07/15/2022
So, I doubled up my walls bc I could hear neighbors more soundly to my preference. The constructor ended up being a greedy guy. He promised me a 3 men crew and completion of the job in 1 day, therefore the job was priced accordingly ($$$$). On the first day, he showed up with, I’d say, an unenthusiastic employee. For a few hours, they struggled to bring the drywalls 4 flights up where my apartment is situated in the building. The constructor’s truck had no capacity to fit all the drywalls at once. (He knew about the quantity I ordered). Before he head out back to HomeDepot to pick them up, I insisted he comes back with a third guy. There he did but nothing was done in the day. Basically, the unenthusiastic guy and the big men who showed up last managed to bring the drywalls upstairs by 5pm, and the “owner” hung drywalls in my bedroom closet. “How wonderful”, I thought. The second day, the constructor showed up by himself with a big smile on his face two hours late. By 5 pm, when the work had to stop per building regulation, only the bedroom and partially the hallway were completed. The guy was sweating. I noticed he was taking more frequent breaks. No wonder. His body was breaking down. It was a self-torture to do that work all by himself like there is no tomorrow. Believe me, I paid enough, so that he could distribute that with the rest of his team but he decided otherwise. A single, kind lady wouldn’t oppose too much to his demeanor. So, not only he did a sloppy job (the drywalls just don’t line up very well in many places and much more) but also, in a hurry and blinded by exhaustion, he buried one of my outlet… Yay, more work for me! Two days ago, when I moved the leftover drywalls, I noticed the wall was missing the opening for the outlet. I was like: “I was most certain that I had the outlet there. It’s impossible I had miscalculated as I was going to hang a TV up on that wall”. And surely I wasn’t mistaken. Had to dig for the outlet earlier tonight. Let there live the TV.
