I went to a job this morning, 4200 sf of vct to strip and wax at a school. I do it every year - usually without a hitch.Except this time. They had some dingleberry painters in there that decided drop cloths were so yesterday. There was drips, drops, footprints, overspray, underspray, painty handprints on the stair rails, paint on the rubber covered stairs....... I think they might have gotten some on the walls and ceiling too. Garbage bags, empty paint buckets and pails, mounds of drywall dust. A disgusting mess. It took 15 man hours to get a good start on it but there's more needing to be done tomorrow.
What the hell is wrong with these people? They made sweet boom all attempt to clean up the mess they created, no attempt to prevent the mess, just disgusting mess all over the place. No pride in their work, no sense of professionalism. I contacted the person in charge at the school and sent her some pics of what they left. I asked if they had paid them yet and she said no as the head master was away. I told her I had to charge extra for the extra work. She agreed and called the painter to tell him it was coming off of his cheque. He showed up at 4 this afternoon, raging at me. I showed him the pictures and the best he had was couldn't figure out why it didn't come off with the old wax and stripper and it shouldn't be that hard. I did a demo area to show him. then he tried to "negotiate" a fair price to clean it up. $200 was as much as he wanted to go. Nope. I had agreed reluctantly to $600 already with the admin and he was getting a deal at that. He raged, swore at me, told me he was going to put me out of business, get me run off this job, blah, blah, blah. I just smiled and said I had work to do and if he had problems to contact the administrator. He tried to yell at me some more, but I just ignored him. Last thing he said was something about a lawyer.
What the hell is wrong with these people? They made sweet boom all attempt to clean up the mess they created, no attempt to prevent the mess, just disgusting mess all over the place. No pride in their work, no sense of professionalism. I contacted the person in charge at the school and sent her some pics of what they left. I asked if they had paid them yet and she said no as the head master was away. I told her I had to charge extra for the extra work. She agreed and called the painter to tell him it was coming off of his cheque. He showed up at 4 this afternoon, raging at me. I showed him the pictures and the best he had was couldn't figure out why it didn't come off with the old wax and stripper and it shouldn't be that hard. I did a demo area to show him. then he tried to "negotiate" a fair price to clean it up. $200 was as much as he wanted to go. Nope. I had agreed reluctantly to $600 already with the admin and he was getting a deal at that. He raged, swore at me, told me he was going to put me out of business, get me run off this job, blah, blah, blah. I just smiled and said I had work to do and if he had problems to contact the administrator. He tried to yell at me some more, but I just ignored him. Last thing he said was something about a lawyer.
