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| Pierre's explanation to ODSP why the levellling of my mobile home was a neccesity. For the record, my tub still doens't drain properly. |
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Invoice for levelling job
Only Pierre and an old man in his 80's came to do the job and maybe took 3 hours and the leveling was way worse than before. Our floor was slanted bad, it was ridiculous!
Supposed to have 6x6 wood support beams, there are none installed.
No shims
Inspector said levelling out by 4 inches, he used a leveller, but my yard stick shows easily how bad.   |
| Bay window was installed January 2010, it took Pierre until Sept. 2010 to come back and put a roof on it and build the base and trim out. He was supposed to have the framing inspected and then the complete job inspected when it was done. He didn't call the inspector for either. |
Building inspectors report.
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Feb. 6, 2011 From: Mary Williams
Since I last corresponded with you I noticed today that the bay window is leaking. The top ceiling to it is all warped and sagging. I sent the picture but kind of hard to tell from it. The tray of the bay window does show better the water puddle from the constant dripping. It has to be going into the rafters and who knows what accumulated damage is now in there. I am sick to my stomach with all this. I hired him for the windows because his brotehr-in-law is in the window business and helped him install. The problem is where Pierre trimmed it off and didn't seal it well.
This is a blog I started when I first hired my contractor. My Mom is too ill to travel and come see the mobile home she bought me. She wanted me to have security of a home. The first two months I was proud to post the progress and was happy things were getting fixed up and so was Mom. After that it went down hill.
Half way into kitchen reno's he decided he needed more money. I had given him $250 cash on top of what he got from Mom and RRAP covered and saved him $400 he factored in as expense. Without consulting me he called and got $2k from Mom. he said "She's got plenty, you know how much she spent on your sister's? Later he told me I would not be getting tiles in the kitchen or toe kick.
He fought on every point I expressed discontent with. The foyer, the stove hood etc..said it was already cut out and sided not changing it now. When we got into a battle once he called Mom to whine and she called and said you liked Pierre he works hard, you shoud back off of him. I said Mom don't let him call you about anything. Things aren't right and I'm not expecting anything more then what he was supposed to do. He shouldn't be bugging you about anything, I will sort him out.
When laying my wood floor, the floor guy with him said the floorboards are rotted we can't do this! Pierre went into his rants saying it is going to be covered and I'm not paying you to come back another day! Later told absolutely not. That's mold and should've been taken out. When you walk towards the bay window it mushes in.
The following are pictures of the damage etc...Please don't miss last picture of back door framed and insulated wrong
Unfortunately the fun continues...This past summer the gutters Pierre installed were falling off, the eavestroughs were a rotted mess that were crumlbling. The gutters should have never been installed on that. We had to totally tear the eavestrough down and rebuild and resintall the gutters.
ODSP paid plumbers to insulate the water pipes and put the right heat tape on, it cost $3k. Pierre was the one who moved them from inside to underneath the mobile home. They froze up when it got cold out and he refused to come and fix.
My new counter is ruined. Pierre installed a new tap but rather than tighten it underneath he siliconed it on the top, that gave way and busted the countertop where the taps go. The second guy we hired same, thing, didn't attach underneath and fell apart the next day, he also never returned after I called and told him what the problem was. I then called an actual professional plumber in town and he looked at the rubber gasket that had popped out, he pulled that right out, redid the pipes that Pierre did, plumbers comment was he never saw anything so crazy. but sadly him pulling out the rubber gasket seiazed the whole thing up, tap number 3 toast and they were nice Moulin with spray attachment. I was by then too flabbergasted to call him back, I'd had enough of contractors/ I could only afford the cheapest they had after that and put the damn thing in myself, learning from their mistakes.
Water on bay window deck
Bay window ceiling buckled, warped, water dripping and soaking up into the rafters above.
Ugly foyer trim
Seperating floors
Outlets too close to trim to put a face plate on
Shim left in window, water streams out
Window foam insulation gap where also poured in
Also silicone bead on outside too thin and where water comes in from outside.
Poor tape job
Misaligned stove hood
Popped Ceiling Office. It was distorted to some degree but now worse due to the addition not being levelled.
Popped ceiling kitchen
Door I was told framed wrong, too easy to break in, also the way he insulated. Didn't allow for vaper barrier. This is how he did livingroom wall and kitchen too.
Put floor down in back room. Rahter then cut the pipe of that is no longer used, he went around it. Mice got in and I had to plug it up. Looks stupid!
The $3k closets my Mom paid for, Pierre made two like this, the wood doors were warped and that also took months for Pierre to correct, Not only that, they are so narrow I can't fit cereal boxes in the kitchen one or towels in the linen one. I've since tore out the ktichen one and rebuilt it to the right size and going to do the same with the linen one, completely useless. The day he showed up to do the job I told him I wanted the cupboard deep enough to which he replied I was getting what I was getting, or to that affect. He had buttered my Mom up knowing she was battling cancer and tried to squeeze money out of erh without my knowledge, she had told him how much she spent on my sisters home repairs and I'm afraid that's where things turned with him, he tried to take advantage of her. When she saw what she paid for she was livid.
My son leveled the mobile home properly, he had to shim areas anywhere from 5 whole inches to 3 inches. my living room floor now doesn't feel like a ski slope. The front out 5 inches pushed against the skirting and crumpled the tin. Inside, pictures to follow, because of the slope of the mobile, water ran to the back corner of my kitchen counter. I told Pierre right away what was happening and he bellowed the counter was glued down, too damn late, not changing it now. All the kitchen sink counter and the wall has to be torn out because of a mold problem from the water travelling in that back corner, Below is the framing rebuilt by my son and skirting panels almost complete, this is how I expected Pierre to do it.
