Been in the commercial building engineering space for 30 + years, the quality of workman ship has slipped a long way.
It's just not one thing in my mind, it's a number of factors from lack of training, lowest bid always wins, etc. Not to mention the codes have tripled in 30 years and every Tom, Dick and Charlie are writing all these codes that contradict each other, it's darn near impossible to build anything without messing someone's shoes up.
One good thing about growing up poor I guess is you learn how to do everything yourself. Used to fix, build and do whatever to live now I just do it for fun to see if I can do it, plus I'm still to cheap to pay someone else, old habits die hard I guess.
It's just not one thing in my mind, it's a number of factors from lack of training, lowest bid always wins, etc. Not to mention the codes have tripled in 30 years and every Tom, Dick and Charlie are writing all these codes that contradict each other, it's darn near impossible to build anything without messing someone's shoes up.
One good thing about growing up poor I guess is you learn how to do everything yourself. Used to fix, build and do whatever to live now I just do it for fun to see if I can do it, plus I'm still to cheap to pay someone else, old habits die hard I guess.