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Vent: My framer messed up the load bearing wall in the wrong spot

We were putting up the main floor walls last Thursday on a house in Tacoma and the framer cut a header opening 16 inches off from the plans. I didn't catch it until after they had the whole wall sheathed and braced. Had to tear out the OSB and redo the whole thing, cost us an extra day and about $400 in wasted materials. Anyone else have a framer miss a critical dimension on a wall layout?

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gray_schmidt8•1h ago

Custom builder ghosted me after the foundation was poured

I paid a local custom home builder a $15k deposit and they poured the slab 8 weeks ago, then just stopped showing up and wont return my calls. Has anyone else had a builder vanish mid-project and what did you do to get them back or get your money back?

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skyler_mitchell•2d ago

TIL my framer can eyeball a 12/12 pitch better than my digital level

We were setting rafters on a custom shed last Tuesday in Austin, and my digital level kept giving me weird readings cause of the humidity. My lead framer, Dave, just looked at the roof line for 2 seconds and said "that's off by a quarter inch." He was dead right when I double checked with a manual square. Saved me 30 minutes of fiddling with batteries and recalibration. Anyone else have an old school guy on site who makes your high tech stuff look useless?

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