Author Topic: Catch a Contractor: Adam Carolla Brings Justice to Homeowners!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  (Read 7441 times)

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Can't wait to see this!


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Looks really promising!!

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Love Adam corolla. Really miss the days of him on loveline.

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What contractor would agree to have their episode air after being proved to be a scam artist?

Good idea for a show, but most likely staged.....

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Falcon has caught a few of these guys.

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Because 'homeowners' never just go for the cheapest quote and ignore everything else.  Fuck em.  You get what you pay for.

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Because 'homeowners' never just go for the cheapest quote and ignore everything else.  Fuck em.  You get what you pay for.

Are you saying the more someone pays, the more honest the work/workers?
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What contractor would agree to have their episode air after being proved to be a scam artist?

Good idea for a show, but most likely staged.....


Same way perps "agree" to be on the air with Chris Hansen.

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Contractors can be very tricky individuals.  I'm looking forward to this show.

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Contractors can be very tricky individuals.  I'm looking forward to this show.

As Adam said, a vast majority didn't get into this line of work by choice... it just happened.

I started working in construction at 15yo all my way through college. Good work and very rewarding at times.

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another staged reality show

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About as real as that staged "Warlocks Rising" biker show or that stupid fake Moonshiners program, both on Discovery.

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fake, scripted, actors, and retards to watch the whole comedy.

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fake, scripted, actors.

This ^^ Looks asinine.... Like most 'reality" shows...

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As Adam said, a vast majority didn't get into this line of work by choice... it just happened.

I started working in construction at 15yo all my way through college. Good work and very rewarding at times.

Have you ever watched Holmes on homes?

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Have you ever watched Holmes on homes?

Many times. Good show.

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Many times. Good show.

It's the only home improvement show I can watch.  Right now I'm doing some construction on my house. 

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Fake & gay

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It's the only home improvement show I can watch.  Right now I'm doing some construction on my house. 

Me too. Concrete deck + outdoor kitchen & overhang. Should be pretty sweet.  

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it's fake and gay folks. not one or other but both, so watch out!
follow the arrows

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Me too. Concrete deck + outdoor kitchen & overhang. Should be pretty sweet.  

That sounds nice, man.  If I lived in a warmer climate I would build an outside kitchen. 

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Us builders are still waiting for a 'rogue customers' show. Plenty of us honest builders have been fucked over by mongol customers

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Are you saying the more someone pays, the more honest the work/workers?

To some degree.  As with anything, cost can be (although isn't necessarily) a measure of quality.  Some guys will charge sky high and ruin the place, but no one experienced and reliable is going to be the cheapest.  

Without delving into the fascinating world of mandated, job specific, material, and labor costs, I'll just say that El Cheapo contractors recognize that HOs don't have corporate or government money to spend, and that the HO had to personally work for every dollar of it, so the successful contractor in the housing renovation market is going to sell the way HOs buy: price.  Those who don't wash out.  The cut-corner business model is the only one ultimately marketable to customers who don't understand how to compare what they're paying for, so shady operators proliferate in the HO market.  Same reason people buy chinese made products, and sometimes that's ok as long as they understand it isn't going to be great quality.

It's not that contractors are simply scoundrels (although many are).  The good ones (with the exception of plumbers, who are all fat, lazy, slovenly, and evil) just don't bother much with the HO market.  I take referral calls and that's it.

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Are you saying the more someone pays, the more honest the work/workers?
Certainly not but some contractors are charging more because their work is of better quality.

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Us builders are still waiting for a 'rogue customers' show. Plenty of us honest builders have been fucked over by mongol customers

I know countless guys who got done over by little old ladies.  Apparently it's all tea and cookies during work and the check is always in the mail!

I mean... what are you gonna do?