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2021-05-21 -Short Attention Span Theater-

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Posted by Besoeker 2021-05-21 04:32|| || Front Page|| [12 views ] Top

#1 For several years now a relative in the Denver area has been telling me about many problems dealing with building contractors and their employees, doing routine house maintenance and upgrade work. Even though contractors were supposedly vetted and also got glowing reviews online from other supposed customers, their work is very often slipshod and grossly substandard. About half the time the responsibility for this is clearly on the contractor himself. One contractor, trying to excuse a slew of mistakes, tried to blame her and her husband for watching his crew at work, saying they made his people nervous and cause them to screw up.

Posted by Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 2021-05-21 11:45|| 2021-05-21 11:45|| Front Page Top

#2 One example among many - workers had to cut into the power supply lines to the A/C and used a wire nut to refasten two wires. When the A/C was turned out, it hummed loudly & didn't come up to full power. Owners shut it down and inspected the recent work. Husband found the new wire nut, pulled on it lightly, and the whole assembly fell apart. The worker had simply jammed the wire nut on the two wires, didn't tighten it and didn't check for the join's security in any way.

Posted by Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 2021-05-21 12:10|| 2021-05-21 12:10|| Front Page Top

#3 Over 30 years ago one morning I discovered half the circuits in my house were off, the other half were still on. I went to the electric service panel and discovered one of the 2 hot lines going into the service panel was completedly dead. Everything had been fine the night before. This is a city-owned and operated electric utility. Office tried to get me to call an electrician on my own $ to check this out. I countered by saying this deficit by saying the fault was almost certainly in the city's purview. They caved and sent out city workers to check my line. They discovered that a temporary junction between their lines coming from the pole and their line going down to my service panel had been left in place for decades after the last upgrade of the house's electric service. The temporary junction was easily seen from the outside, and should not have been approved by the city inspector way back when. The city removed the 2 temporary fittings, cleaned the corrosion and installed 2 permanent fittings, on their own $. I won't go into all my water lines that froze and burst over the last 40 years because the original installation consisted of copper pipes in uninsulated exterior walls...

Posted by Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 2021-05-21 12:20|| 2021-05-21 12:20|| Front Page Top

#4 Frank Zappa - "Flakes"

Posted by Mullah Richard 2021-05-21 14:49|| 2021-05-21 14:49|| Front Page Top

#5 their work is very often slipshod and grossly substandard

A common dodge, "That's described in our quality standards declaration. You should have gotten one when you signed the work authorization."

The refrigerator was straighter than the wall.
The wall was in their allowable deviation of vertical.

Posted by Skidmark 2021-05-21 17:58|| 2021-05-21 17:58|| Front Page Top

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