The guy I hired to weld the seam closed of the primary air channel, in the back corner of my E-Classic 1400 called me earlier this week saying he will no longer be doing anymore welding job on OWB's. I guess he was hired sometime a couple of weeks ago to patch one for a guy a few towns down. A few days later he received a phone call from the guy claiming his welding made the leak worse. Being the honorable business man he is, he went down with all of his gear to fix what he supposedly broke. After inspecting the water jacket, the leak was on the opposite wall of the OWB, nowhere close to where he was welding. The customer claims the hole was due to he not doing a good enough job welding. Because he never touched that side of the OWB, he feels he's not responsible for the leak. If the guy wants it fixed, he has to pay for it. I agree with him. But, the guy now refuses to pay the welder for services rendered. Off to small claims court they go. So, due to the hassles of dealing with the guy, he's no longer welding for the general public, he's only going to do what he been doing all along; weld for businesses. I have a feeling this was the straw that broke the camels back. So, back to the drawing board to see if I can line up another welder for the just in case scenario. Trying to locate a welder that does house calls is becoming more and more difficult.
Enjoy your weekend everyone! Roger
Some people were certainly placed on this earth to try everyone else’s patience.
Several years back our county decided that all septics had to be installed by licensed and bonded contractors, so Dad got into that for awhile as we already had a mini excavator, tracked skid steer, laser, and a dump truck, also did it to keep the hired man busy in the summer.
Had a lawyer draw up a contract for when he did inspections before a closing on a house. Even had a line about “current condition of the system is no guarantee of future performance” and a line next to it to be initialed by whoever orders the inspection.
He did one in the drought of 2012, saying it was dryer than a popcorn fart in that area was the understatement of the century, hadn’t rained in at least month in that part of the county.
He does the inspection, everything works as it should, he signs off on it, new owners take possession. The next year is the exact opposite with several record setting rainfalls, system gets water logged and fails, owners sue Dad as it’s his fault it rained too much.
Didn’t goto small claims either as they came up with some obscene number to replace the system and of course included “mental anguish”. Went to court, judge seen the initialed line and tossed it out right there after ordering them to pay for dads time and lawyer.
A few other things like that and he got out of that business even though it was very lucrative as once the licensed and bonded thing went into effect a lot of fly by night guys disappeared and the price of a system doubled.