Developer mags? How can we gum up the works?

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Originally Posted by Foggy_Goggles

In small town USA, I'll add to the list:

Half assed engineers that will stamp anything

Shitty excavators chasing a check that just fucking wing it

Building inspectors that don't know what they are doing

Glass always full homebuyers and realtors that wouldn't know a construction defect if it poured them another glass of rose on a sunny patio at three in the afternoon

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Not where I am, no building codes so we don't do engineers or inspectors. All the contractors just wing it.

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Originally Posted by adrenalated

Not where I am, no building codes so we don't do engineers or inspectors. All the contractors just wing it.

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by contractor you mean guy with a pickup and a cellphone right?

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Originally Posted by dunfree

by contractor you mean guy with a pickup and a cellphone right?

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Well I met the builder for a house that I'm looking at buying and the conversation went something like this:

"So did you have any engineering done on the roof structure, or design to a particular snow load?"
"It's way overbuilt, you could park a truck on it. I've been doing this so long that I don't need an engineer to look at my work."
"Well unfortunately you're selling to an engineer so you get to prove to me that you know what you're doing."

To be fair it does appear to be built appropriately. I do love the redneck unit of measurement of describing strength as a function of trucks parked on it as if that had any relevance.

He also had a nice truck and I assume a cell phone.

I remember a roofing guy telling the ex-gf " yeah we could totally put duriod shingles on that tar n gravel roof " ex Gf knew math and shit, a little quick math would show there is not enough slope, but i wonder how many time he pulled that