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Shoddy craftsmanship is only a small step better than no craftsmanship at all. Wikipedia is not about competing to generate the greatest number of poorly built, leaky articles. If a house has been built, but is uninhabitable, then you should not express surprise or anger if the city demands that it be demolished.
In a video that went viral in January, a ClearVUE inspector shows the shoddy craftsmanship behind a $1.5 million new build. There was also evidence of heavy water leakage and wooden slats sloppily ...
The Lotz house was still standing, although damaged. The south wall had been blasted away. Cannonball holes and burns can be seen inside the house to this day. Lotz was quick to repair the house, but was saddened that the repairs were done so hurriedly that the craftsmanship was shoddy. [4] The house became a field hospital after the battle.
In China, the term tofu dregs (the pieces left over after making tofu) is widely used as a metaphor for shoddy work, hence the implication that a "tofu-dreg project" is a poorly executed project. [8] According to Chinese architect Li Hu, tofu-dreg projects in China are vastly outnumbered by buildings without construction flaws. Li said that in ...
Without lapsing into moral or artistic simplism, shoddy craftsmanship, Madison Avenue venality, or either false or real naiveté, he nevertheless aspires to a fiction more democratic in its appeal than such late-Modernist marvels as Beckett's Texts for Nothing... The ideal Postmodernist novel will somehow rise above the quarrel between realism ...
The original Gladiator is an astonishing feat of not only directing and acting but also craftsmanship. Not only does it hold up marvelously, but it was filmed in that glorious window in the late ...
Recycled wool, also known as rag wool or shoddy is any woollen textile or yarn made by shredding existing fabric and re-spinning the resulting fibres. Textile recycling is an important mechanism for reducing the need for raw wool in manufacturing.
Noddy houses usually appear to tip towards traditional ideals of British housebuilding through use of brick and masonry detail, gabled and hipped roof forms, and window and door styles derived from older methods of construction.