Need help/advice - contractor is a no show
Karla !
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help...big contractor screw up! Need advice...
Comments (10)You could look far back for my posts :) But you'd see that when this happened to me I made them rip it out and pay for someone else to do it. It depends on how big the error was. Tile in the wrong place or just a total botch job install. in the first situation I'd let them redo it. In the second (which was mine) I wasn't going to do it twice with the same idiot. I made them pay for a real installer to fix the problem and redo it as well as buy the tile. And why did I make them pay someone else...cuz once a long time ago I was a nice guy and let an idiot installer do a job over when they did it wrong the first time...and the second...and the third and the FOURTH! I haven't been nice since....See MoreNeed Advice. Contractor left house unlocked and stovetop was stolen.
Comments (27)The contractor is responsible for job site security and in this case it should be his insurance that pays, as I understand the home to be unoccupied. This gets cloudy when the home is occupied because contractors are responsible for job site security while homeowners are responsible for home security. Additionally, I would argue that his request that the appliances be delivered to the site early makes him further responsible. As the expert it his job to know the risks and rewards of having items on site weeks early and accept those risks. You can try to work out a middle ground with him, but be aware that once you claim it on your insurance, you can't work out a deal with him, in many states he can't even reimburse you the deductible once you have filed a claim. All monies collected from him must be reimbursed to the insurance company once a claim has been made. Since you still have to work with him, I would personally just eat the $5,000 and call it a lesson learned, but that is your call. Because “the burden of responsibility will always fall on the property." This is not correct. Your insurance will always protect you from the bad acts of others regardless of who is responsible. Your insurance exists to protect you from casualty and theft losses, so it will pay even when you are not the party that is legally responsible. Your insurance may then choose to subrogate the claim against the responsible party or not. In this case the OP's insurance will pay, because the OP had a theft loss, that doesn't mean that the OP is the responsible party, it simply means that the loss was the OP's....See MoreMy Friend Is Now My Contractor (advice needed)
Comments (26)in regards to the post by T.F.W. Hiring my friend was a mistake. I see that now and I have now decided to forgo having him finish the job. He is talented with wood and metal and has done some really nice work for bars and business. But he admitted he's never installed a bathtub before so I'm not going to have him do the tile. I don't want to have this issue ruin a friendship. Also, T.F.W is right, the folks telling me its fine and move on with the tile job as-is makes me feel like all is not lost. But his and other professional's comments here make it sound like even the first guys work wasn't done correctly. I don't want to argue the importance of hiring a licensed contractor, which clearly is not the path I took. But several have said the first guys work looks fine. I wonder, if there wasn't any mastic around the tub flange, would the pros here still be suggesting I rip it all out? That's a legitimate question. Just because the first guy wasn't a licensed contractor does his work constitute ripping it all out and starting over? And if not, how does the mastic create such an issue that now it needs to be ripped out completely? Again, legitimate questions I would like to know before i decide to start over or move on. The tub alone cost $750. But if it's a total disater and it's clear problems with mold are bound to happen shortly after, then it's coming out. The first guy used PEX for the plumbing and I looked through my phone and found about a dozen more photos of the work in progress. Not sure they'll help answer the question of ripping it out but I have added the photos below....See Morehow bad did contractor mess up the backsplash? advice needed!
Comments (7)Not sure what it was supposed to look like, but it looks lovely to me. Agreed that I might have chosen a different grout color, but I assume (?) that decision was yours or a designer's and not the contractor's. It is hard to cut small tile pieces in general, glass or otherwise, but the only issues I see here have to do with spacing and alignment (and what looks like grout where the tile meets the counter, where it should be caulked), which probably are more about the tile than the cuts....See MorePatricia Colwell Consulting
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