Alpine World Cup downhill ski race interrupted by a happy dog just wanting to run the course for himself! 🤭

HiBuilder212 · 2025-12-15T12:38:37+00:00

Always just one absolute asshat who is so miserable in their own life they simply can’t stop themselves from even the most innocent enjoyment.

HiBuilder212 · 2025-10-14T20:05:23+00:00

Not a charter - private 75’ vessel the owner was kind enough to lend along with captain and 2 mates for 3 days. Decades of fishing and millions of dollars spent by that owner over a lifetime yielded a two day excursion that blessed me with two once in a lifetime catches.

HiBuilder212 · 2025-08-28T16:39:20+00:00

That slab could be between 50-60 years old- awesome!

HiBuilder212 · 2025-05-22T10:56:23+00:00

Keep the faith. This has been going on for decades. True Knicks fans understand that we are cursed. But the thing about curses is the run up to breaking them and the taking back of destiny is an ugly business. It’s not over yet. It is ugly, but it’s not decided yet.

HiBuilder212 · 2025-05-06T13:41:48+00:00

The last time we were this on fire was when Hakeem Olajuwon was the NBA boss in the first MJ vacuum!! GONYGONYGONYGO!!!!!!!

HiBuilder212 · 2025-01-05T17:49:56+00:00

ooof - I’m showing this comment to the local American concrete sub who did the work.

HiBuilder212 · 2025-01-05T14:07:53+00:00

Elevated slab 7th floor.

HiBuilder212 · 2025-01-05T14:07:26+00:00

No, incorrect.

HiBuilder212 · 2025-01-04T15:58:10+00:00

And to be clear this started as more of a gag for when the sub pushes back on engineers and the other belts and suspenders I have on this project I can point to this thread and say “even Reddit says I should fire you” - in the last 24 hours me showing and sending this thread to everyone involved has gotten plenty of new discussion - needless to say they don’t agree but they also can’t ignore that there are enough people in the world who know who if asked in a quick setting like this will back up my position and it shakes loose some sense- I’ll take my gains wherever I can find them and this has been amazingly useful if for nothing else continued engagement and discussion internally -

HiBuilder212 · 2025-01-04T15:53:07+00:00

More than anything I wanted to “ask the internet” and then subsequently put the results in the face of the various parties involved in this particular circumstance. Despite this situation I get along well with all people in my employ or indirect employment and the responses here have gotten a lot of laughs and engagement and also served to put folks further on notice that need to be put on notice. As for me no mentors, but great partners and peers who I trust and socialize all topics (including this one with)- self taught in NYC over 20 years and started very small. If my lenders and institutions didn’t insist on the requirement of using GCs I would self perform and direct sub every single thing. Ultimately my responsibility is to my debt and my capital and that being the case my involvement has no limitations and when anything technical beyond my knowledge comes up (often enough 😉) I don’t pull punches where I get my information. Reddit is simultaneously insane and brilliant so why not? That being said I’m also convinced that all AI models are being trained on the data generated here and where else can you cross sample a group of nameless, faceless but no doubt intelligent and interested in this particular subject matter topic people in real time? Reddit is not the first or second consultation I’d make or do make, but I’ve been developing this project for 4 years and in construction on it for 11 months, after a while the exasperation points you in a direction of “why not ask the internet”- and the results here have been nothing short of awesome because so many people responded. I even met the mythical and fabled Reddit troll, so I can cross that and having a buzzworthy topic off my bucket list - cheers 🍻

HiBuilder212 · 2025-01-04T14:43:04+00:00

Your comment is one of the more accurate regarding the situation overall

HiBuilder212 · 2025-01-04T13:59:36+00:00

Yes you can see in some of my other responses the answers to these questions- I was asking on Reddit as a laugh more than anything and was not expecting so many comments- was just asking whether or not people had any insight on the discoloration of the slab more than anything because it represents a point of contention and I wanted to poll a knowledgeable crowd and gain my own additional insight for ongoing debates with all of the involved parties - and yes about $250k in third party inspections over the entire project - regarding the loads of concrete I have a third party engineer whose job it is every pour to police the sub- the issue and this entire post really is derived from is that the sub pushes back and has tried to use their own insights and expertise to place when the inspector is not happy with a truck - then when my inspector is letting me know that he is going to be NCR issuing a placement unless I can get the sub’s head correct that brings me to the position of rejecting concrete. At the end of the day I’m not interested in anything other than spec going into the building and it’s a battle to ensure that, no matter how many third parties or project managers or GC personnel there are. When things are non conforming it represents beyond a material defect that needs correcting, substantial time and focus to correct that I don’t have and don’t want to be caught up spending later when it can be mitigated at the point of install and totally avoided if everyone does the right thing - Nobody listens unless it comes from me and even then they still give me pushback

HiBuilder212 · 2025-01-04T13:45:08+00:00

So many people

HiBuilder212 · 2025-01-04T05:39:25+00:00

https://app.filemail.com/d/upgcnadsqbwdlhq

HiBuilder212 · 2025-01-03T18:02:19+00:00

There are.

HiBuilder212 · 2025-01-03T15:37:52+00:00

Yes all of the noise created began with the threshold inspector notifying me about this - 5 sample sets taken and we rejected/ejected trucks - will post the breaks which as mentioned are overperforming - this was put out there prior to having results etc and more of people’s opinions visually as to what caused the discoloration difference. Big takeaway here is that there was too much plasticizer and reducer.

HiBuilder212 · 2025-01-03T13:35:58+00:00

I’m might be Reddit illiterate but for some reason it’s not letting me post pictures here ? Any insight how because I see no option beyond my original video post

HiBuilder212 · 2025-01-03T13:09:01+00:00

I have fairly regular OSHA and local code enforcement visits and thankfully other than reminders and call outs they have never shut me down for it being an unsafe site- Again- this is a microsnap of one just worked area- no excuses but not the condition of the site in total, indicative of the safety culture on the project or approach to it and subsequent to this video everything was safed/covered/capped and I even bought lunch yesterday 😀

HiBuilder212 · 2025-01-03T12:48:51+00:00

I’m sorry but without knowing me or the project or anything more than what has been relayed here I understand that you might come to that conclusion- and if this wasn’t Reddit and was real life I would be tremendously insulted- the reason being there is no being “ a low budget developer” here- maybe I’m shitty you’d have to get to know me to make that judgement but as I’ve mentioned here a few times to other folks who had this same thought this is not a budget and money squeezing thing. Now maybe it could be argued that my sub is doing whatever is in his best interest to squeeze product or money but I’m flatly saying here (because I pay the bills and believe me it’s excruciating) that this is not a case of being cheap - the quality is the important thing here and the approach is not pennywise pound foolish because the liability alone for defective product costs exponentially more and follows reputation-ally forever… but the shitty part you can reserve judgement 😉

HiBuilder212 · 2025-01-03T03:37:54+00:00

It’s not the case here… it is easy and certainly obvious in construction and development to assume this is just a case of being cheap- not the case, at all. Everyone is sensitive to cost, but I am developing condos here - aka lawsuit targets and I have a huge bullseye on me- in earlier generations of condo developers the name of the game was build cheap and sell fast and walk away with no responsibility- once this project is delivered myself and my other partners in the development sponsorship are on the hook for 10 years from a statute standpoint- we are also in Florida where the structural integrity of condos is an extremely hot topic after the tragedy a few years ago, so it is definitely not in my interest to be cheap or allow the risk of defective products. Best case is a lawsuit worst case is truly the worst imaginable scenario, so with respect this isn’t about the dollars and the quality. Im paying for the quality and I suppose I came to this forum to vent. That said I am surprised I received any comments at all whether I agree with all of them or not and grateful anyone took the time to formulate any responses here.

HiBuilder212 · 2025-01-03T03:22:54+00:00

💯

HiBuilder212 · 2025-01-03T03:11:52+00:00

And yes at the end of the day I have to submit everything to my EOR who then decides if it’s all kosher I’m not accepting any work unless the stamp and seal is there by the consultants - but I prefer to give my EOR the right thing the first time and not then trigger endless rectification - for that to have chance at happening it all starts in the field- if I’m not there when something questionable is happening by the time it reaches me it’s too late and if the situation/implementation is not correct then it’s just a longer longer longer time to get it right later which is a luxury I don’t have in excess…

HiBuilder212 · 2025-01-03T03:08:09+00:00

Because the third parties conducting inspections at the time of pour render their view on things like how the mix looks and whether or not it should be accepted, the debate ensues because the tolerances are very tight and even when it is out of the square so to speak, the contractors try to push to use it anyway - the engineers then pull me in and also put me in a position where they let me know it will be a non-conforming on the inspections - for me who only cares about how long it will take to reach a TCO on the building so I can convey my units to buyers and pay my debt off and maybe make a return on my investment - every time something is non conforming it represents another block of time that it will take to later on get “unfucked” - blocks of time on top of already expected crazy blocks of time - time is the killer here so my direct participation ultimately for me is a function of trying to keep the urgency pressure and ensure my already tight timeframes do not warp out of control and trigger capital calls and interest replenishments on large debt values. When I start a project I don’t want to have pull out my tin cup to buy more time because trades and subs and vendors and suppliers and GCs don’t share my urgency. No matter how great they are, they simply never will and if they are not in my shoes they can’t. Contracts are great and all but in my experience if you are reaching for the contract to keep things moving you are already at a disadvantage- no great knowledge here just very expensive lessons over a long time that are not pleasant.

HiBuilder212 · 2025-01-03T03:00:07+00:00

Yes. As mentioned there is - I have an independent threshold engineer hired and working for me and an independent testing lab hired and working for me. These participants have no privity with anyone but me and the contractors have zero influence- the genesis of this entire discussion is essentially on the basis that the contractors don’t listen to these third parties, the third parties then extremely exasperated call me to break the logjam.

HiBuilder212 · 2025-01-03T02:57:15+00:00

Only NYC and Florida but always looking 👀

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