Month: June 2018

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I finally did it

I finally fired the Builder. What an asshat.

After firing him I started looking up ‘contractor from hell’ stories on the internet. Found a story that is shockingly similar to mine.  Although the renovation details themselves are different, the behavior of the contractor is spot on.

http://www.contractorsfromhell.com/my-horror-story/ 

Over 21 months of constant nagging on my part and empty promises on his part to get what should have been a 4 month project done. During that same time houses in my booming neighbourhood were torn down, new basements dug,  two new houses built on each lot, complete with landscaping, driveways, and new tenants, all before my asshat Builder could finish an addition. He did, however, take several hot vacations with his family of 5, and had all winter to ‘sit on his butt’ (his words).

I wish I’d read the ‘contractor from hell’ story last year at this time, and maybe I’d have had the courage to cut him loose then.

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Powder room door

I’m using doors, windows, trim, and flooring from my grandmother’s house (which is now abandoned). This is the door for the powder room, which is a pocket door.

Since the doors are shellacked, I merely wiped down the door and added a couple of new coats of shellack and it looks wonderful.

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Then I installed it (definitely a two person job) and discovered that the effing builder had used drywall screws too long for the pocket space, such that when the door slid into the pocket it was scratched by the screws.

 

 

 

 

This is a 100 year old door, in mint condition. It survived 100 years of use in a family of 5 and my builder scars it with his effing malicious idiocy.

So, I had to dig out the screws from the already taped/mudded drywall and replace them with shorter screws.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What an effing idiot.