re: Bad contractor videos on Youtube are stunning

I always tell everyone to check their work as often as possible. If something doesn't look right, it isn't. Make them change it. Just today, I had a contractor at my house replacing bricks that they put down crooked. I mean....how do you not know what a straight line looks like?

Their excuse was that all of the bricks were old, and the ends weren't perfectly square. I walked around the house and showed them the exact same perfectly laid bricks done by another contractor a year ago. Fix it, and don't give me any excuses for shitty work. They fricked up one brick on today's redo. I ripped it up, and they are coming back tomorrow to fix it.

Earlier this year, I spent every day watching over a contractor and his subs renovating my bathrooms. I can't tell you how many times I had to instruct them how to do things properly or get them to rip out work that they said was finished. One tile guy tried to tell me that my bathroom tile was straight, when it curved off of the wall about 4" over an 8ft span.

About 3/4 of the way through the bathroom renovations, I told the contractor to leave and I finished the work. I could've done in a month what took them three.

The only reasons these guys do this shoddy work is because they are lazy and people let them get away with it. They will do it every chance they get. Never let something that looks wrong go. Don't listen to what they say, and make them change it. Maybe 1% of them put out quality work that you don't need to check. frick the rest