The Tenacious Unicorn Ranch / @TenaciousRanch / Steampunk Penny / Penellope Logue / Phillip Matthew Logue - Don't cry because it ended, laugh because it's still getting worse.

[Oxyjen]

I don't understand why Penny has to get new tools. He can go buy second hand from a Pawn shop, or facebook market place, or craigslist. Tranch looking more and more like a hoarder, consumer rat's nest every day.

Right? I’ve done drywalling (and framing) before when money was tight with the most cheap and basic of hand tools and an old cordless drill-driver being the most advanced piece of kit. Like $50 would have covered the lot.

I didn’t consider it great work at the time, was also starting from zero experience and learning as I went, but it was 1000% neater than anything penny has proudly shown off.

Honestly seems like they’ve spent more than they could earn from doing the examples we’ve seen, even if they were competently done. It’s got to be more tax dodging.

 

[Coccxys]

Here's the before pictures on that horrific drywalling job (notice the truck outside on the first one says something about licensed, is that the tranches and if so are they licensed? Are they subcontracting for someone who is actually licensed and doesn't give a shit about their reputation? Is that something that cam be searched?)




Here's a before video

Here they are ripping into it like a man

They found a 1921 calendar in the process


So they're ripping into the old fabric of a building without any PPE, I'm sure someone did an asbestos check right. Right?

Also they're pulling out greenboard drywall, that is water resistant drywall and putting in probably the cheapest gypsum board they could find. If there was a need to have greenboard in there previously there must be humidity factors that could be a big problem with their work down the line.


In other news, they have lambs


And they still have the Kubota

 

[Miss Misery]

I'd like to know why they ripped out the previous greenboard in the first place. Did they tell the homeowners that it needed to be replaced? Was that before or after they removed the wallpaper incorrectly and fucked up the greenboard? And, as @Coccxys said, why didn't they replace it with more greenboard? Did they foolishly take a moisture reading in spring temps in an uninhabited house (lol they'd never bother but...) Or did their big man brains decide there's no reason for it despite the fact that SOMEONE put greenboard up there between the 1920s calendar and now (greenboard not having been available until the 60s).

Oh sorry was I being logical? Stupid female brain. This is what happens when you don't prioritize being a bimbo, sissyfication, and cooming.

 

[Smoke Manmuscle]

This is a horrible fucking botch job and the owner needs to sue them for it.

This is SomethingAwful goon level drywalling.

I’m having flashbacks of groverhaus.

 

[Coccxys]

Here's the downstairs of that house, not seen what an abortion they've made of that yet though.



It's a great starting point for someone to make a really nice refurbishment project out of. Unfortunately someone handed the keys to the tranch dwellers so yeah...

 

[Gentlebastard]

In other news, they have lambs
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Those poor animals; I doubt the tranchers even knew the ewe was pregnant. For all the help he likely had behind the scenes, even Jeremy Clarkson managed to learn the basics of farming within a year, and this is a man who probably has never planted anything in his life since trying to grow beans on wet cotton during elementary school. The Tranch is approaching 5 years of existence, and all its denizens have achieved are destruction, desolation, and death.

 

[Fartificial Insmelligence]

Here's the downstairs of that house, not seen what an abortion they've made of that yet though.

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It's a great starting point for someone to make a really nice refurbishment project out of. Unfortunately someone handed the keys to the tranch dwellers so yeah...

Hell I'd have lived in it as-is! I love that rustic old look, just wipe the dust off everything and I'd be happy!

 

[Molly White's Breast Milk]

I’m having flashbacks of groverhaus.

Like they'd waste money on insulating stairs.

 

[KiwiFuzz]

After seeing what they did to that house I am super depressed. Screw all y'all, I'm getting drunk.

 

[Miss Misery]

After seeing what they did to that house I am super depressed. Screw all y'all, I'm getting drunk.

It's enough to make you want to find an old property like that and start a TERF commune.

"NO TROONS ALLOWED."

 

[Cool Spot]

It has been a while and I have a lot to catch up on.

Glad to see the Tranch is starting up a disastrous drywalling business. It looks as awful as I would have guessed.

 

[AnOminous]

Here's the downstairs of that house, not seen what an abortion they've made of that yet though.

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It's a great starting point for someone to make a really nice refurbishment project out of. Unfortunately someone handed the keys to the tranch dwellers so yeah...

You wonder what kind of idiot is paying for this and if they've seen the hack job these troons have already perpetrated just on simple drywalling shit.

 

[Bob_]

Would an upstairs room suffer from humidity in the mountains of Colorado? Enough to need a specialised product like greenboard?

I wouldn't bother specifying a speciality plasterboard for basic rooms in the the temperate zone i work in, even in coastal areas.

 

[Oxyjen]

I'd like to know why they ripped out the previous greenboard in the first place. Did they tell the homeowners that it needed to be replaced? Was that before or after they removed the wallpaper incorrectly and fucked up the greenboard? And, as @Coccxys said, why didn't they replace it with more greenboard? Did they foolishly take a moisture reading in spring temps in an uninhabited house (lol they'd never bother but...) Or did their big man brains decide there's no reason for it despite the fact that SOMEONE put greenboard up there between the 1920s calendar and now (greenboard not having been available until the 60s).

A valid reason to tear it off might be because the job was to put in insulation where there was none?

Explainer for them that don’t know:
If you simply put insulation batts behind standard plasterboard, and don’t add any airtight and vapour resistant layer, you create a potential problem because humidity in the air inside (from occupants breathing as Ronnie said) will make its way to the back of the insulation where it is cold, condense, trap moisture against the structural timbers of the house and cause it to rot away within a few years.

The airtight layer has to be done extremely meticulously using plastic sheeting and special tape. There is zero chance they’ve done it properly if they’ve done it at all.

Would an upstairs room suffer from humidity in the mountains of Colorado? Enough to need a specialised product like greenboard?

IMO, yes. As long as they plugged all the gaps so that there’s little draft, and the windows are well sealed, humidity levels will get high enough to cause problems in any room that’s occupied. Even more so if the bathroom is modernised and regularly used for showers.
The green board was probably used to replace original wood panelling which is inherently drafty, there your humidity stays low but it’s always freezing cold.

 

[Prolego]

A valid reason to tear it off might be because the job was to put in insulation where there was none?

Explainer for them that don’t know:
If you simply put insulation batts behind standard plasterboard, and don’t add any airtight and vapour resistant layer, you create a potential problem because humidity in the air inside (from occupants breathing as Ronnie said) will make its way to the back of the insulation where it is cold, condense, trap moisture against the structural timbers of the house and cause it to rot away within a few years.

The airtight layer has to be done extremely meticulously using plastic sheeting and special tape. There is zero chance they’ve done it properly if they’ve done it at all.


IMO, yes. As long as they plugged all the gaps so that there’s little draft, and the windows are well sealed, humidity levels will get high enough to cause problems in any room that’s occupied. Even more so if the bathroom is modernised and regularly used for showers.
The green board was probably used to replace original wood panelling which is inherently drafty, there your humidity stays low but it’s always freezing cold.

This is how they did the loft above their barn.

 

[General Disarray]

Hell I'd have lived in it as-is! I love that rustic old look, just wipe the dust off everything and I'd be happy!

Lol right? I'd rather deal with the ghosty bois than the goatse boys

 

[Another Sperg on the Net]

That house is not going to be that tight, with a 1921 build date the exterior vapor barrier is certainly just trapper and any in wall insulation would be a major improvement. That room was redone in the fifties or sixties since it was dry walled, it would have originally been plaster and lathe. Biggest energy and efficient gains in a house that old is new windows, made a huge difference in my parent's old place which was built in '32.

 

[Questionable Ceviche]

Here's the before pictures on that horrific drywalling job (notice the truck outside on the first one says something about licensed, is that the tranches and if so are they licensed? Are they subcontracting for someone who is actually licensed and doesn't give a shit about their reputation? Is that something that cam be searched?)

100% no chance they are licensed. They're working as laborers for someone who is, and given the quabity of their work, most likely under the table for someone they know. This lets them get paid instantly in cash, not have to pay taxes, and lets their 'employer' pay them below market rate, thus taking jobs away from actual humans.

Buying a single brand of cordless tools does make sense for a homeowner since they'll all use the same form factor of batteries. However, all cordless tools for job sites are fucking dumb because the batteries need to be swapped out. Swapping batteries isn't really a big deal, but then they're dealing with needing a bunch of extra charged batteries on hand and, worst case scenario, waiting on batteries to recharge/cool off once they burn through all of them.

The battery tech is definitely better than it was when these first came onto the market. But, these cordless tools aren't made for sustained use like what you'd see when someone is working a full shift on site as paid labor. For a DIY homeowner project it's less of an issue since you're not paying someone else for their time. Like, a cordless drill or something for convenience sure, but not a cordless sander when you need to finish multiple rooms worth of seams. They're also not going to be as powerful as something that plugs in. You have to make compromises when something is battery operated in order to get a decent run time.

 

[Old Fart]

This is a horrible fucking botch job and the owner needs to sue them for it.

As the Dutch saying goes, you can't pluck feathers off a frog.

 

[Oxyjen]

Final-stage meltdown ranting from Neptune whatsit today (she’s apparently calling it a night at 8AM loca time). Too much to quote but she hates someone and is leaving Twitter and/or the tranch. Hard to say.