Recent comments in /f/LifeProTips

w33dcup t1_jd7pvf0 wrote

Reply to LPT: If you're buying a house still under construction, photograph everything before the sheetrock goes up. Knowing exactly where the pipes, wires, and ducts are may prove invaluable some day, and even if you never use them the next owner will appreciate it. by Needleroozer

I wanted to add a light switch to my kitchen. I just felt it made sense to have one in the location. The electrician came out, told him what I wanted. He says "you know we wired a bunch of these houses and I remember doing this one" because it was one of the first.

I show him where I want the switch and I could see his mind melt away. He rubs the wall a few times, stands in silence for 20-30 secs, turns to me and says..."I swear I put a box there. Why wouldn't there be a switch there? It just makes sense there should a switch there and I'm certain I put a box there". I ruined his day.

3

Kaymish_ t1_jd7mhi6 wrote

Reply to comment by TarondorIX in LPT: If you're buying a house still under construction, photograph everything before the sheetrock goes up. Knowing exactly where the pipes, wires, and ducts are may prove invaluable some day, and even if you never use them the next owner will appreciate it. by Needleroozer

Assuming stuff like that is even on the plans. We generate plans all the time and leave them in the house when finished. 4 copies one for the home owner one for us one for the council and one for the draftsman. But the draftsman only puts where things should go when the electrician/plumber/gasfitter shows up on site he takes one look at the plans and says that's dumb it should go this way instead or the light switch should be here or theres not enough fall on this drain and changes it. We don't do as builts in residential house building.

7

Anonlurkr t1_jd7kses wrote

Reply to LPT Request - Regular Property Maintenance by The_Nevster

Check your roof at least once a year if you are physically able. Otherwise, get someone else to help with it. Your roof bakes in the sun all year long, so there is a lot of expansion and contraction. It is also subject to high winds, hail, and tree branches. Finding out there is an issue with it when a long period of rainy weather hits is a disaster. I had a kitchen ceiling ruined once because I was overly confident that my steeply-pitched roof would never leak, especially when the shingles looked fine from the ground.

4

RickAstleyletmedown t1_jd7k4wi wrote

Reply to comment by GreatBigModernMess in LPT: If you're buying a house still under construction, photograph everything before the sheetrock goes up. Knowing exactly where the pipes, wires, and ducts are may prove invaluable some day, and even if you never use them the next owner will appreciate it. by Needleroozer

It's just a brand name that has become synonymous with the product itself, sort of like Xerox, Popsicle, Velcro, Dumpster or Heroin.

4

RickAstleyletmedown t1_jd7jms8 wrote

Reply to comment by auvovo in LPT: If you're buying a house still under construction, photograph everything before the sheetrock goes up. Knowing exactly where the pipes, wires, and ducts are may prove invaluable some day, and even if you never use them the next owner will appreciate it. by Needleroozer

The company I used to work for did this. We gave them multiple sets of blueprints and made a binder for the buyers with paired elevations and photos for each wall, notes about carpet, paint and tile selections, and all the manuals and warranty information for installed electronics and appliances organized by room.

9

drae- t1_jd7iyaz wrote

Reply to LPT: If you're buying a house still under construction, photograph everything before the sheetrock goes up. Knowing exactly where the pipes, wires, and ducts are may prove invaluable some day, and even if you never use them the next owner will appreciate it. by Needleroozer

Unless your home is custom built on land you already own you likely don't own the property at rough-in stage. You don't own the house until you pay for it. Which would make acquiring photos an act of trespass. Would you wander into the Ford factory to take pictures of your new car being assembled?

I kick soon-to-be home owners off our jobsites all the time. I've had two injure themselves wandering around the site after hours.

2

Mocavius t1_jd7ivwi wrote

Reply to comment by EarlyProperty199 in LPT: If you're buying a house still under construction, photograph everything before the sheetrock goes up. Knowing exactly where the pipes, wires, and ducts are may prove invaluable some day, and even if you never use them the next owner will appreciate it. by Needleroozer

Bro no one will question you if you just wear a safety vest or a hard hat. And that's sticking out. Lose the vest, and gauge whether or not you need the hard hat.

Pre drywall or roofing still being worked on at adjacent addresses? hard hat.

Drywall up, and just trim out work with ram board on the floor? No hard hat.

Or fuck it. Go after 5. No GC is there after 5. Well, the bad ones aren't. The good ones stay. But the good ones are too busy fixing the fuck ups from the shitty contractors.

2

iTransient t1_jd7io7x wrote

Reply to LPT: If you're buying a house still under construction, photograph everything before the sheetrock goes up. Knowing exactly where the pipes, wires, and ducts are may prove invaluable some day, and even if you never use them the next owner will appreciate it. by Needleroozer

It’s better to walk through making a slow moving video. Photos are tough to get a good location on. A slow moving video is more useful for counting studs from corners, getting different angles of views of the ceiling. It’s like 30 pictures a second.

1

psykiris t1_jd7gviw wrote

Reply to comment by cwagdev in LPT: If you're buying a house still under construction, photograph everything before the sheetrock goes up. Knowing exactly where the pipes, wires, and ducts are may prove invaluable some day, and even if you never use them the next owner will appreciate it. by Needleroozer

Don't forget that they can't be accurate when the home owner decides to changes the plans after they're made too.

Happens way too often to us as electricians.

4

Luqueasaur t1_jd7fo7a wrote

Reply to LPT: If you're buying a house still under construction, photograph everything before the sheetrock goes up. Knowing exactly where the pipes, wires, and ducts are may prove invaluable some day, and even if you never use them the next owner will appreciate it. by Needleroozer

Or have an engineer map it all out, which is a very useful practice. It's called as-built, and it compares the original plans to how things actually went.

1

keepthetips t1_jd7ej1l wrote

Reply to LPT Request - Regular Property Maintenance by The_Nevster

Hello and welcome to r/LifeProTips!

Please help us decide if this post is a good fit for the subreddit by up or downvoting this comment.

If you think that this is great advice to improve your life, please upvote. If you think this doesn't help you in any way, please downvote. If you don't care, leave it for the others to decide.

1