o know i will be spending mine on my place soo dont go jumpin down my throat without knowin the facts jack. not smack it wack it then were is my check. i have seen carpenters notch partition walls to get them perctly flat. he should have taken more pride and less rush in a job.plus if i was not on the job the front porch would have to be knocked down they were building it too big and the columns would be over hanging the porch.i have been in the buisness for 20 years. my customers are all satisfied and well taken care of.i paid this idiot. you want to come over and enjoy missing studs with your screw gun.if you want to make fun of plumb or level go get a dictionary and play scrabble online!.i dont know about you but i work hard for my money. wrong side of the line.boy is that goin to be fun to rock. i also left many small problems un fixed. there were many other mistakes made which i fixed myself. #Levelfix 305hv windows#labor only., i did all the packing out alll the windows all the roofing. Yea, you're right Luka.2 or more sides to every story, and I think we might only be hearing half!įirst off this was framing only. Now it's the sub's turn to walk away and start cussing.Īs they say.And Now You Know The Rest Of The Story! Finally he comes back to the sub, looks him in the eye and says "Well, you gonna fix those trusses or what?" Joe, who is a bona fide welder by trade, puts down his stinger rod, lifts up his welding mask, and replies."Told you I ain't never done that before!" GC." Hey Joe! You %^#% welder! You ain't ever gonna run my transit again! GC shakes his head, turns and shouts to a nearby pipefitter who is fabricating some steam lines. Then tell me what you think.ġ5 minutes later after re-measuring the building for square. Sub."Oh yea? well pick up this steel tape, come with me, and check this out. Hell, I even had the building lines shot with a transit before I started! Sub." Well my guys were wondering the same thing, so we started remeasuring, and guesss what? This one wall is kicked out nearly 4 inches! Now how can that be? GC." Hey, your trusses look like #! How come they're not lining up right. The building was a 40X60 and it was way out of square! The carpenter sub was complaining to the general contractor who did the masonry work himself. One of my all time favorite true stories about walls involved a single story, commercial block building that was to have gable trusses installed on it. You know, one of my all time "pet peeves" is when someone tells me a wall is out of level when it's actually out of plumb! If everything that you have said and shown is taken into account, there is still a large hole in the information here, and only one side to the story. I don't think that anyone gets themelves tagged with "Highly Recommended" by going around and doing things like making a wall 2 inches out of plumb and leaving it that way. I think maybe the fact that the contractor got out of there instead of fixing it may have been either self-defense, or a mutual understanding. But I get the feeling there was a helluva lot more going on than you have said. It SHOULD have been fixed by the contractor. Especialy in light of the rest of what you have written.Ī wall being out of plumb two inches is no small matter. Not changing that caps lock button, until being asked several times, may be an indication of a lot more than just shouting. Well, at least not that particular anyone. You will never pay anyone to work on your house again. One thing I have no doubt you are right about. This guy was highly recommended ? Sounds like the other people on your planet must all be idiots as well, if they highly recommended him. And took 13 minutes for a coffee break instead of ten. What else did you do ? Put signs next to the crooked/high/low wall outlet boxes ? Go up and measure each row of roofing to make sure they were all exact ? I'll bet they probably showed up 5 minutes late every day, and left 7 minutes early too. You put an arrow up there saying "back two inches". Even as a "bargain", a "favor" from someone with a good heart and some time between other jobs.Īnd doing the work for someone who is a self-proclaimed "perfectionist". Lets see, 6 thousand dollars to do a job that should have cost half again that much. Why God himself might come down and smite you if you tried to live in that kind of a mess. I'll be surprized if the county lets you leave it standing. I'll bet there is not a single corner in there that you can stick a square into and not get at least a 32d inch gap SOMEWHERE on the square. Yep, yer right, that means the whole 6 thousand was wasted. In all that work, one wall was out of plumb by 2 inches. That is an awful lot of work done for 6 thousand. Well, that's another fine mess you've gotten us into, Bollie.
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