Stupid People And Their Pets

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Ran A Bath Lead Wed And After Measuring The Hall Bath Was Asked To Measure The Master As Well. All The Time Listening To How They Have No Money. The Wife Opened The Bedroom Door And The Most Awful Smell Kicked Me Right In The Face. Heart Now Pumping At Three Times Normal, Could It, Is It Cat Piss! With A Straight Face The Husband Casually Mentions They Breed Cats. Really As If I Couldn,t Tell By The 8 Or 9 Furry Urine Factorys Running For Cover. Measure Took All Of 41 Sec And "quickly Out The Door" Briefly Discussed Options (in The Kitchen) Said I'd Mail Quote When I Usually Price And Close First Stop. Now This Is A 300000.00 Plus House Ok? Mailed Inflated Estimate And Guess Who Called Friday? Just Want To Make A Few Changes And They're Ready To Get On My Schedual. Now I Have To Explain How They Have To Move The Cats And Freshen The Room. This Has Happened Before And Will Again. Whats Happened To You?

hauoli63

My husband does the same thing. If it is GROSS conditions and he really doesn't want the job, he will give a very inflated estimate. A few he has gotten anyway ... the extra money makes it worth the poor conditions! Makes you wonder if you are under charging all other times .........

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Robie

One of the first jobs I did after shedding the coat and tie was to help a friend empty a vacated trailer. The condition and stench was beyond words. We bought disposable jump suits, cheap canvas gloves, 3M dust masks, a jar of Vicks Vapo Rub and a bottle of Jack and just went for it (Just kidding about the Jack, it was Wild Turkey)
Anyway, if you inflated the price enough, why not just buy a couple sets of the paper jumpsuits and some Vicks. A little dab below your nose and you can't smell anything else. When they see you getting suited up outside, they will probably ask what is going on. Just simply tell them you are happy to do the work but the cat odor really is offensive.
I've done a lot of work in some pretty nasty rental apartment/houses. I dress for the occasion and charge accordingly. I also keep a bottle of hand sanitizer in the truck in the center console.

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Glasshousebltr

Jeez, in all the years I've never found a pile of crap I wouldn't roll in, but I guess that's conditioning from multiple marriages.

Bob

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Peladu

Four years ago I was doing work on the families two story house. Complete upper hall bath remodel and the lower bath ceiling repair. Well the lower bathroom smelled like urine so bad that me and my helper would refer to it as “The Urine Room”. Of course, since I sign the checks, he got to work in “The Urine Room”. The homeowners and I were outside talking about remodeling the kitchen and my laborer was on his way back into the house, I asked him, “Cody, do you have a pencil?” He looks up without thinking and says, “Yea, it’s in the urine room.” and just keeps walking in the house. The husband looks up and says, “What did say?” I acted disgusted and as I walked away from them and back into the house I said, “I have no idea, he’s a mumbler.” When I caught up to him he was laughing harder than I was.

Cole

I hate cats.

I refuse to work when the home has cats.














jking but I do hate cats.

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Peladu

Another one, I had two guys trimming a house out about an hour away. I get a frantic call from the woman who was house sitting for the homeowner that my guys were screwing everything up and it looked bad. This lady was a royal pain in the ass and the homeowner even told me to “pay her no attention”. She was just there to house sit. I get to the job really ready to yell at my guys (one was on the bubble at the time). I put the truck into park and the lady comes out wearing a moo-moo and hair is in rollers. She is still visually upset and keeps saying that it look terrible. So I follow her in the house, not saying one word to her. She goes to the front door and points to the trim that was on the entry door. The guys just had it sitting there and they never fastened it, only because they didn’t get to it yet. So she keeps yapping her jaws and now I am pissed that I made an hour trip for this. I look and about four feet is a huge pile of dog chit about six feet from the door. It looked like it had been there all morning. So, I couldn’t take it any more, she kept saying how bad it looked and I snapped. Keep in mind I haven’t said a word to this lady since I have been there. I looked at her and said, “Jill, what do you think looks worse, the trim or that huge pile of dog chit on the floor.” She finally was speechless. I found my guys and asked why they didn’t fix it considering she went ballistic. I found out that these guys had been working in sheer hell dealing with this lady. As I was walking out I looked at the pile of dog chit that was now covered with a paper towel. I guess out of site out of mind. Later the homeowner called and was extremely apologetic and embarrassed. Still a regular customer, though we never bring that story up.

mdshunk

Since I do mostly service work, many of my customers are landlords (slumlords?). This puts me in these really gross homes with certain regularity. You do get used to it, but it's still gross. When I know that I'm going to such a place, I schedule it as the last call of the day so that I can leave there and go home and shower. I don't send any guys purposely to a house that I know is like that. I don't have the heart, and qualified help is hard to find. I don't want to drive them away. I just go myself. Sometimes there's a two man job, so I can't always go alone.

I appreciate the tip about the Vick's. I'll have to try that. I often chew gum or suck on a cough drop in stinky houses. Never thought of Vick's. The whisky idea might make the conditions more bearable, but the drive back home might cause some issues.

Teetorbilt

Ol#2 came with a cat, currently 14 yrs. old. When that sucker takes the dirt nap, it's the end of them for me.

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reveivl

This one doesn't smell, but it is about an animal...
A lifetime ago I was a chimney sweep, so I'm up the ladder brushing out a chimney and I feel the ladder shaking, look down, and there's the owners german shepherd climbing the dam ladder! He climbed right up behind me and wouldn't (couldn't) go back down. I couldn't get by him. Took me ten minutes of shouting down the chimney to get the owner to come out and carry the stupid dog down off the ladder. Just glad the dog was friendly, wasn't like I could get away from him.

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IHI

My drywaller think's I'm unlucky or insane. First job the gal easily over 500lbs, stuvk to the bed and they had to do their taping and mudding over her while she stared out the wijndow.

Anothe job, they were taping and muddin a bathroojm with door shut, came out to fill their pans and said it smellled likeed chit.. Walked through the kitchen to find the 40 yr old soin standing buck naked with poo splattere all over his backside...buddy said it looked like hail damage!!

Just lucky I guess...have more, but better quite

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kapena

I did a lot of remodel work for a wealthy "cat-lady". She had at least fourteen "inside" cats that had complete run of the house. They walked on counters and on overhead catwalks etc. There was cat hair floating everywhere like lint. There were plenty of litter-boxes that only got cleaned out occassionally. The male cats had marked the rough-sawn redwood walls for years. I still remember how a plumber I knew gave me that look of disgust when he first got a whiff of the place.
You could not put any food down if you weren't willing to share it with the spoiled cats. If you made the mistake of trying to eat your lunch inside this "barn", these stupid cats would follow you around meowing for some. The lady though this was really cute too. I had to put up with this, because I really needed the money back then (20 years ago). I had to pretend that I liked her stupid cats.
One incident that I will never forget was the time this skinny siamese cat got up on a table and yowled for some of my beef sandwich. I thought I was safe since I was at least nine feet away. That d--n cat did a flying leap and dug its claws into my leg through the jeans. I instinctively grabbed it by the neck and slammed it against the wall. The cat-lady wasn't there, and she could never figure out why that saimese would make a bee-line for the door whenever I entered the same room.

karma_carpentry

Oh boy, I'm working in a house now with a little yapper dog that seems about 50 years old with thinning hair and skinny as hell. When I come in and see this dog, he starts to shiver and shake, and eventually sh*t and piss somewhere in this house.

We put a chair on the stairs to keep him downstairs, but time after time he finds a way to knock down the chair or jump over it, so we put a baby-gate on the stair. He kept getting over that too. This 10-inch high ancient dog is a Houdini. I finally found that when the gate is at the edge of the 3rd stair, he can't get over it.

But now everytime we need to go in or out of the house, we have to stretch over a baby-gate on the edge of the 3rd stair, carrying compound miter saws, bags of demo waste, tubs of mud. Curse that dog. But he better live to the end of this job.

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hauoli63

Makes you wonder why people don't put their pets away when someone comes to work on their house ....

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