Contractor Troubles part 2
Our contractor has let another deadline slip. After stalling for over a week to give us a start date, last week he promised to give us an answer by Sunday. It now Tuesday and still no word. Our plan B contractor fell through as well. So we’re back a few steps. Hopefully I can find a replacement before the monsoons start.
Lesson: Ensure the contractors you plan to use are realiable. Before you committ to anything, give them some dates and times to get back to with some sort of answer of information. Do this a couple of times.
September 23rd, 2008 at 4:22 pm
I’ve encountered situations where I’ve given up on contractor A and went to contractor B. Then one day out of nowhere contractor A show up at the front door and want to start on the job. WTF you got to be kidding me ???
I’ve gotten so sick of contractors now that I would take holiday from work to work on my house projects. I spend the money getting the proper tools and really do a good job. The end result is much more satisfying. Obviously not all jobs are DIYable. One option that I would like to explore is hiring manual labour and get them to do the grunt work but making sure that I purchase WCB for them which isn’t all that expensive.
We should have done the exterior painting going this route. As long as the laborers don’t supply the paint, in other word I will go a buy the paints myself, big deal, these laborers are WCB insurable. We would also rent the ladders and scaffolds. In the end I think we can get the job done a lot sooner.
September 24th, 2008 at 6:42 pm
Yeah I don’t want any surprise visits like that. So I’ll be informing contractor A of where things stand.
That’s actually a pretty good idea, espeically for exterior painting since the quote I’ve been getting are all about $5,000 – $7,000.