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Have you ever wondered what can happen if you hire an unqualified contractor?

Home remodel, or improvement projects can be very challenging for someone who has no experience in construction.  Likewise, if you have not hired a contractor before you may not know what to look for during the hiring process.

Recently, we were called out to look at a bathroom remodel. The homeowner was distraught because they had already hired, and paid someone to do the work, and their bathroom was a mess. This was a rental house and they already had tenants move in. The tenants had been there about a month already.

Here is a preview of what we saw when we went out to look at the bathroom.  

Now you won't believe what this is, stuck on the walls and floor of the shower... It's vinyl stick on tiles! The grout lines have caulking to fill the gaps. Apparently the tub had been removed, but the plumbing valve had not been raised so that you had to turn on the shower from about knee height.

Of course, the first thing we asked was "How long has this been like this?" You could smell the mold throughout the house. The shower floor was about to give way as it was not waterproofed at all and the water was just running down into the floor cavity underneath.

Wait till you see what it looked like when we tore it out! There's a handy dandy little pop bottle funnel under that drain in the floor!

This poor homeowner was in desperate need of our help. They had hired someone as a contractor without checking for references, without checking for a business license and without knowing if the contractor was even insured. They paid this person almost $3,000.00 to do this to their property. These are things you need to know if you are going to hire someone to complete a home remodel. 

Needless to say, we gave this poor homeowner an estimate and got their project started right away. Time was of the essence since the whole bathroom was dripping wet with water and had been that way for over a month. Concern of the framing and joists rotting away would come soon.

Here is what we uncovered under the shower floor. This was the so called "contractors" idea of a sloped floor for a shower. Click on the picture to see a larger view, but here is a description of what you see. It is a few sticks cut to size and pointing toward the drain. Then a layer of OSB was installed with some sort of glue (that is the white) over the top of the stick wedges. Then the tiles were stuck directly to the OSB.

Now as if that wasn't bad enough, look at this picture! This is that pop bottle drain I was telling you about. It was shoved into the drain pipe and screwed to the bottom of the tile. Then clear silicone was filled in around it. This is a true nightmare for any unsuspecting homeowner. Not only was the drain a joke, but the plumbing was too.

This next picture shows the raw plumbing. As you can see the valve is duct taped to prevent it from dripping. The problem was... it didn't work! LOL... it was dripping at a steady pace inside the wall, and seeping through the wall into the master bedroom closet.

Once we removed all of the mess and let the place dry out we started repairs and putting everything together correctly... the way it should have been done in the first place. 

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