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|   | Subject: On working with professional contractors
Posted Jan 23, 2003 by Friar | | Post: 1
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I dunno if they have these elsewhere, but in the US when you do major home renovations it's pretty common to hire a Contractor. This person hires Sub-Contractors to do the work (like plumbers, electricians, carpenters, etc.). Because they are often plumbers, electricians or carpenters, they can hire themselves, and because the people they hire work closely and frequently with the Contractors they can pay less then typical folks, like me, would pay.
Anyway, we started work on the addition to our house in August. they aren't finished yet.
We added a two story 830 sq. ft. addition, with two baths. It was a pretty major project. The work didn't really get started until September/October because of legal stuff with the city. In any evern. Since Dec 22 the workmen have been here a total of 6 days. My wife is returning to work (after her maternity leave) on Monday and the workmen have about 4 days left of work to do. Basically unless they work like lil' ba$tards until Monday they will not finish.
I still owe them $20,000. That's the only power I've got to get them to show up and finish. Realistically, I cold finish the work myself. But unless they tell me that they've quit, I have to pay them anyway.
I'm really pissed.
They're totally not going to come and work this week.
They $uck.
damn
damndamndamn
Oh, good lord. I'm sorry, Friar J. Yuckiness!
I hope it's gone better since then? Did you get them to come back???
-Pete
|  | Subject: On working with professional contractors
Posted Feb 11, 2003 by Friar
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yes, but they only did half of what they needed to do. . .BA$TARD$!!!
We still owe them plenty of $$$, so I'm sure they'll be real eager to finish, but now they have to wait for days that we'll be home.
I've fixed up the additoin so that we can live in it and use the space pretty much normally, so it's only the perfectionist part of me that is annoyed with them.
Yai! W@nkers. V. sorry the crazy contractors are being dumb.
*rolls eyes* How is it that ppl like that keep getting jobs?
-Pete
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