Fired a drywall contractor

Edit: People keep asking why are the receptacles installed? 99% of the receptacles are on the lower 4'. The lower 4' is OSB. The remaining 1% of electrical devices are shoved inside and not in the way of the drywaller.

Here is this companies facebook review page:

Sloppy work, seams are not staggered, cuts around boxes are poor, rip cutting drywall for unknows reasons, no prefill, mesh tape on ceiling. Constant excuse for not showing up, everyday was a new excuse by the Thursday they had only 16' of the ceiling mudded. Friday they worked from 10am -3pm. Oh ya they had no ladders too.

3pm Friday is when I went and asked why they are rip cutting the drywall, mentioned the window being cut poorly and the 3/4 difference in drywall high when they started the new wall after a corner.

The guy immediately told his crew to pack up before he punches me. lol. I have paid legal and will start the paperwork Monday to get money back from these guys.

[zacharylong]

As I've been doing commercial drywall finishing for 15 years I've seen worse. I hope you didn't tear it down because a decent finisher could fix that.

[RNTV]

Seams could’ve been staggered better, but all that could’ve been finished quite easy. Big waste of time and money to rip all that out in my opinion

[donnydarko]

Everyone is a drywaller until a real drywaller shows up

[pablolobo]

Believe it or not, this is better than a job I contacted a couple of months ago, lol. Enden up desmanteling everything and doing it myself. It was my first time ever hanging walls. I moved slowly but ended up doing a job 100 times better than the supposed "pros". All thanks to all you YouTubers!

[paulsawczyc]

That's why I do everything myself - if I don't know how, I learn.

[brentiers]

I'm no professional drywaller, but I've hung a few hundred sheets in my time. I've never done it to a standard that I would expect from professionals, but I've also never hacked it up as horribly as these folks did. That was a complete disaster.

[aaronhammond]

I've used quikset mud to prefill and fix a multitude of sloppy cuts around electrical boxes and wide gaps. there's no need to panic there's always a fix.

[SquadJuiced]

I did a crappy dry wall job. Fired myself. Then rehired myself when I got better.

[rollinontwojohnny]

The bitterness of poor quality remains LONG after the sweetness of low price is forgotten!

[Gsyncro]

Damn!! A friend and I were doing drywall in my old house... Turned out the neighbor across the street saw us loading in the sheets and came by the next day... He told us he could do the mud for us under the table in between his contract work. He looked at the room we'd already done and told me 100$ per room would do it!! I pounced on the offer!! We made it easy for him, minimal gaps, everything was even and used the material wisely to minimise joints wherever possible!! He ended up doing the whole thing in 3 days working on his dead time, the job was flawless and everyone was happy!! I can't believe there are people out there who charge for the sort of crap you got there!!

[mikeboland]

None of that stuff matters to a good finisher. It takes less time for the taper to fix it than it does for you to re-do it, assuming you hire a REAL taper. The major red flag I can see is the fact that they started finishing before they were even close to being done hanging.

[kyletrump]

Damn I would hired out the ceiling instead of the walls haha

[SFenez]

As a drywall contractor, I see this type of thing it's because the customer just took the cheapest price...If those guys charged you the going rate, then shame on them...If you paid under the going rate....then you got exactly what you paid for.

[Donnybrook]

I'd wager you didn't see them for the first week because you paid them ahead of time. They went on a drinking/drugging binge and only came back when their money ran out.

[bretth]

I'm a handyman. I hate doing drywall. I avoid it as much as possible. And I do FAR better work than that!! Those guys don't qualify as handymen, let alone drywallers! And not showing up for a week after getting half the payment up front...unprofessional. I'm with you. I'd rip it out and start over and do it right.

[howtodoitdude]

I’m a professional drywall/taper. If they started from the top, why did they trim the top? It defeats the purpose to start with a clean edge. Smart move to get rid of them!

[snakeeyes]

Honestly, no drywall project goes without defects. Even professionals make mistakes. fortunately, a large majority can be easily fixed with proper techniques (hot mud, straight flex, etc.). However, the goal is to minimize these mistakes. The mistakes in the video shows poor craftsmanship and attention to detail but most of those could have been repaired and ended up with a really good finish. In the end, It’s what you feel comfortable with.

[williamrodrigues]

I'm an IT guy who has been doing a project here at home. Even my drywall looks better than that! You were wise to fire them man.

[asicomovienes]

That only happens when you hire someone cheaper than others, most the time is where the problem is, you like pay cheap than quality but you can not have both, those 2 don't come together, so you only get for what you choose for!!

[draketracy]

I’ve seen worse drywall hung .. and an amazing finished job.. it takes another contractor to acknowledge