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Gotta rant a little bit. I’ve been doing construction/ remodeling my whole life. But I’ve been noticing a big trend over the past year or two where the homeowner wants to be hyper involved in the whole process of remodeling their house, to the point where they are a detriment to the job itself. I absolutely want them involved in the stylistic decisions and picking out colors etc. But they don’t wanna just see a finished product anymore and be happy about it, or even be able to point out the things they want to fix at the end of the job. They want to be there every day and be integrated into the process. This wouldn’t be a bad thing if they knew what the fuck they were even talking about, but they have a laundry list of things they want done when I show up to the job the next day and can’t accept that somebody who’s been doing in their whole goddamn life might know what the hell he’s doing. Things are done in a certain order for a reason. Nail holes don’t get filled till the end. The trim gets caulked after it’s installed and there may be some gaps that will get filled. Or even worse they just decide that they don’t like the flooring that we’ve already put down that they picked and just expect we’re going to redo it in between commercial breaks. That isnt how this works . They think they are experts because they watch a fucking TV show every night. People need to turn off the goddamn TVs and let people do their job. Now that I own my own business I’m starting to hate people more than I ever have. Don’t get me wrong, some people are super cool and and pleasant to deal with. But goddamn do these people love to feel like they are Joanna Gaines when we’re coming to do some minor bullshit in their dilapidated house.

Gotta rant a little bit. I’ve been doing construction/ remodeling my whole life. But I’ve been noticing a big trend over the past year or two where the homeowner wants to be hyper involved in the whole process of remodeling their house, to the point where they are a detriment to the job itself. I absolutely want them involved in the stylistic decisions and picking out colors etc. But they don’t wanna just see a finished product anymore and be happy about it, or even be able to point out the things they want to fix at the end of the job. They want to be there every day and be integrated into the process. This wouldn’t be a bad thing if they knew what the fuck they were even talking about, but they have a laundry list of things they want done when I show up to the job the next day and can’t accept that somebody who’s been doing in their whole goddamn life might know what the hell he’s doing. Things are done in a certain order for a reason. Nail holes don’t get filled till the end. The trim gets caulked *after* it’s installed and there may be some gaps that will get filled. Or even worse they just decide that they don’t like the flooring that we’ve already put down *that they picked* and just expect we’re going to redo it in between commercial breaks. That isnt how this works . They think they are experts because they watch a fucking TV show every night. People need to turn off the goddamn TVs and let people do their job. Now that I own my own business I’m starting to hate people more than I ever have. Don’t get me wrong, some people are super cool and and pleasant to deal with. But goddamn do these people love to feel like they are Joanna Gaines when we’re coming to do some minor bullshit in their dilapidated house.

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[–] 8 pts

Having had to remodel houses that were subject to these same types, I can’t count the number of “ACCENT WALLS” painted a horrible color…. Like kidney red. Or dark gloss blue.

The answer is to say “yes ma’am, but I quote the job in the manner I would do it, if you change that and add hours I will have to charge for my extra hours”.

[–] 4 pts

ACCENT WALLS

OPEN CONCEPT

[–] 2 pts (edited )

Yeah, but a contract and people sticking to it, and you yourself trying to stick to it and not just do what the customer wants (to an extent) to keep the peace and get paid and get out of there, are two different things.

Sometimes you can just 'smell' some people and you should avoid them, but again, doing that when you're hungry and have five kids to feed and bills to pay and you need work, that's two different things as well.

We have a way of telling ourselves (confirmation bias) that this time will be different, but then, aaaarrrrrgh not again, and then once again, it was not worth doing at all, you can sit home and do nothing and go broke if you want.

[–] 1 pt

I'm gonna remember this, thanks.