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Whoopsies...

Interestingly enough, almost all of my "Whoopsies" result from lumber deliveries, either put in the wrong place(sometimes requiring heavy equipment to relocate) or stacked so as to be unsafe to work with.... Believe me, this is a VERY small sample of what I've run across in 16 years in residential construction! Wish I'd kept the old Nokia phone photos of the floor system dumped into the basement.....
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Work In Progress, see previous photo caption....
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Work In Progress, see previous photo caption....

Whoopsies

  • Precariously balance the floor system on top of the basement wall package? Hey, we can do that! Thanks a lot, Stock Supply!
  • Those little fabric bands they started using are NOT a good substitute for steel straps and a good chain. But they're cheaper and quicker, right?
  • More from the Orange Strap rant...... 2400+ pounds of decking propped up on a stump, no safety issue here, right?
  • Floor system on top of decking is OK, floor system taking off down the hill as soon as the damned orange straps are cut is not maybe such a Good Thing?
  • These trusses were dumped at the head of a 1/4-mile gravel drive. The delivery driver swore up and down that he drove to the end of the drive and it was so muddy he couldn't drop the trusses and get out. Strangely, there were no truck tracks at the house end of the driveway..... We had hired a crane to set trusses, we had to use him to load them on a large flatbed truck(hired from the same company) to get them close enough to the house to set. The builder backcharged the truss company for the additional equipment and time, including my crew's.
  • Work In Progress, see previous photo caption....
  • This is what happens sometimes to straight PT pine when it gets exposed to the sun for a weekend...
  • Not a big thing, easily fixed. But you would have thought the homeowner was going to have a stroke!
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