First, the foreman on the job failed to do his due diligence and look at our subfloor to determine if we would need a leveler or a new subfloor (which we would have been willing to pay extra for). The tile subcontractor they used stayed at our house to work until 9pm, and at the end of the day, when he had tiled most of the floor, mentioned he thought the subfloor was too lumpy to look good. Sure enough, after the glue dried the floor looked like a hilly, lumpy mess. When we pointed this out to the foreman and a head foreman, we were told that it was "fine." It took both my husband and myself telling them exactly what was wrong for the head foreman to agree with us and make a plan to redo some of the work. When they came to redo the work, their "linoleum specialist" (we found out later that they had been trying to save money on the job by using the tile subcontractor to lay the linoleum, something he knew nothing about) said that in his opinion it would be best to order all new linoleum tiles and glue and put it all down on top of what they had already done. We went back and forth with the foreman about whether it was better to rip up the old work and lay down completely new subfloor or to just put new linoleum tiles over what had been done. We were told by the foreman that it would be "too much work" to rip up the old work.
At the end of the day, the linoleum specialist came out and laid new tiles over the old ones which required us to cut and irreparably destroy an antique cabinet by cutting into the frame to make the extra height of new tiles fit. We also have to live with terrible looking transitions because the kitchen floor is now so much higher than the other floors. We took a week unpaid off of work for the initial install and then were required to wait weeks for the fix (at our cost) and then take more days off work for the repair job. The foreman was consistently completely unprepared (he asked us for saws!, drop cloths, paper towels, scrubbing/cleaning tools, etc) and he did a terrible job on the trim work after the first install (thankfully fixed by the carpenters that were sent out the second time around). We asked for him to be removed from the job, which he was, and was replaced by the head foreman (who claimed to not know about our conversations with the foreman re: ripping up the old floor). When they reset our appliances, they tried to get out of putting the gas stove back in (after the head foreman had written it on the contract list himself, in person).
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