Recently bought a new house that needs extensive work. We hired a plumber to install a new boiler and basically re-do the entire house from a plumbing stand point. We started out on a good foot with the plumber that we hired but I have gotten increasingly frustrated with his late arrivals and no shows…he doesn’t even call but when we call him he always has an excuse – his guys didn’t show up, we changed the locks on the house and didn’t give him a new key (we didn’t). I have an extremely low tolerance for this sort of behavior but my husband thinks I’m being too harsh.<\/p>\n
Is this common practice in plumber-land and do I have to relax on this matter? In terms of the schedule of payments, he has probably done the amount of work we have paid him for if not a tiny bit more but have two floors left to complete if that makes a difference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Recently bought a new house that needs extensive work. We hired a plumber to install a new boiler and basically re-do the entire house from a plumbing stand point. We started out on a good foot with the plumber that we hired but I have gotten increasingly frustrated with his late arrivals and no shows…he…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5144,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"schneps_byline":"","schneps_post_style":"","schneps_post_source":"","schneps_syndicated_read_more":"","schneps_post_source_sitename":"","schneps_syndicated_thumb_html":"","schneps_syndicated_thumb_src":"","schneps_post_source_shortname":"","schneps_post_source_url":"","schneps_post_source_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"districts":[],"class_list":["post-51784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plumbers"],"acf":[],"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","canonical_url":"https:\/\/brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2010\/12\/at-what-point-d-1\/","smart_links":{"inbound":0,"outbound":0},"traffic_boost_suggestions_count":0,"meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"At what point do you fire a plumber???","url":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2010\/12\/at-what-point-d-1\/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2010\/12\/at-what-point-d-1\/"},"thumbnailUrl":"","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":""},"articleSection":"Plumbers","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"bedstuytownhouse"}],"creator":["bedstuytownhouse"],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Forum Archive","logo":""},"keywords":[],"dateCreated":"2010-12-07T16:29:13Z","datePublished":"2010-12-07T16:29:13Z","dateModified":"2010-12-07T16:44:24Z"},"rendered":"