freedomatlast
Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
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It seems increasingly difficult to hire good help for anything these days or to have any quality services performed at a reasonable price. Since I usually do just about everything myself, this usually doesn't present a problem for me. But recently, since I'm currently busy with a consulting gig, I did hire a contractor to do some extensive renovations on a rental property. Overall the experience so far has been extremely positive, except for plumbing work the contractor hired out to a subcontractor. The first picture shows how the plumber left the shower valve hanging, with absolutely no support except for the Pex lines and fittings. Since they wanted to close up the wall today to stay on schedule, I spent some time last night ripping out the valve, adding wood for support behind the valve, changing out the plastic nutted fittings with brass since you couldn't tighten the plastic nutted fittings since they hit the support brackets and then added screws in the brackets and support for the lines. This is in an area where there is no access from the wall on the other side, so it had to be done right.
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