>want an extra socket at my house>trades guy wants 10k>ask another guy for a second opinion>he wants 20k
Just DIY
>>3010917First guy called his friend to warn him about a retard calling about a socket.
>>3010917What seems to be the problem?
>>3010951Blurry
>>3010917didnt happentakes 15k to lift a housenot 10K for a fucking socket
get a power bari stole one from work for free
they didn't want to work for you, so they gave you ridiculous quotes.
>>3010917If you live in the american paper houses, that's an atrocious price, kill them and do it yourself.If you live in a european house made of brick and stone, that's still overpriced, but doing it yourself is a pain because you'll have to create a channel in the wall and need the equipment to do so.
>>3010979>because you'll have to create a channel in the wall and need the equipment to do so.they put wires inside stone in europe?
>>3010980Unironically a bit like this.There's channels in the stone which are used for cables and pipes and if you want one where there isn't already a channel, you have to chisel out the stone essentially.Alternatively there's plastic channels you can attach on the outside of the wall, but those are considered bad workmanship/for cheap bastards.Our walls aren't hollow, so we don't have a cavity to easily lay the cabling into, which is one of the things I'm always kind of jealous about when I see american home DIY stuff, cutting a hole into drywall and fixing it up later seems so trivially easy compared to here.
>>3010917Just run some copper wire to a car battery and change it out every here and then.
>>3010981This seems nuts. Why not have brick walls then another layer thats hollow that you can run utilities in? Its like they never bothered to dry to adapt old building techniques with new conditions.
Adding a new socket to my parent's house was literally my first DIY job as a teen. I got pretty lucky and was able to avoid drilling a hole in the studs though.
>>3010970This. Needed a bit of roof patched. Called a ton of places and most wouldn't even call me back. Two places sent out guys that straight up lied to my face about the condition of the roof (its 30+ years old!) and said I needed a whole new roof. One of them even gave me a 'fuck off' quote for that new roof that had an extra zero on it.The only guy that actually agreed to do the repair charged $550 for it. $50 for a bigass bucket of blackjack, which he let me keep the extra of, and the rest labor. He told me straight up it might still leak. The place, before I bought it, had a valley that wasn't installed correctly. He wasn't redoing the whole area, just patching up the valley so water wouldn't get under the shingles but he said it was such a large area it might take a few tries. He said he would come back for free if it did continue to leak. Well, it leaked, but much less than before. He came back for free, put more blackjack under the shingles, and that was 7 years ago without a leak since. Yeah, it wasn't a real fix, just a patch, but I was broke at the time and $500 sounded a lot better than the $10k the lowest quote for a replacement was.
>>3011091Anon, now do you see why they're retards for making fun of american houses?
>>3011091You do see that sometimes (mostly commercial premises) but for homes people don't want to lose that much floor space.
>>3010951Is this some eastern euro / balkan remodel work thats ~15 years old on a building thats 50 years old?
>>3010979>need the equipmentOne 30 Euro anglegrinder and a 10 euro disc for stone cutting?
>>3011305Oh please dont get me started. Everybody knows american houses are made out of literal ice cream sticks carpentry, best wishes and literal fucking bubble bath foam. Your drinking buddy‘s 15 years old dog has better foundations and less shaky structures. You faggots lose billions every years to fucking squirrels because of how ridiculously mediocre your buildings are. Your houses are so fucking gay they moan when you drive nails through their plywood walls.
>>3011305we are making fun of american "houses" for that exact reason
