Build A Deck

[Mike]

what are you going on other than assuming the people were incompetent and ran the lines in some fucked up manner?

it is a pretty strong point. maybe things are different out in bumfuck, but 4/5 times i deal with a contractor of some sort, things are not done satisfactorily. examples in my 4 months in this new house:

1. verizon guy told us to reuse our old cable boxes... he forgot to reactivate them with hte new house so when our contract at the old house expired, we were without tv.
2. verizon guy installed the fios box IN THE MIDDLE OF THE WALL IN THE MIDDLE OF THE BASEMENT (this is a big, ugly beige/white box). huge eyesore that could have been moved over about five feet to be with the breaker box.
3. i have NEVER been able to get verizon to get their multi-room DVR working correct. this is two houses now.
4. our basement was built just before us moving in...
a. one of the toilets didn't flush. when they came out to fix it, they dropped it, broke it, had to replace it.
b. they forgot to caulk the shower. they came out and did that...
c. they did a shitty caulking job, water got in to the wall, they still have yet to rip the wall out and fix it.
d. the sump pump was installed incorrectly and smells like sewage.
e. our a/c unit was broken from day 1. it took six visits for them to finally get it working. each time they'd replace something, think it worked since even the fan blows some cold air from the basement, and we'd have to wait another week for them to come back out.