What recourse when contractor installs wrong appliance?
Sue K
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Comments (5)A little history in this nightmare: The contractor completely demolished our bathroom and started from scratch. He built up a new shower with new drainage, (from bathtub to stall shower)replaced the old toilet with a new one, tiled the shower (many a problem there too) and floor. When we initially saw the water stain in the closet, we cut away the entire drywall ceiling of the downstairs closet to see what exactly is leaking. It was discovered that the shower drain was leaking when my husband poured water down the drain and it poured into the drip pan we placed on the shelf in the closet. Now we have to hire a plumber to come out and re-do the drainage for the shower as the guy improperly "glued" the p-trap under the floor. ALL THE MATERIALS were purchased by him for the shower (on our dime of course). As for the toilet, we bought the toilet and wax ring (the best one available at Home Depot). It's not the ring, or the toilet. Now that the toilet has been properly installed by my husband AND the contractor, it doesn't leak; but the shower still does....See Morewhat recourse do i have?
Comments (11)Do you know the source of the grant funding? I have cleaned up more than one mismanaged grant program in my life time, and I feel for the clients who suffered with the idiots who run many of these programs. They're all warm and fuzzy, give to the people, type people, with the business sense of flies. This leaves the people who should have benefited from the grant in a worse position than they were often in when they originally applied! Have your attorney request copies of your entire grant file, and if it's state or federal money, even county funds, you should be able to request the grant request (the application the entity used to fund the program) as well as the program specifications (rules and regs associated with it). While the grant director may be telling you that they made a mistake so umm tough luck...he probably is wrong. Most grant programs have an out that makes the entity responsible for the mistake, responsible for returning the funds to the grantor if the program does not follow the rules. The cost to the program when errors are found is significant, so most will step up to the plate to clean up their mistakes, but only when made to do so. If they don't clean up their mistakes (take care of you) they could loose all ability to receive funding from the grantor in the future, and to dispurse federal or state funds. But most of the time they are dealing with unsophisticated clients (that is NOT an insult...it just means that you probably don't have the same level of experience in handling funding as someone like me...but then again...I don't qualify). They bully you past their BS and hope you will go away, and 99.9% of the time...you will. But since you've hired the attorney anyhoo, and that program might have more money than your contractor, at least ask the attorney to carefully investigate the grant program and look for a loophole. I still want to spit on the street when I pass the woman whos' job I took....because she left me with significant programs to clean up. I cleaned them all up, but had to really push clients hard to get them to make it right for themselfs. Don't be like that :o) Please, for me :oP Push on this issue and see if there is anywhere to go with it!...See MoreAppliance installation: general contractor vs. professioninal?
Comments (8)My GC did ours. I don't even think he had his electrician or plumber do them, and they're fine. Of course we know he has years of experience and that really helps him. He plumbed the water over to the new place for the refrigerator, hooked up the dishwasher, and wired the electrical cord into the new range. The OTR MW was about the hardest, but that's because he had to attach it to the cabinetry and cut a hole for the cord to go up to the electrical receptacle. The ONLY struggle my GC had in any of this was in the family room. Once we had that room almost done, one of my garage receptacles kept tripping out. He called in his electrician who came to the conclusion it was coincidental and the breaker had just gotten old. Once they swapped it for a new one for us, we've had no problems with that receptacle. Then the same thing kept happening to the receptacle that is a dedicated circuit for the OTR MW. GC came out and this time just swapped it out...voila, working MW. His electrician said that in a couple of years, we might want to consider upgrading the electrical service to a 200 watt service. We're almost at capacity now, and went over until they disconnected the unused 220 for an electrical dryer (mine's gas). DonnaR/CA...See MoreContractor Error--wrong bath sinks installed. Advice?
Comments (18)To all who replied (to this post--sorry I thought I accidentally deleted the first one), thank you. I can see the majority think it's best to move on and take the credit. Helen, you make a lot of good points that I've tried to explain to my husband. He just wants it done right and the way we asked. I am "luke warm" (and worn out) as Kate E suggested. I still have a long way to go on two major baths projects, so being reasonable (per Helen) and simply taking the credit may help maintain our working relationship and get the bathrooms finished faster. Sadly, I agree with Kim in that the REAL unfortunate issue is the Hall Bath cabinetry layout, itself! How could I allow this to happen? I tried (obviously not hard enough) to explain to his in-house designer/cabinetry planner that 24 inch sink bases left and right of 21 inch wide drawers in between a 72 inch alcove span was not going to be optimal. Placing three sconces and hanging mirrors centered over the sinks, as I said I wanted from the start, on the back wall would be difficult. But, I was assured it would be fine, and all I needed to do was select narrow sconces and mirrors. With this layout, I'm forced into using very skinny, 18" wide mirrors crammed into the corners which creates a wide, blank area between them (the middle sconce will be there, but the margins will be quite wide--might hang a small painting beneath it to fill the space). My other two sconces now have to be hung on the perpendicular/side walls above towel rings, electrical outlets, and the wall switch--a lot for those walls. Even so, that lighting placement doesn't leave much of a margin, if any, with the mirror frames. Now that the cabinetry is in and sinks are in place, I realize how terribly awkward it all is. They placed the plumbing for the two sinks long before the cabinetry design was finalized. I've considered (crazy expensive idea) paying whatever it costs to rip it all out (since they are willing to redo the counters/sinks)! I could have them rebuild a single, wider, centered sink base and have a second set of drawers made to flank the sink. Then, perhaps use the spare sink, quartz, and remaining 24 inch sink base in a basement bath that needs remodeling, too. OR, I could just sign the divorce papers my husband would hand me, buy a camper, and drive off to the Funny Farm! Sigh....See MoreSue K
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