Dr.Midnight
Master
I'm going through a house remodel at the moment, and it's without a doubt the most frustrating thing I have ever done. To date, there hasn't been one piece of work completed to my satisfaction. Let me give you the worst of the projects.
My basement needed to be waterproofed along with having a bowed wall fixed. Before the work could be done, an old wood/natural gas furnace had to be removed. The waterproofing crew was ready to get started, so instead of me trying to tear it out over the course of several days, I'm going to hire an HVAC company to get it done in one day. I get a call from the HVAC company the day the system was to be removed and was told they got everything with the exception of the wood burning portion. It was too big and I would need to get a contractor to remove the door and framework to get it out. Great, I have a crew showing up Monday to start waterproofing and still have a 400 pound piece of metal sitting in the floor.
I went down to the house and measured everything, and that's when I really got pissed. I knocked three pins out, pulled the door off the hinges, and was able to wrestle that beast through the door with my senior citizen Father. I called the HVAC folks and said I was ready to settle up with them, but they need to recalculate their estimate since I had to finish their job for them. That was a week ago, and they still haven't called me back with a total.
Fast forward to today. I went down to the house to check out an exterior wall that was rebuilt. The new wall itself look okay, but where it tied into the old wall looked awful. Blocks were crooked, and some of the mortar joints looked about half way filled. How could someone that called themselves a craftsman walk away with something looking like that. Examples like these are what has me asking the question does anyone have any pride in their work anymore?
My basement needed to be waterproofed along with having a bowed wall fixed. Before the work could be done, an old wood/natural gas furnace had to be removed. The waterproofing crew was ready to get started, so instead of me trying to tear it out over the course of several days, I'm going to hire an HVAC company to get it done in one day. I get a call from the HVAC company the day the system was to be removed and was told they got everything with the exception of the wood burning portion. It was too big and I would need to get a contractor to remove the door and framework to get it out. Great, I have a crew showing up Monday to start waterproofing and still have a 400 pound piece of metal sitting in the floor.
I went down to the house and measured everything, and that's when I really got pissed. I knocked three pins out, pulled the door off the hinges, and was able to wrestle that beast through the door with my senior citizen Father. I called the HVAC folks and said I was ready to settle up with them, but they need to recalculate their estimate since I had to finish their job for them. That was a week ago, and they still haven't called me back with a total.
Fast forward to today. I went down to the house to check out an exterior wall that was rebuilt. The new wall itself look okay, but where it tied into the old wall looked awful. Blocks were crooked, and some of the mortar joints looked about half way filled. How could someone that called themselves a craftsman walk away with something looking like that. Examples like these are what has me asking the question does anyone have any pride in their work anymore?