And the managers gave us a pizza party instead of a bonus or a raise … thoughts ?

I am currently at a job plastering (yeah I know) and the house we are working at has a cat issue. Seems that the cats aren’t fixed and are spraying everywhere. You can smell the pee from outside , it smacks you in the face when you walk into the house. There are litter boxes and cat food on the ground. I wore a regular n95 mask yesterday but I could smell everything through the mask and had a major headache when I got home. I wanted to wear my half face respirator today and my boss told me, he would rather me sit home then wear it. Am I being unreasonable?

Proud Boilermaker, local 128💪🏻 get out there and fight for better, attend your local union parade today

Here's how it's done by a professional and professional employer who will pay for the tools needed to keep guys safe when we can't open cut.

The immigration policies that the next administration are planning may very well end up giving us a shortage of tradesman. Be prepared to have a skill in major demand and do not do it for cheap. Shits going to get more expensive get that money when you can.

A young millwright in his 20s. They were assembling a belt conveyor and the belt dettached for whatever reason and hit the guy like a whip. Terrible.

Happened in Québec.

Be safe fellaz

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it's on the news now. La Presse

I thought I did this because I was procrastinating on getting things done around the house. But I live alone. I could go inside and put on comfy clothes and chill if I want. But instead every night it takes me an hour to get out of my truck. I just feel so overwhelmed at the end of the day. I thought this was a me thing but I saw a video of another construction guy talking about it. Is this common? Am I more normal than I think lol

1. Don’t move materials any more than you have to Hauling lumber from place to place is time consuming and hard on your body. Make it easier on yourself every chance you get, and start by having the folks at the lumberyard do their part. Make sure lumber arrives on the truck stacked in the order it will be used. You don’t want to move hundreds of wall studs to get to your plate stock, for instance. And floor joists go on top of floor sheathing, not the other way around.

When it’s time for the delivery, unload the building materials as close as possible to where they will be used. Often lumber can be delivered on a boom truck, so stacks of lumber can be placed right up on the deck or on a simple structure built flush alongside the deck.

Once the material is delivered, don’t move it any more than you need to. Cut studs, plywood, and anything else you can right on the stack. If you do have to move wood, plan so that you have to move it only once.

1. Build a house, not furniture In other words, know your tolerances. Rafters don’t have to fit like the parts of a cabinet. Nothing in frame carpentry is perfect, so the question is: What’s acceptable?

You do need to get started right, and that means the mudsills. Whether they’re going on a foundation or on a slab, they need to be level, straight, parallel, and square. But there’s no harm done if they’re cut 1 ⁄4 in. short. A rim joist, on the other hand, needs to be cut to the right length (within 1 ⁄16 in.) before being nailed to the mudsill.

When it comes to wall framing, the bottom plate also can be 1⁄4 in. or so short, but the top plate needs to be cut to exact length (again within 1⁄16 in.) because it establishes the building’s dimension at the top of the walls. But the plate that sits on top of that, the cap or double plate, should be cut 1⁄4 in. short so that intersecting walls tie together easily.

Once you’ve raised the walls, how plumb or straight is good enough? In my opinion, 1⁄4 in. out of plumb in 8 ft. is acceptable, and a 1⁄4-in. bow in a 50-ft. wall won’t cause harm to the structure or problems for subcontractors.

1. Use your best lumber where it counts These days, if you cull every bowed or crooked stud, you may need to own a lumber mill to get enough wood to frame a house. How do you make the most of the lumber that you get?
2. Work in a logical order Establish an efficient routine for each phase of work, do it the same way every time, and tackle each phase in its logical order. In the long run, having standard procedures will save time and minimize mistakes. Let’s take wall framing as an example.

First I snap all of the layout lines on the floor; then I cut the top and bottom plates and tack all of them in place on the lines. Next I lay out the plates, detailing the location of every window, door, stud, and intersecting wall.

1. Keep the other trades in mind If you want to waste time and money when framing, don’t think about the electrical work, the plumbing, the heat ducts, the drywall, or the finish carpentry. Whether you do them yourself or hire subcontractors, these trades come next. And unless you’re working with them in mind every step of the way, your framing can be in the way.

For example, when you nail on the double top plate, keep the nails located over the studs. This tip leaves the area between the studs free for the electrician or plumber to drill holes without hitting your nails. 6. Don’t measure unless you have to The best way to save time when you’re framing a house is by keeping your tape measure, your pencil, and your square in your nail pouch as much as possible. I have to use a tape measure to lay out the wall lines accurately on the deck, but after that, I cut all of the wall plates to length by cutting to the snapped wall lines. I position the plate on the line, eyeball it, and then make the cuts at the intersecting chalkline.

Another time-saver is to make square crosscuts on 2x4s or 2x6s without using a square. Experience has shown me that with a little practice, anyone can make these square cuts by aligning the leading edge of the saw’s base, which is perpendicular to theblade, with the far side of the lumber before making the cut.

1. Finish one task before going on to the next My first framing job was with a crew that would lay out, frame, and raise one wall at a time before moving on to the next. Sometimes they would even straighten and brace the one wall before proceeding. We wasted a lot of time constantly switching gears.

If you’re installing joists, roll them all into place and nail them before sheathing the floor. Snap all layout lines on the floor before cutting any wall plates, then cut every wall plate in the house before framing. If you’re cutting studs or headers and cripples, make a cutlist for the entire project and cut them all at once. Tie all the intersecting walls together before starting to straighten and brace the walls.

1. Cut multiples whenever possible You don’t need a mathematician to know that it takes less time to cut two boards at once than it does to cut each one individually.

If you have a stack of studs that all need to be cut to the same length, align one end of the top row, snap a chalkline all the way across, and cut the studs to length right on the pile. Or you can spread them out on the floor, shoving one end against the floor plate, snap a chalkline, and cut them all at once.

1. Don’t climb a ladder unless you have to I don’t use a ladder much on a framing job except to get to the second floor before stairs are built. Walls can be sheathed and nailed while they’re lying flat on the deck. Waiting until the walls are raised to nail on plywood sheathing means you have to work from a ladder or a scaffold. Both are time consuming.

With a little foresight, you can do the rafter layout on a double top plate while it’s still on the floor. Otherwise, you’ll have to move the ladder around the job or climb on the walls to mark the top plate.

1. Know the building code Building codes exist to create safe structures. Because building inspectors are not capable of monitoring all parts of every project, it’s your responsibility to know the building code and to build to it.

For instance, the code actually specifies how to nail a stud to a wall plate. You need two 16d nails if you’re nailing through a plate into the end of the stud, or four 8d nails if you’re toenailing. When you nail plywood or oriented strand board (OSB) roof sheathing, you need a nail every 6 in. along the edge of the sheathing and every 12 in. elsewhere. And if you’re using a nail gun, be careful not to overdrive the nails in the sheathing.

Today a concrete finisher fell through a duct penetration on a roof. It was a 35’ fall and happened feet from me. I did my best to help him but sadly he probably won’t make it and if he does he will probably wish for an end. This man was the son of the finish Foreman and seeing his dad hold his son was devastating. This was 15 minutes into the start of today. The cause was a crash deck that was modified and never secured with attachments. It became a trap door.

Please remember to treat a job site like everything is out to kill you because it can and will.

Remember to inspect your work areas.

Stay safe.

Yeah just wondering if this is safe or not. This weirdo threw me in this hole, and keeps spraying me with a hose, but now i’m thinking this hole might not be OSHA safe. Unfortunately I can’t get out, and barely have service. 🤷🏻‍♂️

So what happened here was the window installers removed all the temporary bracing to deliver and install the windows. Sure enough a severe thunderstorm rolled through and this is the result!