Great day so far!

[MattCo]

I love people.

I am building a house and I go by there every day on my way to work to meet with the sub-contractors and check on everything. This morning when I got to the site I noticed a empty spot where I had 175 10' 2x4 studs the day before. Great! Someone had convieniently decided that they needed them more than I did. Thats some serious cash down the drain.

It is a new subdivision but there are a few other houses in it, but no one saw anything. Since there are a bunch of houses being built in the area, it could have been anyone. Aparently it happens all the time in areas where a lot of new homes are being built.

Now I get to call the lumber yard and have more delivered while the guys have nothing to do for the next hour.

I guess I need to build some sort of security cam setup, but they would probably steal that as well.

 

[Mrvile]

Pics??

 

[MattCo]

Of the house or the empty spot?

 

[Red Dawn]

Who knows, maybe the contractor is spec'ing a house himself and decided to subsidize the cost with your lumber

 

[MattCo]

Originally posted by: Red Dawn
Who knows, maybe the conmtractor is spec'ing a house himself and decided to subsidize the cost with your lumber

I wish.

<--- I am the contractor.

-MC

 

[StageLeft]

That sucks...we were checking out mid-construction houses in a new subdivision, walking around one of them with a flashlight at night (hello, police!) and a piggy stopped us (naturally) to see what was going on. He was fine with it, but said that a lot of people steal things around there, including equipment and supplies.

 

[StageLeft]

Originally posted by: MattCo

Originally posted by: Red Dawn
Who knows, maybe the conmtractor is spec'ing a house himself and decided to subsidize the cost with your lumber

I wish.

<--- I am the contractor.

-MC

Split personality!

 

[MattCo]

Originally posted by: Skoorb

Originally posted by: MattCo

Originally posted by: Red Dawn
Who knows, maybe the conmtractor is spec'ing a house himself and decided to subsidize the cost with your lumber

I wish.

<--- I am the contractor.

-MC

Split personality!

I was wondering why I woke up this morning wearing shoes with dirt and sawdust on them! 😉

-MC

 

[K1052]

On the bright side, things could always be worse.

A few weeks ago things were going so well that my house burning down would have been a welcome distraction.

 

[Aharami]

Originally posted by: K1052
On the bright side, things could always be worse.

A few weeks ago things were going so well that my house burning down would have been a welcome distraction.

atleast you'd get insurance money...

 

[rh71]

is it a lot of lumber ? You can't mark it in some way ? At least that way someone else close by won't be so willing to claim it for themselves.

 

[FoBoT]

well that sucks, there are more expensive things they could steal

 

[dquan97]

Originally posted by: FoBoT
well that sucks, there are more expensive things they could steal

like the foundation...it's over-rated anyway

 

[midwestfisherman]

Originally posted by: MattCo

Originally posted by: Skoorb

Originally posted by: MattCo

Originally posted by: Red Dawn
Who knows, maybe the conmtractor is spec'ing a house himself and decided to subsidize the cost with your lumber

I wish.

<--- I am the contractor.

-MC

Split personality!

I was wondering why I woke up this morning wearing shoes with dirt and sawdust on them! 😉

-MC

LMAO!! :thumbsup:

 

[DeadByDawn]

Doesn't your construction insurance take care of theft? My lended made me have insurance when I built mine. Just a thought.

 

[MattCo]

Originally posted by: DeadByDawn
Doesn't your construction insurance take care of theft? My lended made me have insurance when I built mine. Just a thought.

Mine does, but I have a $1500 deductible.

Anyone have any ideas on a motion detect PC cam setup that I could stick out there?

-MC

 

[everman]

There are some cameras that only require power and an ethernet connection. No pc required. Maybe even build a directional wifi antenna to your house 😀

 

[KLin]

on my route to work, there's 2 huge houses being built. They were wide open for a few months. Then one day there was a fence stretching across the front of the property. They probably had some stuff go "missing" too. Damn thieves :thumbsdown::|