Contractor Punking Me

Bobby Walsh · 2004-12-15T23:23:33+00:00

I am adding a bathroom to an empty room upstairs. There is no plumbing upstairs, but there is a bathroom right below the new bathroom. 1920's house.I repeatedly asked the contractor during the negotiation if it would be a problem to run the pipes. He kept telling me he'd been doing this for years, yada yada - never a problem.We made him take the thing out of the contract that said it could cost unlimited dollars to run the pipes, we capped it at $250.Now the underling is telling me they are going to run the pipes down the corner of a closet below the new bathroom, and case it in with a fake wall.I consider this a lame shortcut. He kept telling me it's not a problem to run pipes in the walls, now he doesn't want to do it? Well, obviously it's not if you're just going to run the pipes down a closet!!Am I being unreasonable to protest this move??

Dec 15, 2004 21 Replies

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Chris Perdue 21 years ago

magnetic and friction catches are our friends...

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trader4 21 years ago

"So, Do you really want to cut the upper and lower plates completely in two?"

You mean like cheap plumbers usually do and then let the floors sink years later from all the joists and beams they cut apart?

Of course in this case, without actually seeing it, it's hard to tell what the right or best way to do the job is. I wouldn't really object to a chase unless it took up a significant portion of the closet space. If it's cedar lined, then they would also have to re-install the cedar.

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