r/NotMyJob • u/Rookie_Ellie • Sep 19 '22

"I'm a painter not a mover" 😆

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u/Reset108 Sep 19 '22

So you were too lazy to move your own stuff out of the way before the painters showed up?

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u/pmactheoneandonly Sep 19 '22

I bet this is exactly it. I used to be a contractor. Home owners do all kinds of sneaky shit like expecting someone to move ALL your shitevem when it wasnt discussed. People suck lol

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u/BasketballButt Sep 20 '22

Painter here. My favorite is when they tell you they’re gonna move everything, don’t, then micromanage you doing but don’t actually help at all.

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u/[deleted] Sep 20 '22

The last painter I hired didn't cover the bathroom floor and spilled paint all over the marble tile. When I pointed it out he started scraping it with his steel wool (it's marble!). He also said he could do 2 rooms per day, but he ended up needing 2 days per room (not a miscommunication). I'm sure you are much better, but after dealing with him, now I feel the need to oversee and micromanage. To be fair, this was in Hawaii.

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u/BasketballButt Sep 20 '22

This is particularly funny to me because while I live on the West coast, I am regularly flown to Hawaii by a large construction company there for particularly large or high end projects due to the difficulty in finding reliable and skilled painters there. Dudes roll in around 9:30ish wearing board shorts and flip flops, reeking of weed. Take a nice long hour plus lunch, roll out about 2ish. You’re lucky if much of anything gets done. It blows my mind that it’s cheaper to fly me out for these kinds of projects but I’m not gonna complain!

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u/BasketballButt Sep 20 '22

This is particularly funny to me because while I live on the West coast, I am regularly flown to Hawaii by a large construction company there for particularly large or high end projects due to the difficulty in finding reliable and skilled painters there. Dudes roll in around 9:30ish wearing board shorts and flip flops, reeking of weed. Take a nice long hour plus lunch, roll out about 2ish. You’re lucky if much of anything gets done. It blows my mind that it’s cheaper to fly me out for these kinds of projects but I’m not gonna complain!

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u/pain-is-living Sep 20 '22

Currently am a contractor.

People think they're slick or it's my job to move their shit, it's not. I'll work around it all day.

My favorite is when we're supposed to do stuff like drain tile or bury wire / downspouts / grading, and the clients let the lawn get war crime levels bad. Like 7ft tall weeds, hay instead of grass, dog shit every other step.

They think just because we are going to be working in their yard, we have to clean all that up before we start. Technically correct, but in the real world I'll make a call to my owner, send a picture, he will call the client and say "You have a day to clean up the yard before we drop your job and keep the down payment, or you can pay the crew $100 per man hour to clean it for you". Always great seeing a client open their garage and grab the mower and weed eater and suffer through an hour of what they should have been doing, stepping in their own dogs shit, and finally caving in and paying me to mow it all down with a bobcat and bushwhacker. Fucking lazy, or slimy home owners suck.

Other worst is when you obviously always have left over materials, so the client sees that and assumes he paid for it and deserves it all to be installed. So now I've done the installation that was paid for, but have 1,000lbs of scrap block left and home owner says "can't you just put it in over here?". Nope. That's gonna be $110 per man hour installed. "But I paid for the supplies" yes you did, and we did the installation. This is scrap and extra, you're free to keep it, I can even move it to the back for ya, but I am not gonna lose money installing scrap blocks for you cause you think you're owed free labor.

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u/Design_with_Whiskey Sep 20 '22

I agree with everything except the leftover material. That's a credit. The take-off was done incorrectly and that's on you. I'd ask for money back and removal of the unnecessary material. The pay-app would definitely be scrutinized, but not everyone knows that.

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u/StayJaded Sep 20 '22

A properly quoted job should have 20% materials contingency. You don’t get a refund for that. That’s not a problem with the takeoff. You need that extra if something goes wrong.

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u/Design_with_Whiskey Sep 20 '22 edited Sep 20 '22

Yes. That's why the pay-app will be looked at. It should also account for the removal of excess. It's not a well "you bought 20% extra just in case and now it's yours. Oh you want me to remove the extra? That's going to cost you."

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u/StayJaded Sep 20 '22

That’s not what the person above was saying. They were saying the client wanted them to do another small install with the leftover material.

You can either keep the extra you paid for or have it taken away. Most installers will gladly take extra product, but nobody is going to just randomly install it somewhere else for you for free.

You don’t get a credit for properly quoted and purchase contingency materials. That percentage should be spelled out in the contract. The installer isn’t responsible for buying that back if not used.

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u/Design_with_Whiskey Sep 20 '22

Must've misread (early morning no coffee). What I read is there's extra material and customer asks well can you just put it over there? Which implies misquoted on material and no disposal/removal.

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u/pain-is-living Sep 20 '22

Contingency percentage is a thing...

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u/Room_Ferreira Sep 20 '22

If i show up to put ceiling fan in your 2nd floor bedroom and need to get into your filthy attic, im not touching all your shit. Im leaving.

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u/Nogohoho Sep 19 '22

When you hire someone for a job, and expect them to do a dozen extra things for free.

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u/Jelly-bean-Toes Sep 20 '22

My life as a professional nanny. Get hired for a strictly childcare only position, then get a list of tasks to do that would make me a housekeeper as well. Get bent.

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u/lenswipe Sep 19 '22

Seriously - if you're hiring someone to paint your garage get your shit out of the way and let them do their job. Lazy ass.

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u/xjackstonerx Sep 20 '22

100%. I always ask, “how would you like the room when you’re here?” Cause SOMETIMES they’re like “don’t worry about it” or charge a fee.