South Carolina BS thread under new MANAGEMENT and lives in SC

My parents build a house brand new about 6 years ago and I remember going to the house with my dad pretty regularly to inspect and do some self upgrades like installing our own insulation in the walls of the garage. Really opened my eyes to that world even though I was a high schooler and knew nothing about construction

 

Exactly, lol. Before we closed, i bitched about it. They offered my to back out of the contract, lol.

It was not a big issue, just been living with it. Getting ceiling panted too. That patch is 150.00 add on. Ezpz.

 

Its crazy the corners they cut! I worked at Home Depot/building materials in HS and college. Did some dry wall for a shortime too.

Home builders just suck!

 

I was really exposed to big budget cutting corners when I worked for three weeks turning apartments at a complex in Clemson at the end of the summer. They built the entire place in three months in the summer when it rained almost every day. Every door is a closet door, the exterior doors always needed work, I could go on... They also engaged in some shady business practices like charging a previous renter the price of a bedroom door and just buying a closet door to replace it instead. I remember in one apartment an animal soiled a bedroom baseboard and I was told to put as many coats of paint on it as it took to get rid of the smell.

 

...my house is crooked. Like no shit, not square. You can see it with OCD eyes but you think, "Nahhh..." until you breakout tape measures, levels, and squares when you've got shit else to do. It's not everywhere, but it is there.

 

Made an appointment next month to go get gears and front arb installed at ecgs finally

 

gonna love the 500 mile break in all the way home. follow instructions on it to the T. I think it was 20 minutes driving, 30 minutes stopped, 3 times. then 50 miles driving, and 30 minutes not. all the way to 500 then change out gear oil with the thick shit (85-140)

 

As some one who dose cabinets in new houses this is truth.

 

agreed, it is a rarity to find a house or building with walls / foundation square, plumb, true. there are allowable tolerances, and they suck

 

you going to have them for AOP

 

Hopefully would be helpful

 

Fuck I may tow my truck up there and back

 

Sweet .
I'm hoping to be at least locked on the front

 

That'll be awesome.

 

Yea I need a total of $900 for gears and Locker .
So I'm shooting for locker it's $345 shipped

 

Not bad at all. Installing yourself?

 

I swear- "local craftsman" that builders hire, prolly dont even use a speed square, in framing. Lol.

 

im sure they "eyed it up" a couple times. close enuff right?