"Malcolm Hoar" wrote in message
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In article , "JoeSpareBedroom"
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"RicodJour" wrote in message
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MRS. CLEAN wrote:

I am collecting antedoctal evidence, but it appears there is objective
evidence to support my experiences.

I'm surprised that you could type "objective" without bursting into
flames or melting or whatever it is *you people* do when confronting
gross irony.

You know, it *IS* possible that you could randomly pick 3 contractors out
of
the yellow pages, and end up picking 3 awful ones. If you happened to be
looking for someone to deal with wet basement problems, the likelihood of
picking bad ones would be multiplied exponentially. If you had this
experience, then you could that 100% of them seemed shifty to you.

Yes, but the fact is, the industry *does* have a problem.

I'm not disputing that. I'm agreeing.

While shopping for a roofer recently, I found out that an acquaintance did
that kind of work. Thinking I could save a little money, I had the guy come
out and take a look. He showed up one day to look. He showed up a week later
to measure. He showed up 3 days later to tell me he'd measured. On that day,
I mentioned that my bathroom fan was jury-rigged to a regular roof vent, and
that I'd like to route it to a vent made for the purpose. He gave me this
blank stare and said he'd have to find out more about it. He was obviously
clueless. I decided to mull over this fact, and think about how much of a
problem it could be. I decided it could be a huge problem, and I'll be using
someone else - a real live company that's been around forever. Mr. Less
Expensive got all bent out of shape when I told him my reasons. By the way,
when I got 3 other estimates, all 3 people showed me pictures of fan vents.

This is a mild example, but who knows what sort of train wreck could've
occurred?