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Framing, electrical, heating and air, plumbing, insulation, structured wiring, natural gas extensions are all done. Spent the weekend cleaning up the basement. I still have a handful of removal chores to do (remove ladders, giant sawhorse, etc.), but tomorrow the drywallers arrive and start their three day ordeal.
I hope this is helping someone in this economy. 
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Did you manage to find a drywaller that only hires legal citizens for all of his jobs????
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| ronholm wrote: | | Did you manage to find a drywaller that only hires legal citizens for all of his jobs???? |
Sure did. I know him. Family business. And I met him through the local Home Theater clubs 6-7 years.
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Cool. FYI, you might want to run around and snap some pics of your open walls and ceilings before the drywall goes up. It's REALLY handy later if you ever need to crack into a wall or ceiling to mount or fish something to know where all the water, electrical, and HVAC runs are.
I snapped pics as my house was being built, and the pics of the open framing have come in really handy several times.
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| WanMan wrote: | | ronholm wrote: | | Did you manage to find a drywaller that only hires legal citizens for all of his jobs???? |
Sure did. I know him. Family business. And I met him through the local Home Theater clubs 6-7 years.
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I can see the Wan now "Are you a Citizen???" "Si!!"
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| Link Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2009 11:26 pm Post subject: |
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| ecrabb wrote: | Cool. FYI, you might want to run around and snap some pics of your open walls and ceilings before the drywall goes up. It's REALLY handy later if you ever need to crack into a wall or ceiling to mount or fish something to know where all the water, electrical, and HVAC runs are.
I snapped pics as my house was being built, and the pics of the open framing have come in really handy several times.
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2nd that If nothing else future wire feeding and all that nonsense might be easier...
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I can see the Wan now "Are you a Citizen???" "Si!!" |
Love how he calls me a smartarse for asking.. Ya'll picking on contractors for hiring illegal help.. Do you know how hard I have to work to find roofers, and rockers that don't hire illegals.. Chit..
All that while trying to not come across as "racist"... Chit..
I had customer once who was much like WAnman in his desire to NOT have any illegals on the jobsite.. LMFAO... My self proclaimed "honorary mexican" just about lost the job for me until we proved he was just a short Samoan..  
My helper gets pissed about that kinda stuff.. The funniest was one day we were hanging lights.. The homeowner (a brave black man living in a very Hispanic part of town) comes out and asks him a question.. My helper didn't hear the question the first time so the homeowner repeated it in Spanish... I about fell off the roof laughing when my helper started talking to him in samoan... and had to quickly think of the proper translation to pass on to the customer... 
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WanMan
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| ecrabb wrote: | Cool. FYI, you might want to run around and snap some pics of your open walls and ceilings before the drywall goes up. It's REALLY handy later if you ever need to crack into a wall or ceiling to mount or fish something to know where all the water, electrical, and HVAC runs are.
I snapped pics as my house was being built, and the pics of the open framing have come in really handy several times.
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Already did that. Makes it easier in case some proof is needed later.
Ron, you just didn't think I had the balls to ask for proof up-front. I did this with every contractor. No proof, no work. And in this economy they don't hesitate to provide it.
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HEHE..
No of course I figured you would and had asked.. I just wanted to hear the story..
Besides asking for that stuff is a great thing for anybody to do.. Makes it a lot easier to separate the guys that actaully have Licenses, insurance, worker comp, ect from those that just have it on their Business cards.. Well if they even have a card
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Ron, I now have an image of Johnny Depp and Benicio Del toro ( the Samoan ) doing ladder work....
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I have so much fun it just ain't right... I am going to pass that one along today...
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WARNING:
Chopping down drywall for the purpose of hanging can generate large-particulate 'dust' that can get into gas-fired furnace and air handler, and can cause an electrical breaker or two to trip. Additionally, if your drywall contractor uses screws and glue make sure you ventilate for the fumes from the glue.
And while I learned the lesson of shutting off the 1st floor furnace, which is located in the basement where the work is being done, I am now told the sanding after the first mud coat will be worse. I am thinking of taking a shop fan (24", non-window style) and sitting it in the basement walkout door and allowing air to be drawn in from the farthest basement window.
Lastly, I discovered the vent for the basement bath was never lowered after the ceiling was lowered and now resides behind the ceiling drywall. The HVAC guy will need to come back and make nice. Time to take some pictures of the hung drywall and before the mudding.
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If you can seal the doorway around the fan so that it cannot draw air from the doorway and it will do that much better of a job keeping dust out of the rest of the house.. Just don't use your favorite fan unless you are using a airhandler designed for the purpose.. Drywall dust will eat the motor alive..
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They spent all day yesterday mudding. I think they used 11 of the 14 buckets (5-gallon) of mud, and are coming back on Friday to apply a skim coat.
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