#badplumber

A couple weeks ago I did a post about how we couldn't finish our garage cabinets due to holes in the walls... well those holes were finally filled and we were able to finish installing the cabinet bases. We needed to purchase sub-counter top plywood because the IKEA cabinets don't come with anything on top of them to support the counter. If you weren't aware the cost of plywood is outrageous right now. in late 2019 you could get a sheet of plywood for around $25 to $20... now I hear it's pushing $100 per sheet! I feel like we were lucky that we found a sheet for only $60 do to the garage counter sub-tops.

We focused on the base frames just enough to get the countertops installed. We will come back and install the doors and drawers once construction is complete (because the contractor keeps storing stuff in and on the cabinets). But this was enough for them to measure for the counters.

Then a week later we return to find this:

Yup - an even bigger hole in the garage fire wall! Apparently the plumber flipped our shower valves and installed the main shower valve in the guest bath and vise versa. Lovely....

We got a matching hole in our bedroom too, right behind the shower. This after both showers were already tiled.

I guess it was lucky for the plumber that we didn't have cabinets installed behind each valve... well not directly behind them anyway.

But the good news is that the counters were finally installed in the garage last week!

Check out that giant laundry sink!! Brett purchased that for his beer brewing activities. I'm just happy we have a laundry sink now... just need that drain and faucet connected. Also on the right side of the photo above you can see our new tankless water heater! ...and the giant hole the plumber made in the plywood to connect it... did I mention that plywood is insanely expensive right now?

Funny note about the plumber: on their work trucks this company has a slogan, "We do it right the first time."

(names removed to protect the guilty here...) We are at the point where this makes us laugh every time, because they have yet to do just about anything right the first time! It should say, "We don't do it right the first time." Not to mention the valve mishap mentioned above, they had to redo the drain line from the tankless water heater (in the photo above is the fixed version). They had to re-route freshly installed gas lines all over the place. They had to redo 3 cleanouts... I think there are only 5 total in the house! It really is to the point of laughing because what else can you do. At least they don't fight us when we point out all their install errors that they have to fix. I'm just hoping that we don't have major issues with anything they have installed below the slab or inside walls... keep your fingers crossed for us! I think we caught most of their mistakes right when they were installed.