All Forum Posts by: Lele H.

Today more madness from contractor sub.

The sub came back, I know I should have barred him from doing so.

But he had all his materials here.

Another part of the remodel is to remove some cheap peel and stick vinyl tiles were over 70 year old asbestos tiles.

I wandered into an insane scene a little while ago. Have you ever shook with rage ?

Everyone involved was told the asbestos stays and will be encapsulated by self leveling concrete and hardwood. This is what the EPA.gov website said was best [pre Trump, don;t know if its still up there] and I agree.

Yesterday I looked the sub square in the eye and went over with him that he was ONLY peeling off the vinyl from the asbestos tiles.

He said oh yeah he used ot own a ServPro and a job like that would have cost 5k with his biz.

So I took comfort that this blithering idiot at least understood NOT to remove the asbestos tiles.

Long story short he took up the peel and stick just fine.

And then he apparently went to town chipping and breaking up a bunch of the asbestos tiles.

And scraping the asbestos mastic too.

I took video and photos and am basically in shock.

I am in Maryland am now figuring out what to do.

Starting to think this guy is cray cray. We explained to him that no he could NOT use a 120k BTU kerosene heater in a smallish 400 sq foot enclosed space. Its 55-60 degrees in here, but he wanted to speed up drywall drying.

Gave him a new electric heater. Asked him to please remove his open canister of kerosene and kerosene heater and take away.

Instead he snuck out the back and left the kerosene heater AGAINST the gas hot water heater[ kerosene heater turned off, of course] With kerosene still in it. Figured this out when I moved it away from the gas hot water heater.

He also handled eco fiberglass by hand and told us its safe because it's ECO. Nope.

Should I just complain to his boss , the contractor ?

Already paid them 11k and starting to feel dumb.  

He covered it up with drywall before telling us what he had done. Probably will ask him to do it properly as it just seems crazy.

Thanks for the fast replies !