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Our renovation as of December 18, 2006 |
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| We started working with a contractor in July 2006. Things went
relatively well (if you forget about the gas line being severed, as well as
the water and sewer) and we got some really neat things done. However,
in later October he got a "better offer" on another job, left abruptly and
things went sideways. This has cost us a lot of time and frustration,
and is now costing the contractor a lot of money. |
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The Roof
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| The roof. We finished paying for the roof on October
26, 2006. This is almost a month after we had made the final
payment on the roof and skylight installation. |
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| West side of covered porch over bedrooms |
East side of covered porch over bedrooms. Where the
tarp is located, the water went through the tarp and did damage to the
bedroom ceiling and floor below. |
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| Tin that flew off and hit hot tub cover |
Hot tub cover with scratches. These scratches
in the cover are about four feet in length. There is also a hole about
a foot long on the other side of the hot tub cover where the contractor
dropped a piece of flashing on the cover and made a hole in it. We now
have to replace the cover. |
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| Roof cap section missing off very end of carport. It
is still missing as of December 18, 2006 |
Section of roof over the kitchen. This
was replaced but now the vent is leaning at a 45 degree angle. |
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| Second view of section of roof over kitchen. |
Same vent in December after roofing replaced - leaning at an
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The Sundeck
| After the last rain storm |
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In the center of the picture is the drain, which we
paid over $500 extra to have installed. It's the only dry point on the deck. |
Here is another view of the deck - the water is actually
flowing up against the house. At the bottom of the door is unprotected
flooring from inside the house. Dry rot, anyone? |
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The Roof Part 2 and Skylight
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| This is a piece of our roof on December 14, 2006, one month
after we had finished paying for the roof. This piece of roofing has
no screws and is bent backwards halfway up from the wind. When Trudy
went in the house to phone Brant to tell him about the roof, a six foot by
two foot skylight flew out of the roof on the south side, landing where
Trudy had been standing five minutes earlier. |
Here is a photo of the 2 x 6 skylight that flew off the
house during the windstorm after contractor re-secured it. It landed
on the patch of grass in front, approximately five minutes after Trudy was
standing in that location. Apparently it hadn't been secured to the
roof. |
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| Yellow circles show the damage to the roof from the flying
skylight and the area of the skylight that was damaged. Roof has been
temporarily sealed with mastic. |
Detail of damage - click to see larger copy |
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| Here is a mid shot of the skylight - you can see the bottom
right hand corner, where the skylight hit the ground. |
Here is a closeup of the skylight - you can see the bent
metal on both levels of the frame. It looks like there is no other
damage to the roof in that area, so apparently the skylight just went
sailing off the roof, leaving us with a 2 foot by 6 foot hole in the roof
just before a major rainstorm started. Normally neither Brant or Trudy
would have been home for hours after this happened, so we would have come
home to a big hole in the roof and water in the attic - and the livingroom
below. |
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The Bedroom Damaged by
Unfinished Roof Leaks
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| The contractor didn't complete the roof before he left to do
another job. Because he left a tarp on the roof and it blew off, we
suffered damage to one of the bedrooms below. This is the ceiling of
the bedroom. You can see the yellow patches where the water leaked
from the roof, through the attic insulation, and through the ceiling of the
room onto the floor. |
Closer shot of one of the wet patches on the roof. The
contractor left the wet insulation sitting in the attic for four weeks after
the leak took place.
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| Detail of bedroom ceiling. Gyproc is dimpled and some
of the texturing has fallen off the ceiling. |
Closeup of corner of the bedroom floor - stained from
leakage. |
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| Closeup of piece of flooring in bedroom below the fan.
Water leaked through the fan and stained and raised the flooring. |
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The Livingroom
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| This is our living room as of December 18, 2006. We
asked that the wall be moved out and new windows be installed. It was
a relatively minor thing to do. Work started on this reno on October
15, 2006. Here we are two months later - ONE WEEK after a wall
of plastic and 2 by 4's was taken out of the livingroom. The
contractor simply left on October 28, with the job partily done, and didn't
return until over a month later. We were left with furniture piled up
on one side of the living room, a wall of plastic and 2 by 4's down the
middle of the room, and an unfinished section on the other side of the
barrier. How depressing. |
Here is the heater in the living room. I asked
to have it centered under the window and was told I should "buy a smaller
heater" so it would be centered.
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| This is the glass wall at the end of the living room.
The contractor had agreed to build it, then got one row of the glass in and
left. He put a piece of plywood and plastic over the 6 ft by 5 foot
hole in the wall. After several weeks, Trudy finally decided to do the
glass wall herself, and had to take off the first layer of glass as it
hadn't been properly spaced or secured. She finished it two days
before the temperature dropped to minus 10. |
Here is detail of the bottom of the glass wall. See
the damp patch in the right hand corner? This is coming in from the
outside. Trudy was told that it was because there was no gutter on the
outside right now. However, when it isn't raining, the patch is still
damp. |
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| Here is a closeup of the damp patch in the corner of the
living room. |
Here is a shot of the glass wall from the outside of the
house. There is now an electrical plug in place below the wall. |
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GFI'd plug between the two bedrooms doesn't have any
electricity. |
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| Detail of plug - electrical code calls for GFI plugs on
outside walls. |
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