my daily concrete rant. No matter where you are in United States, no matter how good your concrete finisher is.
YOU CAN’T WASH THE CONCRETE CHUTES IN THE FORMS.
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The visual of some guy taking his chutes and putting on the playtex gloves with his palmolive soap and scrubbing them in your forms is just funny!
I get this picture of the chute hanging over the form, the driver standing there with a hose in his hand and this Tasmanian Devil named BB swarming all over him.
I do hope you caught him before he got the water turned on.
SamT
Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either. [Einstein] Tks, BossHogg.
Even before openning to read - this thread title had your markings all over it!
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Excellence is its own reward!
YOU CAN'T WASH THE CONCRETE CHUTES IN THE FORMS.
Words to live by!
You ought to make that a bumper sticker and paste it on the back of all the concrete trucks.
Doug
*chuckle*
Beer was created so carpenters wouldn't rule the world.
AND FOR #$!^&* SAKE PLEASE TELL THESE $%#!& (.)s TO QUIT PRIMING THEIR PUMPS INTO THE FORMS TOO!!!!!
And while you're at it please explain the difference between the Porta-Crapper and the half-empty drywall buckets to the drywall finishers.
Do you mean the bucket they put the lid on and stick in the attic, or the one they just leave in a closet?
Dave
The one they leave on the jobsite right out in plain sight for the super to do the touch up and punch list. These guys aren't bright or motivated enough to find the attic, but I think I better go check the closet. <G>So those guys work for you, too, eh?
Found some in an attic of an appartment building in Evansville IN. Tracking down roof leaks. Found the leak and a dw bucket with the lid on it nearby. Popped the lid to set the bucket under the leak befor going topside for repairs. Almost fell through the ceiling it was so bad.
Another time they dumped my door hardware out of a bucket I had set in a closet. Moved the hardware to a box in a second closet, used my bucket, but the lid back on, and you know who found it. Called the dw company owner and promised him a midnight bucket dilivery on his front steps if the bucket was still there the next morning. I didn't find the bucket when I got there the next day.
Now I tell them if I find any of thier sh!d on my job, there is a $50 backcharge agianst their draw.
Dave
20 plus yrs ago when I started framing that was one
of the first things I learned.
NEVER EVER OPEN A DRYWALL BUCKET TUCKED AWAYIN A CORNER!!!
I haven't had to use one, fortunately...
Mclaren
On two jobs I was on they didn't even bother with a bucket. The GC found a dump in a finished carpeted closet, in a condo unit. The other was a log right in the middle of a darkened stairwell in an assisted living complex under construction.And lets not forget about the piss bombs hidden in the kitchen cabinets.
Similar rant to BB's.
Working on a large sears store in a mall. Port-o-lets every where outside, so where does everyone go? One darkened corner in the storefront area. The storefront guys finally show up about April, and yours truely has to take down all the plywood that kept everyone cozy all winter. Got to the pizz corner and almost puked. The flooring guys couldn't seal the stink in that concrete, no matter what they tried.
I don't know what Sears sold in that corner. Hope it was ladies perfumes or such. That wiz smell must take years to get out of a concrete floor.
Dave