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 09-01-2005, 21:36 Post: 115797
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Contact your local construction contractors board. Did you get the contract in writing? That would help.






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Not sure what your state laws are but he can likely put a lien on your house. They like to abuse that capability to extort money out of people.

We had a situation like this when we built our house. The finish carpenter (who USED to be a good friend of our GC) quoted us a price in writing. As construction proceeded there were adds and deletes from the job, none of it in writing. He verbally assured myself, my wife, and the GC that the changes were a wash and we were on budget. But he fell way behind on the job and refused the GC's offer to bring in additional help. He was trying to do all the finish carpentry in a 4000 sf custom home by himself. The GC was putting a lot of pressure on him to catch up, but he put us six weeks behind schedule and the GC and him had huge arguments over it. He finally finished the job, then billed $15k over the contractual price and claimed he had to do a lot of additional work, like reinstall all the doors (originally installed by another crew) and rebuild the stairway framing (originally done by the rough carpenters). That was the first anyone heard of the extra work. I was on site nearly every day and never saw him do anything extra. We refused to pay and he placed a lien on our house. We and the GC hired a lawyer to issue a demand letter that the lien be released, and it was. We agreed to arbitration through the contractors board and had a rather unpleasant meeting with all parties on site. The arbitrator ruled against the finish carpenter and all turned out well. A bunch of BS really, all caused by a guy who couldn't do the job on schedule and then got pissed off when he was pressured to finish.






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The GC we hired to build our house was great. We ended up good friends afterwards. He definitely looked out for us every step of the way.






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