Articles - Home Disimprovement And How To Avoid It

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Home Disimprovement And How To Avoid It:

Two forces are at work in the home improvement marketplace that spawn a good deal of faulty work.
Force One: The consumer perceives many remodeling or home repair prices to be too high and concentrates his efforts on obtaining a low or tolerable price. With this bent of mind he fails to adequately consider overall ability to perform the work such as financial stability, etc. Too little thought is given to job specifications, quality control, and timeliness of completion.
Force Two: Young people working for remodeling contractors see the prices the contractor gets for his jobs and feel that he is making enormous profits and all on their efforts. They decide to go into business for themselves to reap these "profits" for themselves. They start out by bidding lower to get jobs. Most commonly these folks possess a single hand skill and have not had any opportunity to gain the requisite business skills, let alone the general knowledge background required of a general contractor.
Destructive Force: Force one meets force two, and the new "contractor" begins to commit sins he never dreamed of. Here are some typical signs of unqualified contractor performance.
1. His work (when he personally is doing it) goes well but the work of others is less competently done due to his other trade and management inabilities.
2. Underestimating and bidding low to get jobs, he gets unprofitable work. When he realizes that he can't make any profit he hurriedly and shoddily finishes the job. He expects to get paid and you are unsatisfied with the quality.
3. The lower quality work is perpetuated when he is only able to attract the poorest performing subcontractors and mechanics due to the low prices he is charging and hence paying.
4. The work he personally does may be well installed but may actually interfere with or be destructive to peripheral work due to his lack of understanding of the scope of the whole job.
5. The progress of the work on individual jobs will be sporadic as he does not have the manpower to progress smoothly through all jobs and will focus his efforts on those jobs that promise a draw check.
6. Liens show up on properties as mechanics, suppliers, and subcontractors fail to get paid.

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