Recent content by Scamp

The owner has been onsite, even hands on working with his guys. He was here helping put in the plumbing and tiling which are identified issues. Unfortunately our due diligence with this company, it’s reputation, and references before we hired seems to be falsified is many ways now that we are...

It is not. We actually went with a smaller local company and one of the benefits, we thought and they pitched, was that they didn’t sub out all the work so quality control would be higher. At this point I’m just trying to identify issues to understand what’s fixable now and what is beyond fixing...

Back with another holy cow not another thing question. This related to plumbing. As you’ll note from the pictures there are two return lines plumbed into the sun ledge area. Post shotcrete picture, one is completely below the concrete and the other barely hanging in there above it. Builder...

We were able to meet with our builder today and for the tile issues he has agreed to remove the bottom row of the ledger stone and the wall of glass tile below and fix the tile alignment and cut new stone for the bottom row to reinstall. For the skimmer area-he said he was not done with tile...

We are in Austin so a bit too far. But thank you!

Thank you both. For the exposed rebar on the stair, if the cutting out option is not the way to fix this correctly is there a more appropriate solution that you would suggest I ask for instead? Also would you expect the builder pays for a structural engineer or is that typically something on...

There are three questions I’ve posed to our builder that I’ve been told are not a problem or are easy fixes. I’d like to understand if these solutions are quick fixes/ bad fixes or should I be concerned there are underlying issues that will be covered up but turn into large problem later on...

While obsessing over every inch of the tile work (as well as other things which I’ll start a separate thread for questions.) I had another question on the tile work. Does the skimmer play any part in how the tile should be leveled? Would you expect the tile to also baseline with the skimmer area...