I’m not sure if I mentioned it or not, but when we decided to move to Oklahoma I wanted to go back to working in the trades. I had taken a 4 year break to do the restaurant thing with my wife, it was nice for a while, but I was really burnt out by the time we decided to not renew our lease.
I started putting my name out there a few weeks ago. Dropping off business cards, running ads in the local papers, stuff like that. I can’t believe the level of workmanship out here in this area. I’ve literally come across some of the worst workmanship I’ve ever laid eyes on the past few weeks. Lots of “the contractor took off with my money and never came back stories”, jobs left unfinished, done completely half-assed. Just some really bad shit.
I went to an estimate the other day, the owner had two different guys out from OKC to work on his kitchen sink. It was still leaking and the guy didn’t know why.
I knelt down to look and 3 of the shark it’s connections were leaking. They had busted a huge hole in the sheetrock to expose the drain line. There was a nail just chilling in the drain pipe that someone had hammered into it. Just a complete and utter clusterfuck. Two different people charged this guy for “fixing” the issue and never answered the phone or came back.
I spent 4 hours there on Thursday of last week redoing everything under the sink and repairing his dishwasher that he was told was broken. The dishwasher just needed to be hooked back up and have a code reset.
He was tickled to death to pay me $400 for the repairs and was shocked that I didn’t ask for money upfront or money to buy materials.
These people out here are so used to getting fucked over by drug addicted handymen that they just kind of expect it to happen.
Anyway, here are some pictures of work that was “completed” by the other two, and pictures of what I did to fix the issues they left this poor guy with. He was blown away that I took the time to install new Sheetrock and actually put the water lines back where they needed to be instead of looking like a god damned disaster.
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