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    Does it ever end.

    Please tell me it does!
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    #2
    Never ends!!!

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    nope!!!!!try living in a 200 year old hose that was built and added onto over the years by farmers, you go to fix one thing but to do it right you got fix 4 other things and $55 dollar job now cost $1500 and thats with everthing i touch

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    #4
    never ever

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    #5
    Buy a condo
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    Always something. Even with a new house
    If you want a pig, flip a jig!!!


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    Need maintenance free homes with 4 car minimum for a garage:)
    All I see popping up around here are large cheaply built homes with 2 cars in which both the cars are almost always outside because the garage is filled with who knows what.
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    #8
    eventually it will end....then you will start to wonder why...then it will start back up again...LOL....

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    It ends. And they put flowers on you!
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    #10
    Lol I've been going 12 months now on a one man re-model. Somewhere near 900 hrs now on a 2870sq house. With deployment in between.

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    #11
    Nope

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    #12
    Not a chance.
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    Imagine doing it for a living....that's me! 33 years in the construction business with the last 11 in my own business as a high end remodeling contractor...fun fun! and what a challenge...I actually really like what I do...

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    Sometimes I don't know how you deal with us homeowners:)

    I bet it does keep things interesting solving new problems everyday.
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    You are 100% correct magnumb...never a dull moment...I am dealing with one right now...every day...he is a very nice guy and so is is wife. I interviewed for the job 9 months ago and was asked to give a them an educated budget...for two phases..the garage first then the house...so they could store valuables in the garage while we ripped the entire roof off of the house and went straight up with new framing...about a three week process to dry in in this case...and they want to live there while we are doing this!!!! LOL really!!! I gave them a safe price telling them that living there was out of the question...they hired someone else quite a bit less qualified....sorry for them...now the (so called)contractor has bailed out...now I have the job...or maybe not all of it...we bid it out down to boxes of screws and gallons of paint and were $2,000.00 under our guess for the garage...which is going along fine now that we had to rip out all of the roof framing done by the previous contractor that had failed inspection miserably....now comes the tooth and nails house remodel quote approaching $300,000.00 (Came out to a total when finished of $298,587.50)... as we go through the entire detailed process consuming over 200 hours of my time...by the way our educated budget was 285 to 300k to start with eight months ago...lets take a stab at the failed (so called) contractors bid on the house...WOW $170,000.00....now what??? This is what is irritating in my business!!! Wish me luck....

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    When I get bids for large jobs I usually get 3-4 and drop any lowballers as I know those are ones I want to stay away from as they are probably dishonest or just hacks.
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    #17
    magnumb...you think as all consumers should...

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    Old phrase also cheap aint always better and better aint always cheap LOL

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    #19
    Nope. Try owning a log home

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    I have done a lot of work on log homes....If were not for getting paid to do so...I would most definitely feel your pain man...most customers do not realize what this takes and unless they are quite wealthy or quite handy...and do not mind the grueling hours it takes to maintain one and they usually end up regretting their venture. My whole company spent an entire summer working on one in Cleveland,Ga three summers ago. We attached 2x4 rips like shims to the entire exterior, installed sheathing, installed house wrap, installed all new windows and doors with interior jam extensions, then installed Hardie lap and hardie shake with hardie corners and composite fascia and soffit. Then added a 750 sq. ft. addition (two story) gloating 1500 more feet...what a job! We lost count on the dead and live carpenter bees...also replaced the entire roof.

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