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Old Nov 20, 2017 | 01:02 PM
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Here's the progress pics










And here's the GFI mounted to the stud with a new junction box
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Old Nov 20, 2017 | 01:11 PM
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METICULOUS ASS CONTRACTOR!
buy the poor guy a snap line, bro....
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Old Nov 20, 2017 | 07:46 PM
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For real. Florida guys chug, slam the bottle on the ground of your home, and then start drilling while doing lines off the drill they "borrowed" from you.

Then they sue you for cutting themselves on broken beer bottles while your guy is marking every hole Granted I hear J marks every hole as well but that's a different story.
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Old Nov 21, 2017 | 03:46 AM
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Old Nov 21, 2017 | 07:42 AM
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LMAO...
what was REALLY funny about that was how incoherent that was, pretty clearly he was on some beer and coke when he posted!
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Old Nov 21, 2017 | 08:10 AM
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LMAO...
what was REALLY funny about that was how incoherent that was, pretty clearly he was on some beer and coke when he posted!
Just beer haha
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Old Nov 21, 2017 | 01:24 PM
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So he got the first round of tape and mudding done, it's really starting to come together well.





For the window edges, he used plastic ends instead of metal to prevent the rusting that I had in the future, we'll also be resealing the window





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Old Dec 4, 2017 | 02:32 PM
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So the drywall and mudding is all done, primed and then painted the ceiling and the walls, ended up needing more paint for the second coat, here's a couple from the first coat






He painted the second coat and then it was tile time!








Just noticed the 2 different colors in the picture, hope that's just because the paint was wet...
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Old Dec 5, 2017 | 06:58 AM
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Looking good. Hopefully that is just wet paint unless the paint was not mixed well before he sharted and the color was sitting at the bottom.
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Old Dec 5, 2017 | 10:14 AM
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It's just the lighting, keeps showing up on my camera that way but looks fine in person, we'll see how it looks once we put the light fixture up but it all looks uniform now that it's dry
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Old Dec 5, 2017 | 01:59 PM
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Took another pic of the lighting to check with my phone, to the naked eye it's the same color, with the lighting it looks different but definitely appears to just be lighting.



And yesterday he grouted the tile, came out great!

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Old Dec 7, 2017 | 10:10 AM
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^ No border between the tile and carpet or are you replacing the carpet too?
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Old Dec 7, 2017 | 10:24 AM
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Originally Posted by SamDoe1
^ No border between the tile and carpet or are you replacing the carpet too?
We will be putting a threshold down to cover the join, the grout was still wet in this pic
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Old Dec 7, 2017 | 10:25 AM
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Vanity, light fixture and toilet are going in now!
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Old Dec 7, 2017 | 10:36 AM
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Nice. You are finally almost done.
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Old Dec 8, 2017 | 09:14 AM
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if I were local...



I'd take the inaugural shit!
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Old Dec 8, 2017 | 09:39 AM
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Originally Posted by 97BlackAckCL
We will be putting a threshold down to cover the join, the grout was still wet in this pic
Ah ok, I thought the transition seats underneath the tile (or that's how I've always done it at least) which is why I was asking.
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Old Dec 8, 2017 | 12:24 PM
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if I were local...



I'd take the inaugural shit!
All mine...
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Old Dec 11, 2017 | 01:36 PM
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Originally Posted by 97BlackAckCL
Vanity, light fixture and toilet are going in now!
have you been holding it this whole time?
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Old Dec 12, 2017 | 02:57 PM
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From: ShitsBurgh
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have you been holding it this whole time?
Nope, this is a secondary bathroom that was barely used for 10 years. The Champ is going strong in the main bathroom, and has been for quite some time
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Old Dec 12, 2017 | 03:05 PM
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Realized that I didn't post pics yet, been super busy the last few days















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Old Dec 12, 2017 | 08:19 PM
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Bathroom renovation came out great
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Old Dec 12, 2017 | 08:45 PM
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turn that fucking GFI right side up!
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Old Dec 13, 2017 | 12:23 PM
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turn that fucking GFI right side up!
First thing I bitched about after he left

I had it right side up, he did it to "code" which is supposed to be upside down?

I'm flipping it back to the way I had it when I replaced the thing in the first place...
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Old Dec 13, 2017 | 01:07 PM
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really?
to code is the other way around?
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Old Dec 13, 2017 | 01:35 PM
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Supposedly
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Old Dec 13, 2017 | 02:41 PM
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Supposedly
I'd move for this reason alone.
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Old Dec 14, 2017 | 06:56 AM
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Originally Posted by rockstar143
really?
to code is the other way around?
Originally Posted by 97BlackAckCL
Supposedly
Originally Posted by SamDoe1
I'd move for this reason alone.
It apparently was changed in a bunch of states a few years back. It is code now here in NC as well.

The explanation for the change I was told is that if a cable comes slightly unplugged but not enough to no longer be active if the ground pin is on the top it blocks a metal object from connecting the live and neutral wires together.
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Old Dec 14, 2017 | 07:30 AM
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I would ask him to point you to where it says that in NEC
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Old Dec 14, 2017 | 07:35 AM
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Originally Posted by CCColtsicehockey
It apparently was changed in a bunch of states a few years back. It is code now here in NC as well.

The explanation for the change I was told is that if a cable comes slightly unplugged but not enough to no longer be active if the ground pin is on the top it blocks a metal object from connecting the live and neutral wires together.
Hmm, that does make sense.
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Old Dec 14, 2017 | 09:38 AM
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Code here in CA as well.
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Old Dec 14, 2017 | 09:56 AM
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It's just dumb and cosmetically looks stupid, I'm going to flip it and if a home inspector bitches whenever I try to sell I will change it
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Old Dec 14, 2017 | 10:42 AM
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Who did the caulking?
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Old Dec 14, 2017 | 10:47 AM
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I missed that...I am assuming they will go back and paint over it or else why didn't they use brown.
I prefer brown caulk usually. Usually it's bigger.
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Old Dec 14, 2017 | 11:07 AM
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Originally Posted by rockstar143

I missed that...I am assuming they will go back and paint over it or else why didn't they use brown.
I prefer brown caulk usually. Usually it's bigger.
it's not the size of the caulk, it's how you apply it.
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Old Dec 14, 2017 | 11:36 AM
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well it definitely filled the gap, and then some!
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Old Dec 14, 2017 | 01:47 PM
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The contractor did the window, and the sink. My gf taped off the sink and it still looks like that

We're going to redo the caulk on both the sinks
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Old Dec 14, 2017 | 03:40 PM
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Yeah I didn't want to point that out but damn that contractor did a piss poor job on the caulking
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Old Dec 14, 2017 | 04:34 PM
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Yeah, my girl already was bitching about his caulking job in the main bathroom. She made me caulk the division between the shower and tile and it came out really nice. We're planning to redo the caulk on both sinks. The window I will probably just paint and be done with it
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Old Dec 14, 2017 | 08:21 PM
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Originally Posted by 97BlackAckCL
We're going to redo the caulk on both the sinks

Double caulk, nice.
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