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Why has construction gotten so shit over the past 20 years? Ever since the start of McMansions, it's gotten worse.
What would you do if you were this young rocket scientist in this situation?
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>>2961523
>Why has construction gotten so shit over the past 20 years? Ever since the start of McMansions, it's gotten worse.
our economy is dysfunctional. anything that can't be outsourced to third world countries is unaffordable. even if you cope with insourcing illegals, it's still unaffordable.
>skilled trades
>healthcare
>education
>childcare
>housing
all unaffordable.
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>>2961614
Vinyl will happily break in situations like the video. The planks are glued to multiple pieces of subfloor, one of them gets wet first and swells and there will be a huge force pushing one side upward as the other side is held in place by the other piece.
> the tile floor should be waterproof
None are, that’s why tiled shower floors are treated below the tiles and tiled pools have membranes below. Many kitchens don’t even have tile below the cabinets and literally nobody waterproofs baseboards to keep water from spilling below the floor. If the subfloor is waterproof like concrete theres no immediate damage but then still y’all Americans put underlayment or this nasty green fibre subfloor shit below your floors that gets moldy and rotten before anything else
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I'm sure what is shown in this fucking short is 100% everything that happened
>YOU WON'T BELIEVE WHAT HAPPENED NEXT
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>>2961523
why are they spreading water around like that?
why was this video being recorded?
what is OP's reason for posting this?
everything about this is sus.
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>>2961652
This video is ragebait but this is exactly how people mop commercial kitchens, they have flooring and drains designed for deal with it though.
I can theoretically see someone who worked in hospitality doing this once they get their first place out of home, even if I doubt that's what happened here.
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>>2961523
It’s a house not a boat
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Putting aside that purposefully dumping water on your home's floor to mop it is not the correct way to mop (makes me wonder how he rinsed), I'm curious about the cracks in the field of the tiles rather than at the mortar joints (like at 33 seconds in) -- shouldn't the mortar be the first thing to go?
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>>2961541
As a 30+ year builder, 7 of those years setting tiles in high end custom homes, that's absolutely bullshit.
That kitchen floor should be able to hold All that and more. Baseboards in any pre-1930s home were at least 8' high, just because this exact method of mopping was the norm.
Housing has definitely become progressively more garbage over the years under the guise of "Green Materials" and other bullshit "home systems" many of which like OSB and MDF being simply a way for mills to profit from their waste products by offering an inferior, but often more costly alternative.
Just take roofs for exanlpe:
>up to the 40s, most houses had solid 1x planking for the substrate
>by the 50s plywood was the norm, still very good, but not as strong long term
>invented by Armin Elmendorf in California in 1963 OSB comes on the market; presented as an ecologically sound alternative, the claims are dubious when juxtaposed to total home loss and failure of structures built with OSB as opposed to more solid wood products.
>pic rel
Even the fact that THOUSANDS of dollars are spent on each house, trying to "Button it up" with vapor barriers, spray foam applications and then are required to have yet more mechanicals and systems installed just to mitigate the toxic environment that not allowing a house to "Breathe" creates.
When one considers carefully, it seems that modern homebuilding is analogous to modern medicine; I.E.: Not only has the bar for quality of professionals been significantly lowered over the past 25 years, but procedural norms are now dictated by the industries who create and sell the products.
https://www.fpl.fs.usda.gov/documnts/fplgtr/fpl_gtr236.pdf
>>2961557
Just missing a *Chirp!* which is likely in the version with sound.
But yeah. here in the states even multi-million dollar homes are TRASH, because the suck is inherently baked into the system.
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>>2961610
This is unfortunately true.
Please don't bully, we had NO CHOICE in the matter.
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>>2961655
Checked and kek'd
1.Because that's how you wetmop in da Ghetto,(and McDonalds)
2.They record EVERYTHANG
3.Inspire a convo about shit building practices and materials--I'm all for it
4.No U
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>>2961523
>Why has construction gotten so shit over the past 20 years?
>real estate as a financial instrument with specific formulae for assessing value according to general metrics like # of bedrooms, but no hard and fast benefit to better materials or tiers of workmanship
>little if any penalty for hiring unskilled labor that doesn't speak the same language construction plans are printed in
>no steady supply of older-growth lumber, newer growth is far less dense
>regulations revolve around energy efficiency at the time of installation, not longevity
property is now money, and you're a sucker if you put in any effort past the bare minimum to achieve that store of value
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>>2962031
>Grout joints
Mortar is the adhesive that sticks it to the substrate
Substrate was clearly incorrect, possibly a fix and flip where the fucking money grubbing flippers either hired hacks or did it themselves RIGHT OVER TOP of a linoleum floor.
I've seen this a handful of times.
Seriously, back in 2008 when everything collapsed the last time,(but the (((Banks))) got bailed out)
So many people lost their jobs, their homes...EVERYTHING.
A whole lot of them decided to just go into "Handyman work" since every moron with a hammer and a drill/driver thinks that $800 of shiny new Milwaukee or DeWalt tools makes you a "Jack of all trades"
Hard to watch, but has it's moments of hilarity.
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>>2963178
>Realpoasting™
It's disgusting, isn't it?
I want to create a new paradigm here.
I want the Gexxers, Mills, Zoomers and eventually Alphs to band together and make this shit right.
I don't know if we'll have time, but there's no reason not to endeavor to anyway.
We DON'T HAVE TO PLAY THAT GAME
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>>2963180
>We DON'T HAVE TO PLAY THAT GAME
until we have a concentration of people who actually care enough to hold office and change regulations, we do. next closest thing is probably mobile homes or renovating campers and sticking them in technically-not-a-home "garages"
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>>2963181
Outside of corporate limits,(the boondocks) you certainly can.
There are still places where you will be left alone for the most part.
I plan to to buy some acreage soon, and if all goes well, I'd like to start a smol company that builds and ships ready to assemble timber frames for communities who want an alternative to tiny homes,(as you may know, those got targeted QUICKLY for regulations that caused the price to go from $6k-$10k all the way to $30-$50k in NO time, but that was withing Corporation limits,) or what you'd proposed.
Not just that, but other things too related to accessible land ownership and community building.
I hope to take on a crew of Apprentices and other skilled members, where they start by building their own non-perm housing, but are allowed to live on my property as long as they like under contract, with the end goal being they can save up to buy their own acreage, put the timber frame or non-perm up there and do the same or perhaps even a similar but horizontal expansion of the business model...(custom hardwares, other things for the timber frames--(they still have to be outfitted with everything else,) etc.
Fuck man, they could even start affiliated companies that ship and erect the structures, companies that provide aquaponics systems, Well drillers...
The point is, One man CAN'T do it all, and I'd like to see NETWORKS of these businesses take off and be the foundation builders of all the little communities that are STRAINING to happen now.
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>>2963181
>a concentration of people who actually care enough to hold office and change regulations
This is also a part of it.
It would be a hell of a lot easier to "Buy In" to a Ghost town, than to try to sway an established township.
I think most people underestimate just how BIG things really are here.
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>>2961523
20 ?
Sit down OP... let me tell you a story.
Here in England, I live in a house that parts of which are we think older than your country. Those were the bits built of (i shit you not) stone and 'cobb'. What is that? It's basically mud, straw cow shit and whatever else they had to hand - maybe the odd labourer too. My walls are about a meter thick and super, duper insulated. That part of the house is SOLID.
Another part of the house was built in we think somewhere between the first and second world war. It was terrible. We're talking rotting wood from floor to waist height. A total write off. Multiple attempts had been made to stop rising damp over the last 30 years and all had been bodged.
Then, there's the 80s extension. That was worse. Collapsed drain, so collapsed floor. Built over a fucking well. No drainage outside. Leaks down the walls.
My point is, its not the last 20 years. It's been a steady decline for hundreds. We spent something like 100k on renovations, just to make it habitable.
But also... dont be a retard, that's not how you mop.
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>uses the shittiest materials
>uses the shittiest labor
>isn't aware of which materials bear which conditions
That's retarded and I'm not defending anyone here, what did the retard "testing" thought was going to happen when fully wetting cardboard with vinyl?
Those "tiles" are literally compressed cardboard with a fucking thin sheet of PVC on top, with sides that are not waterproof.
The joints are letting the liquid pass and it's all a shitfest from there.
Use better materials and do not hire Eduardo the contractor the next time.
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meanwhile, vinyl is the material of choice for landlords because a single retard with a swiffer and 10 minutes of free time once a month can clean it with ease, if ever damaged it is easy to replace in sections, and is dirt cheap despite being pretty tough.
literally all you have to do is not dump a bucket of water in it
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>>2961523
big question, decline of western values, duty, ethics, morals, and traditionalism.
but also, cost. they just make things as cheaply as possible, in the past people could afford to do things well.
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>>2963459
>My walls are about a meter thick and super, duper insulated.
hello fren, i also lived in an old house with thick stone walls, but it was exceedingly cold. and damp. how was yours insulated? how does the old part avoid damp?
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>>2963173
>just because this exact method of mopping was the norm.
No, it really wasn't. People used more water than today because they didn't have specialized cleaning chemicals but the "flood the floor with soapy water and scrub" technique was always limited to rooms with floor drains and appropriate flooring and for the most part homes didn't have those - except maybe laundry rooms.
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>>2961523
The problem is big construction projects townhouses condos and apartment buildings are dominated by temporary foreign workers with an extremely low quality of work so they just pass it unless it's grossly negligent shit
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>>2961556
I work for the contractor Alan Kovacs in West Vancouver who married Amanda Tapping the actress from Stargate and Supernatural.
I worked for him for about 6 years off and on and he fired a number of people because he hated the quality of work they did.
I asked him why he didn't fire me early on and he said my work ethic was good I was just a little bit green about how I wanted things done but I was willing to learn.
Which is also why he is backed up so badly that if you want a project from him taking care of all the trades Etc making sure the work is up to snuff you've got about a seven or eight year wait currently.
I want to build a timber frame house on my property but having trouble where I was finding someone who could sign off on the designs architecturally and he found me someone for nothing as a favor to me. The guy was impressed by the fact that I actually knew my stuff, and I built a fucking 1/6th scale model out of real oak lumber, tenons knee braces and cantilevered beams.
She asked me why I chose one sixth and I said because that gave nice decent size timbers, with enough meat left on them to do proper mortise and Tenon joints easily on a table saw and a mortise and tenon attachments on my drill press.
Big older, I'm going to have a lot of trouble lifting some of the full size timbers, so I'm going to do is a course for five other people that pay $5,000 and they'll get a two week lesson in Timber framing.
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>>2963185
same idea i've been playing with for years
it's just crazy hard to find people willing to commit to going off grid like that for no immediate return
i'm a plumber, but would love to learn framing/foundations and would pick it up as fast as can be shoved down my throat
i tried to do it with kitchens during covid but everyone 'laid off' was just cozy being unemployed
it's a huge motivational/foresight issue in the entire population
which is also the issue of why we are where we are
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>>2966708
>Amanda Tapping
most based post all week
similarly i work for a company with standards and our remodels are outscheduled many many months...
market is just saturated with shit
but anyway you get to meet amanda?!
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>>2966782
Quite a number of times. I got to see their house quite a bit while I was under construction in West van. He had my favorite kind of staircase, one of those cantilevered from the wall without any outside support. Right out of a Bond villain lair Also Peter Deluis, Christopher Judge, Micheal Shanks. Shakes lived about a mile and a half where Amanda and her husband lives.
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>>2966935
I think they met when she hired his company to renovate a house that she bought. I think it was the one featured in that episode where that weird guy built a Stargate in her basement using stuff she he bought online it was in that area of Grand Boulevard in North Vancouver
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>>2963173
you must be american and your 30 years of experience account for nothing.
does the kitchen floor have a membrane? no, then its not water proof. you can even see it in her video, splashing water up against the walls, these are not waterproof walls. you build a bathroom to a totally different standard than a kitchen because you know the bathroom will be soaked in water all the time the kitchen wont.
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>>2967970
>then its not water proof
it doesnt have to as long as the structure can dry again in a matter of day.
a solid wood floor laughts at a bath, the only thing that cant withstand that is the piss urethan film finish put on for "protection"
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>>2969967
you probably just suck at find studs
easiest solution is throw up a thin sheet of plywood, lock it to the drywall with anchors, then mount to the plywood
i'm a big fan of walldrillers. they go up to like 205lb rating.
easiest install method would be throwing the ply up where you want, drilling some holes through the wood to mark the wall
put in the wall drillers
put the ply back up and sink the screws with washers
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>>2970458
They're not really paying it. They pay it off
If they were really paying it would literally never reach those prices. W/E I'll do my own work and make the house worth $50,000 more in only a few weeks of work and using $2,000 in materials
Also it's the same in the old world if you want a place that's not cramped. You have to actually be wealthy where you are
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>>2961556
This, American hand tools that are made in America are so unaffordable that they’re considered unjustified spending
50 years ago it was the norm
Now people will call you an idiot for not using the tools imported from India or China
The pay for blue collar workers is really low too so they’re really using some third world tactics now a days
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>>2971331
There once was a company, a small shop, Hart Tool, they made the best hammers in America, I had one (before it got stolen) a California Framer style... they patented so many hammer styles...
Eastwing (garbage hammers) bought out Hart for the explicit reason to shut them down... for a while Eastwing kept the name on the garbage import hammers.
The "Hart" name changed hands several times until it was taken over by the Chicom company that makes "tools" for WalMart where the Hart family name was used for the shittiest Chicom tools ever made.
It's tragic... meanwhile for old fucks like me that still remember those old Hart California hammers sell on eBay, beat to shit and rusty as they are, for $50 to $100 because they're just that good and all new hammers are absolute trash... recently used a Stanley imported hammer and felt like my arm was going to fall off after a little while it was so shit.
I've witnessed gutting of US made companies by the "money people" and the outsourcing... it hurts.
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>>2971346
and I just looked again, some of the 1990's Bob hart hammers are now hitting eBay for $600 to $2000
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Having worked in the US, everything is about speed. The faster you do something the better. It doesn’t matter if you’ve done it badly or you have to go and do it again, doing it quick is the only thing that people care about
This becomes a race to the bottom. There are exceptions to this and there are quality jobs done in the US but they’re few and far between and you need serious money to access it. For the other 98 percent of jobs, just rush it and slap it up
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>>2961614
It’s “luxury vinyl plank” which is some Orwellian term for “what if all the trashiness of vinyl, all the brittleness of tile, and the cost of hardwood?”
Whoever came up with it genuinely needs to be tortured to death in the public square with a livestream, and a small plaque put up on the site explaining what he did so it never happens again.
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>>2971502
Part of the hollowing out of the middle class was the hollowing out of the middle of quality.
I needed a glove box (picrel not the thing in your car). In the 2000s you could get a middle-of-the-road one for a few hundred dollars, what would now be 500-900 with inflation, and get one for hobbyists that was solidly built and last indefinitely.
Now you can buy a toy that will collapse in a year for $80 or a certified industrial machine for $3,000.
Mid level goods no longer exist.
Then people that think they’re middle class like picrel gradually find out they’re lower class now and there are only lower class goods for them, including homes.
So then Brad slowly realizes that even though he makes $100k as a police officer and his wife makes $80k as a nurse, the new build house they paid $600k for has the exact same construction quality as a mobile home, possible worse. Because there is no such thing as middle class quality goods and services any more.
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>>2961531
I love working with home owners that think like this. They also say things like "What do you mean I shouldn't put that in the garbage disposal? That's what it's for!" and "What do you mean I shouldn't flush those wipes? They're called flushable wipes!"
Thanks for keeping us retard handymen employed
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>>2971569
Any plumber on earth will tell you that's bullshit, but if you're too stupid to realize you shouldn't be flushing wipes in the first place, you deserve whatever sewer backups and repair bills are coming your way.
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>>2971932
I'd imagine they probably have an asterisk and some fine print on the package to the tune of "check with a qualified plumber to make sure these wipes are safe for YOUR old ass sewer pipes, retard" but who knows. The kind of person who would flush wipes in the first place probably isn't literate anyways.
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>>2971555
The difference between the US sewer system and Mexico's sewer system is that Mexico's sewers are not designed for paper or pulp, while the US sewer system pretends to be
The crazy thing about pipes is that no matter how well you design them, if you fill them up with pulp they will eventually get clogged like any other pipe
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>>2972543
you don't know what capitalism is.
capitalism is the competition of the marketplace, makers making better products to compete against each other for the consumer
killer-acquisition is -not- capitalism, what we suffer now is corporatism .
capitalism is in fact dead.
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You guys are able to understand videos are edited right? You see the water on the floor and then when it cuts to show the quarter round failing all that left if the soap scum. Meaning the literally left the water to sweep into for the video. The next is that's snap and go flooring which is floating above the subfloor and is tied directly into the walls, without nails/screws/ whatever. The other thing with these hate new construction threads, is no one considers if it was properly installed. Yeah overall quality is down across the board, but people selling they can do the job is high. So people hire cheap and buy cheap and things like this happen. Even without the obvious fact they just water sit there, the floor was installed to tight. There is a reason why they ask for minimal gapping.
>>2963173 this a retarded point. Based of this photo your showing roofing sheets thats meant to be waterproofed, that wasnt. And comparing it to some hardwood railing that's under cover. Osb is shit but your soffit, trusses and everything is fucked. Long before you can blame the shitty osb. Again, it's the people installing that failed. Im not exactly trying to defend the cheap shit products people use, but it doesn't get brought up enough that the person who installed them failed to do it properly. >>2963180
I do timber framing, but where I am it has only been beams over 20t and posts over 15. And I the regular framing, set steel beams/ posts subflooring, sheeting, truss, roof sheeting.
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>>2961524
God help if you ever spill a bowl of soup in an amerimutt house lmao.
Yeah I don't care, if your floor can't handle a splash of water without completely failing maybe the spics you hired to build your mcmansion did it wrong.
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>>2961542
What the fuck does that matter in that specific situation? You don't have any floor paneling in your shithole of a country and just walk on bare cement? I bet you would also clean a parquet floor with pic rel.
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