On Jan 26, 3:10 am, "SteveB" wrote:
"marson" wrote in message

On the other had, judging from the tone of your post, they may have
smelled that you are a jerk and charged accordingly. That's what I
would have done.

Jerk? Hardly. Just someone who can smell a rat. I'm a jerk for asking him
to come into my home, and do work for money? And then I'm a jerk for not
paying a lot of money for a little work?

No, you're a jerk because you never had the intention of hiring the
guy in the first place.

For future reference, life is too short to work with crappy
materials. As another, more perspicacious poster mentioned, it's a
good idea to use your 'cost' savings to upgrade the materials.
Otherwise you're just a hack hacking on your own house.

R