Posted on 04/01/2005 5:12:00 AM PST by billorites
"Is urinating in houses common in Mexico?"
Right after high school, I was a laborer for a General Contractor building condo's in Longboat and Siesta Keys FL back in early 80's. Part of my job was keeping the constructing site tidy, sweeping out and removing junk from the units. I was constantly grossed out at having to remove buckets and trash bags that low life's pissed into! Would see the occasional piss on the floor and in unfinished toilets and tubs. Not too many of the contractors (back then anyway) where Mexican either. Mostly the Dry wall guys, plumbers and electricians did that... that carpenters worked directly for the general contractor and were pretty good about not doing that.
I learned a long time ago DO NOT OPEN A SHEETROCK BUCKET ON A JOBSITE UNLESS YOU KNEW WHERE IT CAME FROM!
I will give up urinating only when they pry it from my cold, dead ....
You really want to boil your blood, pay top dollar for a custom built home, and then have the builder declare bankruptcy right before all the shoddy construction issues arise. Then the bastard surfaces again a year later under a new name pulling the same crap.
fortunately when we built our house, it was located in a 5 acre woods....the carpenters and tradesmen just went out back behind a tree....otherwise, I knew all about the "poo in the cardboard box" and "pee down the main drain in the cellar" stuff .......this is not news....and for Wolfe who said he is not going to have a custom built home again....just exactly what does he think goes on at any other home construction project?
Yes, in the Western World.
I've heard from a friend that used to be a construction supervisor that another one to watch out for is using unfinished heating and air conditioning floor vents for sweeping debris. Instead of using a dustpan, they'll use a broom to sweep the plywood floor of dust, scrap wire ... etc and simply aim for the hole. Nice to think you are breathing that junk years later.
Sound like if you are in any way suspicious you should bring in an independent home inspector before handing over the final payment
a friend who is in construction was fishing around in a construction dumpster looking for a drywall compound bucket to take home for fishing purposes....one of the foreign (read Mexican) contractors stopped him...cayaho....they cried...seems they went in the bucket and hammered the lid back on....at least they didnt do it on or against an indoor wall....
....when I was in constuction back in the 70's we use to find as secret a spot outside to relieve ourselves.....never inside....
I sell homes in Southern Oregon, and am buying a spec home in a neighborhood of 25 other spec homes, not one incident of bad behavior of any kind. I go into new homes, when they are being worked on to show them all the time, surprise visits, never have seen any bad bahavior. But then again, all the workers, everyone of them is American, no Mexicans here at all.
More importantly, the General contractors would not allow it, believe me they are there and they know what is going on.
This is true.
We custom-built our home.
The sheet rocking guys wet in our attic and wrote ugly stuff to each other on our sheetrock.
My husband wrote back with scripture! Didn't happen again.
I'm sorry to hear that! I hope you got everything fixed at their expense. I think I heard something similar to that happening in northern Virginia a few years back.
Will Congress propose a 7 day waiting period on urination now?
that happened to a friend of mine building a house here in Florida..He took the builder up to "inspect" roof work.... after grabbing him by the belt and back of shirt he threw him off the first story and informed him that lawyers wouldn't be involved in his next meeting either.
The "new" building company did his house and I must say that there were no delays by the subcontractors and the house is beautiful.
I guess sometimes if you just explain things the right way, criminals...er bankrupt prone builders, understand.
What a pisser.
This is way more common than Dave and Sue in the burbs have been led to think. Many developments do NOT have a portable john on site so where do you think the crew goes when they need to go? In your basement - that's where. I'm not saying it is right, I'm only saying that it is a common reality.
20 years ago I worked as a laborer on warehouse contruction in Gaithersburg Md...the sheetrock contractors panel truck..had scrawled on the side "Defecate and Vacate Sheetrock Contractors".in brushed housepaint...
Precisely why I do my own work. I only urinate on my thirsty plant beds. :-p
Unfortunately I found out about that first hand. Whats really disgusting is to go to some public restrooms in Mexico.
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