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I'm trying to get a residential slab built...

Oh they wouldn't? Do you ever bottom-out when it comes to ignorance and stupidity.
"residential construction game?" LOL
Is that insider lingo? From a sheetrocker?

Fact:
Earlier this year, I construction managed a foundation for a microbrewery that I designed.

Fact:
I am trying to get a residential slab built.
I used to "piece-meal" them and sub out the labor.
On this one, I am trying to go "turn-key"

Do you know what piece-meal and turnkey mean, Mr rez-biz lingo?

Maybe. Maybe not.

And in addition to that you are a residential linguistics expert. JACKOV, you are too dumb and ignorant to know how dumb and ignorant you are.

Let's see, you have to get someone in to lay out for the foundation. Then get another one to dig for your footing, get your footing pored. Have another come in and lay your blocks. Next they will have to back fill it, then here is where I come in, you've got to get it plumbed, then you get the slab pored. (Not built) Your from Texas you should know that.

Are you nuts too?

I have foundations built.
I could say that I dig and compact pads in lifts.
And then I form them with an open side, install the underground, install the steel, make them up, and pour them.

But I never thought that I would be going back and forth with a bunch of numbnuts who would make a big deal out of saying that I built a foundation.

Tomorrow I have to drive back up to the Hill Country where I have to make it clear to a foundation contractor, that I am not as dumb as he thinks that I am and not as dumb as he is.

Kinda like this thread.
This Thread is prepping me for that conversation

I'm a residential construction plumber (master plumber) and I've never heard anyone say build me a slab.

When a contractor tells me how to plumb a house, I charge him more for his advise.

Well I'm a registered architect, and a speculative home builder and I've done General Contracting on Light commercial.

So now you have heard someone say that they were going to have a foundation built.

And if I find myself giving a plumber advice, I've got the wrong plumber.

I didn't say I needed advise, but some of these dumb ass contractors, maybe like you, think they need to tell you what to do. I think did you do what it takes to be a Master Plumber. I'm 64 so I know what the hell I'm doing. Not all contractors know what they are doing. Do you know what it takes to be a contractor her, pay $250 and your a contractor. I don't know what it takes to be a contractor in Texas. I also know that architects make big pluck up too, I've seen it on the job. So I believe your full of it.

Lets rewind...

I'm an architect, who amongst other things, can buy a piece of property, subdivide it, build homes on it, sell them, and hand the keys to new owners...

Yet, I've got a plumber who calls himself Tex on a songwriting forum, but aint from Texas....

dropping in on a thread, making a big issue out of "built a foundation"...

Telling me that he thinks that I dont measure up to his exacting standards and that I am full of it.

Well Tex, since you know so much, tell me why I should GAF about anything that you may think of me? Or anything else?

I always enjoy a good laugh.

Just finished season 1 of Lasso. Time to sleep. I'll just have to wait to see your brilliant answer in the morning, there, Tex.