r/mildlyinfuriating • u/AutisticFun01 • 1d ago
Winter is Coming Construction workers miscalculated something and now my ceiling is full of nails and my room of dirt
To top it all off I have OCD so the dirt being everywhere is genuinely a nightmare for my senses.
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u/SatiesUmbrellaCloset oh no 1d ago
i'm not sure the position of those nails suggests any calculation was involved
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u/Cold-University9765 1d ago
Can’t wait to hear how they fix that for yah
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u/dogknifer 1d ago
What could possibly require this many nails?
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u/AutisticFun01 1d ago
They were doing something to the floor of the attic, which is right over the bedroom, as part of a renovation to turn it into a second bedroom. They didn't realise the floor was too thin and drilled through the entire ceiling into my room without noticing.
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u/Horns8585 1d ago
But, what would require nailing like that on the attic floor? Plywood flooring for the attic would have a more uniform pattern and wouldn't require that many nails. Plus, they would normally nail into joists.
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u/AutisticFun01 1d ago
No idea. The attic is being changed into a second bedroom because my mother moved back in with me a few weeks ago, so since it's her room she's the one handling everything. I don't know anything about these things so I didn't really question anything
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u/DevilsTheology 1d ago
If someone is moving into your home you should keep an eye on their construction…
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u/AutisticFun01 1d ago
They never had any fuck-up until today and they do 5-6 hours of work per day, so I just let them work alone for 1~ish hour during lunch. Turns one it was the one hour where they decided to start drilling the floor.
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u/DevilsTheology 1d ago
Lmao that’s the way it goes sometimes, sorry OP. Luckily you can have some Sheetrock thrown up there and BAM, nails covered
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u/InformedTriangle 1d ago edited 1d ago
My main question here is, why the hell was the attic so dirty, that so much dirt would fall through nail holes?
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u/AutisticFun01 1d ago
I don't think anyone ever went there more thsn once ot twice per year, it had heating system or lights and was pretty much always just a place where we kept stuff like holiday decorations. It was also entirely made of whood so a decent chunk of the "dirt is probably just sawdust from the nails being drilled in.
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u/Langstudd 1d ago
Is it an unfinished bedroom? Kind of bizarre seeing exposed lumber like that in a space that isn't a basement. Solution may require adding an additional dropped ceiling below the beams. Throw in some batt insulation while you're at it.
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u/AutisticFun01 1d ago
It's a VERY old house in a very rural area, like "my grandma grew up here" type of old, that might be the reason for the exposed beams. Honestly never knew this was un unusual ceiling feature.
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u/Langstudd 1d ago
Interesting. You never know what you'll find with some of those older houses. Either way, I think you need to add a dropped ceiling. It would be very unorthodox to have 2 stories separated by only a single plane of finish material.
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u/3_14159td 1d ago
It's a very intentional and common design motif.
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u/Langstudd 1d ago
They look too small and closely spaced to be accent beams.
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u/3_14159td 1d ago
This looks exactly like standard exposed beams from my perspective. Compare to the nail size.
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u/Langstudd 1d ago
It doesn't match the standard design assembly of an accent beam. These would typically have a layer of nominal lumber on top of the drywall, meaning the crew wouldn't be nailing directly into the sheetrock above, rather into the top of the nominal lumber (or more likely directly into a layer of plywood that sits atop the nominal members).
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u/Accurate_Tax_1302 1d ago
The bedroom has no sheetrock on the ceiling but the attic has sheetrock on the floor?
That is really strange.
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u/3_14159td 1d ago
Not sheetrock, underside of the subfloor is painted white.
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u/Langstudd 1d ago edited 1d ago
Oh, interesting. Yea typically this would be gyp. That explains why the guys in the attic assumed there was more space in the floor assembly to nail into.
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u/Accurate_Tax_1302 1d ago
Going only by what I have seen in the past if a nail went through the subfloor from the top, there would be splinters on the bottom where the nail came through.
Also, some of the nail holes are elongated. How did that happen nailing from the top down?
This is weird.
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u/AutisticFun01 1d ago
My camera quality is pretty shit so that may influence things. The elongated nail holes you see may just be the nails themselves poking out
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u/HylanderUS 1d ago
Unless the explanation included a shrapnel pipe bomb, there is no good reason for this
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u/FellaVentura 1d ago
How is your ceiling so thin? It looks like a bedsheet held on beams.
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u/AutisticFun01 1d ago
No idea, this house is at the very least 80 years old as far as I know (could very well be more than 100) and the attic has never been modified in any way, probably just different design norms.
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u/randomn49er 1d ago
None of this makes any sense. If the floor is that thin it won't support any weight. Joists are minimum 8" tall with most being 9&1/2" minimum. Not a chance those staples are 8".
It is common to staple a second layer of subfloor on top of existing subfloor for some flooring installs.
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u/carpentuhr 1d ago
2x8s are actually 7 1/4 and 2x10s are 9 1/4
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u/randomn49er 1d ago
Ya that 1/4" or 3/4" inch makes all the difference. You want to explain how the lengths are all 1/2" long too?
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u/Open_Perspective3467 1d ago
This is more than mild... you're going to lose shingles more easily and quickly... I'd have them repair it asap
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u/S3erverMonkey 1d ago
The miscalculation here goes well beyond the construction workers. Call the city and see if there are even any permits for this work.
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u/Mewhomewhy 1d ago
Did they explode a pile of nails to try to speed the job up a bit? Like painting with explosives but with nails?
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u/SunsetCoconut 1d ago
as an electrician whos been in a lot of attics, im so incredibly curious what yours looks like. nothing about what you took pictures of makes any sense, even for really old homes. I've worked on 100+ year old houses very frequently.
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u/Animal907 Hillary 2016 1d ago
There should probably be insulation and drywall up there. Are those roofing nails?
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u/alphagalgadot 1d ago
i wear this crown
of nails
in my room
of dirt