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.
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