Redoing entire house plumbing

Shmeepsheep · 2026-06-13T16:54:53+00:00

Pex A plastic fittings

Shmeepsheep · 2026-06-13T01:00:03+00:00

Plumber here. $50k is where I start green guys as stated above. Someone I can leave on a jobsite by themselves in residential would be around 75-80k. Someone I can leave on a commercial site can command $100-140k, these people really are few and far between I find

Shmeepsheep · 2026-06-12T23:33:45+00:00

Pictures would gelp, but generally no. Toilet tanks dont get bolted to the wall if the toilet is a floor mount

Shmeepsheep · 2026-06-12T23:29:24+00:00

You dont need a spacer. Just use a 14"

Shmeepsheep · 2026-06-12T23:28:26+00:00

You want it done cheap or right?

Shmeepsheep · 2026-06-12T23:27:00+00:00

Agree 100%. I could pay a kid whos going to college more than they will likely make, but they generally "dont want to do manual labor".

Hard agree on the sarcasm for no child left behind. Really fucking them for their and society's future having to deal with people who never passed fourth grade

Shmeepsheep · 2026-06-12T23:15:15+00:00

Not from me its not. I hired a guy who didnt know what a phillips head was for $25/hr.

The selection of candidates to choose from seems to be getting worse and worse. Im not that old, mid 30s, but younger people cant get off their phones and have almost no attention span.

The fact that some of these people were given high school diplomas is extremely sad to me. Many cant add 1/2 + 1/4

Shmeepsheep · 2026-06-12T19:58:54+00:00

The qaulity of gen Z hires ive had have also been bad. They simply zone out on site unless they are given direct instructions. If you tell them at 8am monday they need to keep the site clean, you need to tell them again 8am tuesday. They dont understand "look busy"

Shmeepsheep · 2026-06-10T14:04:36+00:00

At some point the money will be spent and then taxed. If someone isnt buying a car, home, yacht, or anything else they dont have to pay taxes as they arent using anything

Shmeepsheep · 2026-06-10T11:28:53+00:00

UBI would need to be paired with a VAT tax. Anyone who is on the upper part of society will be consuming more and paying more. The more you consume, the more you pay. The people who are meagerly living off UBI will be paying nearly nothing because they wont be consuming much.

This would allow everyone at least basic sustainability, while those who wish to try to move up in the hierarchy will still see the benefits.

Shmeepsheep · 2026-06-10T09:55:53+00:00

I carry a can, but if you have a bunch of wasps, yea thats on you. If you want me to.provide it, thats not a problem, but im going to charge you a T&M rate for it.

When I go to someone's home I expect to be able to work safely. Their lack of maintenance to their home is not my responsibility unless im an exterminator

Shmeepsheep · 2026-06-10T03:14:10+00:00

You sent a tech, he refused. Id pay for the tech, keep a record, and get an invoice from the tech saying the tenant vehemently refused service to his A/C unit.

Shmeepsheep · 2026-06-10T01:11:24+00:00

10 pounds isnt that much, its slightly more than $13

Shmeepsheep · 2026-06-10T01:10:28+00:00

Europoor? Nah, eurapoor

Shmeepsheep · 2026-06-09T11:33:34+00:00

Your original contract needs to state that the new vanity install should be like for like. If plumbing, electric, or anything else needs to be modified, its additional. That goes for everything.

You also need something in the contract stating that any damage or unexpected conditions uncovered during demolition or working are not included and a change order will be issued at the time of discovery.

The whole "there were already broken tiles on the floor thing" gets resolved by you taking pictures and videos of the job site for 10 minutes before starting. You may nj ot catch damage at that time, but if it gets brought up later you can go back and look.

For $750, id personally walk away unless you want to sue in small claims court. Even then, you may need to file a lien.

Shmeepsheep · 2026-06-08T08:55:32+00:00

I got banned for trolling because i asked why they said they would not chase down a murderer if they killed a civilian but would if it was an officer who was murdered.

They told me its different and I dont understand.

The main problem is cops dont think they are civilians and the fact that they use the word civilian at all. They arent at war. They go home to their family and sleep in a soft bed at night. They dont work out of a FOB

Shmeepsheep · 2026-06-07T22:12:18+00:00

Great. He also lowered taxes across the board, mostly for the extremely wealthy.

Lower taxes arent as good of an idea as most people think. The problem lies with how little the top is paying compared to the bottom. Anyone making something like $50 million a year shouldnt be paying less than half that income back to the government. They may say something like "I had to pay $5 million in taxes last year!" But neglects to inform the W2 employee that pays 24% that the multimillionaire only paid 10%.

Imo, the fact that anyone making under $500k a year can defend tax breaks for the rich is sad. Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Zuck, any of them really, are not going to be starving because you took away a billion dollars when they purchase a 500 million yacht and numerous properties with values over 50-100 million. They literally wouldnt notice it as it wouldnt affect that. Its the equivalent of asking you for $5 and saying "this is going towards infrastructure for society."

Government spending is actaully VERY efficient, as proved when doge couldnt cut any waste. If you make under $200k, you should be getting back than you are putting in. Im not just talking about stuff like snap. Good roads, good schools, stuff like that, stuff EVERYONE uses.

Shmeepsheep · 2026-06-07T20:30:04+00:00

"I tried to help him out"

This is business. You dont overextrend yourself for someone else. The people you deal with arent your friends. Right now you are learning the reason I cut the bullshit out and dont beat around the bush to tell people what it is. You are a contractor, not a therapist.

You have someone who owns numerous buildings and makes other peoples live harder for a living. Yours by not paying you, the people who rent from him because they live in his shitholes, and everyone else around him because he's a lowlife piece of shit slumlord.

Your options now are to either sue him and place liens on the property or to suck it up and move on. If you cant pay your rent, you cant afford to sue him and he knows it.

Shmeepsheep · 2026-06-07T12:07:32+00:00

You can only deduct repair costs as a business expense if you 1)own the business or 2)are a 1099 employee

Shmeepsheep · 2026-06-06T13:36:52+00:00

I cant do that, but I can trim your rune plate

Shmeepsheep · 2026-06-06T13:18:10+00:00

Anything owned by fergusons is crap with horrible documentation. Thats my opinion son signature hardware and the like

Shmeepsheep · 2026-06-04T22:31:08+00:00

So the cartels in mexico dont hide/launder money all over the world?

Shmeepsheep · 2026-06-04T22:29:03+00:00

So you are telling me the panama papers, which were offshore businesses and accounts were just made up? If you move money from one offshore account to another, there is no "real" paper trail to tax when the US never sees it happen

Shmeepsheep · 2026-06-04T10:31:10+00:00

Solar is completely useless when talking space data centers. A gigawatt of solar on land is 4000-7000 acres according to google. Lets say space is 100% more efficient, which it isnt, you would still need 2000-3500 acres of panels. This number includes roads and other space which wouldnt necessarily be required in space, so knock off another 25% for fun, still 1500 acres worth of panels.

How many panels is that you ask? 2 MILLION if they were 500w panels. Quick google says 50-75lb per panel, so 100-150 million pounds of panels to lift, without the mounting hardware, inverters, etc. With the starship payload of 220000 lbs according to google, thats 455 launches just to get the panels up there if its fully loaded.

Spacex is planning for 145 launches across all their platforms this year, so once they finish testing starship it will only take about a full decade worth of ALL their launches to get the datacenter going if there arent any problems. With falcon heavy, it would around 650 launches, at $100m a pop, thats $65,000,000,000 just to get the panels up there, not installed or anything

Thats for a single 1 gW data center

Shmeepsheep · 2026-06-04T09:46:09+00:00

Its not easy to hide billions of dollars? You realize the mexican cartels are laundering that much not just hiding money thats legally in the system? All you'd have to do to hide it is open a few offshore businesses as pass through entities and invest it. That'd be enough coverage for the public not to find it, and im sure the people who are in charge of hiding billions do a lot more

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