{"items": [{"author": "Danner", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/780503392822?comment_id=780504181242", "anchor": "fb-780504181242", "service": "fb", "text": "50k is actually pretty reasonable, bathrooms are valuable, and you see that for yourself. I wonder what your hourly wage to you and your helpers was, considering 40k profit.", "timestamp": "1460462089"}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/780503392822?comment_id=780504181242&reply_comment_id=780509625332", "anchor": "fb-780504181242_780509625332", "service": "fb", "text": "→ I'm not taking that $40k at face value.
Bring the profit down to $25k and figure 30 person-days of work by me and friends, and you get $105/hr wage equivalent.", "timestamp": "1460465461"}, {"author": "David Chudzicki", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/780503392822?comment_id=780504181242&reply_comment_id=780537768932", "anchor": "fb-780504181242_780537768932", "service": "fb", "text": "→ I'm surprised by how high that is.", "timestamp": "1460481678"}, {"author": "David Chudzicki", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/780503392822?comment_id=780504181242&reply_comment_id=780537883702", "anchor": "fb-780504181242_780537883702", "service": "fb", "text": "→ ... especially if any of your other helpers are as useless as me.", "timestamp": "1460481725"}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/780503392822?comment_id=780504181242&reply_comment_id=780540872712", "anchor": "fb-780504181242_780540872712", "service": "fb", "text": "→ @David: \"I'm surprised by how high that is.\"
That's why you see so many people buying houses, fixing them up, and reselling them.", "timestamp": "1460482952"}, {"author": "Julia", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/780503392822?comment_id=780527284942", "anchor": "fb-780527284942", "service": "fb", "text": "After seeing the way various contractors in our house have handled lead paint (bust through it and leave the dust everywhere), I think it's likely that you did a safer job with the demolition than a contractor would have done.", "timestamp": "1460476405"}, {"author": "Gordon", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/780503392822?comment_id=780527284942&reply_comment_id=780636136802", "anchor": "fb-780527284942_780636136802", "service": "fb", "text": "→ Surely that's illegal. If that happened here in NSW, Australia, you could call WorkCover and they would immediately shut down the worksite and do an investigation. Huge penalties apply.", "timestamp": "1460519116"}, {"author": "Hollis", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/780503392822?comment_id=780527284942&reply_comment_id=971826504772", "anchor": "fb-780527284942_971826504772", "service": "fb", "text": "→ Gordon that's because Australia has a much more enforcement-oriented regulatory environment. Over here there's often a pretty wide gap between the two halves of \"That's illegal ...\" and \"so therefore contractors never do it that way.\"", "timestamp": "1544544683"}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/780503392822?comment_id=780527284942&reply_comment_id=971826953872", "anchor": "fb-780527284942_971826953872", "service": "fb", "text": "→ There's also a surface area limit (6ft2) below which there are much more limited (no?) contractor restrictions. I think our contractors may have been complying with the law, even though that's much less careful than we would want them to be.", "timestamp": "1544545021"}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/780503392822?comment_id=780527284942&reply_comment_id=971827273232", "anchor": "fb-780527284942_971827273232", "service": "fb", "text": "→ https://www.mass.gov/.../lead-safe-renovation-for-homeowners", "timestamp": "1544545351"}, {"author": "Julia", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/780503392822?comment_id=780527284942&reply_comment_id=971857078502", "anchor": "fb-780527284942_971857078502", "service": "fb", "text": "→ Yeah last time I called the state lead hotline to say \"I think our electricians got lead dust all over my broom closet\" they said, \"That sounds bad, better clean your broom closet super well.\" And when I called the electrician they said \"We have no way of knowing what's inside your [90-year-old] walls\" and said they'd clean up better next time, which meant they used a drop cloth. Not that they followed actual protocols for not tracking the dust everywhere.", "timestamp": "1544556958"}, {"author": "Hollis", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/780503392822?comment_id=780527284942&reply_comment_id=971865162302", "anchor": "fb-780527284942_971865162302", "service": "fb", "text": "→ Julia the very definition of a consequence-free environment, with exactly the behavior you'd expect that to elicit. :(", "timestamp": "1544561304"}, {"author": "Tomer", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/780503392822?comment_id=780568696952", "anchor": "fb-780568696952", "service": "fb", "text": "Where's the pizza budget?", "timestamp": "1460487383"}, {"author": "Jacob", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/780503392822?comment_id=780594724792", "anchor": "fb-780594724792", "service": "fb", "text": "It sounds like the kind of project that could drag on forever, with half of the remaining work getting done each year. Congratulations on actually getting it finished!", "timestamp": "1460496804"}]}