Off The Reservation

Yeah, I thought that was premature for today since he's contracted for the whole job. If there isn't serious improvement after day 2 when he has been asked to take corrective measures, I think I'll pull the plug.

Just thought I'd update this. On Sunday, after the clown was "done," we discovered that when reinstalling some of the baseboards, he.....wait for it.....shot NAILS through one of our pocket doors! How incompetent can you be? So I e-mailed him that it had to be immediately corrected. Then we started to get pissed about the fact that we could still see the old paint color coming through and I decorated my walls with dozens of post-its noting where further paint is required.

He ever so graciously agreed that he needed to fix the door but is fighting about the paint. Says he should charge us for a second coat, blah blah blah. I'm making the husband deal with it.

He spent about 6 hours at the house yesterday recoating areas that we had marked with post-its and fixing the door. Made my husband sign a release that is in no way binding upon me, annnnnnd.....over the course of the day, divulged that he is blind in one eye. We're done with it and him, but sheesh.

Do you have textured walls?

Ah. Sometimes those textures are really tricky. I put knockdown in my house, & it took a ton of paint to cover.