Originally Posted by
okinawama
I am having the hardest time getting businesses/repairmen to return my calls. We need a roof leak fixed and a sprinkler system replaced, and I have called no fewer than 3 different businesses 3 times each, and only has returned my call ( to tell me they were not taking on any new jobs). I've asked for recommendations among friends, and even those that have come recommended to me, aren't returning my calls. When I mentioned the lack of returned calls, my friends said she'd had the exact same experience and to just keep calling. I don't want to have to chase down repair people who have quit returning my calls half way through a job, so I've been moving on to the next recommended company each time they don't call me back, but I just don't get it. Is this pretty standard in your area?
Honestly it's the same for me. If they don't want the business, they don't call back. But what's worse is when they call back, say they'll do the work, and then don't show up. Or do show up but are hours late. Or even worse, like another poster here experienced recently and I've had happen too, they get half the work done but don't come back for weeks to finish it. It takes every once of patience I have not to yell and scream at these people who do that.
Recently we had a carpenter who we paid to build our library. It's an octagonal room and we knew it would be difficult. 4 different carpenters came to our house to discuss it. Only one returned our calls after that. Thank God the one who called was amazing or it would never have been finished. It took him 2 weeks to fabricate the wood and 2 weeks to install it. I was shocked. He showed up every day, on time, never left his trash behind and even swept the room when he was done. The guy was a machine. I'd never seen a contractor work like that before and that quickly for such a difficult job. Sadly, that is rare.
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