Contractor disaster: A paint job gone horribly wrong

How to avoid disaster when chossing a contractor
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[louis]

This happened 20yrs ago when I was painting my mom's house, my brother spilt the paint tray. He's release date from prison is in 2025.

[goatsears]

Must have been a quiet day for

Man spills paint, hold the front page

[michealcorleone]

i dont get why the news have to tell everyone of the guys record. non of that has to do with the fact that he had a little accident and offered to pay for the damages this isn’t news worthy

[sd]

I don't understand people. They will first install new carpet then want the inside of the house painted next. Tip, Paint first then install new carpeting.

[kevinc]

Horrified....SMH...loosing a child is horrifying not paint on carpet

[jimberousek]

So she hired him because he had suggestions on which colors to use. That makes sense.

[merryhunt]

Get real. The hurricane in Houston was a disaster. Spilled paint and ruined carpet is an accident.

[wilwood]

Omg it's like 6 yards of carpet I could fix that for material and 50 bucks smh

[tonybarra]

Should have hired a Mexican! That job would be finished in an afternoon. For a couple hundred and a 18 pack of Modelos! 😂 shit..

[colinmills]

Never set paint on the top of a ledge or ladder. Never set can down on anything unless its a drop sheet or poly. A six pack contractor

[mattgotsskill]

in other news. a bucket of paint was spilled in somebodys home! this women is very brave.

[josephvulich]

I've seen worse, I was working with another guy, painting a house (touchups). At the end of the job, he yelled at me to help him, he said that he spilled a 5 gallon bucket of paint down the stairwell. I thought he was just joking, but when I put my tools down after cleaning up, I realized that he wasn't. We spent another 5 hours at the home cleaning up the paint. Thank God that we had a carpet butler, (a carpet cleaning machine). The homeowner was there during the whole disaster, and the crazy thing was, is that we were actually joking about calling the boss, and telling him that we spilled a bunch of paint on the customers carpet as a prank. I guess you could say that we jinxed ourselves lol! It's funny now that it's in the past, but that was probably the worst day for me working with that man, (Walt, an "experienced professional painter").
Just wanted to share this experience with you guys lol! Stay blessed, and enjoy yourselves!
~Joe ✌😎

[JustOzzy]

Well, I got a "pro" painter and he showed me pics of his past jobs. I hired him, gave him 1500 dollar deposit and he vanished on me. I went to the police station with all of the guys ID info and they blew me off. About 1 month later I seen him (painter) outside of the Wal-Mart. I had no choice but to lay hand on this man. I got arrested because of it. I asked for help to get my cash back and the police acted like it wasn't nothing. I paid a fine but it was a fine I was happy to pay for beating him down in front of his wife and kids. I let them know that he was a scumbag and stole from my family.

[Photostudioww]

I looked up his records and the news reporter failed to mention he has 2 more counts of dropping paint cans on carpeted stairs and not cleaning up the garbage. Stay tuned for news at 10 on channel 10 🙈

[kingofkings]

dam must of been slow news night. breaking news man spills paint on carpet!!

[sweetlou]

It's just cheap builder grade carpet big deal.

[MrJintensive]

He should have come back with a few gallons of green paint and painted the carpet green.

[ToddMiley]

Why didn't they just paint their house themselves?

[tcapfan]

It doesn't look bad! It's a conversation piece.

[FaeriichanII]

Lol I'm so chill I'd leave the stairs looking like that. Be a great story for any guests who come over. 😂