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Dominican plumbing at it's best!
Yeah I know what you mean like when a contractor doesn't nail the sub-flooring to the floor joists or the sill requiring the floors to be redone or a surveyor doing a topo survey doesn't shoot a catch basin because it's full of water which requires a major redesign of the drainage system or the building contractor uses two different benchmarks on a house and ends up with two different finish floor levels or a directional drill contractor doesn't call for utility locates and pierces a 48 inch water main or a surveyor doesn't tie a boundary correctly which means a home foundation has to be demo'ed and then rebuilt all to the tune of more than two hundred fifty thousand dollars. Oh wait that happened in the US.
Nonono you get it all wrong, you show up at his house. Get paid- then ask Robert for duct tape. "No tengo teipi"
MAYBE ................BECAUSE THEY DESERVE IT..........
Good work doesn't create bashing..........only bad......
B in Santiago
True, but certainly it seems like many people here lump all Dominicans together as unreliable and poor craftsman. We have a reliable plumber in Jarabacoa - Beba- speaks English and learned plumbing in New York and Montreal. Good guy to have few beers with too. We have a Vet that does house calls, Doctor that does the same. Can't get that in the USA or Canada.
Chip recommended a contractor to me 2 years ago or so and he did extensive work for me.
He worked extensively on a project with 2 guys for 3 weeks and it turned out perfect.......
I supervised the changes I wanted done, he listened and did it my way and wallah.....job well done.
He was Dominican and I wouldn't dream of bashing his work......no reason to.....
I needed more work and he changed his number, the job ended up costing 1,200,000. DP
So he lost out ......
B in Santiago
He worked extensively on a project with 2 guys for 3 weeks and it turned out perfect.......
I supervised the changes I wanted done, he listened and did it my way and wallah.....job well done.
He was Dominican and I wouldn't dream of bashing his work......no reason to.....
I needed more work and he changed his number, the job ended up costing 1,200,000. DP
So he lost out ......
B in Santiago
I had some ceiling repairs done around 8 months ago due to a water leak.
The ceiling started leaking again and after some investigation I found the problem.
The idiots wrapped a big sponge around the leaking pipe, instead of actually fixing the leak!
This was done by a highly recommended plumber, so you never know.
Make sure you watch anyone working on your house like a hawk, beter still, fix the issues yourself.
Shoddy work is found across the world, even in morbid amounts beyond that present in the DR and incredibly more so in first world countries for the majority.
But one must admit this "fix" takes the cake!
WOW!
Now, if the guy had answered that he did that "after" he fixed the actual leak and used that as a matter of insulation on the pipe to avoid post condensation, then at least it would had been a let's let it be excuse, but this is outright theft!
Time to let know others that have used this guy that he's not to be recommended any longer...
Bash away all you want, those of us whom had been to YOUR own first world countries KNOW how bad it really is there compared to the DR in construction and "repairs" (which is another word for just change parts rather than actually repair anything).
But again, this one takes the cake!
That plumber was recommended by who? And how much did you pay him, don't tell me you paid him 100 pesos and expected more than 100 pesos worth of effort.
What does the amount have to do with anything?
Why is who recommended important?
The point of this post was to show what can happen when you don't supervise constantly and don't always trust a recommendation, despite who's telling you.
Next...
Quality Roulette
It is indeed difficult to recommend workers here.
The problem being that one day they work well, the other day they work shoddily and do more harm than good.
Why?
I do not know.
It's the 'culture', I suppose.... :tired:
donP
It is indeed difficult to recommend workers here.
The problem being that one day they work well, the other day they work shoddily and do more harm than good.
Why?
I do not know.
It's the 'culture', I suppose.... :tired:
donP
OK... I'll freely admit that some contractors and tradesmen in the U.S. will cut corners on occasion. BUT I SERIOUSLY DOUBT IF ANYTHING QUITE LIKE THAT "REPAIR" EVER HAPPENS.
maybe a Dominican immigrant working as a plumber in the U.S. LOL LOL
actually quite impressive to come up with such an idea; my gardener would have used a piece of "goma" :bunny: (piece of a tire tube)
That is quite common here for pipes that are outside the house..........
I have seen it done several times.
When I moved in my house in 2006 I had a problem with the paint peeling in the garage and the living room and thought it was due to filtration yet even after resealing the roof the problem remained. I finally figured it had to be a leaky pipe and got a local neighbor who makes his living as a plumber, mostly for new construction. Anyway he thinks it's the bathtub drainpipe so he starts chipping the block and floor away in the bedroom adjacent to the bathroom in question and sure enough he finds the leak and fixes it. It hasn't leaked since.
Have seen gas (yes natural gas pipes IN the apartment) plugged with soap, rather than a cap with the proper thread seal tape for the job or compound... That was in a 1.9 million apartment in Manhattan...
Got to see galvanized piped in a 1 inch water line coupled to a brass line 1 1/2...
Got to see plenty of shoddy work, more so when nobody was there to inspect and keep an eye on the workers and subcontractors...
But I recon, this sponge bob work takes the cake! Did he ever think about what would happen when the sponges could not take more water from the dripping leak??? LOL!
You people make me sick with this tit-for-tat schoolyard $hit!
Why don't you meet in a boxing ring and fight like men, I would pay for a seat to watch.