So far, no good. We stupidly hired Rusco to do a ridiculously expensive PARTIAL remodel of our bathroom, gutting it to the studs because a previous homeowner did some weird stuff with the bathroom that just had to go, like building a strange "shelf" thing over the vanity, toilet and tub, with exposed can lighting. The drywall was rotting in places because caulk would not stick to the old tub, so we needed it all removed and replaced. Mind you, WE are responsible for painting, flooring, lighting and installing the toilet and medicine cabinet, and WE had to pull up the old linoleum. They're just putting up the drywall, and installing the tub and vanity. We're doing 2/3 of the job ourselves! No doubt I'll have to be the one that has to clean up all the dust/debris from it, too as my house was filthy just from the demo--they did not hang plastic to contain the dust. We could have done this whole thing ourselves much more cheaply and efficiently and in a shorter amount of time, but we're older and are tired of having to rely on DIY for everything, anymore. It's why they invented contractors, right? RIGHT???
FOUR times we had to keep telling them to take that shelf/soffit thing down. Apparently "gut it to the studs" is too difficult to understand. Anyway, they did the demo, and found the chimney pipe to the furnace (it hadn't been detected earlier when a guy came out to confirm the measurements and look for what might be behind the walls), which would affect the measurements for the vanity we've waited 2 months for. They had their HVAC people come out, and they said they could probably "move it" by installing some bends to put it back into the wall cavity, instead of out into the middle of the room, which would require framing around it. We were fortunate that the one wall was oddly 6" deep instead of the typical 4", so he was certain it could be done. Said he'd talk to a guy at the office to find out. That was a week ago. No calls from anybody to say whether it could be done or not, no calls to find out where we go from here, or if we're just going to be stuck without a bathroom for the duration of the ownership of our home. The HVAC issue is the thing holding everything up. Until that's done, there can be no electricians, no drywall, no vanity, no tub.
They are notorious for not returning phone calls. You have to harass them to get them to call you back with any answers, and forget about knowing a day or time that any of their subcontractors might show up. You might get fired from your job when you take a day off, expecting them to come do something, ANYTHING, and they don't show. Repeatedly.
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