Bad contracting work is the worst. There's quite the stories here (literally, this place is falling apart from not being put together properly in 2017, and then there was the plumbing nightmare from last year that cost $1500 and still left the toilet in my sister's bathroom unfixed).
If your insurance will cover it definitely hire an inspector to check their work and do the necessary demands for you (if not, keep an eye yourself if possible)
@ai6yr Already have the restoration company and our building contractor lined up. There’s a lot of demand for restoration services right now, so hope they can find a team quickly.
@technodad If they can't get in there quick, I'd advise popping some of the wet drywall out (down at the bottom, cut the it above the water line a bit and remove the wet stuff), and pull out anything wet into your yard... you will be a LOT happier. I should have removed a lot more wet carpet before the restoration folks showed up, would have reduced the dampness issues inside the house much faster.
@ai6yr@technodad Agreed. The people in hurricane country can attest to that! And as always, take lots of pics of the damage before you pull the dry wall.
@rolandelli Nope... I did figure there was some possibility of this kind of problem, drywallers are notorious for putting drywall screw through things like electric lines and whatnot. I put in nail plates on all the electrical passthroughs to avoid that, but I apparently should have also done this for all the plumbing.
@ai6yr I guess it's a good thing it was discovered this early in the reno process then.
Would your thermal imaging camera work for discovering this and other slow leaks? Given that they screwed up in one place, it would be nice to be positive that they only did it once.
@mjausson Yes, that is one of the uses of FLIR cameras, is detecting these kind of slow leaks. I think it will pay for itself on this one. I do hope they only did it once, there's not that many places they could go through piping (it's all in one wall right there).
@BakerRL75 Well, this is a PITA. I have informed the project manager, the in-house project manager, the Quality Control company (the one that approves payments to the contractor), and the insurance adjuster, because I don't trust the project manager who never calls me to fix this properly.
@shuttersparks@BakerRL75 Fortunately mostly only water through the sewage lines recently. We'll see. I'm going to have to try not to obsess over this new one until Tuesday morning. However, if they open up that roof I'm going to point out they missed insulating that wall above.
@BakerRL75@shuttersparks Well, I was going to pop a hole in the ceiling of the garage there to fix that problem tomorrow, but not touching it now. Perhaps can get it resolved. Or will at least take a photo of their failing-to-insulate-the-wall for the insurance company.
@BakerRL75 as @shuttersparks mentions, sewage line is more likely than copper (ABS is easy to put a hole in with a drywall screw)... copper not so much. Gas lines definitely not good, but iron pipe is also hard to screw through.
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