• Rob T Firefly@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    3 days ago

    That’s some serious lag when you can get that close to the thing and the textures still haven’t loaded. What’s your ping time?

  • zephorah@lemm.eeEnglish
    5·
    3 days ago

    As a homeowner I’m more convinced this is the quality of contractors these days. For triple pre-2020 prices.

      • zephorah@lemm.eeEnglish
        0·
        3 days ago

        And that’s the primary problem with the new triple contractor rates, House quality is going to severely decline in the next 10yrs as people try to do everything themselves because professional home repair has become grossly unaffordable.

        I’ve been repairing and home owning for over 25 yrs. I make more money and can no longer easily afford home repair the last 3 yrs. As such, I shudder the think of what garbage is being done in homes with no capacity to afford the new higher rates right now. Even a box of construction screws and a can of paint is crazy expensive now.

        • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          3 days ago

          House quality is already in the shitter. Hell, not even the shitter, its down the pipe and in the septic tank.

          and its not cause home owners doing repairs.

          Its cause developers spinning up an LLC, buying a plot of land, shitting out a development of 300+ homes in less than 6 months that just barely meet the barest minimum of code (and anything that doesnt typically given a slide thanks to a few greased palms), just to sell all the homes in the mad housing rush before shutting down the LLC and walking away with all the money and no liability on the terrible houses they’ve built that arent suitable for living in.

          CyFy on youtube highlights the problem a lot (and how hard the builders and bribed inspectors go after him for threatening the grift).

          And I have own personal experience witnessing more well off friends struggle with newly bought houses being built like shit at best, to needing 10s, to 100s of thousands of dollars in repairs less than a year after purchase at worse.

  • GiveOver@feddit.ukEnglish
    1·
    3 days ago

    I was behind somebody in the queue at Screwfix who was asking for advice after their landlord had glossed the inside of their BATH. What a lunatic.

    • Mothra@mander.xyzEnglish
      1·
      3 days ago

      I’ve also lived in houses that had the entire bathtub/shower painted over with high gloss paint. It looked tacky af and it flaked obviously. Not that we had the time to complain about it though, that was very low on the list of issues. Have you ever seen mushroom caps sprouting from the ceiling? Same house

  • Franklin@lemmy.caEnglish
    1·
    3 days ago

    my house used to be rented out and got the “landlord special” regularly.

    i was sanding the walls to prepare for a coat of paint and i found a baseball sized hole they had just put painters tape over and proceeded to paint over the tape.

    that is impressive laziness. it takes almost no effort, time or money to plaster. especially when you’re already painting

    • Buddahriffic@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      3 days ago

      Tbf that could have been done by tenants who figured the landlord would use that damage to argue they should lose their entire deposit despite not costing nearly that much to repair properly.

      Not that it wouldn’t be plausible that the landlord did it themselves or hired someone who didn’t know what they were doing but were willing to do it cheap, like Ricky.

  • Ibaudia@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    3 days ago

    My landlord spray-painted over all our cabinets with vinyl. Did a shit job and now paint flakes come off into our dishes. They said it was too expensive to fix 🤷‍♂️

    • suburban_hillbilly@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      2 days ago

      Good chance this is illegal. Though it varies wildly, many jurisdictions have implied warranties of habitability that require your landlord fix stuff while giving you a legal path to withhold rent or pay for repairs in lieu of rent when they don’t.

      • Ibaudia@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        11 hours ago

        Oh it’s 100% illegal but it’s not worth the battle. Landlord is just a landlord on the side, her main gig is an attorney. Sounds like an expensive nightmare for us if we even try to push it beyond what we already have.

  • Hikermick@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    3 days ago

    Could be the agreement stated the painters weren’t responsible for masking anything not to be painted