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| reply to Willy
Re: Permits and inspection question? I actually am going to side with Burnt on this.
As a person who deals with the pros on a regular basis that is work related. I have seen those Licensed/Bonded pros do jobs that a handyman can do better.
for instance, this just happened last week.
The contractor who did my prep work for my pad came to me and told me about how another contractor that was well known for quality work, basically ripped a customer off in quality and quantity.
The customer was charged 6k for thier pad work, and another contractor was hired to do an additional part of the project, because the original wanted more $$.
When the 2nd contractor came to do the project, he disconvered that the 1st guy had basically dumped the pad dirt (about 12 yards) on top of the original yard and called it done, then charged them for 52 dumptruck loads of clay. so yeah.. crazy quality professionals.
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| Yeah, tell me about those "qualified" professional electricians--I had to re-wire several junction boxes that a state-licensed electrician wired in my house 40 years ago. Just last week, when I was renovating a section of roof and had to disconnect some BX armored cable from a junction box, I saw the most shocking thing: the connections had no wirenuts on them! Bare copper, out in the open, in junction box!
I had another connection fail, and two other places where he put stuff together and caused wires to be pinched and broken off. Overhead lights that stopped working 1 year after he wired them. In 2006, I found the pinched wire and fixed it. The light works for the first time in 43 years.
I'm not saying most handymen know what they're doing, and I DO have some formal training, back in the knob & tube days, but what passes for professional work is sometimes awful. |
