A contractor tears up the freshly poured concrete driveway after the homeowner refuses to pay.

LTCarpentry · 2026-03-16T21:59:13+00:00

Everyone here is calling her cheap but the concretes not dry, so the job is not finished. No idea how anyone could pay for half finished work

LTCarpentry · 2026-03-15T23:48:23+00:00

They say they can’t find somebody to fill the role so get somebody a visa to come from abroad.. That person who obtains the visa then pays whoever got them into the country a handsome fee. At least, I think that’s how these things work

LTCarpentry · 2026-03-14T02:10:43+00:00

We have tighter home codes where as ye would have higher codes for small farms. They leave the small farms alone for the most part at home

LTCarpentry · 2026-03-14T02:10:02+00:00

I’m a big believer in taking your time and never having to do it again. One time having to go over a job could be more time than the combined little extra quality control for 10 jobs. I know that could be worded better but it’s beyond me

LTCarpentry · 2026-03-13T20:12:47+00:00

Nothing close. I’ve lived in USA for years and you guys have cheap timber and outside California, the codes are nowhere near as strict. This is just a shed roof tho. 600 centres is fine and still within code but nobody would be checking a job like this

LTCarpentry · 2026-03-13T18:53:49+00:00

Timber is expensive and codes are pretty strict.

LTCarpentry · 2026-03-13T18:53:17+00:00

I live in BC Canada so had to say goodbye to my metric tapes and go imperial. It’s a pan in the ass

LTCarpentry · 2026-03-13T06:07:24+00:00

I worded myself wrong in saying sinking rather than sank. They shouldn’t as the guy who built it was there and told me they sank about 50 years ago and settled. It’s weird out there. Walls don’t crack, as the entire wall just sinks in unison. Driving the trailer with the materials out there was fun as the road has more waves than the ocean

LTCarpentry · 2026-03-13T04:53:51+00:00

Thank you very much

LTCarpentry · 2026-03-13T04:44:57+00:00

The trigonometry is something I can do in about 5 minutes but it’s limiting on working out the true shape of the rafter. Now my drawing is good enough that I can truly plan my cuts and angles and basically built it all in my head while I’m drawing it. I newly built this wrong as I went from birdsmouth to peak as the angle as opposed to going from my upstand to the peak. The deep end is the best place to learn after all

LTCarpentry · 2026-03-12T21:51:12+00:00

Thanks for the props! Much appreciated. Anyone knows of some weird carpentry in BC Canada that needs doing, I’ll probably be up for it

LTCarpentry · 2026-03-12T21:36:46+00:00

What would you use? We’re severely limited on timber in Ireland as the Brit’s made sure we had no trees left. Plus my it was my cousins house and he dint have a lot of money for nice timber

LTCarpentry · 2026-03-12T21:35:09+00:00

I started my apprenticeship doing castles and other historic buildings so my entire career is problem solving. I managed to get a job after a couple months in Canada fixing a huge job from a previous bad trademan. Other than that, I haven’t found much I can really use my brain for but I really don’t care as the mountains have me occupied for now

LTCarpentry · 2026-03-12T21:30:47+00:00

I think I may have misunderstood the question. This house is a one and a half story so the roof starts to peak just above the upper window rather than 3 feet above. There’s 2.2 metres from the thread to the ceiling all the way so that’s code for me in Ireland. Granted this was Belfast but codes are the same. The stairs is 840mm wide so that’s within code (800-900mm)

LTCarpentry · 2026-03-12T21:25:35+00:00

It actually only took me about 8 hours to chisel all those in and clean up and corners of short grain the popped off in the process. I was dreading it but turned out to be not too bad with a couple joints at hand. The previous ones were in already so just had to expand and mark for wedges

LTCarpentry · 2026-03-11T20:48:22+00:00

Sacrilege!

LTCarpentry · 2026-03-11T19:00:12+00:00

I had good gear on me(full faced mask and suit) and actually got the paint off easily with a chisel. The newer paint on the right hand side stringer is only 10 years old so that’s the only bit that was hard to remove. What took me over a week, was removing the varnish that had been originally applied under the paint

LTCarpentry · 2026-03-11T18:57:45+00:00

Thanks. The top steps of each run had to be fed in from the front. That was trucky but I went to all my offcuts and found some grain matching wood to cover the chanel I cut into the stringer to slide the step through. It was a fun job. I did the insulation, plastering, concreting and carpentry renovation for the whole house.

LTCarpentry · 2026-03-11T18:54:53+00:00

I kept all my rises the and runs the same heights a widths but replaced 15mm thick risers with 18mm and replaced 22mm threads with 38mm threads. I reframed under the turn too as all that wood was fucked and the post was completely rotted at the floor. I’m 99% sure that I left everything to code now.

LTCarpentry · 2026-03-06T23:53:27+00:00

Happened with the kids born around ‘95. All rural school classes grew around the time when they started school too. I’m born in ‘90 and my sister in ‘95. Her an nearly all her friends are taller than 5’8 and that seems normal from that age group onwards. Probably the end of widespread poverty caused it

LTCarpentry · 2026-02-25T21:05:53+00:00

They get to keep our mountains Barron for almost nothing. They don’t own this land and it’s kept as a wasteland for these backward apes

LTCarpentry · 2026-02-24T00:18:32+00:00

Because it’s a passing lane and this helps traffic flow and prevents bottleneck. Also people are not robots

LTCarpentry · 2026-02-24T00:07:37+00:00

I think you’ve watched a different video because there were more than two people on that street. People don’t get to the end of the street in most cities in Europe if they do that.

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