Originally posted by @Account Closed:
@Tim Davids I'd be interested to hear the builder's side of the story. That looks like it was a big project and he did what you asked (even doing some things a few times). If his work was so bad, you should have fired him... but you didn't. The fact that he "...made very little money on this project." is a tragedy for him yet you sound almost gleeful over this.
Perhaps I'm misjudging your attitude; it's hard to be sure with writing sometimes. If so, I apologize. But I often read of people boasting about "getting something for nothing" and it always rubs me wrong.
Probably reading and not hearing makes it hard to understand the situation.
Not a big project at all, a 1300 sq ft ranch on a crawl.
He only did what we asked after botching most items. His subs actually, not him. He not once saw crap workmanship and fixed it without us making him fix it.
If I spent the hours it would take telling you how bad they were you'd agree they were lucky they made zany money at all.
Not sure where you got me as boasting to get something for nothing. It cost us $170,000 and countless hours of our time inspecting and making him fix things. We even spent 6 man hours one Sunday night fixing twisted electrical wires during a flashlight to see what we were doing.
