Not in construction, I am a carpet cleaner, but I get outbid all the time by a company who does not use any specialty products so if there’s a hard stain or urine or anything weird they have no way to remove it, the number of times I have been outbid on a job then that very same person has called me back to finish it The right way is astounding.
It's the way the world is people who want to go the cheap route will always wind up having to fork out more money when the cheap route didn't work cause of them not realizing people who KNOW how to give QUALITY work aren't charging high price cause of the job they're charging for the EXPERIENCE and QUALITY they're offering to said customer.
This looks like a fun project, Stan. I hope you share the start to finish with us. I've been underbid many times but the most memorable was an overbid for a kitchen and bathroom remodel. The customer figured the higher bid must be the better contractor. It turned out the other contractor hired out everything from demolition to tile and painting, hiring anybody who said they could do the job. It was an utter disaster. The customer called me to "fix it up" but I declined. Most of the work had to be torn out and done over. I never heard from the customer again.
I do all kinds of low voltage work: security cameras, network cabling and some home theater things. There is another company around here that does security cameras, and he uses premade patch cables for his home runs. This guy is the cheapest around, because he is the cheapest in quality. I’ve had to go behind this guy and replace a guy’s entire system and rewire the whole thing. I’ve heard I’m not the only one that had to do that, from several other companies in the state. He never goes back to troubleshoot when there’s issues. And when a camera falls off the house, he still doesn’t go back. They give you a little weatherproof thing to cover up the ends where they connect to the camera with every camera, and this guy still uses black electric tape, and leaves it in the weather. I’ve gone so far is to tell the guy I’ll teach you how to make up your own ends for wire so you will quit using couplers every 50 feet, and he will not do it.
My area is saturated with landscaping companies, most stay competitive. It's the guy in a pick up and no insurance that's low balling or taking on jobs they can't handle. I'd rather not work for a customer that chooses someone like that, I have minimum prices and it keeps the cheap customers away.
Wall probably started collapsing after the flagpole was added or after a hard winter. Anchor was probably added as a temporary fix given that the wall leaned over when he started to undo it.
Been undercut by companies that charge all sorts of miscellaneous fees on top of their original bid. Tasks not specifically mentioned in contract, but stuff I just normally do on every job. I’m not in construction more weed and brush mitigation
Every large project up here in Alberta....has engineered drawings and specs.....consultants constantly inspecting progress. we build stuff as per the engineer....even if it's wrong...we will have meetings addressing the issues...however engineers rarely admit mistakes....so we build it...if wrong...we charge to rip it out...then charge again to re-build....I hate engineers...but it takes blame and liability off the contractor....I dont build walls...but irrigation systems and spray parks or "splash-pads"....just build it to specs...then life is good.
Inside that base is a 12 in steel culvert 4 ft long welded to a steel plate and a ground rod inside the culvert is the flag pole and polymeric sand to keep the pole centered and caped with mortar. It is done that way so the pole or what's left can be removed and a new pole installed in the old base.
I was in the HVAC and Plumbing business for decades. Listen carefully! If you shop for a low price your accidently shopping for a hack! And, your bound to find a few. Most hack's are very likeable people intending to do well but there incompetence is incredible because you don't know what you don't know.... When experts review bids and work performed they unanimously find that low bidders nearly always cut corners and lack competence. High bids generally provide a higher quality of work. The homeowner, no matter how watchful and discerning, just doesn't have the professional competency to oversee a low priced bidder and truly know if they are doing it right or not.
I actually had a great building inspecter we put him out of business on commercial and he ended up arrested because he wasn't fallowing code and after a judge had him sent a order to stop work to a site he hadn't pulled permits for they arrested him. The county went after every asset of his. Going through every piece of paperwork they found a loan with both his and his wife's name for a piece of equipment for their business. They lost everything when the Secret service came after him for contractor fraud. Said thing our local DA sat on his hands and did nothing.
I've made a TON of money off of the "cheaper guy" while doing remodeling. As for that flag pole,*usually* there's that big chunk of concrete with an open cylinder in the middle. Pole goes in the void and gets set in place with sand, so it may be pretty easy to get the chunk off.
Stan. You know a lot about a little and you are a great father. Learn what a state citizen is and a U.S. citizen is. Might clear a lot of things up for tax purposes lol. Love you guy's. Freedom is not free, neither is our money, or our children's future.
I remember that wall. Wasn’t there a garage towards the rear of property putting a surcharge on the existing wall? Yeah I wish you could show the state of the ‘new’ wall.
I went and gave my Nextdoor neighbor a bid to redo his entire house. I gave him a price of $3,000.00 he got another bid and it was $1000.00 bucks. He called me back to redo what the other contractor did so I then told him I wouldn’t touch it for no less than $10,000.00 now. Needless to say he sold his house without having it redone and lost $50,000.00 on it. Told him that it suxs to be home and it’s not my problem deal with it.
this is true but REAL commercial jobs have tons of quality co tell from soil compaction tests Multiple times… backfill compaction tests , i mean we can’t pour a sidewalk without multiple subgrade and stone base compaction tests
I generally see someone who use the improper brand material and a poor installation, resulting in a failure. It’s usually the younger guys who are hungry and are willing to learn, unfortunately, they’re doing bad work
I'm building a log cabin and laying my logs on a 12" footer made of 1-2" fill stone. What do you think? How bad will the frost affect it? By the way, it's clay under the footer and frost line is about 40" here (Montana).
Not in construction, I am a carpet cleaner, but I get outbid all the time by a company who does not use any specialty products so if there’s a hard stain or urine or anything weird they have no way to remove it, the number of times I have been outbid on a job then that very same person has called me back to finish it The right way is astounding.
It's the way the world is people who want to go the cheap route will always wind up having to fork out more money when the cheap route didn't work cause of them not realizing people who KNOW how to give QUALITY work aren't charging high price cause of the job they're charging for the EXPERIENCE and QUALITY they're offering to said customer.
This looks like a fun project, Stan. I hope you share the start to finish with us. I've been underbid many times but the most memorable was an overbid for a kitchen and bathroom remodel. The customer figured the higher bid must be the better contractor. It turned out the other contractor hired out everything from demolition to tile and painting, hiring anybody who said they could do the job. It was an utter disaster. The customer called me to "fix it up" but I declined. Most of the work had to be torn out and done over. I never heard from the customer again.
Thankfully where I am, everyone seems to be somewhat reasonably close in price. No little Johnny in the truck doing an acre for 30$.
I do all kinds of low voltage work: security cameras, network cabling and some home theater things. There is another company around here that does security cameras, and he uses premade patch cables for his home runs. This guy is the cheapest around, because he is the cheapest in quality. I’ve had to go behind this guy and replace a guy’s entire system and rewire the whole thing. I’ve heard I’m not the only one that had to do that, from several other companies in the state. He never goes back to troubleshoot when there’s issues. And when a camera falls off the house, he still doesn’t go back. They give you a little weatherproof thing to cover up the ends where they connect to the camera with every camera, and this guy still uses black electric tape, and leaves it in the weather.
I’ve gone so far is to tell the guy I’ll teach you how to make up your own ends for wire so you will quit using couplers every 50 feet, and he will not do it.
My area is saturated with landscaping companies, most stay competitive. It's the guy in a pick up and no insurance that's low balling or taking on jobs they can't handle. I'd rather not work for a customer that chooses someone like that, I have minimum prices and it keeps the cheap customers away.
You happen to live in southern ontatrio ha ha .,... sounds like me and why I quit.
@@boooyaaababy651 no I'm down on Cape Cod in Massachusetts.
Wall probably started collapsing after the flagpole was added or after a hard winter. Anchor was probably added as a temporary fix given that the wall leaned over when he started to undo it.
Been undercut by companies that charge all sorts of miscellaneous fees on top of their original bid. Tasks not specifically mentioned in contract, but stuff I just normally do on every job. I’m not in construction more weed and brush mitigation
Every large project up here in Alberta....has engineered drawings and specs.....consultants constantly inspecting progress. we build stuff as per the engineer....even if it's wrong...we will have meetings addressing the issues...however engineers rarely admit mistakes....so we build it...if wrong...we charge to rip it out...then charge again to re-build....I hate engineers...but it takes blame and liability off the contractor....I dont build walls...but irrigation systems and spray parks or "splash-pads"....just build it to specs...then life is good.
exactly
Inside that base is a 12 in steel culvert 4 ft long welded to a steel plate and a ground rod inside the culvert is the flag pole and polymeric sand to keep the pole centered and caped with mortar. It is done that way so the pole or what's left can be removed and a new pole installed in the old base.
Would installing the base in a sonotube instead of the steel culvert be wrong?
I was in the HVAC and Plumbing business for decades. Listen carefully! If you shop for a low price your accidently shopping for a hack! And, your bound to find a few. Most hack's are very likeable people intending to do well but there incompetence is incredible because you don't know what you don't know.... When experts review bids and work performed they unanimously find that low bidders nearly always cut corners and lack competence. High bids generally provide a higher quality of work. The homeowner, no matter how watchful and discerning, just doesn't have the professional competency to oversee a low priced bidder and truly know if they are doing it right or not.
I actually had a great building inspecter we put him out of business on commercial and he ended up arrested because he wasn't fallowing code and after a judge had him sent a order to stop work to a site he hadn't pulled permits for they arrested him. The county went after every asset of his. Going through every piece of paperwork they found a loan with both his and his wife's name for a piece of equipment for their business. They lost everything when the Secret service came after him for contractor fraud. Said thing our local DA sat on his hands and did nothing.
I've made a TON of money off of the "cheaper guy" while doing remodeling.
As for that flag pole,*usually* there's that big chunk of concrete with an open cylinder in the middle. Pole goes in the void and gets set in place with sand, so it may be pretty easy to get the chunk off.
Stan. You know a lot about a little and you are a great father. Learn what a state citizen is and a U.S. citizen is. Might clear a lot of things up for tax purposes lol. Love you guy's. Freedom is not free, neither is our money, or our children's future.
I remember that wall. Wasn’t there a garage towards the rear of property putting a surcharge on the existing wall? Yeah I wish you could show the state of the ‘new’ wall.
How good are those rotating grapples on excavators. 👍
I went and gave my Nextdoor neighbor a bid to redo his entire house. I gave him a price of $3,000.00 he got another bid and it was $1000.00 bucks. He called me back to redo what the other contractor did so I then told him I wouldn’t touch it for no less than $10,000.00 now. Needless to say he sold his house without having it redone and lost $50,000.00 on it. Told him that it suxs to be home and it’s not my problem deal with it.
True you gotta fix what that person did so more work usually than there was at first
this is true but REAL commercial jobs have tons of quality co tell from soil compaction tests Multiple times… backfill compaction tests , i mean we can’t pour a sidewalk without multiple subgrade and stone base compaction tests
Just do it right the first time is my motto...
great video Stan, keep up the ethics
There is always someone cheaper ‼️‼️
how can they sue you for them being in public. makes no sense, every live news feed could be a lawsuit
I generally see someone who use the improper brand material and a poor installation, resulting in a failure. It’s usually the younger guys who are hungry and are willing to learn, unfortunately, they’re doing bad work
That's why apprenticeships are so important. It's too bad unions are completely dysfunctional. ( at least where I am)
It will be good for the skate borderrs
I'm building a log cabin and laying my logs on a 12" footer made of 1-2" fill stone. What do you think? How bad will the frost affect it? By the way, it's clay under the footer and frost line is about 40" here (Montana).
Awesome 😊
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I thought it looked familiar
Stan how did you end up with a Trump cap
really are you giving away that flag pole?
Stan,aren't these projects inspected?
It's a government building, so it depends if the feel like having it inspected or not. "Rules for thee but not for me."
Thee Dirt Says !! Put up Your VIDs & Get SUED
@12:32 thats a lot of trust for something that will rust away
How come none of your guys put their feet on the shovel to dig?
Just ruin ther shoulders and elbows for your greed.
WTF??
😂😂 Someone is hurt
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