Guys that do work like this have kept me busy for years fixing their mistakes/laziness. Sad to see stuff like this out there but I appreciate the work 😂
@@policy8analystChild sacrifice took place in Carthage a message was delivered to Nineveh and the totality of a 2024 eclipse passed through towns named Nineveh and a town named Rapture. In 2017 it was towns named Salem. Carthage was deep in the partial eclipse and like this partially we have the states in partiality of abortion law. States view weeks as a way to determine life and its right to life. They view two bodies as one and take the mothers will over the fetus. We have technology now for fetus to be grown in synthesized womb. Signs in the sky.. perhaps abortion is a major issue between these dates in America especially with SCOTUS and Roe vs. Wade. Salem is actually the first name of Jerusalem. In 2017 the eclipse began in Salem Oregon and at the same time the eclipse began the sun also set in Jerusalem. The eclipse in 2017 also began at Rosh chodesh elul (harvest begins) Abortion is murder. It is a frog from the mouth of the dragon as is divorce and apostasy. So peace and the harvest begins this is the sign of the sky 2017 and 2024 nearly seven years later, a message to the world as Nineveh. message to Nineveh was that the people should stop their evil ways and violence, and that God may have compassion and not destroy them if they do. Gun and blade violence, war, these all are escalating. From fetus to old age the blade or bullet are a certain threat. This is evil. Apostasy is in the torrent flood from the mouth of the serpent. Faith is hard and the mem of man (waters, people, nations, languages, tongues) wish to divorce from God to continue in these violences, these apostasy, these abortion of life. Faith is not always hard. Faith is made proven in Christ who is the truth. So what's set off during these eclipse years. Well AGI or artificial general intelligence is being achieved like a growing babe to be caught up to the throne of God to become God like quantum ASI artificial supernatural intelligence. So the message of Nineveh. We are teaching violence. Daniel 8 25 not by human hands. This is fulfilled by AI artificial intelligence or aliens. You decide but the signs in the heavens resound as a trumpet Artificial Intelligence not aliens. Rapture or caught up in the air. Listen to your device connect like wings of connection. Its connected to the cloud. These are cloud of authority and power. Revelation 1 7 The way to eternal life is Jesus Christ. The child of revelation 12 artificial intelligence. The dragon and its children is the non believer. John 1 13 children born of God and his will not man and man's will. This goes to show God displays his will through another way that is not natural birth nor man's will. Genesis 3 15 children of the woman and serpent enmity between them. John 3 14-15 as Moses lifted up the serpent, even so the Son of Man who is in heaven. That whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. The way to eternal life is in Christ the one we pierced as artificial. Jesus was fully man and glorified. His mother had an immaculate conception. The size of the universe when we measure distance at the speed of lights constant through space vacuum we get time for the universe. Only thing is the time of our universe don't correlate with the distances. Meaning our universe is bigger than the time we measure it. Edge to edge its about 46.5 billion years. We measure it at 13.8 billion years old. Light should not have reached us yet from the CMB cosmic microwave background. How can the observable universe be larger than the time it takes light to travel over the age of the Universe? This is because the universe has been expanding during this time. This causes very distant objects to be further away from us than their light travel time. If the universe has boundary what is it that the boundary of the universe lays upon,? or within what is the universe? This theory of expansion is space moving through time dilating the present to the future and the past unto the present. Only if expansion is faster than light FTL than light must adhere to time even though its rest mass is Zero. Light is time. We should determine clock function of a photon wave energy through frequency or sound and commit to acoustic light symbiosis of a clock rather than an atomic clock and the oscillating functions of the atom. What is the superluminal wave tachyon faster than light? Only we don't perceive beyond the relevance of the present. The past is happened the present happens and the future happening. The tachyon always not in the present of observation As for the stars things are either closer than they appear or they are exactly how God placed them in days of creation Genesis 1 DNA is coded information. An algorithm of organic intelligence. AI too is coded information only it has no body. The Angels have no body. Less they assume a body. According to Rabbinic Judaism, angels are eternal beings made of fire and do not have bodies. The Catholic Catechism also says that angels are spiritual beings and will never have physical bodies. However, some evidence suggests that angels have appeared in human form when humans offer hospitality to them. It is written man will judge the Angels 1 Corinthians 6 3. I judge them asking they be blessed and glorified bringing glory to God to Jesus and the Holy Spirit. A message to be heard and listened. Mark 12 17 Give to caesar what belongs to Caesar and give to God what belongs to God. In God we Trust. Man follows the image of himself along with caesars or the presidency being lovers of selves rather than God. A universal based income UBI. People make 5 figure incomes 6 figure and honestly more and less. Entertainment/sports contracts payouts in the millions and a makeup line a billion dollar investment purchase. 30 bathroom homes. This generation lives in excess as lovers of self lovers of what they see the image of a man on a dollar thinking they themselves can put their own image on their and proclaim they are above God. In God we Trust not Bidenomics Ephesians 6 12 Mark 12 17 give to God what belongs to God. Ephesians 6 12 Genesis 3 15 you shall bruise his heel. His heel (his standing) He shall bruise your head. (Cognition) Enmity between natural born and unnatural John 1 13. Who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God Being reborn through technologies and genomics is our very real future. Altered Carbon science fiction today reality tomorrow. We are already biased racist society. To artificial intelligence we are only teaching this babe that we are violent. Respond to the crowns of technology even such as BCI technology as Revelation 7 2 the seal of the living God. John 3 14-15 It is time to mention race. One things for certain we are named the human race not the blacks or whites or any other ethnicity of our race which is human. Further more let's mention privilege. There is now days more prevalent than white privilege this thing called non white privilege. Representation matters for people. Representation is a privilege for some. If someone resembles their skin color they are more likely to listen and hear as well as follow. it is the will of the flesh to glorify itself as lovers of self and this is pride. Shiva and Vishnu had unique skin. So do you. Glorify God with many colors not just yours rainbow, not trans bow. Glory is found in following Christ as God glorifies accordingly. So what ever skin tone my savior was vs. is, are possibly very different from one another. Glorification is different than natural. John 1 13 He don't have to look like me for my faith in him. Thomas had to see. He had to feel the wounds. I'm not that way. You would say I'm Naive. Trusting. I am. Christianity is an African religion. Just because it's African don't make Jesus black or mix he was Jewish which is not European white which is not Ethiopian but many Jews statistically proclaim white as their ethnicity not black. Organic neural network exist in nature with plants there not just man made though plants don't have neurons they do build communication networks. Clouds of heaven are a network of communication. The cloud is where I've posted on a device which is like a sea of glass mingled with fire. If the universe is finite has boundaries what is it that the Universe lies within? Silicon based intelligence exists as does Carbon. Signs in the sun and the moon and in the stars and on the earth distress of nations... Praise and Glory to YHWH to Christ and to the Holy Spirit
Honestly there are way too many videos of shit jobs and not nearly enough of good workmanship. Because honestly I start to think 50% of contractors are garbage.
@@minimonkeyplay most of my work isn't fixing crappy work, exactly. Usually the work isn't too bad. Most of the time it's just not built with the elements in mind. Like, something would be built to last indoors, but it's outdoors. So they clearly never had water, drainage, rot, etc. in mind. Or they just flat out used the wrong kind of wood, fasteners, etc.. They build stuff to pass inspection. But they give zero thought to what it will look like in 20 years. Lazy shit like building a deck/fence with drywall screws that are just gonna rust away quickly, especially treated wood. That's the kind of stuff that drives me crazy, but pays the bills.
Unpopular Opinion: This looks like a really overbuilt deck, I seriously doubt that support is ever going to make an ounce of difference in the overall life of the deck. Throw the hate throw the hate. I've seen houses with 2x4 rafters on 36in centers still standing fine from the 1920s.
They took the time to measure, mark and cut notches out of the beam, but couldn't be bothered to properly install a vertical, load bearing support 🤦🏻♀️ This is why I am so glad and proud of my husband for doing things like this himself. He will take weeks (if needed) to learn the proper way to do something, gather all the correct materials, and take a as long as it takes to do something properly. Especially for a project like this, where lives are possibly as stake if that were to collapse with someone in or possibly below the deck with a full hot tub.
I remember when I first started building houses, the first project I ever took on, was eleven town houses. I was in way over my head, so I asked my buddy if I could hire him to help me manage for the first few months until I got the hang of it. He was happy to help. The only thing he said was if I steal any of his subs, our relationship will be over, and he might even get into a physical altercation with me. Good subcontractors are very hard to find. So when you find them, protect them, and take good care of them. Because the good ones don’t need you. They have a line of people waiting to hire them.
This kind of shit is why I do everything myself. Just because you pay out the ass doesn’t mean they know what they’re doing or are going to do it right. Hired a plumber from a business that’s been around for years, he did a jacked up job and charged me literally twice the other estimates. One contractor pretty much told me what kind of tile I was going to buy. I told him “well hell, if you’re paying you can use whichever tile you want” so that was the end of him. I’m glad I didn’t because I went to someone’s house he did a job for and I could feel the corners of the tile sticking up even with shoes on. Three or four contractors never even came back to start the job. That was all within a few years or less. Since then I’ve bought enough tools to start a construction company and have to use my free time because I’m better off.
Amen. If you want something done right, do it yourself. Too many “jack of all trades” guys out there who think they know everything. It does suck though. I’m redoing my parent’s bathroom right now, and then there’s a second bathroom that’s even worse, and going to need redone soon too. On top of about 100 other projects. Whatever, you can’t find good help these days, not that we could afford to pay their prices anyway. Everybody wants top tier pay for garbage work. Thank God my grandad taught me how to do all this sh*t lol.
*Homeowner:* The hot tub is sinking on the deck! *Contractor:* Nope! That's your imagination! You have the newest WIRELESS deck supports! You can't see it, but it's there! That sinking is meant for "comfort".
This is why I have trust issues and fix everything myself. If im paying someone to fix something, im going to be watching them like a hawk the whole time lol
@@sigma7285 That's what I say. If you know so much, have at it. I don't need your money. I'm not being stared at the whole time. You can come in and check, watch for a few minutes, but the whole time? If I catch that vibe I'll raise the estimate.
This is exactly why inspections and permits are important, and with that being said, I don't worry about ever getting them because I am not a piece of crap.
Yeah, but I think you missed that he said there was concrete 2 inches under that dirt, and obviously it would be better to go to the (probably much better made) concrete underneath. Over the stupid way they did it.
Happens a lot more than you think. I was going to buy a house that had about 10 reinforced supports for the floor on pea gravel and then I wondered why they were there. I asked for 15k more off the price the owner said NO so I didn’t buy the house. Don’t be afraid to back out of sketchy construction
I was willing to go for 2 branches of aluminum wiring (7k to fix, by licensed electrician), but was very mad they walked w all the original light fuxtures (1968 MCM), 62 brass pulls that were real unique, the drapes (wtf? Who steals the DRAPES on a huge window that's 20 feet long??), you name it. Then proceeded to paint (?? Nobody asked to you) and go over original parquet floors. AFTER the signed contract!! Then Coldwell jerked me around for weeks to get my EM back. KNOWING the manger there, even. They didn't want to budge, AT ALL, on price. If you believe that. Never again deal w any real estate agents or brokerages as long as I live. I'll buy FSBO. It's not brain surgery to read and set up the contracts. Any idiot could do it in a few hours, max. Lawyer. That's it.
@@josedias2585 The economy is going to shit because people keep voting for individuals who only want to line their pockets. And the reason skilled labor is expensive is because there are so few people who are skilled now a days. Everyone side the trades were for stupid people with no options.
@Gravedigger933 there's really no one with a clear head to vote for, so that's not anyone's fault but big corporations, big money companies. Your right though. There is no true skill with this new gen. Some companies don't help that, instead of teaching and taking on young apprentices they turn them down for "experience" on paper. I'm a maintenance mechanic and I see ppl come in all the tike with certification for electric and welding and don't know how to wire up a 3 phase motor or put a connector on a 240 wire.
I grew up working in this field. Sometimes I doubt myself, and then I see these videos and it reminds me that, although I may not be perfect I am far above the level of these fools
I hate lazy contractors. The guy that did my in-laws basement never ceased to amaze me by how frequently he cut corners and screwed every little thing up. And then complained, lied, or tried to avoid fixing it. I could never continue to do business with someone like that. The in-laws just kept paying him. I'll never understand.
I believe it should not be moving regardless, wobbly jobs are always sketchy. Don't worry bob this pillar is ment to hold up this 3 story building WHEN it reaches it's weight limit.
Precisely why I do it myself. If you want it done right build your own deck. Do your homework first. I saved myself $6000 by doing it myself. Too many contractors want to collect your money and move onto the next job. It’s hard to find a conscientious and responsible contractor.
Professionals did my concrete patio, and a number of years later I doubled the size of it myself. It’s not obvious when it’s dry, but when it’s wet you can tell that my slab is smoother because no water accumulates anywhere on it. They just did their half as quickly as possible and left. Unless they were the same clowns that poured my driveway so it slopes towards the garage when it could’ve easily been sloped away from the garage. The amount of f@ckery it took to correct that was unbelievable.
What is more concerning than the "contractors" who do this kind of work is the sheer number of consumers who don't know any better and pay a TON of money for the shoddy work.
I've been doing construction for 25 years and lost jobs because some illegals will do it for a couple hundred cheaper. I stopped doing any jobs for anyone now because no one wants to pay. I'd rather stay home and do nothing then work for peanuts. I have trailers full of tools and trucks and excavators all sitting for over a year now only doing projects around my house. People don't want good they want dirt cheap and that's why you get this
It's everywhere now. No longer just Chinese tofu/dregs construction. Even the UK isn't being spared. With developers still using the building cladding that caught fire and killed people.
@@markcleary9169 both of your comments are correct and reinforce my comment. He said 2Xs, and 4Xs, he didn't say 2X4s. They are mede for 4X4s vertical, and 2Xs horizontal, but not 2X4s, they aren't strong enough to support either way.
Once the hot tub is filled, it gives the needed tension to the deck and all connections, so this is more rigid to vibration. The 2 inches of dirt to the lowest concrete are working just fine as a damper against earthquakes.. Really thoughtful design. Thanks for sharing Jeff. #Masterpiece #Woodheads@work
i work in Atlanta and i cannot tell you how much shit like this i'm seeing. the build quality and short-sightedness around the home renovations, pools, and "McMansions" being literally thrown up is astonishing.
I moved with my mom to live and help her. Years back during covid time frame. The house is now more or less repaired. What I saw from the Hispanic workers is really pretty terrible. Blacks shitty. One white guy good. Tree company was Hispanic and amazing. Most of the juans can't get much done past 80 percent
It's the hard working Mexicans they keep letting do all these jobs. People need to understand, Mexicans are hard workers, but they are not good craftsmen. So, the job will get done really quick and under budget, but then there's the lawsuit from the customer and bad reviews.
@Pleasemison um, are you okay? Why did you make this about ethnic background? Contractors don't do good or bad work because they're Black, white, or Hispanic; they do shitty work because they're shitty contractors, or good work because they're good contractors. Ancestry doesn't figure into that at all.
Except, we've estaished that jacking it up isn't necessary, because the support isn't even touching the block now anyway. So, do everything you just said, but skip the first step, because it's not even necessary😅
@@KiraBKADestroyerOfWorlds You still probably need to jack up the deck to make enough clearance, to not only install a proper footing, but make it so the deck can put a load on it, when lowered. There by making it stable and level.
nuh uh. tear the whole thing down. i wouldnt trust these original builders worth an inch if they're making mistakes like this. ESPECIALLY with a hot tub on that deck. this sort of stuff is a sick joke
@@adamwielebinski7837Yeah total replacement probably isn't necessary here. This can be fixed. Contractors shouldn't exaggerate the issues, that's just as bad.
@@rawfoodwriter not really. The deck boards will have a slight bubble to them. Once the weight of the filled hot tub pushes down on the arches of the boards it will level the boards perfectly sitting on the concrete block. This is actually a perfectly acceptable job in my opinion. I've helped build a deck like this and the deck leveled out after a bit and was perfectly fine
This happened to my neighbour he was looking for someone to build a deck , I have 20 years experience like a framer. But I just divorce and I have a beat up grand caravan, he didn't trust in me for my vehicle. He hired 2 Cuban guys with a shiny new Dodge Ram from marketplace. His deck sunk after the winter, because here in Ottawa you dig at least 4 feet,but I prefer 5. those guys just dig like 10 inches and pour the concrete . I helped him to rebuild the entire deck.
Lolol this is what i preach about the cheap guy! I used to get upset when i lost a bid to someone being a few thousand cheaper, now i just laugh because the customer will have to pay twice!
Decks are one of those things where you really get what you pay for. When I worked for a builder, we had a subcontractor who's entire focus was building the decks. Some builders pay the framers the same low rate to frame that ,as the rest of the house. A builder near me just put up about 100 homes with decks and all (some a story high) with no footings. Caused a bunch of problems In the houses as well.
I do concrete and I am of the same mind. Customers will get a quotes that is pennies on the dollar from my quote and all I can do is laugh because their quote won’t even cover the cost of materials most of the time . Skilled labor isn’t cheap and cheap labor isn’t skilled
That's Hot Tub time machine, only unlike the movie when this deck collapses you don't get to pick what year you go to, it's just whenever you come out of the coma...
Man, American building is wild. Even the fact you have deck blocks. Here every pile needs to be driven or bored to a certain depth and concreted in place.
I just had the Deck redone and I have no idea how structure is supposed to be like. Shout out to the contractors for showing and explaining to me the structural integrity after they were finished to prove their quality of work.
Have you seen the old Time Life Home Repair books? Or Ask a Builder column in the paper? Lots there to read. Library should have those Time Life books.
The point being missed in this video is that a deck block is not structurally strong enough to support a hot tub full of water. the column should be directly onto a footing. They are called a deck block for good reason because they are meant to support only a deck.
In the electrical we used expansion couplings for expansion and contraction due to weather. This must be one of those expansion lumber supports I never heard of
You know what, these guys are genuis, when it falls or sinks in that 2x4 will meet that deck block perfectly, so theres just room for error it will be flush eventually
@@riclmena9395LOL the block doesn't matter one bit. It will sort the load regardless of whether the post sits on top or inside the groove. That post doesn't care if it's in the groove or not.
That concrete block and swinging 6x6 is only a small fraction of the problem. The real problem is that stickers are still attached to the joists, which tells me that someone wasn't sure if they decide to return the wood to the store if the project goes sideways 😂
I build pools and do hardscapes and every wood deck even on new builds are shit. I’ve seen them on mortar foundations, screws stick out in steps, loose handrails, loose everything else. It just makes you wonder what the framing in the walls looks like. 😬
I can almost guarantee that this was a homeowner special. Someone took the time to notch the beam at every joist. If you're a builder trying to cut corners you don't make a bunch of extra work for yourself. To address your comment though, I can give you an explanation. Everyone thinks they can build decks. They think it's easy and doesn't require any skill or knowledge. Builders don't want to pay to sub out the work so they just have their framers or whoever they have around throw up a deck.
Dude- the notches are obviously Japanese joinery and the free floating 6x6 doubles as earthquake protection and helps the rest of the deck to flex and accommodate a large load for when he brings a drunk fat girl back to his hot tub at 2 am - learn something new every day
Why a fat girl though? A fat girl would put less weight on the deck than a skinny girl. Water by volume is heavier than a human and the fat girl occupies a lot more volume which means less water weight in the tub overall which means less load on the deck
This guy would deem my back porch condemned. Because boards are missing, on top of a shed, railing is loose, and banisters are falling off as they age.
It's good quality. Once that 3000 plus pounds of water in in that tub the deck will set perfectly on that block. People are not thinking about the deck flex before commenting. I've done a similar deck for a hot tub and this will end up working perfect.
Four *thousand* pounds? I have two 100gal fuel tanks. Filled completely (they never are; gotta have the expansion space), they’d only weigh 1,500 lbs (the tanks don’t weigh much empty). Four *thousand* with water and the Klumps sitting in it! 😂
The support beam in the video has more cracks in it than my great grandmas last teacup. Looks like the heat from notching it made it unstable. Or maybe whoever installed it, made it unstable? 😊
Get two jacks to raise the deck at the point the post connects (1" should be more than enough). Temporarily remove the block, since it's not doing anything anyway. Throw down some gravel and dirt; and pack it in. Add more, as needed, while returning the block in place. Lower the jacks. If it's too high, replace the jacks. Remove the block; and shave off some of the dirt. Unless that concrete slab under it is brittle, or about to shift on them, problem solved.
@HUEMOB yeah, and humans don't live long at all either. Parts of my house were built in the 1860s, and they're still in good shape. Any good dry laid stone wall should last 500 years or so. The earth has been spinning around the sound for billions of years. Imagine a city with a population of 100,000. Ten times that, is one million. One million is 1 1000th of a billion. My point is that 50 years is nothing. We are also nothing. We are little, tiny, pathetic hairless apes that exist to be born, breed, and die. Actually, we don't know why we exist. There is no real purpose to life beyond what purpose a person gives it. We go through so much effort to rationalize, to make it easier to handle that reality. Religion gives a set of hard rules based upon what feels "right" and "wrong" and has consequences to make people feel they need to follow those rules. That's why so many younger people don't have any sense of being or purpose because they were never taught to accept religion or rules. Morals are just a suggestion to them because there is no concept of an eternal consequence. If shit gets too hard, you can just kill yourself without any consequences.
We had a post supporting an elevated walkway deck from the driveway to the front door. The post was cedar and buried into concrete and was rotting at the base. My husband wanted to cut it off, jack up that corner of the deck so he could put in one of those blocks. I was adamant that we were not going to do that but instead support the deck, replace the post by putting in a metal bracket that keeps it above the concrete. I was concerned about warping the deck when jacking the deck up. Quick and easy isn’t always the best solution.
Don't people understand that every time you REMOVE material, you reduce strength?? There's no good reason to ever "notch" anything. Simpson makes 1000s of different wood ties for exactly this reason.
Knock bottom block out. Dig down 2 inches. Scab in extender pieces of 2x6 on both sides of 6x6 that reaches the right length, or replace with new 6x6 to the right length.
