Fun with Contractors!

[sigmadiva]

I don't know the state you live in, but you can look up licensed contractors.

http://www.contractors-license.org/index.html

You are going through what I fear the most. I was going to join Angie's List, but am too cheap to pay the membership fee.

Better Homes and Garden magazine had a web site you could use to find reputable contractors. I'll see if I still have it.

Good luck!!!

[ree-Xi]

Originally Posted by sigmadiva

I don't know the state you live in, but you can look up licensed contractors.

http://www.contractors-license.org/index.html

You are going through what I fear the most. I was going to join Angie's List, but am too cheap to pay the membership fee.

Better Homes and Garden magazine had a web site you could use to find reputable contractors. I'll see if I still have it.

Good luck!!!

Oh, they are licensed. All of them. Even with positive BBB ratings. I'm just a bit frustrated right now.

[sigmadiva]

Originally Posted by ree-Xi

Oh, they are licensed. All of them. Even with positive BBB ratings. I'm just a bit frustrated right now.

Great!

Have you spoken with the head contractor / company owner to let him/her know how you feel? You are spending your money. When you start talking money, people listen.


Just in case someone else wanted to know here is the Better Homes and Gardens web site: BHG.com/findapro.

[33girl]

As far as the bathroom, that shouldn't be a problem - do you want to make them go in the woods to pee? That's kind of degrading. If they're so scary and nasty that you can't trust them to be in your bathroom for 5 minutes, you probably should dismiss them immediately.

[ree-Xi]

Originally Posted by 33girl

As far as the bathroom, that shouldn't be a problem - do you want to make them go in the woods to pee? That's kind of degrading. If they're so scary and nasty that you can't trust them to be in your bathroom for 5 minutes, you probably should dismiss them immediately.

I still freaks me out, if I am home alone and someone (a man) that I haven't met before comes in the house. If that makes me a bad person, so be it. We don't always know the people coming to do the work beforehand - the "workers" are not always the people who came to do the estimate.

As for lunch, if people were here all day working, I would absolutely order pizzas and have snacks available. But for two hours? Sorry, Charlie. The half case of water and four Snapples should be enough for the two of you.

Originally Posted by ellebud

Fourteen week kitchen remodel...took 15 MONTHS....three times the price that was agreed on (contractor a former friend). I have two vanities, marble, moldings and lights in my den because new contractor can't show up. All licensed, all with excellent referrals...I think good contractors have a limited run...until they come to my house.

I get antsy when things are half-finished. I can't imagine how I'd do with things being chaotic for 14 weeks. Our pool - outside - is built, but we still have to deal with the dirt and rocks from the excavation - it's driving me crazy!!

And you are right - no matter how many referrals, licenses, etc., you never know how it will go until the job is complete. Which is why we always reward and praise jobs well-done.

[honeychile]

My pet peeve is when you're able to book 2-3 contractors for the same day, and NONE of them show up! Or, you have two things next to each other that need to be fixed, and then they both show up at the same time, making bothjobs twice as long!