The Contractor Forgot The Toilet
This might not happen that often, but when it does, it
can be a remodeling nightmare for the contractor and the owners of the
property. Get ready for a story that might just knock your socks off.
I only heard the story, and cannot verify it, but it goes something like
this. A bathroom remodeling contractor was remodeling a bathroom in a
home that had six bathrooms. There were only two people living in the
house, and the bathroom that they were remodeling was rarely used.
The bathroom floor needed to be jack hammered, so that the plumbing
could be relocated and that's where the problem began. The plumber
forgot to install the toilet plumbing and when the building inspector
came out to the house, he couldn't find the bathroom that they were
working on, because the house was too big.
He left a note for the contractor that somehow, fell off of the
clipboard and the next day when the contractor’s workers showed up on
the job, they assumed that the building inspector had approved
everything. That's when they poured the concrete and the rest of the
problem just seemed to escalate from there.
Believe it or not, the bathroom was completely finished and the
contractor was paid in full for the work they had finished. The
contractor asked the homeowners if they could call the building
department and get final inspection so that he wouldn't have to waste
his time dealing with the building inspector.
When the homeowners called the building department, this is when they
received the bad news. The building inspector had never signed off the
rough plumbing and they should have never finished the bathroom.
Since this bathroom was rarely used and the homeowners rarely had time
to walk around their home, the building inspector informed them that
they were missing their toilet pipes and that he left a note on the
clipboard, the day of the last inspection.
It cost the general contractor a few thousand dollars to make everything
right and the moral to this story is don't forget to hook the toilet
pipes up or you could find yourself up to your knees in do do.
Reading this article, you probably think stuff like this doesn't happen,
but the reality is that it happens more than you think. I will continue
writing articles with more stories like these so stay tuned and keep
reading.