These are the worst contractors I've ever seen in my life. I'm getting a free shower put in through DVA, and the contractors are just terrible. The tiling job is the worst I've ever seen, I could do better. The shower creaks when you stand in it, and it took them 5 hours to put a shower rack in, and I just went downstairs, and my basement was in the process of flooding because they put a screw through the pipe. So I turned off the water, and wont have water for who knows how long, and already haven't had a shower for a week. Awesome work guys.
Contractors broke my house.
But they didn't break him. His house has to break the contractors.Return the favor and break the contractors.
If you live in Canada, this would be a perfect time to call Mike Holmes.
Seriously, though, that sucks. It seems to be a crap-shoot nowadays with contractors.
That really sucks :/
Days like this I'm happy my father is an independent handyman who (slowly) teaches me to fix most stuff on my own
SWEET CHRIST. This is drawing some SERIOUS parallels to my contractor saga.
100 days to install about 150 square feet of linoleum tile and fix a bathtub coating. 100 DAYS. Here are a few of the fun things we dealt with:
The contractors didn't pull up the old busted tiles, or even clean them, before they started putting the new ones down. They were coming up before the guy even left. And there were large rocks underneath. They tore that out and put down sub flooring, but the dude decided that measuring tape was for pussies and just eyeballed the particle board cuts, then tested to see how close he was by trying to jam it down into place. He destroyed the paint on the walls where he worked. After that they finally got our finished tile down and all was well.
...Except that it totally wasn't, because in the process of putting the tiles down, they took off my toilet on the main floor (to tile under it), and then didn't put a spacer in or something, and so my toilet leaked into my downstairs storage for about a month before we realized it. Black mould everywhere, and we had to toss about $2000 of our stuff. And then our landlords thought it'd be ok to just paint over the mould. We had to get the city involved several times to get them to write work orders to get anything done.
And then the tub, they painted over with a new coat to fix the chipping, and didn't prep the tub properly, and the paint... well, we let it sit with a fan on it for over a week, and it wasn't drying for whatever reason. Then they tried to just paint over that sticky mess instead of scraping it off, and then they just replaced the whole thing. We didn't have a working shower for, I think, 3 weeks.
These are just the major points. I mean, what I've described isn't actually a hundred days worth of fuckup. There is so much more, but those are the best (worst) parts. Anyway, I feel for you dude, contractors suck.
@bjorno said:
who needs to shower anyways? It takes away precious anime watching time.
This guy knows whats up.
@bjorno said:
who needs to shower anyways? It takes away precious anime watching time.
Not if you install a TV in the bathroom.
I can confirm that bathroom televisions are a life changing investment.@bjorno said:
who needs to shower anyways? It takes away precious anime watching time.
Not if you install a TV in the bathroom.
@EuanDewar said:
@CL60Please tell me your Dad is actually called Clark and that's not a joke. If true, it's perfect.@EuanDewar said:
NOBODY BREAKS CHRIS KENTS' HOUSE AND GETS AWAY WITH IT.That's right, I'll go get my father, Clark.
Sadly, that is not true. That would be pretty awesome though.
@CL60 said:
I climbed into my cupboard to check the water valve to make sure it wasn't broken, and it's dry as a bone. So they definitely put a screw through the pipe.
You can climb into your cupboard?
@Turtlebird95 said:
@CL60 said:
I climbed into my cupboard to check the water valve to make sure it wasn't broken, and it's dry as a bone. So they definitely put a screw through the pipe.
You can climb into your cupboard?
Yeah. I'm not that big. Tight fit, the water valve is in a stupid spot. Have to climb into a corner, into my cupboard and take the panel off and reach my hand around the back of the cupboard to reach.
@CL60 said:
@PeasantAbuse said:
You should find a place to take a shower until your water is back on.
I've been cleaning myself up in the sink, and occasionally taking a bath. But now I can't even do that. :'(
You should sneak into someones yard at night and use their hose, that would be pretty classy.
If you could do a better job of it, why not do so? I mean, sounds to me like you got what you paid for...
Are you doing something about this? I seriously hope that you are. Contact whoever you called to get the work done and sort this shit out, if they don't fix it for free, sue whoever is responsible or something. Simply complaining that they did a shitty job doesn't improve the shitty job they did in any way.
@lancer75 said:
Are you doing something about this? I seriously hope that you are. Contact whoever you called to get the work done and sort this shit out, if they don't fix it for free, sue whoever is responsible or something. Simply complaining that they did a shitty job doesn't improve the shitty job they did in any way.
Contractors are paying for it all because I threatened to not sign off on it, and if I don't sign off on it DVA doesn't pay them.
I don't know how people like that get work. I wouldn't be able to live with myself if I left someone's place in a state of shambles. Maybe you should hire private contractors, it's better to pay for a job to be done well then to have it payed by somebody else and still done terribly.
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