Remodel wonders
It’s a wonder the place has not burned down. (Apraiser mentioned (soto voice) that a few in this tract had done just that.)
This job has a few. We could open a haunted house for sparkies.
Our favorite was the hidden splice box in a wall. It was broken, so they foamed the box, wires, splices, etc. into a large ball and drywalled over it.
Then there was the DIY ceiling fan. Run in zip cord covered by wire mold, thence inside the DW, not into stud holes. Small notches where it crossed the stud faces – pocket knife? The metal box was carefully notched out on the side to let in the zip cord.
After that the exposed Romex in the garage, run over this and that, is common place.
However, yesterday, while pulling out not so old Romex, we hit some that would not pull. Three siding nails into the cable in three studs. No shorts? BTW, no tar paper under the siding. Plenty of veggies growing up inside the stud bays.
We need to get to this one tomorrow. (We don’t need no stinkin’ Romex.) – a set of loose wires depart a box and head over the top plate. Front door light?
The ToolBear
“Never met a man who couldn’t teach me something.” Anon.
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you need some high end work for a while ;-)
you need some high end work for a while ;-)
No, BTDT over at One Ford Road with the starter McMansions and Monarch Beach with the real ones. A grandly gated community. The gates were quite elegant in design - vines growing upward out of pots at the base, cast in ??
You know the type: Three thousand feet of crown molding, granite tiles, counters, etc., etc., and Herself having a Hissy Fit over the painters unable to duplicate the industrial spray booth finish on the covers for the Sub Zero, etc.
Myself, I'd have a Hissy Fit over that POS plastic fitting they used to connect the ice maker line. A blowout in waiting. We changed to S/S and solid brass.
A rather extensive mold remediation. One half the kitchen and the laundry room upwards into the bath with the poorly glued drain fitting, etc. That sector of the house went down to the studs. Herself was not amused. Not a bit.
This is comfortably down market. Lot less pretense and the problems are interesting. We get to see interesting approaches to wiring, carpentry, etc. I tell the crew that we are doing archeology. Considering the layers of gas lines, we are.
Will the real water line stand up? We think it's the one that runs across the front, into and across the garage, down the side, round the corner to what was the WH closet by the pool. My point - it has the shutoff valve. Now, that galvi stuff over there doesn't have a shutoff.
The ToolBear
"Never met a man who couldn't teach me something." Anon.
You talkin' about work or writing a screenplay for a horror movie! <g>
"Herself having a Hissy Fit over the painters unable to duplicate the industrial spray booth finish on the covers for the Sub Zero, etc."Oh, don't I know that feeling...."lady, your 150k Mercedes was built in a climate controlled factory by Germans making 30 dollars an hour....."---never said it, but was tempted to more than once....