Once upon a time, there was a Tile Guy. He was very competent, came in and did his job well, and cleaned up after himself. He tiled the bathroom upstairs, the shower walls and floor, and the kitchen floor. 
A personable fellow, he was a joy to be around, and left the job without a trace of his being there. The Whitesells were delighted.
(And then I woke up laughing...hard...
or maybe I was crying...it's so hard to tell the difference sometimes...)
I wish so much that I could tell you that story! Oh, please! And maybe I could finish it with "I even recommended him to my friends!" YES!
HA! Instead, I have plodded through torturous weeks, day after day of bracing myself: what is coming next??!?
I will say that he did a good job with the bathroom floor and shower walls. THEN there was the shower floor. Finish that one, and it's covered with haze, I can't tell the colors I have picked out from the grout. I clean it up -- repeatedly -- and see that "Hmmm, when I turn on the water in this shower for 15 seconds, the water pools up in this corner and on this side..."
Days Later, he tears out the shower floor and starts over. The SECOND time around, it actually looks good, nice slant, drains well. I am cleaning it up after he leaves, and hey, wait...he didn't tile the inside portion under the threshold...
Days Later, he comes back to tile that little part, and also do the kitchen floor...he leaves, and wait, why does this row of tiles in the kitchen look so slanted, and why did he do such a good job cutting around this corner and such a terrible job with this identical corner on the other side?
Days Later, he is back to re-do that row and corner in the kitchen. He leaves, and THEN Frank notices the shower upstairs, the new underneath tile he laid by the threshold...he didn't grout it!??! (I'm dying a slow and painful death, here...)
Days Later, he comes back (4 days ago) for that missed grout. He leaves, THEN the carpenter drills into the kitchen floor to put in the refrigerator water line...drills through the grout and the tile CRACKS...why??! Because the Tile Guy left spaces in the cement there, and he didn't do a complete job with that layer, there was a cracked tile needing to be replaced and re-grouted. Sigh.
Well, HERE is your CHANCE! Please, give me some perspective!! I'm asking everybody for a few sentences of your own Contractor Horror Story. I know you have a better story than mine. Let's hear it! I may as well laugh a little from YOUR hindsight story. :)
Love, Kari
Happy New Year 2023
3 years ago
4 comments:
From Stake Conference: "if it doesn't affect your salvation, it isn't a problem".
That's all I have - sorry!
I nod my head with empathy. Our trim carpenter that did our base boards when we replaced the floor last year due to the flood could be a relative of your tile guy. After every frustrating day, or if I pointed something out, he would say, "I'll finish that tomorrow." His tomorrows added up to 3 weeks or so of nonsense. Crazy. It is an industry I do not understand. Watch the movie "The Money Pit" with Tom Hanks. Well, on second thought, it might be too painful to watch right now. Wait a year.
i do feel so sorry for you...i remember when i found out i was pregnant our job had started already...when i was going to deliver i begged them to leave...then when we dug our pool, it started raining for 7 weeks...but, it will end someday and you'll be thrilled...
Contractors are one of a kind for sure. Our sad story is that they just don't show up with not even a phone call. Our contractor who helped start our house decided to quit and take a another job. It was very hard at first because you feel so helpless but all is well now. Where did you find this guy?
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