Backstory - Ike flooded my house. No flood insurance (by accident
). I cut out the drywall to 4 feet initially to dry it out. I was removing it to the ceiling prior to putback and reinsulating with R13exterior and R11 interior.
A couple of months ago someone mentioned a disaster relief fund that could possibly help me out. They sent a couple of local to the area contractors by to scope out where I was on rebuilding and see what they could provide and bid for the work. They were able to do the drywall portion of the work (hang, tape, float, texture, prime and paint) and provide the materials necessary including the insulation. I was ecstatic beyond belief as the funds I had were starting to get low for finishing everything out the way I wanted. However there were a few things I needed to do before they could start including electrical and plumbing and a little framing. I had to pay $2800 for the plumbing as I was under the impression that I would not have time to get that before they started. I would have had the time but I did get the other stuff done as well.
First off, they ( the supposed normal crew for this contractor) started hanging drywall before they ever received any insulation for the exterior walls and just hung some of the old R11 peices I had pulled from some of the walls I moved or took down. The owner made them tear down the ext walls and put in new insul as promised. I was happy but it was only 3 walls they had done and one of them they had set the cut edge of the rock on the concrete the full length of the sheet. Several outlet boxes were pushed in past the stud and the cutout was either way over size, broken or too small. They started bedding some of the joints (very randomly) in different rooms and the paper tape (not using a banjo) is puckering and seperating all over the place. I wanted bullnose corners and some of the corners are so far apart that the corners are gonna have to be stretched alot to cover if they reach at all. There are a few places where scraps have been used and will create way more joints than necessary especially around a few doors. In one of the ceilings that needed to be insulated ( I bought the R25 because none ever showed up) the crew had rocked 90% of the area and only stuck up 2 peices of insul. Whats worse is that layed it over the strongbacks and on top of the light can. I fixed that one evening and installed the rest of it before they could finish screwwing it up and closing the attic space. This is not all of the screw ups but I will stop here.
I hate to make this too long and can back this up with pics if needed but it has taken them almost 7 days to hang maybe 1500 square feet worth of living space (very little ceiling work, maybe 250 -300 sq ft) and they are not done. I know how to hang but suck at floating, but know enough to know that any drywaller that is worth his salt would have been done hanging this in 2 days and would not have hung it as to make extra work for himself or his crew. I talked to the owner, the manager and the drywall crew leader and asked the DW leader if he was training a few guys or if this was his regular crew and he said it was his normal crew (LIE) and when pointing out the flaws in front of him he was silent. Owner is sending a new crew tomorrow.
My questions are: Did I over react? Do these problems sound like easy fixes for the next crew? Am I looking a gift horse in the mouth?
I know a lot can be hidden with drywall but if the initial work they are doing represents the finished product, free or not, I am skeptical that I will be happy with the end results.
Sorry for the length,
Wes