Hey guys I am new here but I wanted to ask and get an opinion on this as we aren’t very handy ourselves.

My fiancée and I are finishing a lofted apartment area above a garage. We hired a family friend’s husband as our contractor and so far we haven’t made it far into the process.

He has torn down the old deck and put up a new extended one, which looks okay from what I can tell. However there are a few points on the stairs, especially the bottom step, that have splits in the wood. I am concerned that this may lead to loose boards or repairs needed later on.

Based on my one wood shop class in high school, I didn’t think this looked good, but like I said I am not very handy so I want a second opinion. Is this something I should have them fix or is this to be expected?

  • Vanth@reddthat.comEnglish
    5·
    1 day ago

    There’s a lot more wrong just in the pic than the screw… But that’s what I mean, you can’t trust anything he’s done, it all needs to come out and start over.

    Yup, one more in concurrence. Someone who’s used an electric screwdriver and watched ~10min of YouTube videos would be able to avoid many mistakes showing here.

    • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
      210·
      1 day ago

      It honestly might be AI?

      Like the top pic and the bottom pic don’t add up. Either the pictures are of two different attempts or neither are actually real…

      I have no idea why OP would bother faking it tho.

      But the top pic only has the sideways screw on the left, the bottom pic has it on the middle. Unless OP did it himself and the top pic is before they put in the middle screw?

      It’s just all around weird

      Quick edit:

      The wood grain on the middle edge flips…

      If it’s not AI then it’s two attempts complete with different runners.

      • BassTurd@lemmy.world
        4·
        1 day ago

        Picture two has stringers 1 and 2 and picture 3 is the third stringer. The grain lines up correct per picture 1.

      • Y33tMaster69@lemmy.worldOP
        2·
        1 day ago

        Hey, its not AI, I am just a total amateur and I only grabbed a few pictures. The first and third stringers from the left have splitting occurring, although both have a screw going in diagonally that seems to have caused the splitting.

        While I am here, I’ll go ahead and say fuck AI, and thanks for being skeptical :)

      • Vanth@reddthat.comEnglish
        24·
        1 day ago

        Yeah, I wondered that briefly as well. One reason I didn’t bother to elaborate on the problems, if it is an AI image I’m not going to help train it.