Sorry you had to deal with a sparky gone bad, but the reliability of sub contractors is precisely why I no longer do renovations for anyone but myself.
Being burned by a sub had devastating effects on my renovation company I owned, during the early stages of my self employment venture, I started more than 22 years ago. It not only lost me…
Sorry you had to deal with a sparky gone bad, but the reliability of sub contractors is precisely why I no longer do renovations for anyone but myself.
Being burned by a sub had devastating effects on my renovation company I owned, during the early stages of my self employment venture, I started more than 22 years ago. It not only lost me several, super wealthy clients, but also their friends, and family. This is why I almost never recommend any specific contractor to anyone, for anything. This is also why I currently, and will always, work alone, as long as I remain in biz for myself.
And then there are the Amish neighbors who show up in groups and put a 4,000 sq ft shop up finished perfectly in 4 days. It’s the culture! Find people of character who put God , family and community first and you won’t have to do everything alone by yourself!
my neighbor, a GC, as he got closer to 55 or so, did the same. Dumped all his subs for the same reason. One, he called him DIRTY DICK, was the drywall man. A real "dead-ender" as my Dad would say.
He came to work drunk sometimes, always drank with beer in his truck at the end of the day, as I recall. One time he cussed out the homeowner(!) for no apparent reason "up one side and down the other" as they say. Half million dollar house.
The thing is he’s not my sub he works directly for the business. My electrician would never do this. The strange thing is Mike the electrician is the one that originally told me about the job, of coarse after the fact. He just left out that it was him that brought these illegals in. Kind of a double stab and twist!!! I’ve done this business so much, pulling permits for other work, getting building permits through because I went to school with the building inspector for 14 or so years, pushing jobs through zoning and the planning board etc… trust he may have done me a favor. The kids are starting to take over and they are taking every dime out of the business they can. They’ll be fine and I’ll be fine. Sometimes you get what you give and the kids don’t have a lot of friends.
Sorry you had to deal with a sparky gone bad, but the reliability of sub contractors is precisely why I no longer do renovations for anyone but myself.
Being burned by a sub had devastating effects on my renovation company I owned, during the early stages of my self employment venture, I started more than 22 years ago. It not only lost me several, super wealthy clients, but also their friends, and family. This is why I almost never recommend any specific contractor to anyone, for anything. This is also why I currently, and will always, work alone, as long as I remain in biz for myself.
And then there are the Amish neighbors who show up in groups and put a 4,000 sq ft shop up finished perfectly in 4 days. It’s the culture! Find people of character who put God , family and community first and you won’t have to do everything alone by yourself!
my neighbor, a GC, as he got closer to 55 or so, did the same. Dumped all his subs for the same reason. One, he called him DIRTY DICK, was the drywall man. A real "dead-ender" as my Dad would say.
He came to work drunk sometimes, always drank with beer in his truck at the end of the day, as I recall. One time he cussed out the homeowner(!) for no apparent reason "up one side and down the other" as they say. Half million dollar house.
Jeff had all he could do to salvage the job.
The thing is he’s not my sub he works directly for the business. My electrician would never do this. The strange thing is Mike the electrician is the one that originally told me about the job, of coarse after the fact. He just left out that it was him that brought these illegals in. Kind of a double stab and twist!!! I’ve done this business so much, pulling permits for other work, getting building permits through because I went to school with the building inspector for 14 or so years, pushing jobs through zoning and the planning board etc… trust he may have done me a favor. The kids are starting to take over and they are taking every dime out of the business they can. They’ll be fine and I’ll be fine. Sometimes you get what you give and the kids don’t have a lot of friends.