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Gravel said:
Wasn't sure where else to post this, but a couple weeks ago I bitched about my fucked up home builder. We just got back from a week away, and our lift station wasn't working. The water was basically almost topped out, so there wasn't much I could do and had to call a plumber.

Turns out, someone threw a fucking vape pen in it, and the pump I guess got caught on it. Luckily it didn't burn it out or break the fucking thing, cause that's like $4k.

Like, what kind of fucking asshole throws a vape pen in there? There's no way that thing is ever going to somehow end up in the sewer. It's just a ticking time bomb to destroy the pump at some point.
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When our house was built, apparently some of the workers flushed their work gloves (maybe wiped their ass with it?) and it took a while to actually clog our guest toilet (people don't really take dumps in there I guess, thank you guests!) and it clogged about 3 years after the house was built. Completely resisted normal auger, they had to bring in some harley-powered auger to break it. They saw it was clogged work gloves in the pipe on the pipe camera.

Something fucking wrong with people.
 
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They do it on purpose. They are illegals or foreign born temporary workers that come here and build these large houses that look like mansions to them. They put shit in the walls and leave shit under the sod because it is their tiny way of saying "fuck you" to rich people. It is the same reason they take no pride in their work even when some of it is truly great.
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Would explain a lot. The soil here is basically sand, and for the first 3 years nails and shit would constantly percolate their way up and we'd find them all over the yard (mostly the dogs would find them and run around with them). Hundreds of nails. When I put in our sprinkler system, I was constantly hitting shit like PEX, lumber, nails, siding...basically anything you'd build a house with.

I'm like, holy shit, there's even dumpsters on site when they build these houses, but these fuckers are just throwing shit all over the place.

The vape pen was very confusing though, because I'm assuming an actual licensed plumber had to install the lift station (and likely electrician). You think they wouldn't be as big a giant piece of shit, but I guess not.
 
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Gravel said:
Would explain a lot. The soil here is basically sand, and for the first 3 years nails and shit would constantly percolate their way up and we'd find them all over the yard (mostly the dogs would find them and run around with them). Hundreds of nails. When I put in our sprinkler system, I was constantly hitting shit like PEX, lumber, nails, siding...basically anything you'd build a house with.

I'm like, holy shit, there's even dumpsters on site when they build these houses, but these fuckers are just throwing shit all over the place.

The vape pen was very confusing though, because I'm assuming an actual licensed plumber had to install the lift station (and likely electrician). You think they wouldn't be as big a giant piece of shit, but I guess not.
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I have no doubt that it was probably an accident by one of those fucktards that got the vape pen stuck in the first place; what I am certain of is that the scummy shithead tried for about 1 second to retrieve it before just leaving because the cost of a replacement isn't nearly as bad as having to tell his boss that they need to fish it out and may take some disassembly/reassembly that costs actual time and money.
 
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Hah you should see all the shit we pull out of the ground when we dig a pool. I build 50 pools a year and I've never not pulled up a bunch of construction trash from people's backyard.
 
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we got lucky and got a slave driving white site supervisor. house has zero probs and neighbors right next door lost roof in last hurricane. etc.
 
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Cad said:
When our house was built, apparently some of the workers flushed their work gloves (maybe wiped their ass with it?) and it took a while to actually clog our guest toilet (people don't really take dumps in there I guess, thank you guests!) and it clogged about 3 years after the house was built. Completely resisted normal auger, they had to bring in some harley-powered auger to break it. They saw it was clogged work gloves in the pipe on the pipe camera.

Something fucking wrong with people.
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people is generous
 
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Gravel said:
Would explain a lot. The soil here is basically sand, and for the first 3 years nails and shit would constantly percolate their way up and we'd find them all over the yard (mostly the dogs would find them and run around with them). Hundreds of nails. When I put in our sprinkler system, I was constantly hitting shit like PEX, lumber, nails, siding...basically anything you'd build a house with.

I'm like, holy shit, there's even dumpsters on site when they build these houses, but these fuckers are just throwing shit all over the place.

The vape pen was very confusing though, because I'm assuming an actual licensed plumber had to install the lift station (and likely electrician). You think they wouldn't be as big a giant piece of shit, but I guess not.
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Deep? may have flat out dropped it
 
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It's probably like 4 or 5 feet deep. It's basically a giant barrel in the ground with a pump that takes your sewage out to the main line in the road.

My thing is it'd be installed by a plumber, and they'd know that dropping a fucking vape pen would be a ticking time bomb of destroying the pump. Which means they just give zero fucks.

It's why I want to build as much of my house as possible if I ever figure out the logistics of it. Or why I rarely call a repairman, because they're all lazy fucking tradies with zero pride in work anymore.
 
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Gravel said:
It's probably like 4 or 5 feet deep. It's basically a giant barrel in the ground with a pump that takes your sewage out to the main line in the road.

My thing is it'd be installed by a plumber, and they'd know that dropping a fucking vape pen would be a ticking time bomb of destroying the pump. Which means they just give zero fucks.

It's why I want to build as much of my house as possible if I ever figure out the logistics of it. Or why I rarely call a repairman, because they're all lazy fucking tradies with zero pride in work anymore.
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My brother in-law does commercial construction up in Alaska. Primarily road work and earth moving. Two years ago he bought an acre of land on an island in south east Alaska and started building a 1,800 sq ft cabin on it from the ground up. He's been working on it over the past two years and it's been wild to watch the progress.

The cool thing with his buddies is they are all in different trades, so they hook each other up. For example my brother in-law will put in a road for a dude that will be doing the plumbing in his cabin. They do a lot of bartering and work through word of mouth like that in Alaska, so people with trade skills tend to stand by their work a little more.

I like to think I'm handy, but when I get around my brothers up in Alaska I quickly get reduced to computer boy from California.

"LOL put down the hammer and go fix the wifi, Mr. Internets"
 
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Gutterflesh said:
My brother in-law does commercial construction up in Alaska. Primarily road work and earth moving. Two years ago he bought an acre of land on an island in south east Alaska and started building a 1,800 sq ft cabin on it from the ground up. He's been working on it over the past two years and it's been wild to watch the progress.

The cool thing with his buddies is they are all in different trades, so they hook each other up. For example my brother in-law will put in a road for a dude that will be doing the plumbing in his cabin. They do a lot of bartering and work through word of mouth like that in Alaska, so people with trade skills tend to stand by their work a little more.

I like to think I'm handy, but when I get around my brothers up in Alaska I quickly get reduced to computer boy from California.

"LOL put down the hammer and go fix the wifi, Mr. Internets"
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hey, a lot of ppl can't do computer shit, if youre the computer nerd, then thats you.

my wifes guitar teacher asked if we had a mac, i said lulz no way, and he said thats a shame its easier for him to look at recordings or something (whatever it was, i was just not following), so i bought a 2018 mac book air w/ a bad battery and i'm confident that when it arrives sat, i'll be able to swap in a new battery and even tho i haven't touched a mac since using lotus123 in the 90s, it'll be fine.
 
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Can confirm. We've got a bunch of work lined up but the new inquiries have dropped shockingly. The tariffs have every vendor in the building industry just starting to get an idea how bad the price increase is going to be. Noone is panicking yet, everything is just sorta holding its breathe. We're talking to our major vendors almost daily reminding them to hold to their quotes. It's really weird and not in a good way.
 
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The builder here, who probably cleared out a good 150+ lots, and has electric and plumbing ran to them, has basically all but stopped doing anything. It's pretty bizarre. They had been putting up houses super fast, but basically about when Trump got into office it was a hard stop. I chalked it up to deportations at first, but I don't think that's it. I think interest rates may have finally killed off the housing boom here.

There's like 6 foundations that have been poured and sat there for 4 months now.

It kind of sucks cause I think we're getting serious about building soon, but this climate is probably going to put it on hold for a while.
 
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Gravel said:
The builder here, who probably cleared out a good 150+ lots, and has electric and plumbing ran to them, has basically all but stopped doing anything. It's pretty bizarre. They had been putting up houses super fast, but basically about when Trump got into office it was a hard stop. I chalked it up to deportations at first, but I don't think that's it. I think interest rates may have finally killed off the housing boom here.

There's like 6 foundations that have been poured and sat there for 4 months now.

It kind of sucks cause I think we're getting serious about building soon, but this climate is probably going to put it on hold for a while.
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Home prices there have risen 60% in 5 years. $261k to $419k along with high interest rates kicked the ladder out from the housing boom.
 
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