We've remodeled three houses and do most of the work ourselves. We consider ourselves experienced and able to deal with subs because we know what needs to be done and when but we're not immune to contractor woes.
The two story farm house we're redoing needed a new roof bad and hubby just didn't want to do it because he doesn't like heights. We got several quotes, checked references, did all the right things, we thought. The job seemed to go well. The sub we hired did the job in two days charged exactly what they quoted and we were very proud of ourselves. NOT!
It was almost 60 days before we had a good hard rain fall. Yap, your right, the roof leaked, Big Time! Hubby climbed into the attic to investigate. The idiots had stepped through the roof and made a huge hole. Did they fix it? Of course not, they just shingled over it. BUT that wasn't all. They had forgotten a row of shingles along the attic vent. A gap of about two inched at the peak. No Wonder it leaked!
We called the roofer that did the job several times and he never returned our calls. I told Hubby he should have left a message saying we had a friend that needed a roof, I bet he would have called us back then. It just makes me think he knew the job was substandard or he would have called. We couldn't wait because the drought had passed and there was more rain in the forecast and we had new ceiling tiles in jeopardy so hubby fixed it. Fortunately the fix was simple but it still makes you feel ripped off especially when you paid hard earned cash for a poor job.
You just can't win - - Even when you think you did all the right things. where are all those perfect subs on HGTV? If you want something done right, do it yourself!
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment