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Posted by Goedjn on December 14, 2006, 1:20 pm
On 13 Dec 2006 20:31:43 -0800, edavid3001@gmail.com wrote:
>First contractor -- paid ~$1400 for wood to frame basement. As soon as
>wood arrived, he passed this job onto another contractor.
>
>We are 6 months into it and the second contractor has done most all of
>the framing with some minor areas needing boxed & the inspectors minor
>changes.
>
>He's also ran electrical, though I did have to pay another electrician
>$1000 to finish up pre-framing electric work. I paid to have the
>cable/phone/network ran myself.
>
>So this guy's done the framing for 1000 square feet, he has done
>electric work, and he has purchased the drywall, tape, and mud. I
>have since paid for a plumber..
>
>Anyway, this second guy walked off the job with $6000 paid to him. For
>doing framing, some of the electrical, and purchasing the drywall
>materials. He passed the job onto another person.
>
>I need to figure out how much what he did was worth, and I am not sure
>how to do that. The drywall, while impressive looking down there, is
>not that expensive afaik. We're talking maybe $500 for that material,
>right? How can I try and calculate what the labor for the framing is
>worth? It took him 6 months, but he would be gone for 3 weeks at a
>time doing nothing to my basement. And then what the amount of
>electrical work he did was worth? There is not an accounting of the
>hours he worked so I can't simply do hours X $50 for example.
>
>This is a lower wage area, in a small US city.
>
>Thanks!
If you have a contract, get someone else to finish, and
pay the guy what walked whatever the difference is.
If he wants more than that, make HIM justify it.
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