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Thread: Home Remodel: Do, Don'ts, Advice
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09-17-2021, 12:39 PM #5176
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09-17-2021, 12:51 PM #5177I drink it up
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09-17-2021, 01:22 PM #5178
I have a little landscape gig to do. Have done one similar but was years ago.
Bust (dead) sod from 240 square feet, plus another inch or two of dirt.
On the fence about renting a Dingo. I know I could do it by hand, just not sure how long it will take.
Also, what do you do when you have a rolloff at a job site, and rando's want to throw furniture in it?
Several posts back someone mentioned dump trailer. Would that have been cheaper than the $400 rolloff? It's probably going to be 2-3 tons of waste or so I've been told from the rolloff companies. 240sq x 3 inches deep.
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09-17-2021, 01:31 PM #5179
We can get rolloffs here with lockable screened covers to keep things in when windy and bears and randos out.
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09-17-2021, 01:32 PM #5180
I had a change order at the last minute today. Small add but luckily we had paint to finish because there is no more matte finish available near by.
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09-17-2021, 01:45 PM #5181Registered User
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09-17-2021, 02:19 PM #5184
Yeah I meant without permission in the middle of the night.
Locked screen is a great idea, called them, this company doesn't offer.
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09-17-2021, 02:25 PM #5185
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09-17-2021, 02:44 PM #5186
Lots of things wrong here. If you have a 2 car driveway in CA, it's 20' long minimum. A minivan is 17' long for reference. So I'm going to go ahead and assume the driveway is actually 20'x30', which is still small. Using SoCal concrete prices and labor...
1. Concrete demo - 3 man crew, 1 day with a bobcat, breaker and trucking to offhaul the concrete. 24 mhrs @ $60/hour (labor) + 8 hours bobcat $300 + pickup with trailer 130 + 10 cy dirt & concrete sled $350 = $2,220 before markup
2. Subgrade prep - 3 man crew, 1 day with a bobcat to dig out old subgrade and install, 4" deep 3/4" aggregate crushed rock base, 18 tons @ $35/ton delivered, vibroplate to compact = 24 mhrs @ $60 + bobcat 300 + pickup with trailer 130 + dirt offhaul (use sled from above) = $2,500 before markup
3. Rebar and formwork - 2 man crew, 1 day - 16 mhrs @ $60/mhr, form supplies @ $200, 400lbs #4 rebar @ 12" oc each way single mat $400 = $1,560 before markup
4. Concrete pour and finish - 5 man crew, 1 day - 40 mhrs @ $60/mhr. 10 cy concrete @ $150/cy (CA concrete environmental fees are great) = $3,900 before markup
5. Strip forms and cleanup - 2 man crew, 1/2 day - 8 mhrs @ $60/mhr = $480 before markup
Subtotal - $10,660 in direct materials and labor before adding the home office and markup. We're in weird times so 40% doesn't sound that off. Maybe fastfred will do it for 35% if he can drink your liquor and smoke your weed.
I'm sure I missed some things here, this is a quick one for me. $60/hour is about 15% below what we pay fully burdened union labor with all employment taxes for this work. The laborer only sees somewhere around $35-40/hour. I know in Norcal the going rate for unskilled residential labor is $25/hour, so for concrete that's probably about right. You don't want a hack playing with your concrete.Wait, how can we trust this guy^^^ He's clearly not DJSapp
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09-17-2021, 03:25 PM #5187
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09-17-2021, 04:16 PM #5188
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09-17-2021, 04:19 PM #5189
Maybe just needed to get pipes from A to B and there was something in the way he didn't want to go through--piece of steel perhaps. Or for some reason there wasn't room for shutoff valves downstream--although it's hard to think of a reason why.
Shutoff valves are god's gift to the homeowner. With them we can tackle plumbing repairs in the confidence that if we fuck it up it's just one fixture off line. Without them and we have to move into a motel until the plumber comes and we can turn the water to the house back on. I wish my house had more shutoff valves.
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09-18-2021, 08:28 AM #5190I drink it up
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Just came across this on a DIY site. Just….
My last house, the plumber had moved a bathroom to what must have been a bedroom before. Cut 90% through every single floor joist the 6 foot run of the drain. Directly underneath the tub. Not a 3 foot span like Jackstraws pic, either…. Middle 30% of a solid 10 foot span. The floor sagged, so somebody came along behind and leveled it with plywood sistered to the joists to bring the flooring up.
Terrifying.focus.
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09-18-2021, 08:44 AM #5191I drink it up
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^^^ which, my current project: moving a washer and dryer into a bathroom and out of a bedroom. Lazy DIY me wants to just run the drain and supply up behind the washer, outside the wall. Clamped to the wall so it’s secure, though ugly. It’ll be hidden by the washer and if I place it right it won’t bump the washer out any further. Final product will be finished with a countertop above front load washer and dryer, under a window, cabinet in between. Additional and primary rationale (rationalization) is that it’s an outside wall and I’ve had bad experiences with frozen supply lines to washers in this area.
But the derision higher up in this thread about fucking escutcheons under the sink has me second guessing that.
Thoughts?focus.
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in a print medium its easy to not understand what you are saying
so cut/break out the 16" of DW between studs, instal what plumbing you need to and re- DW
it doesnt have to be finished all that well becuz the appilance is going in front of it anyway
slap some paint on and bob's yeruncleLee Lau - xxx-er is the laziest Asian canuck I know
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09-18-2021, 07:50 PM #5197
It's fun walking around in old French neighborhoods and seeing all the wires tacked to the outside of the stone walls.
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09-18-2021, 08:34 PM #5198
5" thick or 4? Rebar? Proper expansion joint(s), or run a saw across and call it good? Smooth? Exposed aggregate? Sealed?
You don't always get what you pay for, but you never get what you don't.
If you have a nice house - and I'm certain you do - don't get a shitty driveway. Asking where their last job was, and driving over to look at it wouldn't be the worst idea.
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09-18-2021, 08:47 PM #5199
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