re: OT Pool Owners- Questions

Floating change up gave good advice, I started a 35K pool remodel in early April and still haven't made the final payment because there are still things that need to be fixed. I held 10% until project completion, not water in the pool, project completion.

Make sure your contract spells out everything and put in writing in the contract that anything they expect as a change order must be given to you and signed before the work takes place or you aren't paying for it. My guy tried to add 2K in change orders after all the work was done. The kicker was they were things his foreman told me not to worry about because his guys would just take care of it when they were there without extra charge.

He threatened to sue me for final payment and the change orders, so I had an attorney send him a letter asking him to produce signed changed orders and spelling out the things that still need to be fixed for the project to be complete. It also told him I was having another company give me a quote to finish the job and I would take it out of the final 10% payment if he didn't address it in 2 weeks. That was a week ago and no word since he got the letter.

Just prepare yourself, you project manager won't ever show up to check peoples work, so take pictures every day of the contractors work. I did this and had the pictures to prove that his subcontractors had charged him for things that never even were done, and he had already paid them and was charging me.