How not to frame a steel stud wall

First don't lay down the track before the floor is finished.  That means don't put it down before the old tile has been removed. don't put it down before the holes in the floor have been patched.  Don't layout track on your staging floor just to show progress.

Second, if resilient furring strips are required read the directions before you install them if you have never seen them before.  They put them in upside down first on my project.  Of course the architect had the drawn upside down too, because he is a dumb ass.

Third.  used the right size studs - 2 5/8" 20 gauge studs are not meant to span a 20 foot ceiling height; and they are definitely not made to withstand the load of a stone clad wall.

Four Shaft wall line goes on the INSIDE of the shaft!!! idiots!

Finish the MEP work before you close the walls!  When you do start to dry wall make sure the edges butt together!  Don't sequence work so you remove the roof after you put up the dry wall!  We don't live in the desert, it's gonna rain!

Oh and you shouldn't be able to see light through the fire stair wall!

Nice Faucet!

Plumbers show crack because they bend over all the time.  I think the plumbers on my job smoke crack all the time instead.  I guess it was to hard to bend over and attach the supply hose to the fixture which has the same threading.  Instead just punch a hole in the wall and make your own fixture.  Even better they have the water pressure for an 18 story office building going to a few taps so you turn it on and it blasts water so hard the flexible pipe movers up and sprays all over!

Which Way Does The Elevator Go

So the contractor stripped down the furred out wall around the elevator core.  That left the Elevator button dangling on the wall.  So they went back a month later and screwed them to the terracotta elevator shaft wall.  That's a good idea better than leaving them dangling.

No the problem.  They didn't exactly put them up the right way.  As you can see in the image an elevator buttons installed side by side and with no up or down or color kind of makes it hard to tell what button to push.  So you always have to hit both.  Not bad you know an elevator is coming but you don't know what direction it is going in until you take the ride. Why? well all the direction indicators disappeared months ago because they had nice brass fittings.  But why stop there; some were actually put back upside down!  So you get in thinking your going up and you end up in the cellar.

I am going to start taking bets at the door 50/50 up or down. that is if the elevator ever comes...

I know they are not in control but are they even watching

Oh our general contractor has no clue what is going on around him.  In this project we are replacing one stair well and leaving the other pretty much as is.  So the other day the Architect is walking through with us and says "hey where did the hand rails go?"
We said "ask the GC I guess they are replacing them."
"Why, they were perfectly good?"
So we go in and ask hey whats going on with the hand rails, they were existing to remain. The GC didn't even know they were gone! They had been gone for weeks!

Then there was the disappearance of a large mushroom exhaust fan from a set back roof.  They said oh we were not working area. What does that mean you have keys and control of the whole site.  Then they blame a couple of painters that were using the are to work from to paint a neighboring building.  First of all the fan was 10 years old, secondly probably 3 feet tall and a 5' diameter and several hundred pounds.  in addition you mean to tell me you security didn't notice the painters walking out with it? I mean there is only one way in and out!

All that is nothing compare to the vault incident.  A bank is moving back into the first floor "the building was originally a bank headquarters...  in the cellar there was a bank vault with a custom vault door 28" thick.  The banks interior fit out contractor did a walk through and noticed someone had taken a cutting torch to the door and had started to dismantle it's inner workings.. when we told the contractor they said hey that area is out of our contract are we are not responsible for it.  Dude you are doing work everywhere in the building your the base GC! you had to replace the walls around it! how do you figure you are not responsible.  they said they would look into it.

A week later we ask if they find out who did it?
the response was "No." then it got weird
"So the person who did it could still be working here?"
"No."
"So you do know did it?"
"No"
"but you said they are not working here?"
"yes"
"so then you you know who did it"
"I just told you we don't know who did it"
"I am confused how do you know they are not here if you don't know who did it"
"right"

That is not word for word because this happened weeks ago but it is very close.

Who ever did it spent hours of time and left all the pieces too. (I assume they wanted the metal to sell as scrap) These people are so incompetent!  Just good at fucking everything up!

There lawyer took it even farther.  He sent a letter saying they couldn't be responsible because they didn't know it existed.  Didn't even know it had been a bank or that there was a vault.  We had a few of our job meetings in the room with the vault and the building has Hanover Bank written in big letters right across the front!  I guess they are just deaf dumb and blind!

Water Fall

Well lets see today on site the plumber was testing his lines.  I think he should get his air pressure gauge tested  because he seemed to think the initial pass was good and we ended up with a water fall.

When the plumber charged his new 8" condenser riser he managed to fill it up to the 18th floor when one of his connections failed on the 3rd floor and now there is lake on the third floor a pond on second floor, rain showers on the ground floor and drips in the cellar.  Good thing they haven't managed to get any wallboard done on those floors.  No gyp. board because no stud layout because GC is months behind.

Ah the silver lining you couldn't fuck up more shit with your fuck up because your so fucked up you don't have shit to fuck up.

Oh wait the pipe did burst right on top of the floors temporary electric panel so we had no power for an hour! They should pipe and stand in the puddle, morons.