Shed building 102

[Bucketlist2012]

Originally Posted by GregWeld

I called my retired buddy Ray --- said "we have a building to take down -- and rebuild".



We disassembled the entire building and started over. It was so easy a 3rd grader could have built it.

Better you take it down and rebuild it......Because it was coming down anyways...Sooner or later

[GregWeld]

This is the kind of stuff that just absolutely drives me INSANE!!!!





Note the nut isn't tight..... and then in the second picture you'll see why! Look at those galled up threads! OMG.....
























Here's another quality example of "you're fired!".......


























I was wondering why there were so many WASHERS in an unopened bag.....

















There is supposed to be a "rocker nut" UNDER the nut and washer.... these tensioning cables are used to keep the building square in windy conditions... because the building will rack...

















Let me ATTEMPT to explain this..... This is a back corner post/upright.... it's the outside corner. When THEY put this together --- 3 guys standing around staring up -- so I went out to see why they're all staring and scratching their sack..... and they're discussing cutting the brackets off where they extended beyond the angle the next day and re-welding the part that extended beyond the angle - around the corner so they could put on the board that should come from the back side... In other words -- they had run the board on the side (on the left of this picture) of the building all the way to the end of the bracket and attached it -- then they couldn't land the backside board anywhere since they'd covered up the entire bracket... their SOLUTION was to remove the boards -- cut half the bracket off - and re-weld it to the back side of the angle upright.


I looked at this "problem" and said -- why don't you just unbolt the board and slide it back to where the end meets the corner of the angle upright --- and then you'll have a place for the back side board to land (NOW AS SHOWN IN THE PICTURE).... It was a total "huh?" for them. I had to explain it TWICE.

The next day - they were fired.

[Tony_SS]

That is why I have a VERY hard time hiring ANYONE.

[Shmoov69]

Man you're picky Greg!!! LOL!!


Really, it's so freakin difficult to get anyone that has a single "give a crap" bone in thier body!! Especially in construction! My guys can't stand that I'm so picky about things, but I tell them over and over "if I'm going to pay someone to work on my house or work on my car or whatever, then I want it right"!! I EXPECT that for my customers. No ifs, ands or buts!! I'm in commercial roofing and needless to say, it's not too glamorous and the labor "pool" is not very deep!! LOL!! But good enough is not an option if someone is paying me.