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[blkgsr]

Originally Posted by Hondaracer

So my old company, a construction management firm used to build for a relatively big developer who’s built hundreds, if not thousands of homes in Surrey, Langley etc. mostly townhomes. We were one of their earliest general contractors.

One site I was kind of responsible for we were under a huge crunch to get this stupid show home completed. Obviously in a show home they always push like crazy to have it look the nicest, have zero issues etc.

Well.. when you have champagne expectations with a malt liquor budget, things happen. In these townhomes that gave 6-8 units in one block there is so much overlapping framing from unit to unit the floors -always- have to be leveled/sanded because the joists bow just due to the design.

So I had been busting my ass working weekends etc. to try and get this stupid show home ready. To me it looked pretty good (and in hindsight comparatively to other places I looked at after it was fantastic) but the developer used shit flooring like 1/4” floating laminate with a bunch of coke heads installing it. They then dragged like 300lb fancy dining tables, heavy ass sectionals etc. so now all this furniture is pinching points on the floating floor.

The day rolls around where we are doing the walk through with my boss, the owner of the company, and the two guys who are the developers. We get to the main/middle floor where all this shot is pinching the floor and one of the guys feels with his feet thay the floor is bowing and he can push it down with his foot.

The guy loses his mind and starts yelling at me and my boss somthing along the lines of “wtf is this shit?!?!!! We’re building like fucking Hindus!!!”

Well.. needless to say we cut ties with that developer shortly after lol. Not so much due to the blatant racism, but moreso my boss/owner of the company would not put up with us being put down like that lol. Fucking clowns

first mistake was not having them so an inspection prior to letting them move all their shit in.

ALWAYS get the owner to sign off the space before you let them move in

[donk.]

Originally Posted by Euro7r

For you landlord folks, how do you enforce tenant guests that stay overnight? How is this approached on the tenancy agreement? I read online landlord cannot refuse to not allow tenant guests to stay overnight.

This whole "no guests overnight" stuff enters shitty landlord category

If your concerned that your tenant has someone sleep over once a week, you should not be a landlord

As others said, if you really want, include a "guests not allowed to stay over 7 days" or such

When I go to my buddies place after a night of boozing, he isn't gonna be calling his landlord to ask permission for me to sleep on the couch

As long as the tenant isn't putting holes in the walls and smoking meth, they should be able to live a "normal" life. If there's strata, they "follow" the rules. If it's a house, the "follow" the RTB rules

[Great68]

FYI:

Guest "duration" limits in rental agreements have been ruled as unconsciable/illegal by the RTB

https://tenants.bc.ca/your-tenancy/g...y-guest-policy

And an actual dispute resolution ruling setting this precedent:

https://tnants.bc.ca/wp-content/uplo...cy-Illegal.pdf

[JDMDreams]

So how are floors supposed to line up?

[Badhobz]

Ass to mouth of course. Human centipede style

[TOS'd]

Has anyone done condo renos? Ie. Turning a 1 bed to a 1+1, the den will also have a set of french doors (essentially a 2nd "bedroom").

[bcedhk]

Originally Posted by TOS'd

Has anyone done condo renos? Ie. Turning a 1 bed to a 1+1, the den will also have a set of french doors (essentially a 2nd "bedroom").

If your Strata council is super anal, then you better have their blessing or else they would be throwing you with fines and potentially a legal order to tear it down.

If you are doing things properly, you need to make sure is designed according to code. Will the den have access to a sprinkler head?

[68style]

... the strata council can't say anything about you putting french doors across your den lol how are they ever in a million years going to know

[GLOW]

Originally Posted by 68style

... the strata council can't say anything about you putting french doors across your den lol how are they ever in a million years going to know

if you ever post the unit to rent or sell with a nosey strata/residents...

i knew someone that added a room, then sold it/advertised it as such. i guess someone in the building went to the open house / saw this and strata came in.
became bit of a mess for buyer and seller as they had to convert it back to original minus the room and now buyer is technically minus 1 room that they paid for...

[westopher]

Imagine being someone that cared lol. What kind of shit you got going on in your life you need to fuck with someone's home like that.

[TOS'd]

So I would be definitely going through Strata/Management, as I want to also refresh bathroom and kitchen. But in regards to the bedroom. It's basically one giant rectangle room right now, and I want to split it in half and add a door for the new bedroom and close the existing original door and add a set of French doors for the new den space. Existing bedroom door would be on the new den side which isn't ideal, thus closing that opening in and adding the French doors.

[Euro7r]

You guys will be surprised the amount of fucking dumb shit that people will do to screw people over for things that remotely do not affect their enjoyment of their own property. I eg. Grass too long, deck installed in backyard, car port. A lot of city resources wasted to deal with these kinds of fucking dumb cases. I expect condo to be even more worse as I have lived in one before, always strata complaint notices lol.

[The Producer]

Originally Posted by TOS'd

Has anyone done condo renos? Ie. Turning a 1 bed to a 1+1, the den will also have a set of french doors (essentially a 2nd "bedroom").

we put an offer in at a condo in 2016 that had been converted from 1 bathroom to 2, and had in-unit laundry added. It was a wild reno. Fully strata and city approved.

They did mention that the strata laws changed after to prevent any other owners from doing the same. I imagine it was a hellish reno to live around.

At the time, the owner/contractor took it from 339,000 to 588,000 in just over a year. Big reno on an original unit (1984?) plus timed the market perfectly

[Eff-1]

A renovation is considered an alteration to your strata lot, and the law requires you to inform your council and get their approval before proceeding. It's because the same law requires the Strata to have insurance that covers your strata lot, so if you're altering it in any way (i.e. changing flooring, adding a wall, cabinets, bathtubs, showers, etc) you need the Strata to approve it, and you'll have to sign a Assumption of Liability form. The law also says the Strata can't "unreasonably" deny your request.

[PeanutButter]

The whole idea with flooring is that it should look natural, which means there should not be specific patterns in the flooring that repeat.

Like any discipline in life, you can put as much or as little effort in as you want. At the end of the day, this stagger pattern isn't going to perform any better or worse than any other pattern.

Seems like many of you couldn't care less, that's fine, but I care and it annoys me, especially at this price point. Because this is an open-concept living space, those patterns will be present the entire length of the floor. To me, it's annoying.

To each their own.

[supafamous]

My eyes can't unsee that any more and now I keep looking at my floors (which look fine).

[Gumby]

The fact that the flooring is light colored makes it a lot more obvious...

[JDMDreams]

Looked at the wood floors at work and they are patterned evenly every other plank. _-_-_-_-_-_- and form even straight line pattern. Good or bad buddy guy job? But I think it was done by a white guy.

[EvoFire]

I picked dark flooring at our last place to mitigate a) the lay pattern, and b) the repeating pattern of synthetic flooring. What really bothers me is the repeating patterns as most synthetic flooring has like 5-10 actual designs and on an open concept floorplan the repeating patterns are very obvious.

In our new house the going trend is light colours and I just have to live with it.

I want hardwood floors, or even engineered hardwood, but the extra maintenance and the price increase was not something I can deal with.

[Hondaracer]

With the floor we installed, a 2” wide 3/4” engineered natural maple (nail down) it got kind of tricky because the boards you received are all varrying lengths. So you really have to watch how your layout is going down, especially when it’s nailed/glued

I had never really installed anything but basic floating laminate so this was a huge step up. Did pretty well but there’s definitely a few parts that didn’t line up the way I wanted, but again, im the only one who notices it.

3/4” Canadian made engineered was $7.50/sq ft though but I wouldn’t hesitate to buy premium flooring again, it’s pretty great now that it’s done

[unit]

eventually if i redo the flooring at the house i want it to be waterproof since i have pets that sometimes leave wet spots here and there. i had laminate at the condo and it caused a little bit of damage in several spots. is LVP the way to go here? a lot of people hate LVP, but it seems the most practical?

[roastpuff]

LVP is the most practical, but it doesn't feel as "nice" underfoot as laminate or engineered hardwood.

[GLOW]

does LVP still need underlay? i know there's some more expensive LVP and it's 'drop in place'. i'm thinking if you have radiant heated floors it would be good since it'll probably conduct heat better than say hardwood...

[sonick]

No underlay needed for lvp.

Also be sure the subfloor is absolutely flat, because of how thin most lvp is and that it's flexible and there is no underlay you will feel any sort of inconsistency through the plank.

[The Producer]

remember - however much leveler you think you're going to need.

...buy 10 times as much