What We Feared

This weekend has not been good. Further inspection of the house revealed Sam's true impact. The more we looked around the more crazy messed up shit we saw. Both Tony and I have been leaping from being very depressed to very angry. It disturbs us that someone can have so much lack of concern for their craftsmanship. And then to look us in the face and ask for money. The damage we've seen isn't just carelessness, either. It's laziness. He just wanted to get the job done as fast and sloppy as possible and preyed on our ignorance of construction to do so.

We have both put blood, sweat and tears into that house. And he might as well as just taken a dump in the middle of the floor. Everything he's done has been tainted by his neglect and now we have to clean it up. So many of the new things we've bought have been in some way ruined. I cannot express how much it angers me that I have to clean up after another asshole who was allowed in that house and just didn't care. Anyway, here's a list of things we've found wrong so far:

Cabinets

• knobs put in the wrong place; not fixable
• gouges in two of the panels; fixable: sanding and re-staining
• proper bottom molding and drawer pulls not installed; fixable: we have to do it ourselves

Floors

• large gouges in the circus room floor from where he used a stand saw; fixable: spot sanding and re-staining
• marks from where he stained the trim inside on the floor; fixable: spot sanding and staining as planned
• grout and some sort of plumbing poxy tracked through floors in all rooms; fixable: scrubbing

Doors

• bedroom frame splintered in more than one place; not fixable: can only cover with wood putty and stain
• circus room frame destroyed in several places, wood shattered in two spots on top of the frame, one side disconnected from adjoining frame, other side has circular marks like was hit with a hammer (the door at least still works); not fixable: can only cover with wood putty and stain
• bathroom frame has grout all over it; maybe fixable: scrubbing, sanding and re-staining

Front Door

• large gouge in face; not fixable: can only hide with stain
• door not properly sealed, water damage has already occurred; not fixable: can only seal and paint over damage to hide
• threshold not properly installed; fixable

Walls

• gouges in dry wall; fixable: putty and re-paint
• trim, joints filled with wood putty and just globed on; fixable: sanding and spot staining

Bathroom (we haven't thoroughly looked at the bathroom yet)

• caulk is dark grey (because he ran out of the matching grey and couldn't bother to tell anyone), obvious and ugly; maybe fixable: pull off caulk and re-caulk, need to finish caulking anyway
• mirror screws are in crooked, needed to be boxed in under dry wall and that wasn't done either; fixable: drilling screws in again

Dishwasher

• face kicked in at the corner causing the side to bow and catch on the face of the cabinets so it won't open without scraping; maybe fixable: either by calling the manufacturer and buying a new face or hammering the dent out.

Some of the things he was instructed to do correctly, not half-assed, and he still didn't do right. And other things he just did because he's stupid and lazy. Do you really have to instruct someone not to kick a dishwasher into place? Shouldn't they know better? But the answer to this, and possibly every other question that you can ask about this, is answered by the same four words: Sam is an asshole.