Comment on Botched structural repair?

davad@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• neomachino@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I assume it’s the second. He told me he does this all the time and no one’s ever complained. After letting him talk for 20 minutes on the phone and him saying things that I knew weren’t right, I told him I did general construction for 6 years and I’ve done jobs like this before. He tried telling me I was just upset then because I could’ve done it myself for less money. In fact I was so excited to not have to do something, theres so much to do here and I’m beat. I assume most people would just look at it and see metal on wood and think it’s good.

  Thanks for the sanity check.

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  • davad@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    If this needed a permit + inspection, that could be a good route to getting the contractor to fix the work. Or having it inspected by the engineer.

    Also, if you have a trusted third party fail the inspection and the contractor doesn’t fix it, you have good documentation for whatever next step you take (court, refusing payment, etc).

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