sdowney717
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- Old Glory
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- 1970 Egg Harbor 37 extended salon model
Company has a good rep.
They were supposed to jack up and level the first floor of the house we inherited to sell.
So yesterday, around noon, go over to see.
Talking to the 3 workers, they act like they dont have a clue, about for example the bathroom door frame, and the entry doors to the living room needing to be jacked straight.
Then I talk to the lead worker, and he knows a little more. I point out these 2 areas, and he says did Steve know about these issues? Steve is the one who wrote the work orders. Yes Steve and I and my wife talked with Steve about those things.
Then the lead tells me where he put the extra girders, and I am thinking why just 2 feet away from the main central girder??? Would you not space a girder equidistant from the center to the exterior wall???
I will crwal under the ouse Saturday and compare to the emailed plan we got from Steve about where these new girders and power posts were supposed to go.
As you walk in and look at the house, NOTHING has changed. All the doors are still off kilter and the floor still has a sag. We put a level on it before the lift, adn will need to check, but don't see anything has improved at all.
Company does not get paid money till they finish the work. If I find out they put these new girders in a wrong position according as shown in their own work order, I do have a case to make them do the work again, moving them don't !?
I think a child could have done a better job. It is horrible, IMO, what they left.
Looking t the work plan, rear girder for bathroom area, supposed to be 4 foot from exterior wall, girder under stairway and foyer 9 foot from front exterior wall, lead worker said they put girders 10 foot from exterior walls? I will get under there and measure.
After I looked at the results, I really got angry. We still have 5 interior doors that can not shut and latch is off by about 1/2 inch. I specifically wanted the bathroom door to shut and be lined up and the top of the door was shaved!
Plus they did not follow their repair plan.
I was told by Steve, 4 sagging joists would be SISTERED. And it shows on the plan, but when talking to the workers, he claimed they did no joist sistering.
The area is still sagging when I step there, I can tell.
Plus he said 10 foot back from exterior wall. No where in the plan are there any girders to be placed back 10 foot from exterior wall.
For this work the charge was supposedly $7500.
Clearly, they did not do what they said they would do.
What are my options?
How would you talk to these people?
I am going to have to call to complain they did not do the work as described. And the house is not repaired to a reasonable expectation.
Here was what they were supposed to do.
They were supposed to jack up and level the first floor of the house we inherited to sell.
So yesterday, around noon, go over to see.
Talking to the 3 workers, they act like they dont have a clue, about for example the bathroom door frame, and the entry doors to the living room needing to be jacked straight.
Then I talk to the lead worker, and he knows a little more. I point out these 2 areas, and he says did Steve know about these issues? Steve is the one who wrote the work orders. Yes Steve and I and my wife talked with Steve about those things.
Then the lead tells me where he put the extra girders, and I am thinking why just 2 feet away from the main central girder??? Would you not space a girder equidistant from the center to the exterior wall???
I will crwal under the ouse Saturday and compare to the emailed plan we got from Steve about where these new girders and power posts were supposed to go.
As you walk in and look at the house, NOTHING has changed. All the doors are still off kilter and the floor still has a sag. We put a level on it before the lift, adn will need to check, but don't see anything has improved at all.
Company does not get paid money till they finish the work. If I find out they put these new girders in a wrong position according as shown in their own work order, I do have a case to make them do the work again, moving them don't !?
I think a child could have done a better job. It is horrible, IMO, what they left.
Looking t the work plan, rear girder for bathroom area, supposed to be 4 foot from exterior wall, girder under stairway and foyer 9 foot from front exterior wall, lead worker said they put girders 10 foot from exterior walls? I will get under there and measure.
After I looked at the results, I really got angry. We still have 5 interior doors that can not shut and latch is off by about 1/2 inch. I specifically wanted the bathroom door to shut and be lined up and the top of the door was shaved!
Plus they did not follow their repair plan.
I was told by Steve, 4 sagging joists would be SISTERED. And it shows on the plan, but when talking to the workers, he claimed they did no joist sistering.
The area is still sagging when I step there, I can tell.
Plus he said 10 foot back from exterior wall. No where in the plan are there any girders to be placed back 10 foot from exterior wall.
For this work the charge was supposedly $7500.
Clearly, they did not do what they said they would do.
What are my options?
How would you talk to these people?
I am going to have to call to complain they did not do the work as described. And the house is not repaired to a reasonable expectation.
Here was what they were supposed to do.