u/TacticalBuschMaster

Currently doing a bathroom remodel and the clients have cats, 3 or 4 of them. Every day there’s something with these cats, just finished grouting the bathroom floor and I come in this morning and there’s a massive puddle of cat piss in the middle of the floor this is the 2nd time. Earlier in the project after finishing the demo and moving to do some framing for new walls, I come back after lunch and there’s a cat turd in the corner of the room. It’s fucking gross and annoying but I will look back in 2 years and think it’s funny. Clients have apologized profusely in fairness but, since the shit incident I’ve been careful to keep the door closed when I’m not around but the clients after I leave come into the bathroom and look around which is fine I don’t have a problem with, but they leave the door open allowing their piss pirate and turd tyrant cats free reign.

I called a client to confirm start times for a project and to confirm a few design choices so I could order appropriate material and it turned into a 45 minute call about how her and her husband were getting divorced after he walked out a week earlier. I was like “I’m sorry to hear that, that’s so unfortunate. Anyway I’m going to send you an invoice so I can get material ordered and my guys will be there in 2 weeks”

I got hired by a company only to find out that they’d 2 crews and 3 project managers(one was more sales but he’d act like PM whenever he was around) that would often be on the same jobs and contradicting each other. I left after 6 weeks.

Would you ever consider subcontracting demo of the existing patio you’re replacing? In residential construction there’s specific demo companies because a lot of remodel and builders don’t want to do it because of various reasons, their guys are more profitable doing other tasks, it’s dirty work and it’s donkey work they’re happy to pay to have someone else deal with the headache. Does this exist in the hardscape/landscape world? Is it a line item that you’d delegate?