Thread: We Have Skills Too !!

Originally Posted by athiker

Gives me an excuse to go fishing !

Mike

Old joke I had to dredge up again---

A young guy from Texas moves to California and goes to a big department store looking for a job. The manager says, "Do you have any sales experience?" The kid says, "Yeah, I was a salesman back home in Texas." The boss liked the kid so he gave him the job.

"You start tomorrow. Ill come down after we close and see how you did." His first day on the job was rough but he got through it. After the store was locked up, the boss came down.

"How many sales did you make today?"

Kid says, "One."

Boss says, "Just one? Our sales people average 20 or 30 sales a day.
How much was the sale for?"

Kid says "$201,237.64.

Boss says "201,237.64?? What the heck did you sell?"

Kid says, "First I sold him a set of small fishhooks. Then I sold him a set of medium fishhooks. Then I sold him a set of larger fish hooks. Then I sold him a new fishing rod. Then I asked him where he was going fishing and he said down at the coast, so I told him he was gonna need a boat; so we went down to the boat department and I sold him that twin engine Chris Craft. Then he said he didn't think his Mercedes would pull it, so I took him down to the automotive department and sold him an Escalade."

The boss said, "A guy came in here to buy some fishhooks and you sold him a boat and truck?"

Kid says, "No, he came in here to buy a box of tampons for his wife and I said, your weekends shot, you might as well go fishing."

As I posted here: http://straightrazorpalace.com/conve...ml#post1765890

My Landlord is a Dork Ass and his 'Handyman' is a total inept jerk. Today is the Big Day when I finally get a new wall mounted air conditioner (I have been without since the 11th of August).

I'd per-prepped by moving items directly in the way and covering things with canvas drop cloths as I knew that they wouldn't be taking any care.

Here's the handyman's rig:



SO! The handyman started to pry the trim off with a screwdriver so I stopped him and gave him a flat pry bar. Once the trim was removed they found the foam insulation and I had to loan him a key hole saw to cut through it. Then he tried to just wiggle the unit loose from the shell and I had to tell him that it was screwed to the shell (I'd replaced the last unit myself/but not this time/I really didn't want to mess with it /plus I'd charged the landlord $100 for my labor and I think he thought he could get by cheaper with this handyman) anyway he finally got the unit out and found that the shell was also screwed into place and he removed them (or so he thought) after prying and bending the hell out of the shell I pointed out that there were two more screws that needed to be removed.

So the old was out and ready install the new-------------but the new one was slightly wider than the old (about 3/16th of an inch) the new one was also about a little shorter then the old one so what do you do? Well you take the shell off of the new unit and force it into the too small of an opening using MY pry bar/and then using brute force and ignorance you try to force the unit into the shell/Again with MY pry bar/thus bending the shell and the new unit.. Then after the jerk had been working on it for about 1/2 an hour my landlord said he'd be back with a sander to make the opening wide enough.

Well the jerk went outside for a smoke and I dialed 911-Tool Rental Place. After my question was answered I walked out and said: "You know, for $10.50 plus tax and buying a blade you can rent a Sawzall for 4 hours. The Jerk said he'd just go to Harbor Freight and buy one.

The landlord arrived with a palm sander with 120 grit sandpaper. Then the Jerk arrived with his new sazall and some blades/but in the meantime I'd seen that there appeared to be a scab piece or shim being held in with two small brads so after much effort I got the handyman to pull the brads and the piece came loose so I used my table top belt sander and sanded it down so the unit would install with a very slight resistance.

While I was sanding the handyman was cutting the siding back. The unit was installed but needed a shim/spacer for the gap at the top. The handyman tried driving a piece of 2x4 in as the spacer and I made him stop. After some measurements I cobbled together a spacer that would fill the gap and allow the unit to have a slight downward taper toward the outside so the condensation would drain away from the inside wall.



So with my help (but Not the Way I'd Have Done It and not the result I'm happy with/the unit is installed but the task isn't finished.

The landlord says that he'll be back to put some trim up on the inside. Which will be fine (if he does a decent job of it) However the jerk reinstalled the outside trim (well kind of)----------- so how in the hell is the expanding foam supposed to be applied?? (The landlord already has it here)



Oh!!!! Here's the outside trim:



The jerk also didn't remove the cover and had used his hands to pound the unit in place/thus breaking the cover.



My landlord is also supposed to arrive with some braces to support the unit--I'll bet a dollar to a dog turd that it'll just be a continuation of this cluster------

As the Old Saying Goes: "You get what you pay for"!

All I can say Roy, is, I'm sorry......That is TOTALLY unacceptable

Roy, the foam expands a lot. Excess is easily trimmed off with a sharp craft knife. Use sparingly, you can re apply if you have gaps.

Sent from a moto x far far away

Originally Posted by Dieseld

All I can say Roy, is, I'm sorry......That is TOTALLY unacceptable

I KNEW that this was the way it was going to go down! Damn it! I hate it when I'm right!

The dork came back with a piece of trim for the inside and I didn't even have to measure to be able to tell him that is was too short. And as expected the support brackets aren't right and there's no spacer to make them right.

The good news is that I'm going to purchase the inside AND outside trim and install them and I'll have enough to make spacers for the supports. He said that he'd reimburse me for the material------little does he know that I'll include a bill for my time and effort.

He also doesn't know that it'll be him or his handyman who'll be painting the outside trim.

Wow! What a mess. That is not even close to a pro job. I bet a 10 year old could have done that good. If your not happy with the look of it i think id give it a good kick and have it tumble out on the ground. Then give him a call and say it just fell out because it wasnt installed properly. Go buy a decent unit, install it yourself and charge him out the ass.

Im sorry all. That kind of landlord needs a swift kick in the back side. JMHO. Your just too damn nice Roy.

Wish i lived closer Roy. I bet we could get drunk and still do a better job. Ha.

Originally Posted by Grazor

Roy, the foam expands a lot. Excess is easily trimmed off with a sharp craft knife. Use sparingly, you can re apply if you have gaps.

Thanks for the advice my friend as I know it comes from years of professional experience/however I'm well aware of how the foam works/kind of like Brylgream in that 'A Little Dap Will Do Ya' also what the dork purchased is the low expanding for doors and windows plus it's water soluble so I should be able to have a nice smooth finish when I'm done.

Originally Posted by Gasman

Wow! What a mess. That is not even close to a pro job. I bet a 10 year old could have done that good. If your not happy with the look of it i think id give it a good kick and have it tumble out on the ground. Then give him a call and say it just fell out because it wasn't installed properly. Go buy a decent unit, install it yourself and charge him out the ass.

I'm sorry all. That kind of landlord needs a swift kick in the back side. JMHO. Your just too damn nice Roy.

Well I don't know about a 10 year old but basically Anyone with Any Kind of background in carpentry and such along with at least a little Intelligence would have to know that the opening wasn't right and needed to be expanded. But As I said this is what I was expecting and the Dork Ass Landlord didn't let me down!

Originally Posted by Gasman

Your just too damn nice Roy.

Jerry you really shouldn't make statements like this as you'll ruin my repretation!

That looks rough Sir. That is a nice Blazer though. Not a contractor type vehicle though.

Originally Posted by EMC45

That looks rough Sir. That is a nice Blazer though. Not a contractor type vehicle though.

I wish you could get a closeup of the paint job and the interior. Exterior has major problems that were just painted over. The interior is a disaster--wish I'd taken pictures closer up so all could see.