His lips are moving.

Daughter is putting up a new modular home. It has been nothing but a huge pain in the ass from the get-go.

She doesn't know a lot about construction and less than that about codes so she's prone to just accepting whatever the contractor tells her.

I've caught a couple of things and told her she was getting screwed and needed to hold somebody's feet to the fire and get it fixed. (She IS good at that, once she knows there's a problem. Mules come to her for stubborn lessons when she gets her dander up.)

The latest was "Code requires that we insulate your interior basement walls with styrofoam and paint the syrofoam with fire-resistant paint. It's all about fire code. That's gonna add about $3000 to the price we quoted you."

Wait...you're going to cover a non-flammable concrete wall with flammable styrofoam and then coat that with non-flammable paint? Bull-fucking-shit. Show me the code.

I...uh...well...ummm...Turns out that's only if you're finishing the basement as a living space. Which she's not.

Fucking crooks.

If/when we sell this house, I can name one company that we will NOT be buying a modular from...

Seems like some "salesmen or contractors" will do their best to stick it to the women they come in contact with no matter what lies they have to tell.

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Mules come to her for stubborn lessons when she gets her dander up.

I am adding that to my collection of great quotes.

My daughter wanted to update her windows. First estimate she got was way off and didn't make any sense. She called a different company and I was there. The estimate was much lower. We decided for the third time to have just me there and act like I owned the house. Lowest estimate of all.

Back in the 70's my aunt had "insulation" put in her attic for 300.00 dollars. The insulation was spray painted cardboard sheets in black.

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Originally posted by Icabod:
My daughter wanted to update her windows. First estimate she got was way off and didn't make any sense. She called a different company and I was there. The estimate was much lower. We decided for the third time to have just me there and act like I owned the house. Lowest estimate of all.