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To: Neeka who wrote (360169)	4/18/2010 6:07:07 PM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793707

Most of my cabinets were screwed to walls in new homes. But if I were still in business, I would not give estimates at old homes.

To: Neeka who wrote (360169)	4/18/2010 6:31:14 PM
From: ManyMoose	Respond to of 793707

it will reduce or eliminate bad contractors. I hope they follow up on the bad apples and get rid of them. In Juneau, you really had to watch out for shoddy workmanship. Many of the houses were built during the pipeline boom, and contractors were in short supply. Everyone who could swing a hammer became a contractor. Our house was nicely designed, but we had to demolish and rebuild the chimney twice because water would come in through the brick and seep through the living room floor. The last time we put in a metal pipe and gave up on brick. I also found and replaced two light fixtures wired in without a box; all the connections were hanging behind the wall board. I found another light fixture with a three-way switch so you wouldn't have to walk five feet to turn off the entry light from the inside. They had used two conductor wire and used the ground wire for the third conductor. When I found that I freaked out and put in a single pole switch and did away with the three-way. Also, water seeped through the tile in the bath tubs surrounds, destroying the wall board and actually rotting some of the studs, which I had to replace myself and put in concrete wallboard like should have been used in the first place. We got a good tiling contractor to do the tiling. As a consequence of that, I insist on a building inspection, and I crawl around everywhere to look at it myself. We had the house in Juneau inspected before we bought it, but the inspector was a drunk and failed to find the stuff I did. He did, however, find that there was water underneath the vapor barrier in the crawl space. I've very cautious about buying houses. I know the pitfalls and foibles, and I'm not even in the trade.