Well.

"Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo" (thetomselleck)
04/25/2016 at 16:15 • Filed to: Houses

Wall is bowing out 1/2" over three feet, directly centered over the plumbing. I guess I’ve seen worse but really. I stop every time and am in awe.

DISCUSSION (23)

BmanUltima's car still hasn't been fixed yet, he'll get on it tomorrow, honest. > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
04/25/2016 at 16:19

There’s a wall in my house that bows out two inches at the corner, a curve over about 2 feet. It was awful when I had to put baseboards on.

Party-vi > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
04/25/2016 at 16:22

Just take the insulation off the lines it’ll be fine.

XJDano > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
04/25/2016 at 16:22

Do you ever see renovations?

I helped my brother in law yesterday, he wanted to repair a sagging area of ceiling and frame a corner & add a door to his boys room.

I'm not exactly proud of what we did, but the drywall is up on the ceiling. We still have to frame the wall later as it got to be late on a school night

facw > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
04/25/2016 at 16:23

Is this new construction?

shop-teacher > BmanUltima's car still hasn't been fixed yet, he'll get on it tomorrow, honest.
04/25/2016 at 16:26

Been there. Doing crown molding in my 90 year old house was a freaking nightmare. I had a 5/8" drop in ceiling height in a corner over the span of about 18"

4muddyfeet - bare knuckle with an EZ30 > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
04/25/2016 at 16:26

Nice level

shop-teacher > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
04/25/2016 at 16:26

“Good enough for this job!”

PotbellyJoe and 42 others > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
04/25/2016 at 16:26

I have a house from 1918, what is this straight walls thing?

garagemonkee > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
04/25/2016 at 16:27

1/2" over 3 feet seems reasonable in anything built after 1990. lolololol.

Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo > XJDano
04/25/2016 at 16:29

I do see renovations. I have seen many things I wish I had not.

Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo > facw
04/25/2016 at 16:29

BmanUltima's car still hasn't been fixed yet, he'll get on it tomorrow, honest. > garagemonkee
04/25/2016 at 16:29

Before 1990, the tolerance is within 2" over 3 feet.

MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
04/25/2016 at 16:30

They had to completely rebuild the wall for my shower in my newly renovated bathroom.

The contractors were responsible for building/framing 2 walls for the shower, the 3rd wall was the exterior wall of the house. Well they made sure there’s were good aaaaand then they realized the existing wall was all kinds of messed up. Tilted outward, crooked, everything. They made the shower look nice but he the contractor was piissseed when he found the wall messed up and apologized for not checking it.

Pearson Hurst > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
04/25/2016 at 16:34

Can confirm the shittiness of older houses in this regard. We completely renovated our last house (build 1943), and I swear, there wasn’t a right angle to be found in that place anywhere. Of course in 1943, all the able bodied men were a little busy, so who knows what half drunk monkeys built that place.

Dru > shop-teacher
04/25/2016 at 16:41

Curious, is your house on a crawlspace foundation? Mine is on a slab, I don't know how much of a concern this is for me.

vicali > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
04/25/2016 at 16:44

Who says I like straight angles..

Renos scare me, I would so rather adjust valves and tune carburetors.

Chinny Raccoon > Pearson Hurst
04/25/2016 at 17:46

Try a 1640s house. The internals are reasonably straight as it was heavily renovated in the 80s. The outer walls- not so much. Nothing harder than old oak beams.

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
04/25/2016 at 18:21

Tile work gonna look great with that bow.

shop-teacher > Dru
04/25/2016 at 22:07

I have an “English” basement. The foundation (concrete block in my houses case) goes down about 4 feet below grade. The first floor is about 4' off the ground, so I have a basement that’s half in the ground. There are two bump outs that were originally porches that were enclosed in the 50's, those have crawl spaces and are on piers (they would not let you do that now, but back then nobody knew or cared better). The place with that giant dip is the transition from the main foundation, to the bump out that’s on piers.

If you’re on a slab, your foundation probably won’t settle like mine has, because for that to happen your slab would have to have a big ass crack. Now that can and does happen, if your house was built on crappy or improperly prepared ground.

PetarVN, GLI Guy, now with stupid power > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
04/25/2016 at 23:14

Kinja'd!!!

AS someone who grew up in an old school Brick and mortar, 1930's house with foot-wide walls, large wood/metal doors and stone walls, I am always surprised at what people will “settle for” even at a price point as high as $500,000+....
If that was my house, i’d be calling the contractor over and beating his lazy ass with a baseball bat for that... seriously, people need to take pride in their work....
stuff just isn’t made like it used to be.... (my childhood home BTW, yes i grew up here. yes it looks like a castle. yes we still own it. yes it’s a huuuuge money pit)

Dru > shop-teacher
04/26/2016 at 08:32

That’s a bit of fascinating. I sort of got lucky in that my neighborhood was originally zoned for duplex townhomes (about 2500 square foot per unit, so yuge duplexes), but the original developer went belly up after building maybe a dozen of them. So the prepared land sat for a number of years through the 2008+ pocalypse, only to be scooped up by another developer who put single family homes on these yuge lots. They prepped the themselves before beginning construction. So maybe I'll be fortunate.

shop-teacher > Dru
04/26/2016 at 09:31

Hopefully!

A lot of developments sat empty or almost empty through the crash. The district I used to work for built two new schools in anticipation of all those new developments. You can probably guess how well that went.

Meatcoma > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
04/26/2016 at 10:21

Could be a drywall joint in there somewhere which normally causes them to do this but I suppose if this was the corner they ended up in and had to piece it in, I could understand that. Now if that is a full sheet, that is some shoddy framing.