BONUS!!!!

[TimH]

I've been doing some renovating on my house over the last few weeks, filling in time until calving starts.
Today I had to get up in the attic to move some wiring and put some insulation in where it was missing(you could tell by the condensation on the cieling).
Anyway, I found a framing hammer, a 4 foot level(a real good one) and a whole bag of insulation as well as assorted chunks of wire and junction boxes etc. that the original builders had left in there.
The sack of cash and the secret to eternal youth were not there, however.
What is sad is , most contractors build this kind of "employee don't give a rat's assedness" into their price. I suspect it would add an extra buck or two to the cost per square foot of a new house. I spent the better part of 20 years bidding road construction jobs and we always built "employee F-ups" into our price, as I'm sure the other contractors did.
Pretty hard to find a cure for the old " shirt runs downhill and payday is Friday attittude".

 

[HAY MAKER]

I've been doing some renovating on my house over the last few weeks, filling in time until calving starts.
Today I had to get up in the attic to move some wiring and put some insulation in where it was missing(you could tell by the condensation on the cieling).
Anyway, I found a framing hammer, a 4 foot level(a real good one) and a whole bag of insulation as well as assorted chunks of wire and junction boxes etc. that the original builders had left in there.
The sack of cash and the secret to eternal youth were not there, however.
What is sad is , most contractors build this kind of "employee don't give a rat's assedness" into their price. I suspect it would add an extra buck or two to the cost per square foot of a new house. I spent the better part of 20 years bidding road construction jobs and we always built "employee F-ups" into our price, as I'm sure the other contractors did.
Pretty hard to find a cure for the old " s*** runs downhill and payday is Friday attittude".

Dang boy,I believe you would ---- if you were hung with a new rope,climb down outa that attic with your new found tools,pour you a shot of whiskey,and be smug in the fact you are dollars ahead ...........good luck

 

[Mike]

A friend of mine removed a wall between his den and living room a few years back.

Between the drywall he found about 15-20 empty wine bottles.

They were the expensives wines too, with the "screw-on" tops. :lol:

 

[Kato]

We were digging around in our attic, and under the insulation found one of my brother-in-law's old report cards. :shock:

That was worth more than a million hammers. :wink:

 

[IL Rancher]

We found whiskey bottles.. LOTS of them when we busted into the attic over here and the walls in the other places kitchen.. Hard part is we don't know whose they were becasue the old owner liked his whiskey as well as the family that used to live on this place... I must have thrown away several hundred bottles just out of the old garage along with hundreds of cigar tubes...

But yeah, I think they do bid in the f-ups and the wated material.. Everytime we have had work done it drives me nuts to see all the material left over that i paid for but it was never used.

 

[Juan]

We were digging around in our attic, and under the insulation found one of my brother-in-law's old report cards. :shock:

That was worth more than a million hammers. :wink:

Kato----You are realy evil

 

[Soapweed]

We were tearing down an old house, and found a box of love letters that were sixty-five years old. They were quite interesting.