an invoice that gave a delivery time of over six months ago!

>>1043819
Are you sure you're not making this up? I doubt it gets terribly hot in London.

>>1043823

It doesn't happen often, but it does happen. When it does happen we have to deal with ACs being shit or not being present at all.

>>1043832
Good enough, that was a trick question. You live in London at least.

>>1043832
We have similar fuckery in Straya but with heat. No places have fucking heaters, and a lot of windows and roofs and shit aren't really weather-tight as well. So when you have a shitty July (mid winter) that's 4ºC and pouring for weeks at a time, you die. First you start to die on the inside, then you start to die on the outside, then you finish dying on the inside.

>>1043492
>Surely vandalizing this man's property will convince him to pay me
Kill yourself desu, you give the rest of us a bad name

>>1043884
Prick was a millionaire. The only reason he did it was he was a power tripping asshole.

I did other stuff, like write in Mandarin characters on his signs saying "Untrustworthy" or if I was feeling very nasty "Hates Mother"

Very few things more offensive than that. And done in the white paint that is reflective at night.

>>1043899
>Mandarin characters on his signs saying "Untrustworthy"
That's an actual good idea.

>>1043905
I can see sales results on the website and he hasn't sold any since May

>have demanding old chink customer
>thinks he knows better about installing the alarm system in his apartment building
>try to explain
>just do it that or you fire
>k....
>days later, false alarm
>fix it, bill him.
>bbbbut mah rarranty...
>incorrect installation voids warranty sir.
>roo poot it in rike dat!
>you demanded it sir. Pay or we disable your system.
>pays
>happens several times, he has to pay city for false alarms. One more and the license is pulled and no more dispatches
>still under contract
>has to pay us to come fix everything, still a dick about it

Boss now doubles quotes for chinks because honestly, they're too much trouble to deal with.

Not pulling permits.

>>1041941
>plywood

Stopped reading right there.

>>1042126
>asphalt singles is shit

Bet your roof is done in corrugated fiberglass.

>>1042563
This literally happened to us. My parents contractor ran away with the neighbors wife.

>>1044824
well its the rare ocaision that a wage slave gets to feel like he's in charge. between his wife and boss shitting down his neck for being a retard. of course they're going to power trip. but as you say, its obvious why they're a wage slave.

worst part is when people demand illogical installations just because they dont want something visible or to move their TV or it doesnt match the furniture or whatever aesthetic reason.

>>1043495
>>1043819
I was thinking RoundUp, but if that doesn't work I've got some 2,4-D around

>>1041931
All kinds of things you can do in the HVAC.

Probably the simplest is not evacuating the lines, enjoy your moisture, enjoy your compressor life of <2 years

>>1042944
>britain
In the civilized world doing this is actually illegal, proper method of action is to place a lien on the property.

>>1044859
That works too or mix both together

600ml / 10L RoundUp plus 150 ml/10L 2,4 D

Really good and fast

Heard of a plumber who just stuck pipe ends into the ground for his prelay, quit his job.
They didnt know it was fucked untill after the floors were tiled.

>>1044835
How did you know?!

>>1041941
Do you live in a rainforest? The only thing on this list thats not used everyday on a commercial/residential jobsite in Chicago is softwood studs.
You must also be one of dumpster divers that goes for free shit. Ur the reason we break up the slate. get a job and pay for ur own shit

>>1041931
Asking them to pay up

>>1042114
Can confirm, remodeled houses for Chinese/Korean a couple times.
>Always want cheapest option
>Will do work themselves

>>1042239
I twist them before placing the wire nut, many times they can come lose or when adding a new load/neutral when you untwist the wire nut the neutrals and live can come apart..

>>1042225
>>1042249
I twist them together when theres three or more wires. Two wires twist themselves together easily under a nut it would take an act of God for them to fall apart. Saves me valuable time. Or used to when I was wiring houses

>>1042577
This

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>>1042577
>faggot owners
could you be more specific pls

>>1042536
underrated post

>>1042613
>going to mess with a friend's new house
>going to mess with a friend
>friend

>>1045042
>doing extra work to prevent people from hauling away your trash for free
Who's the idiot again?

My friend was a removalist and if a customer is rude to him he does a few things such as

Tips your fridge upside down inside the truck, this won't break the fridge immediately but if you switch it back on too soon after plugging it in it will make your fridge warm over time

Shaves off a little but of your legs on your cabinet so it wobbles just a small amount so he came blame the floor

Change the labels on your boxes

Assemble your beds poorly (leave out a couple of screws, wipe his sweaty forehead on your mattress)

Hides slightly important boxes like something labeled bedside cabinet he will put in the attic

Charge you extra travel time, heavy lift fee, stair fee.

Or if you're a real jerk he would just dump your shit on the side of the road and tell you to get someone else to move it.


>>1041974
in your ensuite

>>1045145
>make your fridge warm over time
aka a fucking compressor running without oil - this does not 'make your friddge warm over time' - it fucks it, DED.

should always leave them 24 hours after transport if possible, and transport upright. Deliberately turning them upside-down by transport, then watching someone plug them in? - not 'a small jest', its criminal damage.

>>1042120
>under concrete.
Would the smell ever permeate? I'd have thought the caustic nature of the concrete would kill anything in the stool.

>>1045165
The smell isn't the point. It's the subtle slap in the face for years to come. Knowing that you've pooped on a mans most sacred thing his home

>>1041931
Leaving marbles in the ceiling on a ship.

> someone did this on a ship i used to work on. Had to pour glue onto the ceiling panels to stop them from rolling back and forth

>>1042156
salt mixed with plaster

So the wife and I plan on buying a home in the next few years, what can I do to avoid shit like this happening when hiring a contractor?

>>1045334
be polite, pay your bills, keep your woman on a leash. they can be quite abrasive and rude.

you'll be fine m8

>>1042536
+1

>>1042576
What a bummer to deal with all this summer

>>1045134
You

>>1045324
Fuck that's satanic especially if you can perm seal the ceiling.

>>1041940
they do that?

Banging client's wife

>>1045347
Thanks for the You

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>>1042683
I use them alot for work. No strays and easily expadable. I'm not an electrician, tho, i work with maritime instrumentation.

>>1045134
You have to pick it up and put it in cart or dumpster.
Instead of "putting" it in there you throw it in hard to break. No extra work retard

>>1044863
>consent from the local council

Fucking your wife when you step out of the house, and coercing her into it by saying something like "I can work some magic and get you guys a designer kitchen if you do me a favor". Then he rawdogs and gets her pregnant and she keeps the baby out of fear of getting caught. Then the contractor shits on the floor before laying down the floor tiles in the shitty ass regular kitchen he installs and burys a note that says he banged your wife somewhere in the attic or basement, in a place you probably won't notice until you are cleaning up to move out and the kid is 18 or so.

>>1041931
Not contractor, but I run cables often. I'll just make sure the customer is charged for everything possible, where I would just add things in & not mention it if I like them

>>1041931
Fucking your wife/mother/daughter/dog.

Drinking all the breastmilk your wife left in the fridge, leaving your infant to starve.

>>1042065
drive one through 24 gauge steel and then ask again

>>1042613
You're scum.

>>1045012
genuis

I worked with one disgusting fuck he hated the commercial job we were on so he would spit out his chew behind the lazy Susan

Doing a major bank gut and rebuild back in the 80's, I was a welders mate on this job in Threadneedle Street London, it was one of my first jobs after leaving school, the foreman on the job was a towering asshole of a man, and he made the mistake of pissing my boss off, one day my boss hands me two rusty old cylinders he dug up on the site and told me to throw them in the freshly poured concrete for the vault, I did as he said and thought no more of it, couple of weeks later he told me what those cylinders were, they were fire bombs from WW2, he dug up, and because it was a friday and the disruption meant we might not have got paid in time for the weekend he had me throw them in the concrete to ensure that didn't happen and to get back at the foreman, I pretty much started looking for a new job that same day.

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When I was like 15 a housing development started being built in my friend's woods behind his family orchard, and we were all upset about losing our woods. So one night after the workers had built the frame to pour a foundation we threw like 6 sacks of rotten apples down into the corner. From everything we could tell they poured the concrete the next morning and the entire corner of the foundation was actually a sack of rotten apples

Frozen prawns behind plasterboard when second fixing the sockets.


Working on a build and neighbours would complain about the noise all the time. Local Authorities came round, spoke to them, spoke to me. Guy was nice and said they would just have to put up with it.
Next day, powder cable down and smug grin from neighbour. Lost 3 days on site.
Put up obvious cctv, went to the room next to their bedroom and set up a hammer drill onto some timber. That drill went for 8 hours a day for the rest of the build.

>>1046615
I do a lot of work round there, hate the traffic and lack of parking!

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>>1042156
This didn't happen. No one, not even the drunkest, craziest, wife-beatingest contractor would take the chance of burning down someone's home because of delayed payment. This story is as old and baseless as the rest of the construction folklore. I've heard it a dozen times from people who knew a guy that knew a guy that did it.

>>1044859
Mixed with Triclopyr it's effective. Look for "Crossbow".

>>1046843
>I do a lot of work round there, hate the traffic and lack of parking!
The whole of that area around the bank of England and Bank Station is a fucking pain in the ass for delivery drivers, I was working in 125 Old Broad Street not long ago and it's still a shitty area to drive around.

>>1046843
>went to the room next to their bedroom and set up a hammer drill onto some timber. That drill went for 8 hours a day for the rest of the build.
Working on a ground floor flat in Kensington, have to keep mess to a minimum, can't start any noisy work until after 08:00 and it has to stop by 16:00, can't have a skip/dumpster in the road overnight so we have to use a small tipper truck for all the waste.
We were pre-warned by the owner that the resident of the flat above was a cunt who was sour because she had been outbid by the owner of the flat we were working on, she showed up on the second day to complain about the noise and we showed her the agreement we had with the local authority about what hours we could work, she didn't like it because she couldn't do anything about it, every day she would call the council or come and pester us about something, so I finally got fucked of with this and put an old transformer we had in there, it was old and faulty, it would blackout all digital signals in a ten metre radius, so for the next five moths we worked there nobody had a reliable mobile phone or wifi signal.

>>1041931
Going through the lady of the house underwear draw.
Maybe knocking a cheeky one out in to her panties.

>>1047342
thank you for the DNA sample, see you in court dumbass

>>1041931
I worked with forestry/arborist/landscaping contractor for 3 years. Most people where nice to us and if they were cunts we would usually just laugh at them behind their backs.
Unless they messed with our safety or money.

One time we were cutting down some trees beside a road. Not much traffic, but enough that we blocked the road every time we took down a tree, in case it fell on the road. And then this old asshole comes driving(always old people) and decided that a warning sign in the middle of the road and a guy signalling him to stop is propably nothing.

The foreman saw him pass the block and took a log and threw it on the road so the old guy would stop. And the tree we were cutting landed on the road (the apprentice fucked up, but he needs to learn too) in front of the old guys car. And then he started yelling that he could have been killed. The foreman then told us to take 5 minutes break. I've never seen a guy that angry in real life.

>>1047368
Another time we had cleared out a lot of trees on an old farm, the deal was that we cut the trees down and took them away. Then the guy refused to pay. So me and another guy was told to take the tree branches (most of the wood was already firewood by now) and a woodchipper and throw all the chips down in front of his door. So we did and my boss sent him a bill for the woodchips. Last I heard, the guy hasn't paid up yet.

>>1041940
>>1045366
SOMEONE DID THE VENT THING TO MY PARENTS OLD HOUSE AND IT TOOK FUCKING MONTHS FOR SOMEONE TO FIGURE IT OUT JESUS CHRIST WE ARE NICE PEOPLE TOO WTF IS PEOPLE'S PROBLEM???

>>1045061
>Yell at you to scare you into doing extra work for free
> Say fuck you and start to disassemble shit

Asians and Indians are like this in general about anything financial

>>1048258
Worked in telco for a while and this is so fucking true.

We would be there to hook up their fucking free fibre connection and it was always

>VODAFONE MAN SAY YOU RUN FREE PHONE JACK
>YOU TARK TO BOSS MAN AND GET ME FREE TV SERVICE OR I COMPRAIN
>YOU GOING UNDER HOUSE ANYWAY, RUN FREE DATA CABURU

Then again half of them couldn't even speak English so they yelled at you in Chinese and you just smile and nod then ignore them.

>>1044860
Of everything in this thread, this is by far the most evil

>>1041940
>ball or other object dropped down the sanitary vent stack.

What does it do?

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>>1041931
"shitting in your wall or chimney".
"deliberately leaving one nail stick out, roughly at the height of a toe nail"

>>1043512

I never understand why people treat techs etc. poorly. Whenever I'm on-site and we run a meeting for a client the first thing I do is talk to the AV people, introduce myself and make sure the communication lines are open so we can run a good meeting together. Same with plumbers, movers etc. in my home. When I can see it will take more than just a few minutes I always have food and something cold to drink for them on the table and ask them to help themselves.

>>1048461
>When I can see it will take more than just a few minutes I always have food and something cold to drink for them on the table and ask them to help themselves.
I always do that too. I worked as a waiter for some time and I know how shitty people can make your job terrible.

>>1041931
All these suggestions are stupid.

>Spitting in food = disease ect

>the answer is obvious.

Line and insulate the house with asbestos.

>>1042752
I always knew the people who are anal about their lawns were fucking nuts

>>1049011
>I don't know jack shit about asbestos: the post

>>1048461
>>1048922
I'm >>1043512

The thing is the clients were generally awesome. Nice, smart, interesting people, always wanted to chat and offer us catering and drinks and stuff. The high profile ones wouldn't even mind if you wanted to take a photo or something (when appropriate). Just the management of our dept was absolute shit and soooo beneath where they should be in terms of professionalism and expertise. Oh well. I miss it a a little, buttfuck it, never again.

>>1042265
My state allows (legally) up to 50% of construction, just new house job-sites, debris to be buried on the property without notification of the future homeowner, must be 12" below final grade
My property has none, thankfully, neighbor across the street front and rear yard are filled with pressure treated wood, nothing will grow, she tried to sue, state ruled the slab counted as part of the property, so the front and back yard were the 50% allowed
Had a street, sidewalk and outer wall section collapse, the developer has buried all the straw bales used to channel runoff in the same place, after 10 years it rotted away and surprise, the bales were also under the final 2 home built's foundation, both home shifted and were red tagged, the builder's LLC had filed for Chapter 7 and they had created a new LLC that could not be sued by our HOA
Sold my house before the local news did some "Sad Face" stories, that was the best part of being on the HOA board, I found out and told my wife, she was the homes "legal" owner, we sold, it was, at the time a highly desired gated community, had an offer 3 days after making it available, new owner tried to sue, but since I was not the owner and she was not on the board, the suit fizzled, most owners in the community lost almost the value of their homes

>>1049189
That is a crazy turbo Jew story, holy shit.

>>1049202
Not him.
Community in California, up and coming coastal city, thousand oaks.

Developer only put rebar on one driveway. They got it setup and looking good, called the inspector who okayed it. Then picked up the rebar and set it in the next houses driveway. And poured the first. Next day, inspector checks off the next driveway...

Same shit happened with the llc disappearing before anyone noticed everyones driveway was fucked.

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>>1049189

>>1049189

dude, can you give me a link to a source? i'm writing a report on engineering/contractor ethics.

>>1048081
I thought summer was over

>>1048081
>WE ARE NICE PEOPLE
Obviously not.

Not treating knots in wood before painting it. Mwahahahaha

>>1049213
I can one up that.

Same shit, only instead, it was a row of spec houses with the same floor plan. Builders got the steel sorted on one house, inspected and passed then they got a small truck crane out to move the mesh and starters in one go to the next house and pour the slab.

Fucking crazy, watched it go down and couldn't believe what I was seeing.

>>1048449
The vent stack is for the fumes of your toilet to escape, also allows your toilet to flush properly. Otherwise with it plugged, the system would have to suck air through your toilet, causing it to possibly throw waste all over you restroom floor.

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this

>>1050146
Otherwise known in the rest of the world as the stink pipe.

>>1050146
Neat. Thanks

Scrapping everything from a freshly redone basement interior of a house into the underside of the stairwell as opposed to renting a second dumpster after finishing the ground floor

>>1049351
oh shut the fuck up, his post made me remember all the bullshit we had to go through to figure out there was a fucking mountain dew bottle jammed down our toilet vent...

>>1041931
Something like this I guess:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/jerry-bance-marketplace-1.3217797

>>1049189
What was the builders name/company!??

I built a shed for a guy (friend of a friend) and it was half now and half when finished, I put it up for him while he was out (as agreed) then he dodged me for two months and would answer my calls about the other half of the payment, finally I just went there one day and took it down and left all his shit on the back lawn in the rain.

>>1046934
I've irremovably wedged a large stone in a client's chimney and continued to build around it for similar reasons myself. I got to say, the glass idea is a much better one, but I absolutely could see this happening, as how I've done something similar myself. So no, I wouldn't auto-assume it's fake or that people don't do this. Fuckers have it coming to them.

>>1050846
kecklestein

what was his problem? just Trumping you on the bill or did he have some phony complaint?

>>1050846

I was really hoping that you cut it in half, right down the middle, claiming "that's all you paid for".

fuck that shit

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>>1050858
pardon?

No wonder no one trusts contractors, you all sound like absolute shit heads. I guess people expect it when your favorite color is mossy oak camo.

>>1050890
Confirmed for never dealing with customers of any type.

>>1050853
He claimed it was overpriced even though he had me overbuild it and I explained it would up the cost compared to a store bought shed although mine would last three times longer, and the price I quoted him at the beginning was the same as I asked for at the end, he just changed his mind after he had it made, didn't want to pay full price and expected me to take the hit.... NOPE!

>>1050855
I gave him a choice either he could have the shed back when the other half of the money was paid or he could have the half he had already paid back minus the cost of the materials and my time, I never heard from him again, that was like ten years ago now, I ended up using the shed myself in my own garden.

>>1050851
No you didn't. You didn't potentially cause someone to poison themselves with carbon monoxide. You didn't try to kill someone with fire. This would put you at fault and and you'd face civil liability. You could face arrest. You didn't take the chance of burning a house down no matter how big of an asshole the homeowner was being. Anyone who understands how a chimney works knows that this claim is asinine.

This didn't happen, go back to trolling in /b/.

>>1050896
sounds like a real dinky. I don't understand how people can live with themselves being such shitcunts like that.

>>1050895
Actually, I worked for five years as a musical instrument repairman and dealt with jerk/insane customers on a weekly basis and I never did anything but fix their instruments no matter how shitty they treated me. Guess I'm just not scum.

>>1051068
So you've never added a little "hot glue" to somebody's instrument?

>>1051068
Did you give a little more attention to detail for the nice ones though? That's how I do it. Everyone gets acceptable service, the ones that are cool get a discount, or a little more attention, or SOMETHING to let them know that they are actually appreciated.

>>1051072
On a brass instrument that would tarnish it almost immediately, and they'd be right back for you to refinish it. Don't ask, just trust me.

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>>1050822

Jerry "can't handle the" Bance
Jerry "no pants" Bance
Jerry "won't do the holding it dance" Bance
Jerry "the cup was his only chance" Bance

>>1042047
Generally LV guys aren't electricians. Cheaper.

>>1051072
I've poured hot wax on my GF's tits does that count?

>>1042225
They're STANDARD in USA?!

:O Terrifying!

Fuck, bad installation of these things has caused me sooooo many headaches over the years.

I hope to never see another. I don't mean to say they're guaranteed to be bad, but we don't just bodge snibbles of wire together with twisting for a reason guys.

Also, I notice disagreement about twist/don't twist so I suspect that's the issue.

>1045934
This is your fantasy I take it? Anyway, if you can fuck a mans wife because you are simply near her, doing it out of revenge is abusing your powers purple man.

Roofer here, if you're a good HO there is 0 wasted bundles of shingles, and 0 wasted sheets of plywood. Nothing extra to pay for. Get crappy, and suddenly costs and rot spiral out of control.

>>1049369
I'm not the guy who got burned.

But, y'know sometimes contractors can be dicks too, I know surprising, right.

Most of you are just guaranteeing that you go from being owed money to OWING money to the home owner.

What's the point? You did the work AND didn't get paid, but they have like... a stink to deal with. Just invoice them extra and lien their house fools.

>>1051337
Way to run a business, fucko. You'll be back to landscaping and being laid off all winter in no time. Enjoy your Casey's pizza for lunch.

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>>1051014
an anon to another anon. I thank you for your to the point and well thought-out replies!

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>>1051481
>can't tell if trolling or....

I worked construction trades for a long time. About 20% of the people I worked with were great, the kind of person you could call at 3 in the morning when you got stuck in a ditch. 50% of them were just the for the money, did what they were told to do and did a fair job. 30% of them were never pleased. You were always too slow, not good enough, getting shit on constantly. Always pissy, never happy. I got a 4-5 day job done in 2 days because they boss gave me extra help. We did a great job and knocked it out of the park. As our reward we got our asses chewed because "now we don't have anything for you to do the rest of the week" and the next 3 days I sat at home and didn't get paid. Never happy, never good enough....and I was never happier to leave the industry.

>>1041931
Shit gets buried on the site. Knew people who had pallets buried in their yard.

>>1051863

Our guys get paid by the day but when they aren't working construction, one barbers and the other landscapes.

If they finish a job early they won't get all of the extra days pay but they'll get a bonus and we hopefuly move onto another job we have line up but if not they continue making money anyway.

>>1041931
Dead cat in wall, or under/in floor/ceiling.

Ceiling is more easily detected, as maggots fall and crawl around, so you can find the source.

>>1042580
Not sop in USA

>>1048449
At the least, it would prevent the vent from exhausting sewer gas/smell from going out the pipe, leaving it in your house.

>>1049099
I had a house once with asbestos siding. I lovef that siding. It will never rot, or burn, takes paint and caulk well, and can be tightly machined to fit.

Of course, it had to go, replaced by cedar shingle. I almost cried.

>>1041938
>pointing out your opinions
I think the word you are looking for is "flaws".

>>1043512
Are you me? Literally had the same thing happen when I worked for a DirecTV contractor, except even though I was the best I'd get less hours than everyone else due to being the "new guy." I was also the only one on hourly while the rest were on salary so whenever I worked with one of them as a helper they'd go as fast as possible to get home (they still got paid for a full day) and I'd get shit hours as a result. It got to a point once when I was working ten hour weeks, so I said fuck it and left. Oh and my boss was promising me my own van, promotion, and salary for months but it never happened due to "lack of work." Right.

>>1052250
It's better if it's non-existent things like "is the flange behind the stud making the wall bow?"

I heard from an electrician I know that his whole crew had their safety gear Ramset'd to the ceiling at a job site because another crew found out they weren't union.

Charging you for the good quality stuff and using the shit stuff anyways.

>>1043823
It's been hot as niggers this last week.

>>1052184
Yeah it is an awesome material, right up until working with it gives you cancer.

>>1053114
This, we always get lumped with shitty clean up after other cunts jobs because other people's work was too expensive and they were using garbage stuff.

>Take over a job from shitty electrical company
>Find out they charged 1500 dollars for a security prewire
>No gate control
>No cameras
>No door locks
>No LAN cables
>Fuck all PIRs
>1500 dollarydoos to run all of 8 cables

Jesus Christ fuck those guys.

>>1041931
Beer cans in your soffits

>>1042536
/thread

>>1041940
If the vent was blocked, you'd fail the home inspection for a new (stick) build.

>>1053352
8 cables made of low / shit tier copper / fiber, likely. Find any of those wonderful corner ( L ) fiber lines, b/c the mother fucking tech doesn't know how to not bend a fiber optic cable?

>>1041931

Once the drywall starts going up, poo between studs.

>>1053804
>Phone wire. Runs are fine from nid to top sill.
>In the cavity before the jack. Wrapped around a nail and tied in a knot before going to jack

Why.

>>1053870
Some people are just cunts.

>>1053804
I actually used to do fibre to the home installs and servicing for a local telco company. Some of the shit people did was unbelievable. I had a gallery with like 100 photos of crazy fucked up shit on my work tablet, wish I had saved those. My favourite story from another tech though

>Useless pajeet cunt does original Install
>Company loves him because he does so many jobs even though it's ghetto level work
>Runs shitty connectorised fibre under the floor
>You shouldn't do this because those are shit, only should be used in conduit
>Buy whatever it saves him 15 minutes splicing
>Doesn't tack the cable up under floor
>Just runs it over a few bearers and doesn't pull it tight
>Gigantic fucking fibre loops under the floor
>Pajeet informs customer there is a pipe leak under floor
>Customer gets in a plumber
>Plumber snags and breaks the fibre
>Pajeet gets fault call to go fix it
>Does that exact same fibre run
>Doesn't even pull the old one out
>Pajeet leaves and customer goes under floor to check if it's ok
>Snags fibre and breaks it

They finally sent someone competent to fix it, this shit is so common in telco it's fucking crazy.

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>>1053890
I gotchu senpai
>old brittle ziptie holding up three coax drops to a business complex

>>1042608
>waveform asbestos roof things
FARRRK!! - that sounds-like James Hardie Super-Six ; Six-inch-pitch Corrugated ASBETOS : if you break that shit - Fibres! and they lurk in the soil : you need to bag-up all the surrounding-soil and treat it as hazardous.

>>1043849
>4 degrees
That's what shitposters think is cold? Holy.

>>1054030
You're a dumbass. Read the posts. Is cold for an INDOOR temperature. It's cold when you have to sit in 4ºC to eat lunch everyday, or walk to the bathroom or take a shower in 4ºC. Many, or most, places are open to the outdoors or at least very drafty, and heaters are rare. SO even though winter isn't freezing, there's no escaping the rawness. Summer is lovely though.

>>1042683
Wagos are the best

>>1041931
spitting in your wife, with their penis

>>1041931
Leaving a live wire behind the cupboards so one day it will droop down enough to touch the metal draws are electrocute someone.

Scared me good seeing that draw light up.

>>1042180
Proper workmanship.

>people wonder why every customer treats contractors like they're scumbags
>not realizing it's because they are and they do everything listed in this thread as even the slightest disgruntlement.

>ITT

>>1054035
BTFO

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>>1041931
This is a good way to end in prison

>>1055213
uh 90% of these things are for not getting paid

>>1055334
You say that, but most of the contractors I've met pull stuff like this for being talked to the wrong way.

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>>1055340
I am a professional here. I got to hundreds of homes a year. If you're a big enough asshole to piss me off, you really are pretty special and deserve any shit you get.

>>1055019
Seems like it shocked you enough to cause brain damage

>>1041992
Where would this contractor get feathers? Am I the only one who doesn't have feathers on hand?

>>1055485
Typical American, English is my turd language.

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>>1042613
I'm not sure if you understand the meaning of friendship or what a friend is.

Or maybe you two have that kind of asshole jackass relationship.

>>1041931
Shitting in your walls

>>1045324
That is simply amazing!

>>1043495
Roundup is watered down overpriced Glystar

>>1044863
How would that help? It would just destroy everything

>>1055597
How so? They seem to have around the same amount glyphosate.

>>1047347
Sure, the police will roll out DNA testing with a large number of possible people which are not in any database because of a pair of dirty underpants.
You are fucking retarded

>>1055530
Every word that comes out of your mouth is turd language

>>1047368
fuck man i did tree work for 4 years, coulda sworn you were the other guy on the ground with me till the end.

>branch coming down on road
>we got dem stop slow signs up
>some cunt ass shitstain decides he too important to stop, tries to drive around the stop guy
>stop guy on that end (i be on other end) goes as if to smash out his front window with sign, screaming
>driver brakes hard, branch ~6 metres long crashes where he woulda been
>stop sign guy going ballistic with insults

Fucking drivers. I always make sure i leave extra space from my car and keep my eyes open when going through traffic zones now, since i know what a nightmare it is :(

>>1048461
always be nice to support staff, they hold the real power a lot of the time.
Receptionists especially. If they hate you the big man is a lot more busy than normal.
but all of them can fuck you up in a million ways if you are a cunt.

>>1051068
yeah, but you don't have to hand over the instrument till they pay
you cant really withhold their driveway/new pool until they pay.
Some tradies i know have been waiting for about 3 years.
When you got bills coming in and your life and family may get sunk because some fuckers won't pay their debt to you?
yeah, i've seen genuinely nice people do some nasty shit.
It's hard to stay nice when people are ruining your life for no real reason.

>>1045324

Some disgruntled jackass put 3 marbles in the ventilation holes under the mattress for the top bunk in my cabin. After 3 straight weeks of that rolling noise followed by a little thunk I was ready to rip the frame apart with my bare hands.

>>1051095
>the ones that are cool get a discount
This exactly. I've learned to always be nice to people when you're buying an item or service from them. Most recently, I walked out of a junkyard with a ton of shit for $5. I expected to spend at least $30-50. If we were a dick to the guy in the office, I guarantee it would've been much more.

We had a contractor just not glue the PVC drain pipes in an upstairs bathroom. Could have been an accident as he did a lot of drugs.

He was an ok guy if a bit of a mess.

>>1055927
Small claims court, nigga. Hell, depending on how much you charged, you can even go to big-people court.
Or contract out to a debt collection agency, that's what I do.

>>1041931
Diary by Chuck Palahniuk.
It'll give you some ideas.

>>1041940
Please do. My wife is an attorney.
We would like a way to keep our house and get a 3rd party refund.

>>1056161
Hey faggot no one cares whether your wife is a prostitute on here. Good luck trying to prove anything either, especially if you have multiple tradesman in. Would have thought you would know that if your hypothetical wife actually practiced law?

Also you sound like the kind of person who people fuck with due to being an insufferable douche.

>>1056161
>being such a dick that your contractors feel compelled to exact revenge
>implying you'll ever be able to prove whodunnit when the workers all hate you and won't say a word

>>1049223

if he gives you a source he'll open himself to getting the shit sued out of his family.

>>1056391
cry me a river - getting the shit sued out of him be about the least he deserves, altho, I doubt self-awareness here extends to recognition of even that simple fact.

>>1056020
eh here in ausfagland im pretty sure legal fees aint recoverable usually.
Debt collectors? maybe.
I'll try it next time someone stiffs me on a bill kek
Had one group try o come after me though.
had to inform them we didnt authorise the work in the first place, and what was ok'd had been payed in full

>>1056333
this
>nah we din do it
>mebbe kitty jumped in himself and died, and we just din notice.
>shit happens, act of god for being a kewnt

>>1041940
>ball or other object dropped down the sanitary vent stack.
Freak accident I swear, I was playing swingball with my brother when we were kids, the next door neighbour was a complete cunt, in fact the whole family were assholes of the highest degree including their daughter who was a year older than me and had her boyfriend beat me up at high school, like I said I was playing swing ball with my little bro and he smashed the ball with the force of a thousand suns, the string broke and the ball went up in the air and went straight down the vent pipe, it was like the perfect shot that you could never do on purpose in a million years, soon after the assholes next door started having big troubles with their toilet, it cost them a small fortune to find the problem and they somehow never put 2 and 2 together to work out it was us, even though the ball still had some string on it and the swingball pole was still in the garden awaiting repair or trashing!

>>1049351
ironic meme

i know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke and he had to tile a fireplace for some customer who changed the design, tiles constantly and kept trying to lower the price agreed.
so this bloke arranged the tiles which had a slightly darker lip on one edge to read CUNT in the fireplace
you'd have to have the fire unlit and be lying on the floor to see it but its there

>>1056488
Do burgers not put caps on their stacks to prevent shit getting down them?

>>1056753
Sometimes. More often in newer construction, but our construction from the 60s to the late 80s was scandalous. And they're a cheap part, no reason not to go stick one on your house if you don't have them.

No insulation, single glaze windows, no grounded outlets until the mid 70s.

>>1056846
You think burger construction industry is bad?

Here is new Zealand neither double glazing nor insulation was mandatory until around 2005 I believe. You could have a 10 year old house with no insulation or double glazing.

In fact having a form of heating is still not mandatory. We are wiring a house up the local port hills, 2 million dollars including land probably, no heating.

I talked to them about it and they were like 'nah it'll be fine we have big windows to let the sun in'

Fucking retards in this country do not grasp the concept that when you want to be warm there will be no sun outside to heat up your fucking house and that Xbox huge windows, even if double glazed still let it out so fucking fast.

It's pretty common here in a new 3-4 bedroom house to have upward of 7 sets of triple stack sliding doors let alone all the huge windows, all heated by the fucking cheapest heat pump that they could buy at one end of the house. It's madness.

>>1056753
Our place had a sort of wire ball looking thing in the top of the vent to stop shit/animals getting down there but other than that not much else, the cunts next door had nothing at all, just a pipe sticking up in the air, but their house was way older than our extended ranch style house from the 50's - 60's

This one goes back to before the internet so that should give you an idea of how long ago this was, we had just finished work on a new 4 car garage for this fuck and were awaiting the final payment, he was delaying it and claiming there were all these problems with the work we did, this was complete BS and he was just being a stingy fucking jew-bag, we went back a bunch of times and finally the boss said enough pay us or we go the legal route, finally he paid up but it seems the boss was fucking mad about it still so he began to fill in every form for samples and junk mail he could lay his hands on in the name and address of the guy we had the trouble with soon we were all doing it, the guy was getting phone calls at all hours and junk mail by the bag full every day, we heard later that it gave him a nervous breakdown in the end.

>>1041931
From experience I've found that my guys and I just do a cut-rate job to people who are dickheads to us.

Framing done without making sure everything is plumb or measured right or just with cheap, poor quality materials.
Drywall done but a shit job on the mudding and taping.
Plumbing and Electrical you need to do right because of code but that doesnt mean there arent ways to fuck with people.
Electricians might put in less plugs than agreed upon or put everything in upside down (which is an easy fix but still works as a subtle 'Fuck you' to the homeowner).
Plumbing you can set it up in a way that you know they'll get clogs all the time by making the rise lower than normal. Gotta be careful with that one though.
Most other shitty jobs are pretty self-explanatory and have people doing the bare minimum to get paid.
Alternatively, if the contract allows for some wiggle room on the contractors part or any of the subcontractors, they can just create or make up problems that will cost the person more to complete the project.

>>1045042
If you don't have to, why the hell would you?
Paying for something on the principle that someone else might be bitter that you got it for free is the most nonsensical logic i've ever heard.
I recently finished resurfacing my garage using recycled packing skids and all I paid for was gas, woodstain, and varnish.
I've reclaimed so much cool shit from people that thought it was garbage. I reclaimed an old 12" x 12" x 40' support beam from an old barn and used it as a cross piece in my house. Stained glass and frames to suit that just needed new solder. Barn planks that I planed, stained, and made into a new hardwood floor. Even picked up an old style cast iron spiral staircase, refinished it, and made 5 grand off of it. And whats better is that I got paid to take all those things away.

>>1057156
My neighbour is renovating his old ass house and he is a fucking retard.

I come home one day and find he has ripped out all his wood paneling walls and picture rails to start putting up plasterboard. There was an entire skip full of fucking rimu panels and shit.

I said I would take it away from free and the moron was over the moon.

>Tfw I got free rimu panelling and picture rails all down my hall and living room for fucking free, just my labour to sort it out and refinish it.

Top kek that guy could have made a decent chunk of cash selling that off.

>>1056161
lol you're a fucking faggot anon i'm gonna rape ur wife and make her my judge cuz she gonna judge dis dik

>>1057146
>or put everything in upside down
Is that why some of the outlets in my apartment are upside down? I just thought they were on drugs.

>>1049011
>ect

>>1049189
>My state allows (legally)
As opposed to them allowing it illegally?

>>1056753
>swingball
>neighbour
>burger

One of these things is not like the other...

>>1057331
As opposed to it being illegal but unenforced, you pedant.

>>1057353
I just assume every story about retarded building designs are burgers. Usually works.

>>1041931
I just posted this on another thread but I thought some of you guys would also enjoy it here too, it's not really a contractor story but it sure did need one to come and fix it.

My father in law was a landlord and also a complete cunt to be around, just a sour mean asshole of a guy, he had a couple of properties and he decided to move a guy who had lived at one property out for no other reason than he didn't like that he had put an Obama sign on his lawn during the last election, the guy cleared out his shit a week before he had to and then glued all the windows and doors shut with construction adhesive, which had a week to set rock hard before the father in law went to look at the place, I almost died when I heard the story, trying to keep a straight face was nearly the death of me!

>>1057146
>Plumbing and Electrical you need to do right because of code but that doesnt mean there arent ways to fuck with people.

I'm not an electrician but my buddy is and I showed this thread he said that all he has to do is not "go the extra mile" and put shit right so that in future there won't be problems, you can fit the electrics completely to code that will pass inspection but will still be a pain for the homeowner down the line. you don't need to do anything other than the bare minimum job, we've all worked with that man or woman (I've found this seems to apply more with women in my experience) who do just enough to keep their job but not one thing more, they make everyone's life hard but you can't fire them because they haven't technically done anything wrong, well imagine if a tradesman does that, would you want to live in a house built like that?

>>1041931

pissing in your sink, most well known in the trade im in

>>1057854
That's only bad if you don't rinse it. Heaps of people piss on their own sinks at home if someone else is on the toilet.

>>1058225
>heaps of people
>piss in their own sinks
no, no they dont anon
[spoiler] we use bottles [/spoiler]

>>1057829
Don't leave any slack in the line to make future repair easier.

>>1041931
Absolutely any kind of fuck up/mistake.

>>1056283
Don't be a fucking idiot, whoever they contract will foot the bill. It doesn't matter who did it, as long as someone was responsible for the installation and safe operation of whatever gets fucked there is someone to sue, the tradie who fucked it up will probably get away scot-free if their employer doesn't go bankrupt that is.

If they signed a liability waiver though, that's another thing.

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>>1042576
>>1045341
drywall =/= real wall

BR here, I hope you know that. you can literally punch a hole in the wall using your hands

>>1058225
No they don't you filthy animal.

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>>1058225
I hope you drink that piss on your toothbrush niggler

>>1058448

Not to mention if it gets even slightly damp you have to tear down the whole thing.

>>1058497
>>1058500
I didn't say I do it, Jesus Christ autismos chill. I just said it's pretty common, and it is.

>>1058396
Confirmed for never having worked in the construction industry. This shit happens all the time and unless it's fucking obvious and provable then the homeowner foots the bill every time.

>>1058500
>having a fundamental lack of understanding how a sink works

>>1046934
Well that's cool because I've actually done it. Also it doesn't burn down your house. People put out the fireplace very quickly when smoke rolls through their house.

Irrigation tech, when one homeowner is being impossible and we've been to the house way too many times because of negligence we force the homeowner to sign a document stating that everything was fixed and is in perfect working order, will void the warranty the company puts on our systems and lets them know any call after that will result in a service fee. That or black ball them from any of the other local companies that do similar work. Usually means they have to call a shady guy in a truck if anything ever happens.

>>1042613
Kill yourself

Fucking up your own trade because a customer hurts your feelings is the stupidest thing I've ever heard.

This sounds pretty small time compared to some of the stories in this thread, but if we work in a house and the customer makes themselves a cup of tea without offering us one, then the water gets turned off for the duration of the time we are working there with no warning. Basically if you have trades in for anything, the offer of a cup of tea or any drink goes a long way with us.

>>1060333

Jesus christ you petty britfag.

>>1060334
Guilty as charged M'lud

>>1060333
What the fuck is with brits and tea?
I swear it's the only thing ya'll will cut a bitch over.

>>1048271
>caburu
nice try that's japanese.

>>1056283
>found the buttmad blue collar trash

Stay poor pablo

I bought a house. The contracted that originally built the house did not like the guy who he was building it for so he took 4 huge feildstones and put them up against the foundation. We bought the house from the original owner 30 years later. After 10 years or so we noticed some cracks in the basement that we couldent seem to repair. After some investigation and a lot of digging we found the problem lol bastard!

>>1042002
taking a dump on top of poured concrete

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>>1041936
nice

>>1042613
>going to mess with a friend's new house
>mess
Don't forget to prank him by murdering his whole family afterwards

>>1060556
>I swear it's the only thing ya'll will cut a bitch over.
>cut
*glass

>>1060574
It's the same thing.

>>1055334

Thats retarded, in germany if you dont geht paid you do a Mahnung and then you call the Inkasso Bureau

>>1057146
I feel sorry for the people who get the house after the original owners.

>>1058225
Just do it outside, retard.

>>1058225
fun fact: they invented porches so people would stop pissing in sinks

>>1062283
>in germany if you dont geht paid you do a Mahnung and then you call the Inkasso Bureau
>Mahnung
>Inkasso Bureau
what the fug are those things?