one must imagine Sisyphus happy

[the_siobhan]

Workmen arrived at 9:00 this morning to install three (3) doors and finish off the framing of one (1) window. Ostensibly less than a day of work for two people.

Lords, ladies, and gentlethems, it is now 9:30 PM and they just left and only one door and the window are finished. Original Contractor did something funky with the framing of the doorways and nothing is squared properly and so they have to buy some more materials and come back later in the week to finish fixing it.

There was shouting. In Polish I think. They are very clearly not impressed with Original Contractor.

Any vindication I might have felt that Original Contractor was in fact just making it up as he went along is somewhat overshadowed that I have to pay tradie's rates for a second day of work.

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[greylock]

The licensing bodies here are SUPPOSED to be a signal of some degree of professionalism.
In practice, they take fees for reasons. My experience hasn't been great.

I expect whatever you do you'll get competing narratives: the work WAS done to the standard, the work WASN'T done to standard, or the work was done as good as it could be given the constraints of the House and Budget.

All three might be true, depending on.


But if nothing else you should be looking at the extras you've needed to do to rectify shoddy work. I guess that might be covered by someone's insurance?