Was it a … step by step tutorial
New kids on the block as background music
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This joke took me for a flight
Those episodes of South Park where all the handymen were living like kings and all the college educated douches were getting replaced with ai summed it up pretty well
Making stairs is one of the most skillful jobs from a carpenters point of view. At least do said my grandad, who was a carpenter (he made stairs).
Hanging a door is the one that pisses me off. I can build fine furniture, build fine staircases, whatever you need. But hanging a door is a nightmare.
My grandad might be biased, fwiw
It’s very easy to make shitty stairs
The tricky part, I am told, is ensuring every step is the same height
Thats what these guys are for:
where’s the fun in that? Make the last step a little bit shorter or higher!
They do this in some castles to trip up the invaders
Not invaders but assassins. The people who belong to the castle will be used to the stairs. Any outside intruders will stumble about and therefore be heard.
“stumble steps”
also “trip steps”
“Google it and build it” probably took 4 weeks of work lol.
I wouldn’t say its that shrimple, but ok.A skilled carpenter can spit out a fight of stairs in a day or so. An unskilled one can spit them out in half the time. They’re not nearly as complicated as you’d think.
This is still fake as fuck, construction projects are contract labor. They’ll bring in the tradies they need as they need them and then fire the ones they don’t, generally getting rid of too many people too early, rather than keeping people around they don’t need.
Carpenters on these projects are generally finish carpenters, they’d be installing drywall and trim, and would be quite busy trying to keep up with the schedule.
What world do we live in, where we can no longer trust green texts.
Itst not totally unrealistic to have an apprentice on rough construction not doing much on site. I could totally see a boss sending them to build a construction staircase (open back, just steps) and it only taking an hour or two. It just needs to be good enough to get into the building, it will get replaced by real stairs later (with concrete).
That said, this is 100% fake. OP has never set foot on a construction site
The part that made me think it was fake was the workbench. Who has an actual workbench at a jobsite? I’m not saying it’s never happened, but I’ve never seen it.
Workbench? You mean the warped plywood I put on the bags of concrete? Or the lumber sticking out the back of the truck, balancing on some stacked buckets?
you have a problem with the design of my custom portable workbench?
When they say they want the housing market to collapse, I don’t think this is what they meant.
OP said this was a commercial build, nothing to do with the housing market 🫠
Like Jesus.
They didn’t have stairs in 0bce, silly. Just ladders and ramps. No fossils of stairs have been discovered that date back to before the Ottoman Empire.
/s
First thing I thought that was where it was going.
Can you even buy a house with $40 an hour today?
Outside of all the major metropolitan areas, yes. I managed to get a house a few years back at $22 an hour. It’s small and a townhouse, but it’s mine.
I did the math to afford that home today taking into account increased value and interest rates it would take $30 an hour. It’s only been 5 years.
Even after a promotion and raises I still don’t make $30 an hour.
Lmao no, I make fucking $50/hr and can’t afford a house at the current prices.
varies by state
low cost area you could
Could being the operative word here.
I make about $50/hour and things are starting to feel real tight even in my low cost of living area. (For context, we paid around $125k for our house 10 years ago and it’s not like, a small nothing house and has a yard large enough to need a riding lawnmower.
yea this is fair, that house is probably now over 200k maybe pushing 3
I was thinking that. Its way above the minimum wage in the UK and we bought a house a few years ago on that just fine.
Not even that low cost of an area really, just cheaper than around London. Move away from the big cities and its much more affordable. Why would you want to live in a big city anyway with the higher air pollution? Not getting a car also helped save a lot of money, cycle everywhere instead.
“I need to live in London because of the jobs!” - You stack shelves in Tesco, that isn’t a job worth living in London for.
Not getting a car and not living in a city is impossible in the US. Also healthcare eats the 1/3 of my income.
We have higher wages, but correspondingly higher expenses offset it.
private equity buying homes has fucked the us housing market even in surrounding suburbs in many states
housing prices nearly doubled from 2010 in many places
I just looked up housing sites in the US, apparently Zillow is popular. Texas is a big state and stuck my house price in as an upper limit.
First result is fucking huge. It has more bathrooms than I have bedrooms. And its in a place I have heard of despite living on another continent. Most people 50+ miles away will have never even heard of the town I live in.
This is what you consider to be a bad housing market?
Edit: scrolling through more. They look very soulless, but are fucking massive. Why do so many have the garage door as the main front and centre of the house with the actual door tucked off to the side?
No but I bet you could buy the material and you’d already have the skill
You need the land first. That’s the expensive part.
