Hidden costs of home ownership
- family finance, real estate -
The guy we asked to repaint a portion of our living room ceiling came in the other day after the hubby said he was not satisfied with the quality the first time he did his job. After I told him exactly what to do, I went up to my room/home office to work and checked back on him after an hour.
He was on a break. Apparently, he was waiting for the first coating to dry before applying the next one. But upon close inspection, I saw that he did not follow directions. He painted only three sides and not the entire wood portion.
“Can you please paint these portions too?” I asked.
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