Different Ways You Could Be Ripped Off In Building

SCAM 1 Just when you thought you have heard it all, when you thought you have seen every possible way you could be cheated while you build your house or manage a building project, then comes this. The measurement of a block is supposed to be 225x225mm in height and width, but imagine a situation whereby your block maker is making blocks of only 200mm height? This is pure cheating, do you know the effect of this? You lay a block line of 9 blocks and get the height of 8! You have been scammed of 1 block in 9. Be guided. Cullled from http://amazingviewpoints.blogspot.com/ 4 Likes 2 Shares

SCAM 2 How sound are your cement bags, do you know a sound cement bag when you see one? I can spot a tampered bag a mile away, watch those cement sellers, they may be removing some quantities of cement from the factory measure and sell to you. SCAM 3 Just as someone had mentioned earlier, buying wood for building construction is another place where you notice widespread cheating going on among sellers and dealers. You walk to a wood dealer and ask for 2x4 wood, which should translate to a wood with 2 inches by 4 inches as the size, and you will be given a wood measuring about 1 and a half inch by 3 inch. If you start screaming "cheats", everyone around will know you are new. This trick is everywhere and starts from the the saw mill machines who adjust their saw cutting settings to get more quantities from a log of wood. Hey! how about the total length of the wood? I bet you its short by some inches Have they sold you cheap soft wood and told you its mahogany? That's the problem, these people will eat you raw when they are sure you don't know the difference. Builders should be aware of this when buying wood, look for places where you can find complete gauge wood, or be aware of what you are buying so you could compensate for the shortfall in size to prevent future problems in the building. SCAM 4 So you call in a welder and describe the type and design of gate you want, but the detail is in the type of metals used to build the gate. There are many types of flat sheets, checkered plates, square pipes and rods, plus other different materials for building a gate. Your welder can exploit your limited knowledge if he is sure you don't know the difference. What they do is to promise to use thicker gauge plates and pipes to build your gate, but end up using lighter gauge materials. If they promise you 2.5mm plates, they may use 1.5mm plates in the end. Same for pipes and rods. In the end the gate ends up lighter and less sturdy than what you planned for, and your welder ends up richer.