Home Remodel: Do, Don'ts, Advice

[Supermoon]

What am I looking at there? Water main?

[Touring_Sedan]

What am I looking at there? Water main?

Main sewer line. It had clogged and foolishly I let them "water jet" it in an attempt to clear it. I think they fucked it up and separated the line at the point it entered the sewer in the street. All they had to do was replace that small section of blue pipe. It probably took them the better part of two days just to dig the hole. The soil kept sluffing down. I guess that's why they call it Sandy.

[snowaddict91]

Main sewer line. It had clogged and foolishly I let them "water jet" it in an attempt to clear it. I think they fucked it up and separated the line at the point it entered the sewer in the street. All they had to do was replace that small section of blue pipe. It probably took them the better part of two days just to dig the hole. The soil kept sluffing down. I guess that's why they call it Sandy.

Are you not in the Sandy Suburban Sewer District? That free lateral line insurance is a pretty awesome benefit.

[Touring_Sedan]

Are you not in the Sandy Suburban Sewer District? That free lateral line insurance is a pretty awesome benefit.

We're in South Valley Sewer District.

[Supermoon]

Woof. That whole thing looks like a pain

[Dantheman]

I still think you're getting fucked.

Maybe. As noted, I didn't just get the water heater done. The sewer line cleanout hadn't been opened in 20+ years and was so seized he had to cut it out and replace it. Also, with an active leak that was getting worse by the day, a trip this weekend that I'm leaving for momentarily, and a packed work week ahead I'm happy I was able to get it done when I did. Sometimes a "Good/Fast/Cheap, pick 2" situation is the only option.

[XXX-er]

Thanx for letting that ^^ info slip, reminds me of customers who would casually mention after 2 days of me working on their system that oh by the way nothing has worked since they dug up the street and fucked everything in the building

[Touring_Sedan]

Thanx for letting that ^^ info slip, reminds me of customers who would casually mention after 2 days of me working on their system that oh by the way nothing has worked since they dug up the street and fucked everything in the building

"I also had them remodel the upstairs bathroom and replace the washing machine......."

[XXX-er]

Knowledge is power ... always hold some info back

[old goat]

The developer who built our Sacramento neighborhood in the 30's planted plane trees on every lot directly over the cast iron sewer lines. I think every line on our block has been replaced. We were the last. We must have had the line rotorooted a dozen or more times over the years. Finally bit the bullet when they couldn't get it open. Maybe the developer thought shit spilling out of broken sewers would be good for the trees, or maybe his son-in-law was a plumbing contractor.

[mcphee]

^If I were a developer in the 1930s, there’s no way I’d think tree roots would penetrate cast iron.

[I Skied Bandini Mountain]

Also, that Caillebotte floor scrapers painting is a favorite of mine, as I grew up near Chicago, and it’s at the Art Institute there.
Yes those dudes would be sore, but plenty of folks do indoor rowing, (isn’t there a thread here about it?), and their floors prolly could be refinished every couple years instead. #pelotonisstupid

Caillebotte's Paris street, rainy day is hanging at the Art Institute, the floor scrapers is at the Orsay in Paris (saw it in April).

What would really suck about scraping that floor is how hot the scraper gets - that shit will burn your fingers when you get at it.

[plugboots]

Caillebotte's Paris street, rainy day is hanging at the Art Institute, the floor scrapers is at the Orsay in Paris (saw it in April).

What would really suck about scraping that floor is how hot the scraper gets - that shit will burn your fingers when you get at it.

Dang! I get these museums all mixed up.

[yeahman]

Put this in the "don't" category. Buddy sent me these, one week before move in. Painter fucked up.

[Supermoon]

That’ll buff right out

[Vt-Freeheel]

Lucky to have missed that high pressure gas line

[I Skied Bandini Mountain]

Lucky he/she missed the king stud or that would have been a real mess.

[fastfred]

With the current market, my assumption:
- No contractor is coming to your house to do a days work for less than $1k.
- No contractor is coming to your house to do a small project for less than $5k.
- No contractor is doing a remodel for less than $200k.


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been listening to sadboy loko for a half hr nwo
sure as shit ate 20mg of edibles at one thinking my day was over
nope spent the afternoon in a 10 milion dollar house measuring and trying to figure out how to make it better it's alittle dated for the new owner
cameras all over the house so I know she was watching me touretting out and talking to myself then I spent ten minutes trying to find where I left my laser tape measure
ate 15 more mg of edibles around 5 so I could go for a bike ride

unless people tell there kids togo into to the trades your gonna pay out the asshole for any services
better hope for some immigration reform
shit might hit the fan but wages will not go down trades people will be in demand there are none have you tried calling one?
150 an hr for plumbers and electrians now plus plus plus I'm at 80 an hr per employee thats someone to take the trash out and move a broom

[plugboots]

Hey Fred whatever. There just aren’t plumbers or electricians here. Period.

[nickwm21]

Put this in the "don't" category. Buddy sent me these, one week before move in. Painter fucked up.

What resi painter needs a 60’ boomlift? That’s the real question.

been listening to sadboy loko for a half hr nwo
sure as shit ate 20mg of edibles at one thinking my day was over
nope spent the afternoon in a 10 milion dollar house measuring and trying to figure out how to make it better it's alittle dated for the new owner
cameras all over the house so I know she was watching me touretting out and talking to myself then I spent ten minutes trying to find where I left my laser tape measure
ate 15 more mg of edibles around 5 so I could go for a bike ride

unless people tell there kids togo into to the trades your gonna pay out the asshole for any services
better hope for some immigration reform
shit might hit the fan but wages will not go down trades people will be in demand there are none have you tried calling one?
150 an hr for plumbers and electrians now plus plus plus I'm at 80 an hr per employee thats someone to take the trash out and move a broom

My comment wasn’t a knock. You’re preaching to the choir here… I work on the commercial side. The biggest risk to the industry is declining skilled trade. I’m two weeks behind on the erection of a $300m hospital tower because there are no more welders to be found in local 86. Average age of a plumber I see onsite must be late 40s / early 50s.


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[lifelinksplit]

What resi painter needs a 60’ boomlift? That’s the real question.



My comment wasn’t a knock. You’re preaching to the choir here… I work on the commercial side. The biggest risk to the industry is declining skilled trade. I’m two weeks behind on the erection of a $300m hospital tower because there are no more welders to be found in local 86. Average age of a plumber I see onsite must be late 40s / early 50s.


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Those lifts are renting for 975 a day here. New job for me and GC didnt want to spend that money so I guess my hourly will make up for having to deal with shitty access. He also built half a house before realizing the eves were gonna hit the power lines.....that only cost another 48k to have power company raise them 20ft. People are strange.

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[yeahman]

What resi painter needs a 60’ boomlift? That’s the real question.

I thought the same but there's actually another story above that subroof that looks like a pain to reach with a ladder.

[whyturn]

Anybody recommend a good exterior house painter in SLC or really north like Layton where I live?


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[carlh]

Leaking bathroom faucet valve on an old grohe faucet. Cartridges are $30 each worth it or replace with a cheaper new faucet? Planning a bathroom remodel in a few years so leaning towards a cheap new one so I don’t have to do the other cartridge too.

[adrenalated]

Leaking bathroom faucet valve on an old grohe faucet. Cartridges are $30 each worth it or replace with a cheaper new faucet? Planning a bathroom remodel in a few years so leaning towards a cheap new one so I don’t have to do the other cartridge too.

You can get a cheap new one for what, $40? That's for sure what I would do.