Another case on the People's Court, of a guy hired to assemble a kit for a log home. He was to be paid 62 thousand, but he and the owner kept arguing about the doors and windows. The contractor said they sent the wrong ones. They said they'd sold 65 of these and only had problems with one other builder. He m anaged to phrase a question right so they gave him the right answer, Do you ever have to put in padding to fill a gap. He says they said Yes, but that still doesn't say it was required in this case. He also say he offered to fix it, but the owner, and he I think, said they'd been arguing about this for weeks and he kept refusing, until the owner kicked him off the site.
The owner had lots of pictures and they looked bad.
Of courze the testimony is edited to squeeze 3 trials in an hour minus commercials, etc. But I thought the owner was right. And he won, and got money for the second contractor to correct the problems.
They didn't quite say it but I think a contractor with 40 years experience is more likely than a novice to look at the parts of the kit and think, I can assemble this, without reading every line of the instructions. So he got it together but there were gaps around the windows and doors, that rain could enter.
The owner also said screws should be used to put in the windows, not nails. Is t hat true? Is that because windows might have to be replaced 30 years later because they wear out?