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Get a good home contractor for extended work
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Get a good home contractor for extended work
Share advice on finding a good contractor or architect, and what steps you might need to to take to make your renovation ideas come true. If you want to take on a project yourself, DIY advice can be found in this message board as well.
About a year ago, my 65 year old husband, retired but working part-time, decided that it was necessary to remodel our 1st floor apartment. It needed it, but he tore up the front and living room, the 2
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Get a good home contractor for extended work
posted at October 7, 2012 1:14 AM EDT
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About a year ago, my 65 year old husband, retired but working part-time, decided that it was necessary to remodel our 1st floor apartment. It needed it, but he tore up the front and living room, the 2 bedrooms and the bathroom about a year ago. I encouraged him to hire a contractor who could get the job done within a month after following good references in our area. It's almost a year later, and we're living in the basement apartment while everything is moving at a snails pace upstairs. The problem is that he hires different people to complete different jobs instead of hiring a company that can finish the job. He gets people that can only work on the weekend, or pays them the full amount, $125 a day, who only work half that with a promise to come to finish what they were hired to do. Usually, they never return. It's costing us a lot of money, from a home equity loan, to finish the job in segments. Needless to say, it's very frustrating living between 2 floors. A lot of the problem is that he likes to be in "control" of everything as it's his house. Now, he's attempting to finish the painting and woodwork by himself as he feels that it will save money. So, everything is messed up which is very frustrating for me as I like order and completion of a project. My advice is to search for a contractor who can finish the job with the least amount of confusion. As we get older, living with a mess that will take 2 years to complete, with all the eventual clean-up, is overwhelming.
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Re: Get a good home contractor for extended work
posted at October 8, 2012 6:15 PM EDT
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That sounds very frustrating! After reading your story, your advice to find a good contractor seems imperative. I hope your remodel will take a turn for the better! |
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Re: Get a good home contractor for extended work
posted at October 9, 2012 1:00 AM EDT
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In Response to Re: Get a good home contractor for extended work: Thank you Jessica for agreeing with me. Today he spent a lot of time just using a very pungent paint remover for the baseboards in a bedroom as he wants to strip it down to the original wood. Why not just rip out the old baseboards, which are probably as old as the house, and put in new ones?? He was going to paint the ceiling, but found that it should be torn down as the wood is rotting. It seems that he uncovers a new problem every time he tries to do something. I really believe that this home remodelling stuff is a "male" thing, but it costs a lot more money in the long run. A contractor could do it in 2 weeks, but men are very stubborn.
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