The work started a little over a month ago (looking at previous posts, it was supposed to be done on May 2nd, but alas...) and was "finished" on Friday, May 30th. There were days of no-shows that caused some of the delays, but the major delay (and frustration for our contractor, I'm sure) was the toilet. We had picked it out and found it at Home Depot for quite a good deal - $200 for a dual flush smooth bowl finish toilet. So we ordered it up. We were told it was in stock, but it turns out the one they have in stock is the one they have on display and are unwilling to give up. It was back-ordered... and HD kept telling us it would be in on the next shipment, then the next one, then the next one. Anyway, our contractor then took it over (probably quite fed-up with not getting paid) and got the manager at HD to agree to pay him for the price of the toilet from another store because he was giving up on them. Anyway, Coons Bath Designs (of Tincap, I believe) came to our rescue and sold us the toilet for about $300. Kevin will get to get that money back from HD - good luck to him!
I don't know if it's his finishing ways or if it's him being fed-up with the job where everything went wrong or what it is, but I'm not impressed with the finishing. I put some notes on the pictures to show some of the issues. He was great in all other respects though - he came when he said he would (his "guys" on the other hand..., but that's not really his fault), he had a great personality, answered all our questions, added to the job as we asked for more with no issues, ...
Like I said, it's really just the finishing I'm not impressed with. We'll fix up what we want to fix up though and move on. At least we have a functional bathroom downstairs now! Hurray!!
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