2/ why? bc he was trying to save me $500. ...at a cost of losing like 100 square feet of my basement. Money is not tightly bounded. I can work some extra hours, but I can not easily replace those square feet. I'm pretty articulate and reasonably forceful, so I had no problem
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3/ asking "are you saying this is IMPOSSIBLE, are you saying this is a POSSIBLE BUT A TREMEMDOUSLY BAD IDEA, or are you just saying that your DEFAULT is to do it my way?". Turns out "oh, sure, we can do it that way". ...but I've run into this before.
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4/ Chimney repair guy wanted to cut through our plastered and textured wall, right in the living room, and install a big steel access door. Why? Well, it would save him half an hour doing a thing the right way.
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5/ yeah and this is terrible I'm prob in the top 1% of white collar folks who are able to talk to tradesmen and ask relevant questions (e.g. why do you need to go through the wall? Couldn't you use an SDS diamond coring bit and go through the concrete?)https://twitter.com/jkrwld/status/1504821554974232579 …
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6/ and so I can get what I want fairly reliably ...but I expect huge numbers of people get things that are 5-10% sub-optimal for their own utility function bc they didn't know the 1 question to ask, or the 1 way to push back.,
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7/ More cynical than my take (rare!). I think most tradesmen mean well / are honest, but they are just lazy (not physically, but intellectually - "I like to do it this way").https://twitter.com/JesseTayRiver/status/1504825149178195972 …
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Home Depot wagies are tradesmen now?
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Been in building trades my entire adult life, and it's useful to think of trades on a scam spectrum from 30% (carpentry) to 90% (chimney repair & HVAC).
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You an solve half your AC problems if you know how to replace the start capacitor and check the pan float...
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