So today I learned there are a crap load of lousy contractors in this world....

The house I rent at the moment is a nice house, but very cheaply made. I can already see the GLUE peeling off where the kitchen cabinets are attached. It's only a matter of time before something like this happens and it's terrifying. :|

Years ago I had a fire alarm that went off in the middle of the night. Obviously I woke up and thought there was a fire, checked everywhere, sniffed everywhere but after two hours I couldn't find anything and went back to sleep. A few days later it happened again, same thing at night without any fire or anything. I changed the battery and thought that it must have been because of that. About a month later I came home from work to find my fire alarm activated - again without any fire. My land lord eventually replaced the fire alarm with a new one and it has been fine since then. That horror from waking up twice in the middle of the night like that was awful.

As a kid i did 2 crappy things while home working. Once i was trimming bushes with an electric chainsaw, suddenly it was not working anymore: i had cut the cord of the chainsaw, stuck in the branches. OK! And the one my father is always reminding me at family gatherings is when he was doing plumbing stuff while i was painting a room. I needed some water to rinse a brush, the water was off so i turned it on and heard: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! He took his revenge by dropping a 150/200kg cast iron radiator on my thumb while he was lifting it so i could put the feet under it. I had a pride thumb(every color of the rainbow) for a while and then my nail fell off. And he indirectly electrocuted me when i was maybe 7 because he took off the light switch of the main room for days and i switched it by habit, touching bare wires. Carpeting was a bad trend, but glad this room was carpeted, i was just very shocked and deezy for a while (and my brain have 5G since 1993).

All those carton walls in USA are so bad.

As I was reading this I realized I read this exact post awhile ago and it is not new.

Second day after moving into another house and I had a major power failure. Fortunately I can make do without Air Conditioning and the Solar Inverter, but still....second MFn' day!

If I won the lottery, my one luxury would be to have someone deal with stuff that needs fixing in the house/with the car. Dealing with stuff like this is one of my nightmares!

Most of these are just poor quality construction. Cheap and crap materials seem to be the norm in the U.S, apparently. I live in a country that's prone to earthquakes (real ones, not those 5-something richter most people freak out about), and during the last one in 2010 (8.8 richter), none of the furniture attached to the walls even moved, even though the house itself was shaking like a fckn blender. So, yeah, all those cabinet /ceiling /floor mishaps are probably due to the crap construction with drywal (wtf???) and the use of some types of glue instead of nails or screws.