Just got a call from a client/friend…he’s been 3 years on what started as a big family room-kitchen & garage addition that turned into a whole house gut & remodel….
He’s done a lot of the work himself, & learned enough, god & bad with subs, that he could probably be a good GC now….
He’s given up trying to find a decent painter & has been doing it himself, & if his kitchen cabinets show up (long story, the cab. man has had his deposit for months & keeps slipping his delivery date), he might get done before his wife divorces him…
I told him before I left (I’m on the road, wearing my site supervisor hat for a while), that his best bet to keep sane (he’d been jumping from thing to thing, working 12 hours 7 days) was to set down in one room & get it done…trim, fixtures, the works….
Well, he was almost done in the kids bath when he spies a rust streak near the drain in the new cast iron tub. He looks closer, pops the access panel (nice when you’ve got one!), and he’s sure the tub is cracked. Now, he hasn’t filled it yet to see if it leaks, but I’m remembering the last time I sledge-hammered a tub out, & IIRC you have to hit it a good lick…
Best case scenario, he’s just tired & is seeing some surface staining, maybe from a scap of the wire mesh that got left in the tub…
He’s thinking maybe the 250 lb. tile man was too much, but hey, there wasnt any water in the tub while he was in it…
Any of you folks ever find a crack in a brand new tub?