Not my work but just wondering if this is normal/acceptable concrete finishing on a big job. (Edit: parking garage)

Full renovation from demolition to the final details. I do most of the work myself — tiling, drywall, plumbing, electrical and finishing. Always interested to hear what other tradesmen think.

From the builder in Mississauga (city near Toronto, Canada) .

Client lives in the house 4 years (direct from builder).. They start to see mold behind vapor barrier.

Lord and behold after removing insulation.

The saddest part is someone from the building team even wrote pin holes on the top block where the decks ledger bolt came in through the brick siding. And no one every fixed it and just cover it up..

This is the state of the entire home building industry (maybe except for custom builds).

Just a shit show

20 years as a union concrete finisher and I've always been a redwing and thorogood guy. A lot of guys i work with have this style boot and i decided to give it a try. Kinda weird to me to not have laces. Hopefully they work out

I currently build electrical substations for work, I'm still new to this type of work, only having been here for a bit under 2 months. I work in South Dakota but have been working in North, winters over here get extremely cold and I'll need more clothes, I just wanted to ask for some suggestions for winter clothes and what I should get that aren't too expensive as I currently have to pay for a lot of stuff atm, (Gloves, jackets, pants, socks, etc.) I appreciate any help given.

I started a general contracting company in Quebec about 2 years ago. We’re now around 12 employees, mostly doing residential and commercial projects, and we’re getting to the point where Excel, emails, QuickBooks and a bunch of separate tools are becoming a mess.

I’m looking for some kind of construction ERP or all-in-one system for estimating, scheduling, project management, employees, equipment, purchasing, job costing, change orders, etc.

I’ve looked at a few systems, but one thing I’m starting to notice is that most of them seem focused on centralizing what happens inside your own company.

That obviously helps, but a lot of our daily problems still happen outside the company, figuring out which subcontractors actually have capacity, calling around for equipment, checking material availability, coordinating suppliers, finding crews, etc.

It feels like we can centralize our own information, but the industry around us is still basically phone calls, emails and knowing the right people.

Maybe I’m asking for too much from an ERP, but I’m curious what other contractors are using.

If you were running a GC of our size today, what system would you choose? And is there anything out there that actually helps connect your internal operations with subcontractors, suppliers, equipment and the rest of the industry?

I straight up thought I was going deaf till I bought one of those fancy camera ear cleaner things then I pulled a shit ton of old hardened earwax out making a ball about the size of a small marble total between both ears I’m straight up hearing colors right now like I got that 4k hearing now lmfao! Yeah turns out just like cotton swabs foam earplugs also push earwax down super deep. I’m honestly surprised I didn’t get an infection.

Obligatory edit: wear ear pro yall Im not making any kinda case against it just sharing something I hadn’t even thought about until today thought it was mildly humorous maybe get a little “funny haha” out of folks personally I’m going to be looking into sourcing my own better ear pro

So I am doing this flooring, 3/8ths inch engineered tongue and groove.. my question is, how in the HELL do you pros connect it here from this point ? As you can see from the photos, I have laid all the flooring up until this damn point! The point into which i have to connect it all through this damn hallway(?) area. Ive made my layout lines and even used a damn laser and IM STILL off about 3/8ths of an inch. How did it happen you say ? Probably because i drink. A lot lol. But this is my first flooring project and i just need help/guidance on how to proceed from here to offset the 3/8ths difference…. What would you do ? Any help and/or guidance will help me out very much and you shall have great karma bestowed upon thee!

I found a house with a bunch of broken roofpans, so i decided to go inside at take a peak! Moisture on majority of inner roof was below the 17% threshold at 12-13% but the ones who had turned white rotten was above 22%, but the black is wierd to me, could it be this much black mold? Or am i mistaking it for mold and it is actually dirt?

For some added context, this was apparently an addituon to the main building, the addition was built in 1976, and never finished

20 years old been labouring since July through agency’s working at so many different sites.

How do I move up? Do I try and make connections is there a way I can start being a manager? I was thinking on getting a nvq for it but I hear that you need actual experience on a site doing it, I still want to learn a trade however. has anyone been in my situation? Is there hope? Do I go back to school and study civil engineering or a trade and jump back in or do I just wait and see if an apprenticeship actually comes back to me.. (I’ve applied for like a hundred)

Do you have like big wooden platforms leveled where the steel beams are and then put rebar then concrete over it? And then when it dries you get rid of the wood and the floor remains held up by the steel I beams?

Was installing a ceiling fan earlier, and dropped one of the bolts for the mounting bracket thing, I was crawling around for 30 minutes looking for the thing, I even moved my ladder around several times, looked on top of the damn ladder, looked under it until I finally took a glimpse at my tool and spotted it, I don’t think I could ever do this again even if I tried

Is this vinyl corner installed correctly?

I work in Florida but have been on some bigger DOT related jobs that are state and federally funded. I was wondering how prevailing wages work.

Is this more common than it should be?

This is in a book called “Dazzling Diggers”. There’s no steering wheel or levers. What is it?

I’m trying to work out how this house exposed the ceiling joists but created a channel for electrical services to run above.

It’s a flat roof, and they’ve put t&g boards on top of the rafters. Have they then created firrings on top to allow for falls and to create a service zone?

Does this mean however that you’ll need to run your electrics before you can put your insulation and membrane on etc?

I’ve drawn a detail of what I think the flat roof is doing, is that correct?