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Nightmare Remodel | The Worst Job I've Ever Taken | Home Renovation Disaster - PART 1
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- čas přidán 5. 09. 2023
- Welcome to the "Nightmare Backyard Remodel Series - Part 1." Join Tim and his crew on a rollercoaster journey through what was meant to be a complete backyard transformation. In this series, we tackle a challenging remodeling project that turns into an unexpected nightmare due to ever-changing homeowner preferences.
In Part 1, we dive headfirst into this renovation disaster, showcasing the initial stages of the project. Witness the chaos as we attempt to bring the homeowner's vision to life, which includes:
Part 2: • Nightmare Remodel | Ho...
part 3: • Stamped Concrete Wasn'...
🏡 Stamped Concrete Work: Watch this ambitious stamped concrete project, pouring concrete to create a solid base for the new outdoor space.
🧱 Stackable Wall Build: Follow our team as we construct stackable wall, adding dimension and structure to the backyard.
🌲 Wooden Patio Cover: See the transformation unfold as we build a stunning wooden patio cover, designed to provide shade and style to the outdoor area.
🌟 Installation of Pavers: Experience the intricate process of installing pavers, turning the once ordinary ground into a beautiful, functional space.
Throughout this series, we'll share the challenges, surprises, and, yes, even the moments of frustration as we adapt to the homeowner's evolving ideas. It's a real-life adventure in home renovation!
Subscribe to our channel and hit the notification bell to stay updated as we navigate this remodeling rollercoaster. Whether you're a DIY enthusiast, a homeowner planning your own project, or just curious about the highs and lows of home improvement, this series is for you.
Stay tuned for more episodes in this captivating series, where we turn a backyard remodel disaster into a masterpiece!
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Always listen to Dad! Experience is priceless!!
I concur
TY
full sending never lifting mobbin deep just gotta keep moving forward control what you can control and ignore the hate and negativity never lift pops knows best old school never fails! ty for sharing it's always the small/little things that getcha
For sure
TY
Always listen to your father !!! As long as he has been in business he can probably read people better then anyone !
Haha yeah I should have!
Nice to see you all have fun, need a little bit of this!!! 😆 Can't wait for the next video!! Thank you!!👍
More to come!
If you had a relationship with the rental company you should have rented a trencher or an excavator. Lessons learned all around. Nice work.
Yeah definitely a learning curve all around 👌
i can rent my excavator out to you mini ex 32 inch wide retrwcted traks
Nice job!
Trenches would have cut that trench in no time. Pickin ain't no fun.
Change order = increase in cost. As always enjoyed your video along with the cracking of the back.
Yes! Thank you!
You guys always seem to be the nicest people to work with and so professional. I can't imagine anyone not happy with the job. Some people can't be happy. You can tell by the owners original design, that seemed complicated too. Don't let one customer discourage you. Live and learn. Thanks for sharing, I will watch all parts for sure.
Appreciate it and yeah I was surprised to. the main reason for sharing this is to show people no matter how good you are there just some jobs and people not worth your time. Live and learn like you said 😎
Had fun working with you guys on this one 🙌 Great video!
Yeah it was fun having you there!
Glad you're uploading the series so I won't make the same mistake 🎉
We do what we can to help 😎
well, I started at 3 and went to 4 then to 5, then to 2 and now 1.......you are a dedicated guy.....cheers....
Welcome to the Jungle, this looks like a fun project to follow, look fwd to the updates 💪👍
Thanks! Will do!
Improperly taken care yes! I hv seen them 30 yrs old & solid ! Hv to hv maintenance and sealer like your fence!
You are some stout young men! We need more of that in this country!
I concur
TY
I love multi part series vids.
Well I hope you enjoy!
Brutal work and brave to take it on
True
Nice work. Like the military, it’s not the physical part that’s the most tiring. It’s the mental part. It could be a little easy 5 yard patio pour. But if the homeowner is a pain to deal with, it makes it feel like a 30 yard pour.
I concur
What goes around, comes around!!
I was doing a basement remodel for a customer, and they were upgrading their baseboard heating. The plumber was an apprentice and he showed us a nice trick. He did all of the connections and then went back and reheated all of them and wiped them with a cloth. No leaks.
Nice
lOL I actually went to bid this job too, and she did call like 2 years later, but I told her we needed to come out and rework this bid luckily I did not get it
Lol lucked out
I guess you listen to your dad after that. Great job brother.👍🏻🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Always
It's a regretful, sinking feeling to have when you realize you took on something that you probably shouldn't have.
But, you're an Odell & you'll muscle through it & move on to the next one with more knowledge & a stronger desire to succeed & not F*@k yourself.
Looking forward to the next video!
Live and learn
OSS
You will always encounter a customer like that here and there.😊
Great video and really interesting hear about your challenges👍
Glad you enjoyed
Try a hammer drill with chisel bit for tough clay. I live in SoCal have that hard clay with rocks around my house. Hammer drill cuts through that stuff like nothing.
Ty
Sweet video 👍
Ty
Good stuff man keep the great content coming! 👏
Thanks! Will do!
Drain lines slopes should be 1/8" to 1/4" per foot of drain do not exceed these limits or drain will fail. If end of drain is lower than outflow get a sewage 30 gal sump with a sewage 120V lift pump these are reasonably priced easy to install and tough/bulletproof and run for decades w/o needing service and handle solids well and are completly hidden when installed. Ray Stormont
That's 1% to 2%
You are correct keep it between 1-2% and you are golden. I've always used the inches per foot for drain lines as a tape measure and a 4'+ level can then be used to check grade and most of labor I've used has a harder time with an inclinometer. By the way nice job for the Demo and site prep. Ray@@OdellCompleteConcrete
I wonder if the homeowner is experiencing and structural problems because of all that clay. It expands like a sponge when it rains, then shrinks again when it dries out.
a lot of times when a track belt comes off like that you put a block where he had a jack stand and then you push your bucket down into the dirt and it lifts the machine.. but it was so much mud you would probably have to put some blocks under the bucket so it could lift its self... good luck with it...
True
Always listen to Papa O'Dell. That's one of those things that only comes with experience though. Hope you at least got paid 🤞
I concur
TY
Paint on trellis/pergola joists was likely elastomeric and is not to be used on wood that is prone to water flows or dryrot will follow which I believe is the type of rot present in your video. Painter/owner made bad choice of paint type used when trellis was painted. Ray Stormont
I concur
Time to update the contract. All change request will be an additional charge or can be denied at contractors discretion once the original bid is signed. F, that. Homeowners can be the worst.
They have a mini- Chinese excavator, priced good too. You know, the soil there isn't any good.
Staying tuned for this...
TY
This is quite an ambitious project... somehow I missed part one, so when I watched part two I also watched part one. Do I see a sprinkler system along that planter box wall? and wouldn't you want a watering system inside the planter boxes? or no.... I can't wait to see how this one turns out. I like that you are sort of taking over for your Dad... very cool.
There will be irrigation on both sides.
TY
On that drain pipe, its cool that it’s flexible. Do you use cement on the joints? I didn’t see that in the video.
No, it's a partial French drain
Man I've done this kind of work for years just a question, if the ground was so hard with clay why not use a digging bar? even without a digging bar I would just use a hammer drill on the hammer setting saves the back and time.
Always enjoy watching your Odell videos. There is something satisfying watching competent people work and the project getting done. Thanks for the narration. Your dad is really great also. Did you use glue on the drain lines or is it not necessary?
No, it's a partial French drain
Man you really could use a mini excavator. E35. I carry posts and walk on those In bad spots like this. I know you struggled in that trash soil.
Yeah probably would have been best
costs a little money but you save so much time and labor if you just get a trencher
Should you glue those joints for the drainage pipe?
Just avoid Bobcat by any means. 😅 Takeuchi and IHI are great and reliable machines.
i have a customer like this right now and my employees were warned to not talk to the customer /just say hello and goodbye and nothing more /no water no snacks no talking to the customer period/direct all questions and comments to me the boss
The first time she pointed to a design and talked changes I would have politely told her we couldn't work with her. Then walked out
That being said, always enjoy watching you work.
Dad also
TY
Listen to your father
FYI.
When I attempted to post this heartfelt comment, in support of your efforts on this job, youtube flagged my statement, "It's a regretful, sinking feeling to have when you realize you took on something that you probably shouldn't have.
But, you're an Odell & you'll muscle through it & move on to the next one with more knowledge & a stronger desire to succeed & not F*@k yourself.
Looking forward to the next video!", & asked me if I wanted to edit because it might not fit the "community guidelines".
WTF?
Thank you I appreciate the support and yes was a sinking feeling but I did muscle through! Stay tuned and you will see in the next parts! 👌
2 things. 1. You ALWAYS need tools for fixing small things on you maschines like a loose belt. 2. I dont understand why you never use a minidumper and mini excavator for jobs like this. Its much faster and much more versatile to use that. And why dont you have some plates or plywood to drive on when its so wet? Its just a disaster thats waiting to happend when you drive in this much mud. And its wearing much more on your maschine also.
The plywood can be reused over and over again.
Plywood is good for straight runs. Doesn't work when your turning and pushing to scoop, but you would know that if you ever did it.
@@OdellCompleteConcrete Ohh. I been doing it for 15 years so i know what im talking about. And plywood is working fine even its twistet and curvy.
Somebody I need help I’m building a CMU Block wall but I has a couple of 45 degree corners I’ve considered cutting the 16”X8”X8” blocks to fit, but would rather use 45 degree standard blocks for these corners. Could you recommend a supplier in the Los Angeles area who stock these custom blocks??? Any help is appreciated
Thank you
Never seen them
4:37 lmao, dude that reminds me of palm springs. We grossly underestimated the job. I thought the concrete was all 4"consistent, no no no lol, there were like 10" spots. I thought the concrete was painted, no no no, it was epoxy. Giant thick footings on the lil 18 inch brick wall, planter box, and grill. Great learning experience, exposed some shady business partners, etc. If you go to the desert, expect super thick concrete😂, I realized, everything is sand, so it made sense.
Aaaaannd my mt100,I had to get it serviced, the rental freakin broke a track lol. It was stuck 2 days😂, giving me flashbacks
Frightening
A MT100 is aimost exactly 3500lbs with no attachments or fluids
Yeah they are heavy little guys
But indispensable when access is restricted nice job of getting area prepared. Ray@@OdellCompleteConcrete
I’d love to work for you guys!! Where can I sign up ??
Hope you increased the bid from the 2 years ago. Depending on how often you deal with pipes consider a pro press type tool. A lot of people talk crap but for a fix its perfect for fix jobs like the few times you hit a copper pipe
Good idea
TY
Did you guys fire David O'Dell
Haha no he’s just in AZ living the dream
@@OdellCompleteConcrete ohhhh
Greetings from Southern California
The Masonry Company
Why don't you use a mini excavator for the training and all the digging work for foundations?
Good luck running a shovel to the street
@@OdellCompleteConcrete of course together with a skid steer loader.
Or a mini excavator together with a mini track dumper.
What happened to your Vermeer CTX100
The monster is knocking out of the park
you had a skid steer and not once used the shovel to flatten the area outr hello bro wake up.
Got to learn to tell people "no" when they change things. I am horrible at this, and firing people. So don't listen to me.
For sure
What happened to David Odell??
First 👍
Nice 👍
Rent a trencher that works with that mini skid
OSS
Should’ve known something was wrong right away, their backyard looked pretty good already…. Most likely the homeowners crazy as you can’t ration with crazy people.
Good point
The fact that you don’t have an electric demolition jack hammer for your guys for digging says a lot
Mud sticks
Every contract I write requires 50% down 25% when concrete arrives remaining balance at finish, every contract states, changes will be made at customers expense with 300% mark up due as soon as customer makes changes. In 20yrs only 2 customers made changes.
Only 1 tried not paying final payment and I'm a woman, I took zero B.S. and replied I will have my men tear up what we've done while I call police.
In all your so called experience have you never learned a signed contract and refusal of payment equals theft of services and will result in an arrest?
Hi Tim , why WE dont sée David ? I Hope IS fun
He’s basically retired in AZ
🤔🤔🤔
Some time you just have to do it by hand
Yes
Sounds like a contracting problem to me. Make sure you bid on the drawings you are presented and changes in scope require more money. Period.
My 9n would have kicked this jobs butt
Demo hammer with a flat bit works great for digging and trenching one guy cutting the path other guys cleaning it out rotate to take the stress off the guy on the hammer but all the way around beats ⛏️ picking 💯
Yeah your right about that but sometimes you just got to keep it OSS
If this was Sweden a mini digger would digg that trench in 5 min, I guess you must really love manuall labor.
Keeps me in shape 💪
Why didn't you just lay down plywood where you were driving the skid steer
Would have taken a lot of plywood
So what you're saying is dad was right on the money? 🙂 Dads are like that you know.
It happens
11:41 why would you kill your workers by hand digging through that hard clay when you had a perfectly good mini skid with a bucket?😅
It was only 50 foot trench and I don’t have them just do it, I help.
@@OdellCompleteConcrete but think of the calluses! Will somebody think of the calluses!!😩😭🙌🏽
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Some people need someone to tell them what they should do. Btw I confirmed with my wife and you do not look like one of her boyfriends.
Yeah her husband wasn’t much help 😂
Stop complaining $15 cubic yard for mulch ... spend a nickel to save a dime
Damn you ran into a Karen 😂
Bingo
Can you flip a hammer like your dad? It's all that matters!
Lol of course who do you think taught me 😂
You too nice bro, be mean
Too much tenching by hand, bud.
I canceled my gym membership
single women with money tend to have a hard time making up their mind or at least that has been my experience with indecisive clients
Could be
I'm still subscribed AND I liked the video.
(FKRS=YT)
Cool
Ty