Originally Posted by
himespau
Just wait until you try to reno an old bathroom and rip out the wall behind the medicine cabinet to find it's full of old razor blades. That's not laziness, that was the plan. They didn't consider how people coming after would have to deal with a section between two studs full of old rusty blades.
That's residential construction in a nutshell. Get it done fast, screw the details.
That stuff doesn't fly in commercial. There's way too much liability at stake on our projects, so everyone in my crew keeps their nose clean. Leaving messes would only cause more meetings, and most tradesmen get into the industry to
avoid meetings.