Didn't finish

thfurnitureguy_4

He won't.So remember pride is a sin and in a week or so call him just to touch base,and explane your concern with somone else finishing your quality work. If he has the bad experiance with a Jonny come lately. He will hire you back. I don't think your set up charge and the cost to re do the other guys work will be all that bad??? Now is the time to be the salesman and explane the time and give the benefits for what your doing. You can't rush art... and you can't rush George either. LOL Best of luck.

Bill Nye_2

I got fired

The customer grew impatient and tossed me off the job. I started in March, repiped the boiler , replaced all the baseboard heat and did 5 rooms of radiant, remodeled the kithchen and bath, replaced the well tank and all the water pipe, moved the laundry and replaced all of the silcocks. The owner took the summer off to work outside of the house and now he is pissed because I can't jump when he is ready........ oh well. I wish the new plumber good luck.

I was busy lately, but right now we are all caught up with our "crisis" jobs, he could have had my undivided attention all week. This is my first time getting thrown off a job.

I did the wiring, I finished a lot more since the photo. The radiant is all tied in, there is a recirc pump between the valves at the indirect. The system had five zone valves and no way to isolate or purge the system. We changed the baseboard on a 5° day. I was just cleaning out my camera, so ......

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bob young

hangers not

Nice heating pipework,BILL , but someone better install some clevis hangers on that 4 " soil line before it starts sagging & twisting like spaghetti.

Bill Nye_2

wasn't me

House is 35 and I will assume that mess came with the house

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ScottMP

It happens Bill

Customers start to think they've done a renovation and they understand it all.

We have a architect who is doing his own house over. he set up a schedule that went by the wayside a month ago. Nothing was ordered on time, things were back ordered, it happens. BUT wifey poo is making his life miserable.

He called me Wed. to say the soapstone sink would be deliverd in Friday and installed by 12:00. I said my experience has been that it won't be on time and we'll be the bad guys because we won't have enough time to finish it. IT HAS TO BE DONE BY FRIDAY !!

The showed up at 2:00 pm and at 3:30 finished and said it tkaes two hours to dry but we could work on it. My man decided not to take a chance fooling with a custom ordered sink.

Mr Architect is ripping because he has to wait untill Monday for us to finish ..... PPUUULLLEEASE !

It happens to us all Bill.

You do Great work !

Scott

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Weezbo

Sad buh true...

Looks like a fine system. what is that spiral looking gizmo to A ?:) practicing my Canadian:)

i got gome last night at 10 30 and up three cups of coffee and running to ut a t stat on the boiler get pieces, get to the other job ,run finish some other place,buggin as to get the tubs and shower whirlpool in on another arrange to get the boiler for that place,need to ....arh....Where the Heck is that superman shirt of mine?...i guess this stuff looks easy when Your doing it Bill.

the City may approve the plans today on a rennovation so i got to get some pics of the old gravity system before some one starts "Hackin away" at it.

the act of consideration begins on our part and someday somewhere it may catch on...sorry to hear that the guy didnt realize the help he had....

George_10

Where is he going to find a quality contractor this time of year

He must think all contractors are the same and your standard of work will come automatically with the new guy.

Bet he will be sorry in the long run...

But it is a fact of business life that you never can satisfy all of the folks that you work for. Just a very high percentage of the total.

Empire_2

When to fire you customers

Although you were tossed for customer ignorance, If any of you guy's would like business mans opinion of what to do E-Mail me m2112@adelphia.net Great topic to set the great contractors minds at ease. Besides our time is more valuable than anyone, but we like to do the JOB correctly. Sorry about your inpatient customer, Mike T.

Aidan (UK)

If you were no good

you wouldn't be busy.

Expect a call in a few weeks/months when he realises his mistake.

Empire_2

True,

The work looks great.

jeff_51

my experience

most guys will shy away from coming in to someone elses job. I like the idea of calling the cust back. They can't do anything to you they haven't already done. Hope you have gotten all the money they owe you.

Burnerman

People SUCK.......Nice work though,Call him back and tell him you might be able to fit him in (when you got time) If he blows you off let it go. You did a fine job but for an A**hole that doesn't deserve your quality of work. It sucks when you bust your A** and do a job you're proud of and the cust doesn't admire your work in the least. A piece of dog poo that heated their house would excite them more. Is it our fault we don't put on the proper "show" or is it just people?

Bill Nye_2

Well, funny thing

the customer called around and got some prices and a little sticker shock. We are rehired and my partner went back last night to finish roughing the bathroom. I will finish up radiant job next week.

It's human nature to be impatient. People try to pin you for an answer when you are too busy and sometime I tend to tell them what they want to hear, "I'll try to get there next week" Next week always has it's own set of problems. All in good time, Rome wasn't built in a day.

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Weezbo

Perfect time to take some stock in your Self...

the Self is ahead, the Self is below, The self is to the left, the Self is to the right ,the self is in back ,the self is above , Verily the Self is all this ,Salute to the Self ,verily, he who meditates on God as the Self reaches as far as Self reaches he who meditates on God as the Self *~/:)

Keith_8

$$$$$$$$$$

Somehow I knew it was going to be about the money.

Maybe I'm crazy but the 1st thought I had when I read your post was that the guy felt he paid you a fortune and somebody else could finish up the loose ends for a lot less.

Why not? You did the meat and potato's somebody else will surley come in and provide the gravy for a lot less. Suprised the homeowner didn't verify this before firing you.

Yesterday I had a interesting conversation with a Facility Manager we do alot of service/install work for. He mentioned that my quotes for boiler installs are typically $1,000 to $1,500 more than another contractor he uses.

OK, you have my attention Mr. Facility Manager. How did the last boiler replacement come out that we bid and lost to this contractor? Not sure, he has been rescheduling for the last 4 weeks, the owner is getting frustrated. Is it that the contractor under bid the job or is it that he is using it as fill in work and when it's installed doesn't matter to him he isn't making much on it any way?

This is the same F.M. that is wondering why he is spending $ this year on the same items he spent $ on last year. Hello it is called Preventetive Maintenance. This needs to be done every year.

Sorry for the rambling and getting off your topic.

Keith