Careercow Jack Russell Scalfani / Cooking With Jack / Jack on the Go Show / jakatak - YouTube "Celebrity" "Chef", Living Encyclopedia of Gluttony-Induced Maladies, Salmonella Elemental

[HarblMcDavid]

I'd be curious to see the back side and better views of the larger left side of the house. That said I have some roofing related complaints to lodge.

1) I notice a conspicuous lack of vents coming through the roof, most houses have 3-4 or more for various venting needs, but I suppose these could be in blind-spots like the back. I really hope they aren't just venting everything into the attic.

2) Pictures are far enough away and definitely weren't taken on a medium format camera so I can't tell if they have ridge vents installed, but my initial impression is no, and my hedged bet is "not nearly well enough" (that distinct line where the ridge is center-right may be the calling card of ridge vent). That's a lot of roof and not a lot of vent if so, and things can go from zero to HELLO MOLD, and I mean black nasty mold covering the entire underside of the OSB in certain areas, really fast without sufficient venting.

3) The visible valleys are not flashed and instead the shingles are bent to make the valley. This is a bit of a nitpick, but that is the cheap inferior way of doing things; it is pretty standard build to a price point practice and you will see that a lot of places but doesn't mean it's the right way to do things for the best result. If this is a build-it-yourself deal at least have the roofers do the better way because you control the process.

4) Are there gutters on the left (in the picture) and front of the house? If not, and it certainly looks that there are not, lmao.

Some positives(?):
It looks properly drip-edged? I think? Hard to tell in the picture but it looks like it, or there's some strangely complex fascia board design. In fairness that's not a high bar to pass or difficult to install, but it's amazing how often this gets completely ignored.

 

[Turtlebees]

About Jack's bog-standard ugly house with the giant garage:

No expert, but I was Millwork/Lumber/Building at Home Depot once upon a time so I know a wee bit about windows, doors, and how they fit into framing. As others have said, this house reeks of being pole barn and close to pre-fab. The framing has no room for larger, custom windows though I suspect there's been some cheaping out at play by substituting the next in-stock size down that fits or ordering everything a bit smaller after experiencing quote shock. The overall design is meh to start with and that dingy-coloured, cheap siding doesn't help. Beyond that, I see so many little things wrong - or, more to the point, missing - but I'll stick to the stuff I know best.

Always opt for custom order windows if financially able to swing it. Off the shelf stuff at big box hardware centres is often dire and I wouldn't put in anywhere but an unheated garage or shed in an area that doesn't see snow, high winds, and driving rain. Stock doors aren't much better; getting them hung plumb can be a bitch if you aren't a pro plus they can tend to leak around the windows. They almost always suck for cold climates. Don't get me started on the crappy sills. And please, if you've gone with a steel entry door paint the damn thing since a lot of the ones that appear white have only primer on them. That, or the finish is cheap and won't last more than a year unless you've got lottery winner luck. Don't buy cheap primed wood frame for the exterior either; go composite or put cladding on it for your sanity unless you like dealing with leaks and wood rot.

An experienced pro trying to build on the cheap for good reason - charity housing, for example - has some tricks they may salvage the bad stuff but don't pay someone to do that magic for you - you'll lose anything you saved in labour costs and you'll still be stuck with an inferior product that can eventually become a headache. If you've bought up the discount rack and then hired a cheap contractor (or worse, a cheap handyman) too, well, good luck.

Spoiler: extended talk about shopping for reno/new construction

If ordering for yourself, your best bet is to find a knowledgeable employee with a background in construction or at least a year's experience in custom design and a good relationship with the vendors. They can tell you where to cut corners and where to spend and will rein you in when you don't understand reality versus your dream design. Experience can also mean valuable knowledge about installation; those of us who can enjoy explaining the process to homeowners doing some DIY work because we like talking shop. Never underestimate the importance of that vendor-salesperson relationship; if there are issues with your order, and there always are, you need someone who can call up the supplier and make emergency alterations or inquire about delivery or special perks. Oh, and don't be that idiot and assume the female employee doesn't know her shit; it's often us women who will go the extra mile to make sure your order is perfect.

Ask friends who they recommend - good salespeople and good vendors are worth it - and who they'd avoid after learning the hard way. Asking contractors can be iffy; they don't need as much hand holding as a layperson might and are more apt to recommend places they have accounts with, which may or may not equal the most suitable deal for you. If you're busy - ordering this stuff and keeping up with the resultant timelines is a MASSIVE, stressful chore - or have zero knowledge of anything building related, you might want to leave all of this to your contractor.

I've seen weekend pros, house flippers, do-it-yourself landlords, and cottage owners make the dumbest choices when deal shopping. Everything from snapping up water stained MDF baseboards to buying bulk flats of value-priced windows to assuming 6ft sliding patio doors with warped frames just need a little extra work. There's the odd smart few who understand and limit their value hunting to rejected special orders with no defects, but yeah. You usually get what you pay for with building supplies. That said, don't be a fool and overpay for useless frills; if your custom painted MDF interior door with a bit of glass in it costs $2000, you're probably not a smart shopper. If your contractor presents you with a quote like this, go into the store/warehouse/showroom and do some research yourself because there are probably ways to get what you want without stupid levels of spending.

 

[Rain Team Pepe]

ScuffedRealtor would probably review the house if it was submitted. I don't think Nick Rochefort would suck a dog's dick for it.

 

[AltisticRight]

This is the guy who has multiple strokes and was helped by doctors. Ffs

Fat fucks like Jack Scalfani are a huge burden on the healthcare system. Every bit of resource to keep fat cunts like Jack alive could be better spent on healthy, contributing members of society. The amount of time, labour, money and effort required to keep useless fat sacks of worthless unemployed lard like Jack Scalfani alive is similar to providing for three to five able-bodied people who had an illness. It would be a net positive if a hospital is paid to put down this sack of ungrateful shit. Jack Scalfani is a waste of fuel, a waste of single-use medical tools, a waste of electricity, a waste of space and a waste of oxygen. The sooner he fucking DIES the better. There is nothing in the world stopping this fat worthless freak from getting healthy, yet he chose to be a fat, useless ungrateful freak that believes in some of the most retarded conspiratard shit. The next time he strokes out, whatever poor group of people using a forklift to move him onto a stretcher should just let Grim Reaper deliver the checkmate so he can burn in Eternal Hellfire.

They fell apart super hard, in part because the "noodles" are just an overbaked omelet as usual, and because they were majorly overstuffed. Also, he shows off a hand mixer guard which, while absolutely unnecessary for most people, I will concede that Jack probably does need it tbh.

(sorry no archive, will make one later unless somebody else gets it)

Send this to any Italian chef and watch them pick up The Doctrine of Fascism.

 

[lol cow supreme]

The house looks fine. As a neutral party who has not hate nor love for Jack I can ascertain it looks fine> There were some compromises in the windows from the "dream" drawing, but hey budgets are budgets.

Its not finished. Their is considerable amount of lot-work remaining such as bringing in backfill and landscaping. You'd be surprised how finishing the lot makes the house look better. If shutters do get installed those windows will look way less bleak. There are still ladders going up on the roof so there is hope those just havent come in yet.
It appears they are still installing the gutters as there is no gutter along the porch, and no gutter yet along the left side of the house.

Judging by how close that other house is, it looks like a monstrosity on that lot though. But houses now are all about the inside and fuck what other people have to look like. As for style it totally has "rehab center" look to it.

1) I notice a conspicuous lack of vents coming through the roof, most houses have 3-4 or more for various venting needs, but I suppose these could be in blind-spots like the back. I really hope they aren't just venting everything into the attic.

The vents would be along the "wet wall" which could be on the backside of what we're seeing. Sadly I'm seeing a LOT of new construction venting into the attic these days. Hard to tell.

2) Pictures are far enough away and definitely weren't taken on a medium format camera so I can't tell if they have ridge vents installed, but my initial impression is no, and my hedged bet is "not nearly well enough" (that distinct line where the ridge is center-right may be the calling card of ridge vent). That's a lot of roof and not a lot of vent if so, and things can go from zero to HELLO MOLD, and I mean black nasty mold covering the entire underside of the OSB in certain areas, really fast without sufficient venting.

Yeah, there are ridge vents on each of the actual straight ridges, of which there aren't many. Ridge vents aren't mandatory if you have soffit vents. Looking at this roof it was expensive as hell and I cannot tell for what reason unless there are just massive ceilings in the house. I cant speak for the flashing in hips, but modern practice is to flash it all and shingle over it. Those are architectural shingles (a nice upgrade but not breaking the bank) and they actually sell the pre-made hip peices to go in those corners that fit more flush than just bending up a regular shingle.

Also there are vents under the house, so its built on a crawl space, not that theres anything wrong with that just thought I'd point out the ground level airvent under the left side window.

 

[Cpt. Stud Beefpile]

If you want to maximize square footage and especially avoid the permits/inspection, you build the biggest fucking garage you can and stick the bare minimum legal house on the side.

Then when the city niggers are gone, you finish and furnish your “garage”.

In some climates a basement is almost as cheap.

My great grandfather used surplus Quonset huts to build first 'houses' for several of his kids. Paid cash and plenty of it for the skilled workers to keep their mouths shut and the Nosy Nelly county government out of it.

 

[Sneeds]

Expectation vs. Reality. And just like Jack, his new house looks to only be functional on one side.

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I came here from the Community happenings thread. I’ve seen better looking houses in the Northwest while bored scrolling Zillow listings. When I hear the word “McMansion” I expect this

Not this

You can tell he didn’t have enough money for the white stucco design and used siding and 2x4s for the outside. Also the big gable with the 3 black windows looks so weird. If it didn’t have that 2x6 down the middle and if he would’ve put bigger windows. I’d say it would look better. Overall it looks a cheap home trying to look rich. But then again any decent home is better than an apartment.

 

[Adamska]

The reason the house looks so horrible is due to the choice on siding and the window placement and layout. Those panels are ones you use on stuff like sheds and trailers converted for more permanent use, and they tend to look awful usually; it's mainly used for budget projects as of late, and they all look bad. If it works, it works, but it's just visually unpleasant to me. It looks even uglier due to their idiotic decision to put false stone overlays, since it is such a dramatic shift in visuals.

Windows just don't feel large enough on the largest point of the building; it feels stapled on due to that. It's okay on the left side and center of the house, even if the panel color makes them pop out too much.

 

[lol cow supreme]

4 hours in photoshop.

 

[AltisticRight]

Here's the original version, not the one edited by Jack Scalfani fans or fatty himself.

 

[RL Steinbeck]

https://youtu.be/dqa3e3GyI30?si=8BUw7f28iFKkyz6c
Brand new video where fatty shovels steag and buttuh into his gullet, but this time he's joined with some familiar faces!
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Just highlighting a moment from this video, where Tammy politely tries to keep Jack in check from being hyperbolic, and he becomes absolutely dumbstruck by the sheer audacity of her daring to interrupt him during his "grading time."

He makes it so awkward for his two guests—who he does not thank or mention again at the end of the video, I might add—as well as the nearby restaurant staff who must hear him talking about how another steakhouse is far superior than their fare. His whole "grade" for this place is just about how the other restaurant is way better, and the whole thing just perfectly showcases how completely tone-deaf Jack is to all forms of social etiquette.

Expectation vs. Reality. And just like Jack, his new house looks to only be functional on one side.

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The window sizing looks retarded. Also, I'm wondering why they didn't just install a ramp instead of the stairs at this point, since they're inevitably going to need to anyway once Jack is entirely paraplegic.

 

[Lou's Sentient Backfat]

It looks like an utter piece of shit, but the big question I have is who’s going to move into it, and who’s going to stay in 103 Thomas Ct? The latter would make the most sense for Jack and Tammy since they’re older, and the single-story layout seems ideal for Jack’s limited range of mobility/evacuation needs in an emergency. C’mon, there’s no way Fatso is climbing stairs in his current state, so what’s the point?

The upstairs is so Hammy can have some alone time with Jim Traynor and Jeanette.

 

[Rubber Plant]

Expectation vs. Reality. And just like Jack, his new house looks to only be functional on one side.

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He got the cheapest cookie cutter windows he could buy. Sliding windows also are the worst in terms of energy efficiency. They all leak tons of air. Maybe that is why he got so few. I don't know anything about building code where he lives, but where I am we care a lot about getting homes as energy efficient as possible.

There is so much wasted potential there. He could have had custom windows made to suite his house, but instead they bought it all at Home Depot. If I were him, I would have maximized my windows to get as much natural light as possible.

I'm a window nerd.

 

[ZipDisk]

Jack's new house looks like an outdoor shed fucked a double wide trailer.

 

[Falcon Sebben]

His carnivore food “hacks” are just the same meats, cheeses, and eggs rearranged into different forms. I don’t get how he isn’t getting tired of this. I get that he can’t eat a vegetable without a heaping side of mayonnaise, but there’s a reason that diets this restrictive typically don’t last long. Given Jack’s lack of impulse control, I doubt he’s actually following it completely. I don’t see why he can’t just have a grilled lean cut of meat with a side of roasted vegetables instead of attempting to make carnivore “ravioli.”

It's because he can't eat veggies without a fuckton of dressing on them. Remember this is his version of a "salad".

Roasting veggies is a great way to cook them, it introduces flavor and all you need is some olive oil, salt and maybe a touch of garlic or something.

That's a much healthier way of eating than by drowning it in ranch or 1000 Island dressing.

PL but I've worked for residental architecture offices that use factory-manufactured wall/foundation systems and they look exponentially better than this

Friend of mine had a second story put on their home and they went pre-fab. The walls and roof were made off site then carted in, arranged and this was done in a matter of weeks. The interior took longer but the home looks great even from the outside.

I'm not an architect but I've done enough home repairs, renovations and the like and can tell you that their new home is some cheap, pre-fab shit. Most likely they went with the cheapest option, hired non-union labor to put it together and all of it to feed Fatty's ego.

It seems like Jack took some inspiration from a certain Finnish RPG.
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Nicely done. Has the same creepy energy that's for sure. The new home just doesn't look "right". As others have said it's not finished but it's lacking in... style. It feels sterile.

 

[reptile baht spaniard rid]

That house is what you get when you have plans approved and your budget goes to shit afterwards. Everything possible to shave money has been.

You see a lot of these monstrosities in rural areas where someone takes the dollars they have and maximizes square footage without any other considerations whatsoever.

 

[BelUwUga]

The fake stone-template siding butting up against that concrete slab at the entry is a really classy look too. TBF it looks like they might still have to put trim finishing in place though.

Do you think they had "extra" and decided to do the stone on the gable above the door? Beyond there not being much reason to have that there in the first place, I can't think of anyone that would finish it in such a way. It's all decorative but you generally stick to structural principles with that. I.E. Your heavier (appearing) materials go at the bottom with lighter materials at the top. At least put some faux columns up so it doesn't look like you have stone just hanging unsupported above the door.

Sticking with the roof the ridge looks all kinds of fucked up with the height change for what looks like no reason at all. If there is a second story tucked in there you'd want the clearance across the whole roof. Absent that you lower the bump on the left to make it consistent. It invites more problems with a more complex installation. Those trusses will be different from the others and therefore more expensive. These are things a truss manufacturer would bring up if you were open to their input.

Lastly, I'm hoping the ladders are an indication they are in the process of installing gutters all around. Putting them along the garage on one side and nowhere else would be peak retardation. If you're only doing partial you do it over the entrance and the garage side with doors.

 

[abobe]

Here's the original version, not the one edited by Jack Scalfani fans or fatty himself.
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[BelUwUga]

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Oh wow it gets so much worse. Where I am there should be joist hangers connecting the deck to the house. You'd see them on the right side if they were there. The older, and arguably just as good, way to do it would be a "ledger board" secured to the house. The joists still get secured to hold it to the house, the ledger board helps hold the joists up. It should be at least as wide as the joists. Both missing wouldn't pass inspection anywhere I am aware of.

If it was only to the outer wall you could maybe squeak by with what looks like 8' spans between supports. Highly inadvisable for people as sizable as Jack and Tammy, but it's maybe allowable with 6x6s. That inset portion pretty much requires at least extra supports on that portion. No hangers/ledgers means there isn't adequate support for that section. There's also a problem with supports pulling double duty holding up the deck and the roof. You can get away with that by having bigger posts or having a second row of them.

While proctectant on the posts also supporting the roof is good, not applying it on the others is bad. Arguably a worse display since we know they could do it but didn't. Rot also isn't a concern when the deck surrounding them is going to fail.

 

[Aunt Carol]

If you're a hobby farmer, or have a few boats, or being a mechanic as a side gig are all good reasons to have a large garage. None of which apply to Jack, but he has to store his horde of rusted-out grills and smokers somewhere.

He's got all those grills and smokers, yeah, but you forgot the big Lazy Man's tip: close the windows of the garage and run several of them at once. Now you've turned the whole garage into a smoker, if you seal it up tightly enough! Biden and Facebook mods don't want you to know this one weird trick. You do have to bring a couch into the garage so if you get sleepy while you're indoor grilling, you can get a good nap in.

The upstairs is so Hammy can have some alone time with Jim Traynor and Jeanette.

I talk to a lot of elderly couples, and other than the sex, this dynamic is accurate. It's a race to see who keeps their mobility longer, because the prize is the basement and/or second story. Finally, a place where nobody will touch your sewing projects or fart up the furniture -- or a place where nobody will get on you about the quantity of "collectables" you're hoarding.