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Originally Posted by sky's
this unfortunelty will become more and more common when people bring in out of state help. once the job is done why would they return? very sad.
thats why ill always stand by this old saying. "real New Englanders trust and support there locals and neighbors" i've had some of my long term customers tell me we didnt call anybody else why would i? good luck hopefully you can resolve this issue.
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I don't think bringing in out of state help has anything to do with it. Many of the contractors I have seen folks have trouble with are local. One of the reasons I have seen people bring contractors in from out of state, is that the local guys are either to expensive, or unreliable... My neighbor brought several contractors up, and paid for accommodations for them to get some aspects of they home done, because the local contractors, would show up as promised, or got 90% of the work done, and where slow to complete the last 10%...
From my own experience, my father want to move electrical service location and upgrade to 200 Amps when we rehab'd our cottage.... Because none of the electricians want such as small project they gave us insane bids....stating that the labor alone was going to be 40 hours... As we didn't need a license electrician, and with both of use being electrical engineers we handled it ourselves... We got the new service wired up in less than 2 days, had the electric company and inspector come out on the Second day, and where hooked up with only the need to remove the old service panel, by noon.... The inspector was pissed because non of his buddies got the job (he recomended I believe at least on of them), and our work was beyond code.... The electric company just laughed, because as hard as the inspector tried, he couldn't find an issue that stopped the completion of the project.....
The work isn't hard, unfortunately most people would rather have it done, because it can be inconvenient... We did spend a night in the dark... The contractors know this, and they know if person A doesn't hire them, person B will....
I digress you have to know how your dealing with, my family has been lucky, manly because we are capable of doing the work, at time we recognize somethings are just easier to have done... We vet our contractors, and usually incentivize them, by offering them multiple jobs based on the successful completion of the preceding job.... The last contractor we used, actually ended up I believe doing 4 projects for us in total... if something needed "warranty work" he fixed it will doing the next project... When all was said and done, he worked off and on for I think for 2 years.... He fixed storm damage initially, then re-leveled the camp and improved the pilings the house sat on, did some plumbing work, and last came out and assisted me when I needed an extra set of hands (this turned into me being the extra set of hands for him)... when it ended we both agreed the major work was done for the foreseeable future...
Moral of this ramble, good contractors are out there, unfortunately by the time you need them a second time, they have generally retired.....Thank goodness my boys are now grown, and when the roof needs to be done next we will do it ourselves.... Hopefully that will be the last big project for the camp, during my tenure of ultimate responsibility.