Home Renovations! :D - General

Home Renovations are a special kind of thing. Sometimes, shit breaks down in your house. Sometimes, you want to have a new room, or make a special dungeon for your BDSM needs. You get to hire special people called "Contractors", who go around and work for insane prices, and sometimes do shitty work, or you can buy the materials and equipment you need at your local hardware store that everyone waits at half an hour before opening time so they can get that "one thing", causing massive jams at the checkouts, and go at it yourself. I've been working with my father since I was 8 years old doing basic "around the house" style reno's for a landlord (person who rents out houses). I've learned shitloads of things, like how to rip a fucking wall apart! (Rawr!) and how to make just the right angles for baseboards and moulding (Fuuuu-!). I wouldn't consider my dad a "contractor" in a sense. I would call him a "handy-man" mostly because he does everything and almost anything. You get to do some unique things doing home renovations. I've been in attics, crawling around on joists, hoping not to step in between them and falling down a story onto the hard floor, and I've also been underneath houses, beneath the basements, reinforcing concrete, and repairing weeping tiles. :O +1 if you know some of the terminology. So FACEPUNCH, any of you do/like/want to do some of this stuff? Discuss! Wait, then again, the majority of the population of Facepunch is made up of 12 year olds who think that they don't need to learn at least the SLIGHTEST bit of info about fixing little things. Aaah well. I just wanted to see what kind of reaction I would get.

[quote]You get to hire special people called "Contractors"[/quote] Hold the fucking phone, you mean REAL Contractors?! My dad wanted to replace carpet with tile in our downstairs kitchen thing, we bought the tile and they have been sitting in the guest room for the past 4 years.

im going to add a dungeon in my house

[QUOTE=BANNED USER;25430862]Hold the fucking phone, you mean REAL Contractors?! [/QUOTE] As opposed to fake ones?

[QUOTE=HendoV2;25430867]im going to add a dungeon in my house[/QUOTE] The real kind of the kinky kind

I like watching Holmes on Homes. Mike always makes me laugh. I'd have to do some major reading before I'd start tearing walls down. [editline]15th October 2010[/editline] [QUOTE=ZekeTwo;25431094]The real kind of the kinky kind[/QUOTE] 99% I think he means kinky...

[QUOTE=JoeyZ;25431071]As opposed to fake ones?[/QUOTE] You'd be surprised at how many people pose as "Contractors" and they get the customers quotes and start work, but they ask for the money up front. They show up one day, work, and fuck off. [editline]15th October 2010[/editline] [QUOTE=psp401.com;25431097]I like watching Holmes on Homes. Mike always makes me laugh. I'd have to do some major reading before I'd start tearing walls down. [editline]15th October 2010[/editline] 99% I think he means kinky...[/QUOTE] By the way, that show is pretty much full of shit. He always decides to go overboard on EVERYTHING. If the province/state's building codes minimum stud length between studs in walls is 13 inches, he'll throw them in every 5, just to MAKE IT RIGHT LOLOLOL

[QUOTE=RoflKawpter;25431106]You'd be surprised at how many people pose as "Contractors" and they get the customers quotes and start work, but they ask for the money up front. They show up one day, work, and fuck off. [editline]15th October 2010[/editline][/QUOTE] Of they do the job incorrectly, don't get working permits, and take HORRIBLE short cuts which almost always ends in a shitty looking job or safety violations that could potentially turn worse.

My dad buys old houses, fixes them up and resells them.

[QUOTE=psp401.com;25431097]99% I think he means kinky...[/QUOTE] When it's done HendoV2 can I come over

[QUOTE=psp401.com;25431140]Of they do the job incorrectly, don't get working permits, and take HORRIBLE short cuts which almost always ends in a shitty looking job or safety violations that could potentially turn worse.[/QUOTE] Definitely that too. I've looked behind walls and seen that the guy used extension cord wire, instead of regular home wire inbetween the walls. He also filled the breaker box solid with foam, so you couldn't add anything without getting a new breaker box and setting it all up again. Pain in the ass it is.

[QUOTE=RoflKawpter;25431174]Definitely that too. I've looked behind walls and seen that the guy used extension cord wire, instead of regular home wire inbetween the walls. He also filled the breaker box solid with foam, so you couldn't add anything without getting a new breaker box and setting it all up again. Pain in the ass it is.[/QUOTE] How many times have you come across people (past contractor/workers) overloading circuits or excessive junction boxes?

[QUOTE=psp401.com;25431198]How many times have you come across people (past contractor/workers) overloading circuits or excessive junction boxes?[/QUOTE] Too many times. Opened up a ceiling around a light, ended up taking the whole ceiling down because every joist had a junction box.

[QUOTE=RoflKawpter;25431264]Too many times. Opened up a ceiling around a light, ended up taking the whole ceiling down because every joist had a junction box.[/QUOTE] Ever see someone cut notches from the ceiling joints to make room for something? :P

Oh god yes, PLENTY of times. I was sitting outside my house watching these guys working on the frame of a house. They were putting the plumbing in, and this one guy cut a chunk out of a stud to put an ABS pipe in. He took another chunk out, and another, and then a guy saw what he was doing, "WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING" was a good description of what he said... Twas funny.

I do this stuff with one of my parent's friends. I like it, I'm developing skills that I would otherwise lack.

[QUOTE=Inacio;25432779]I want to make a room for me and my friends furplay. :saddowns:[/QUOTE] :colbert:

[QUOTE=Inacio;25432779]I want to make a room for me and my friends furplay. :saddowns:[/QUOTE] do what now

[QUOTE=w 1 z;25433067]do what now[/QUOTE] Anything is possible with the power of the hammer and the nails!

Like crucifying Jesus!