talk about a budget buster

[mistysue]

A tree fell on my house two years ago. I hired a contractor to handle all the repairs and they used subcontractors. So if I have a problem with work I have to go through them and basically they don't care because the insurance company paid them directly.

When the tree fell it broke my well pump and some parts under ground. They came out to fix it twice (a month after the first time, on the day of our wedding rehearsal, water started shooting up out of the ground...) and they apparently have a warranty for one year. Now the pump isn't working again. One year was up at the end of last summer.

So the guy is on his way, last time this same thing cost $1500... This is the same month we need to pay our property tax ($2000) and we have been cutting back to be able to pay our income tax (we expected a refund and found out we owe $4K instead)

This makes life much less fun. I just purchased our Disney plane tickets yesterday too. (if anyone noticed it's me, they did go back to $100 per person)

 

[tileman]

Sorry to hear.

Our pump stop working a few months ago and it was the electric contacts had to clean them and its been going good for now

Also could be the pump pressure switch.
OR the circuit breaker dose it have power to it?

Ron.

 

[robsmom]

Using subcontractors does not let them abdicate their responsiblity to you. I would call the insurance company and ask them if you can open an additional claim and have them go after the main contractor. I would also tell both the contractor and the subcontractor that you plan to report them to the better business bureau. Finally, if the honestly believe that the work was not done right and if the same contractor or subcontractor is coming to to do the 1500 of work, i would let them do the work and then I would not pay them. they need to fix their mistake.