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Thread: Home Remodel: Do, Don'ts, Advice
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09-17-2021, 08:06 AM #5151
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09-17-2021, 08:18 AM #5152
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09-17-2021, 08:26 AM #5154Registered User
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your joking about this right?
I get one call a week people wondering if I can "help them out" since their contractor could be there tomorrow and the price was so low and now everything is a mess
I'm a minimum of six months out and booked most of next year I tell them I can send a contract over give me a deposit and I'll spend an hour with them and come take a look at everything after that i might be able to give them a written estimate to finish fix but that will take 3 or 4 months to do
what bandi mtn posted is great see that shit all the time
that is not plumbing in a million dollar home that is trailer park plumbing
pex is so easy everyone can do it
the poor suckers next door to a job agreed with somthing stupid to do a project in a short window between short term renters they are struggling asked them how much they charged I just laughed I don't feel sorry for anyone
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09-17-2021, 08:32 AM #5155
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09-17-2021, 08:35 AM #5156what bandi mtn posted is great see that shit all the time
that is not plumbing in a million dollar home that is trailer park plumbing
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09-17-2021, 08:37 AM #5157
The square hole annoys me more than the pex.
Harbor freight sells a hole saw kit for $11
Not quality. But good enough for cabinets.
So the pex should come up through the base as copper? I guess.
I think it’s more annoying to see flex toilet supply lines in high end houses.
Way more visible than under counter lines.
But yeah. Why supply in the floor?
So much easier to set a cabinet when it’s all wall based.. . .
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09-17-2021, 08:42 AM #5158
Yeah, that's blow and go work. Pure hackery. I wouldn't let an installer do that in a $300,000 starter home. Plumbing should be cut in with hole saws and then trimmed with escutcheons. Those donkey dick paint covered pex risers should have been clean copper risers (with escutcheons), and stops lined up.
Here's another mess from not long ago. I love how the plumber put the escutcheons on the supply lines, at least he did his part. This place was only $750,000, so I guess you get what you pay for.
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09-17-2021, 08:43 AM #5159
Among other things. When you work on stupid expensive houses, you reality need to move so far beyond acceptable and functional. So for a sink base, when you open the doors, you should see as little as possible of the plumbing and what you do see should be perfect.
Its a silly game but it is how I pay my bills. Basically, you try and make every little thing as awesome as possible until it gets to be second nature. It's how you go from B- to A and why build costs are >$1K. Plenty of semi-production developers charge A and give B- and put the rest in the bank.
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09-17-2021, 08:45 AM #5160
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09-17-2021, 08:49 AM #5161
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09-17-2021, 08:50 AM #5162Here's another mess from not long ago
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09-17-2021, 08:53 AM #5163
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09-17-2021, 10:25 AM #5164
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09-17-2021, 10:41 AM #5165
The beauty of PEX is it generally won't burst, so no problem! The bad is you cannot heat it up like copper to melt the ice.
And hey, measuring and cutting holes is tough. Those tape measures have all kinds of little lines and they can be confusing. So if you just randomly cut a bunch of holes you're bound to make those pipes fit through. Git-r-done!
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09-17-2021, 10:56 AM #5166
Like Foggy said, it's great when the plumbers don't glue in the drain line until after cabinet install. But, when I remodeled out kitchen last year the installer was struggling to get the sink box in with the drain on the wall and supply in the floor. I told him the drain line wasn't glued in and he looked at me like I was crazy. I went over and pulled the line out for him and it was something he'd never seen before.
Way back when I was running a cabinet shop, we got tired of the installers screwing up the sink cabinet cut outs so we started making the sink cabs with just a nailer across the top and bottom and a loose 1/4" back that fit from the inside. Installer could flail around, get everything installed and than measure the cut outs from the inside of the sink cab. Measure the holes on the 1/4" back and cut them on some burros, and then screw the back in. And if/when they screwed that up, they could cut another back out of some 1/4" and give it another go.
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09-17-2021, 11:05 AM #5167
Homie measured right just in the wrong spot....ISBM that is pretty much HD Style except they don't even put a back on vanities.
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09-17-2021, 11:07 AM #5168
I like how everybody has a cabinet butcher pic ready to go at a moment's notice. Rampant.
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09-17-2021, 11:12 AM #5169
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09-17-2021, 11:34 AM #5170
Looks way out of plumb.
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09-17-2021, 12:02 PM #5171I drink it up
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Looks like it has enough slope, but that P trap isn’t gonna do much.
focus.
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09-17-2021, 12:26 PM #5172www.apriliaforum.com
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09-17-2021, 12:29 PM #5173
High five the drywaller, fire the plumber?
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09-17-2021, 12:29 PM #5174
Have the painter paint eyes and teeth.
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09-17-2021, 12:31 PM #5175
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