Idle chat: wings, waves, wheels…

The floor problem was taken care off, after a bit of noise.

I do question the quality and workmanship, I didn’t pay any less than full price, is it asking too much for somebody to do their job to a reasonable high standard?
We had plenty work done on numerous properties in Fort Lauderdale, didn’t see this kind of sloppiness there.

The pool contract was signed August 2022, long before we had any floor or other problems.

As in trying to negotiate a discount on the pool build, or ask them to cut corners to get the price down.

No realtors and we didn’t deal with contractors: We bought the lot from a developer, then a year later signed a contract with a well know Lakeland builder
to construct a custom home.
The builder had bad luck with local contractors, tile work has been less than stellar, they are now re-doing one of the bathrooms for the third time. The builder is as frustrated with the contractors as we are. (Painters, tilers, landscapers, etc.)
The electric and plumbing work has been good.
Get out of jail, buy a hammer, now you are a contractor..

Everything should be sorted out, sooner or later, I just happen to be picky and impatient.
We are not the only ones in this development with problems, every neighbor have some build and quality problems, some more than others.
The worst case was a brand new house on my street that had to be demolished completely. The surveyor had made a 2 foot error and the City inspector told the builder to destroy they house, then build the next one in right place. A $500k error, but the surveyor had insurance for little boo-boo’s like that.

Not sure what point you are making in developer and contractors were in line waiting for me? Is it somehow my fault that some of this contractors can’t do quality work?
None of the builders or pool contractors are solely working in this development , they are all over North Florida, hence my question in reference to the video: Why can’t they make a straight caulk line?
Hopefully they will put it straight without giving me attitude. (Pun intended)
This kind of work is horse manure regardless of where in the country you are.

I get some good ones, but being new in the area I have to kiss a few frogs before I find a quality work.

Not just this neighborhood, we bought another house in nearby Grand Haven recently, in case we didn’t like the house we are building, I hired a painter and a handyman to do a few jobs on that house: Fired them both after a day and did the work myself, better and cheaper.
In the newly built house I can’t fire the sub-contractors because they work for the builder, but I can still complain that work is shoddy and request another sub to come and do it right. This is rather the long way around, and expensive, it would have been much better to do it right in the first place…
No idea why they can’t use a tape measure, a level and masking tape in the first place.
Have found an excellent fence guy that does other jobs, he is a keeper, and others like the electrician, but the frustrating part is people like the caulk guy doing the pool yesterday, either he is blind or been smoking crack before he started.
Is it asking too much to get quality work around here?
Guess it is.

You should be the Builder’s consultant, they could use that kind of info, Duh..
(This is not rocket science, the builders are painfully aware of all that, but there seem to be a rather shallow talent pool around here, yet you say quality is available, but not for me)
I paid full price for a quality house and a quality pool but the delivery of such quality is lacking. Must be something in the water, or is it my fault?

Thanks, but not planning on a next pool or a next builder.
I had no idea building would be this painful, I was clueless, my bad I Guess.
Had custom ordered boats and vehicles in the past, very much a pleasant experience as I didn’t have to babysit the workers in the factories and if there was a problem, the Dealers took care of it smoothed things over.

As for the pool and the lack of straight caulk lines: I can do it myself or hire expertise to do it, life is too short to look at this garbage level of workmanship every day I jump in the pool.

This is my other house, the back-up, I may be selling it in a few months, it is not close to any yacht harbor, but in a gated Golf Community for those who want to hit little white balls across green grass.
Discount to Yachtforums members except Capt. Ralph because he is always a disputatious contrarian.

If the truth hurts, it should..
Sorry Bro but you are barking up the wrong tree: Not my fault the local contractors are incompetent, really.

Staying warm for sure, but not settled in: The floor has to be replaced starting February first: The builder and floor contractors are paying for it, including a hotel room for us and now pointing fingers at each other.
Same with trim and paint, the contractors have to come back and correct their own mistakes.
(it would have been so much cheaper and easier for everyone to do it right in the first place, but nobody thought of that initially )

Enough of that, not my problem really, the builders who are new in town are slowly firing the bad contractors and discovering new and better quality people.

Enjoying my Dry January and my liver thanks me, anybody else doing it?

Yeah, been doing it the last 5-6 years, feels good and I get stuff done.
(Finished the 2023 tax preparations already)

Also shut down Odin Charters 12-31-2023, no marked for UPV Sightseeing trips around, strictly recreational now.

Looking forward to February 1st, that first beer will taste good.