Mudding and Taping and then Mudding and Taping AGAIN!

We made a decision to have an outside contrator come into the house to tape & mud the drywall. Markus searched around a little bit, and ended up making contact with a guy who dad had used when he was renovating his flip house. This guy (who we will call Danny) is young, but eager and did a fairly good job for dad. There were a few instances were he could have been a bit more "professional" with dad, but all in all, we thought it would be oaky to have him work for us again.

Danny started out fine, as he gave us a really great quote and made room for us in his schedule very fast. However, the honeymoon operiod was short and Danny...well became a pain in the ass. Danny first needed some cash in advance as he needed to take care of some personal things..no probelm. then danny needed a little more cash...we were genrrous. Then Danny called us one Saturday night (when we happened to be at the spa) looking for some more money because he needed to go drinking with his brother....Then Danny had sporadic attendance at the house. Then Danny was sooooooo close to finishing, but then he went on a bender and we didn''t hear from him for a few days. Then Danny came in late on a Sunday to finish as he needed to get back home on the Monday. We left him, as we had also entrusted him with the keys to our house....and when we came back the next day there were more than a few spots NOT DONE and our prized drywalling posession a "Rotozip"was gone. Since then Markus has literally harrassed him by phone and email and we have never heard from Danny again.

The end result was that we had to finish sanding the spots he left undone and then had to go back over all the screw holes and remud as they were poorly done and we even remudded some of the larger seams.

Lesson learned on our opart for not being so damn trustinbg of people/contrators. We could have been much more strict with him, but thought that the guy needed a break and that we could trust him to do the job completely.

Lesson learned on Danny's part: Keep a low profile in Regina because I am still not over losing my Rotozip!!!!