My boss bought this rental property a couple of weeks ago.It sits across the hiway from the shop so when my job for today got cancelled he told me to go over and get it ready to fix up. I took a helper and we hauled off four truck loads, of carpet and other crap. When we got done this is what we had. The guy was obviously suffering from some sort of mental problems or was just a total loser. he had added an upstairs to the house but didn’t bring the ceiling joists up to code. They are one by sixes, the upstairs porch supports are supported by decorative porch posts. Here I’ll just let you guys look and laugh. The picture of the floor with the hole in it is upstairs the decking of choice is that cardboard looking stuff called pressed wood.
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Be honest gunner, you just finished this and wanted to show it off.
By the way, I really like that recessed fan, nice detail, and those "colums" very sweet looking, specialy the way they don't quite even sit right under the deck
Edited 4/7/2003 7:27:47 PM ET by CAG
LOL, he had a goof ring sitting in the floor but it woiuldn't look to good with the rest of it recessed.Who Dares Wins.
Thanks for the laughs. Looks like you have job security for a while.
Greg
Gunner: one word........WOW I will even say it backwards......WOW....
Or how about MOM upside down? WOW
That's what I said after my first walk through.Who Dares Wins.
I'm kind of hoping I'll stay out of it. My schedule is usualy to packed to mess around with non paying jobs. He'll put the basic amount of repairs into it and rent it out. Knowing this I recomended that he seal off the upstairs and call it attic storage. I believe the place might have been owned by the Brazilian building inspector that was much talked about here a few years ago.Who Dares Wins.
That looks like a budget problem more than a mental problem. WHomever lived there didn't have the cash to do it right or they were spending it at the casino. Spooky. If you dump enough $ into it to make it look and be solid you'll still have that dinky overhang on the gables.
Yeesh!
Here's a couple more, the first one is the dumbest way ever to mount a dead bolt. Notice the thumb latch,everyone knows not to do that behind glass, ironicaly that's the only one that would latch, the rest of them were too out of alignment to close. The second is a gas line that runs out of the floor and then turns back into the wall, there's actualy two of them in the same room that do that. Who Dares Wins.
Nice trim job, I hardly noticed the pipe???????????????Bob
"Rather be a hammer than a nail"
The trim around that pipe is the one thing that I laughed out loud at. My place had a similar one, only in this case the pipe came up from the crawl, elled over into the bathroom, then did a U-turn back through the same wall and into the living room. Alas, no careful trim job.... ;-)
-- J.S.
My brother was an engineer with a consulting firm. In their brand new office building, in the stairwell, was a main electrical cable that came out of the wall and back in, about a foot either side of the corner.
Being an electrical engineer, he pointed it out to me,and said, "architect wouldn't listen when I told him the minimum bending radius of 4-0 cable"
Well guess what. He sold it today, he put a for sale by owner sign out yesterday and sold it today. Made twenty grand and financed the guy at eight percent. Some guys have the touch I guess.Who Dares Wins.
The trim around the gas line is the cincher!J. D. Reynolds
Home Improvements
"DO IT RIGHT, DO IT ONCE"
Just might be possible you found Larry's place.
Scratch marks on door and jamb. Stain on the floor where the litter box overflowed.
More than one of us thinking the same thing.
I don't know why everyone is calling that thing a deck or porch. It is a fire escape. But most fire escapes are intended as a SAFE means of egress..
Excellence is its own reward!
I was thinking along the lines of kindling but if you want to call it a fire escape I guess you can. LOL Who Dares Wins.
It's displacing air in the same place that a fire escape would do same.
Some folks call anything that displaces water a boat.
Other folks calls 'em a hole in the water.
so how well did that kindling take a match?.
Excellence is its own reward!
How come you guys are poking fun about my place?
If we can't have fun with you, the court jester, who can we have fun with?
;).
Excellence is its own reward!
I didn't reckognize it as your place Rez!
Looks a lot different since you fixed it up.
Man you must have put a lot of time into it.
You must be proud!
Mr T
Do not try this at home!
I am an Experienced Professional!
I'm glad you said it first and I didn't. LOLWho Dares Wins.
"Notice the thumb latch,everyone knows not to do that behind glass..."
It's code in some places, for fire egress safety reasons. The ones without thumb latches can be dangerous in a fire if they're locked and no one inside has the key.Vegetarian: Indian word for lousy hunter.
Good point, but I don't think he did it for code reasons.Who Dares Wins.
Gunner, do your boss and your self a favor.
Accidently spill the gas can in each room and the drop your cig while you are looking for a rag to sop it up.
OOPS!
Mr T
Do not try this at home!
I am an Experienced Professional!
Whats the matter with the house, you don't like the color or sumthin'
Can't I go 1 day without spilling my coffee?
Man Gunner? If those posts weren't under the stair stringers to take out the bounce the weight of the stairs alone could topple that deck. The footing/patio looks sufficient. Do me a favor, put a diagonal sway brace from corner to corner under that deck before you go out on it.
Bob
"Rather be a hammer than a nail"
While you guys are having your laughs, the joke is probably on us. That work was probably done by a contractor that made more profit than we usually do!
Al Mollitor, Sharon, MA
We just finished on a rental for one of our clients. There was thousands of dollars of work that we could do. What got done was stuff that was a MAJOR safety concern. Did some painting etc. just to spruce it up a little.
The place was a mess. The last tenants had put all of their trash under the house in the crawl space. The realtor said it took 20 truck loads to get it all out. RATS etc. you can imagine what a mess it was before we even got there.
Made me start thinking again if I ever really want to invest in another rental property. I don't know How Tim Mooney deals with it all the time.
If you do end up working on the place I would love to see the after pictures.Tamara
I will take pictures if I get stuck with it. That is if it doesn't fall over the first time a hammer hits it.Who Dares Wins.
My personal favorite of the first pictures was the way that the deck posts were resting on the dirt to maximize space on the slab porch below.
The boss man here buys and sells fixxeruppers, calls them his "default" jobs, which are places to send help when other jobs slow down. Us help just call them fault jobs. Like as in... who's "fault" was it to get us sent here. Some of them are real humdingers. One was owned by someone who used to tinker with cars... brake shoes holding up the half-round gutters, "used motor oil" as ground treatment for termites, license plates slathered with tar as roof patches,.. etc. Talk about pinching a dime.
So how do you guys like your introduction to official low income housing?
I was doing work on my grandparent's farm house in Souther IL, tearing down a porch.
My cousin and I found a patch job in the fascia. They shoved a corn cob in there lengthwise, cut it off flush, and painted over it. The best part was, you really had to look from the finished side to tell.
Nobody ever said that farmers were good carpenters.
Jon Blakemore
That's the same way my boss does it. The problem is he tries to get by as cheap as he can to maximize his profit, so nodody gets to enthused about getting sent over to work on the new house, to fill out the day.Who Dares Wins.
But given a choice between working on the fill-in project or being laid off, for me at least the steady income would make it a no brainer.
-- J.S.
I got $50 that says some guys from my shop class did that reno work.....
where is you , willis.?... looks like you got a three week jump on us into Spring ..
back the dumpster up and have at it
Mike Smith Rhode Island : Design / Build / Repair / Restore
Kentucky.Who Dares Wins.