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Old 01-09-2009, 09:05 PM   #1
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Unhappy Customer says its taking to long

Hello everyone, I really need some advice, I help my father run his remodeling company. He has been working on a bathroom remodel for the past 6 weeks. The home owner is a disabled single miserable lady who is never satisfied...They must of went to home depot 5 times over the vanity alone...Well she just called my father and told him to NOT come back..why??? well she sais its taking to long...now what??? The state is paying for this remodel, since she got disabled from a car accident so she needed a bathroom that was more accessible for herself...We have since put arround 3000 of our money for materials and so on...Can she really do this??

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Old 01-09-2009, 09:19 PM   #2
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Old 01-09-2009, 09:21 PM   #3
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Old 01-09-2009, 09:28 PM   #4
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6 Weeks - what laying mosaic tiles 1 at a time???
Assuming this is a "State" job, there has to be some sort of contract or job description
What state & what does all the paperwork state?
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Old 01-09-2009, 09:28 PM   #5
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Six weeks?

Must be a HUGE bathroom.
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Old 01-09-2009, 09:32 PM   #6
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I think I "must of" missed something.
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Old 01-09-2009, 09:34 PM   #7
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I'm not the first person to say this but...Six Weeks?
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Old 01-09-2009, 09:35 PM   #8
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It's Friday night...I'm beat-down tired...I don't even want to get started with this....however.

For your first post, Professionally Done Right , LLC, you are asking for moral support for a project that has turned sideways on you.

Then you say...can she do this? Uh, I don't know...what did your contract state the terms of the project to be? How was the project to be funded? Were you guys going to "front" everything and then collect 100% at the end?

This is a strange post....

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If you want to be a member of the forum, other than to drop in and ask a question, you might want to re-think the user name too.
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Old 01-09-2009, 09:56 PM   #11
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If you want to be a member of the forum, other than to drop in and ask a question, you might want to re-think the user name too.

so tell me who would rather have working for you

Custy from hell (is that hells kitchen in NYC?)
or the espanol's or maybe even the Per........never mind i might get yelled at
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Old 01-09-2009, 09:59 PM   #12
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go back to the house, kick the old hag in the knee cap and demand your check.

If you refuses kick her in the other knee cap and cash her social security check


Contract?? We don't need no stinkin contract WE ARE SPARTAN CONTRACTORS
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Old 01-09-2009, 10:02 PM   #13
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Wow I think the lady mite be right ? 6 weeks is a long time for a bath room . Two guys could bang out a regular bath room in 2 weeks easy . Most of the time we do 2 baths in 21/2 weeks. Seems like your plan went real bad. I would try to reason with her . If i have a problem customer I just smother them with service and happy thoughts. John
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go back to the house, kick the old hag in the knee cap and demand your check.

If you refuses kick her in the other knee cap and cash her social security check


Contract?? We don't need no stinkin contract WE ARE SPARTAN CONTRACTORS

I personally don't recommend doing that.





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6 weeks doesn't sound all tht bad. Below is a full gut and remodel I have in the planning stages. Scheduled to take no less than 6 weeks.


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Old 01-09-2009, 10:10 PM   #16
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6 weeks doesn't sound all tht bad. Below is a full gut and remodel I have in the planning stages. Scheduled to take no less than 6 weeks.


120-150 Sf?? 3 weeks tops with a helper.
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6 weeks is wayyy to long, unless you have to tipi toe in people house, remove studs thats backing into their bedroom and have to fix that before you get to your bathroom, i just did 2 bathrooms, 1 powder room, front entrance, laundry room, painted the whole house, rebuild cabinet, install 8 windows and 1 sliding door and lots of other little things and its week 3 i told them 1 month and babysat 2 helpers i expect to be finished by next week....................if buddy is taking 6 weeks jebus cripes someting wong
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go back to the house, kick the old hag in the knee cap and demand your check.

If you refuses kick her in the other knee cap and cash her social security check


Contract?? We don't need no stinkin contract WE ARE SPARTAN CONTRACTORS



You know six weeks isn't bad considering this is a state job.
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6 weeks is wayyy to long, unless you have to tipi toe in people house, remove studs thats backing into their bedroom and have to fix that before you get to your bathroom, i just did 2 bathrooms, 1 powder room, front entrance, laundry room, painted the whole house, rebuild cabinet, install 8 windows and 1 sliding door and lots of other little things and its week 3 i told them 1 month and babysat 2 helpers i expect to be finished by next week....................if buddy is taking 6 weeks jebus cripes someting wong

Yeah but, I saw you cheat on the shower glass deal?!?
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Geez, I'm doing one of the bathrooms in my place next month and I've blocked off 5 days to do it.

6 weeks is insanity.
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