When the contractor orders materials from suppliers, the quantity he requests typically includes extra for waste and breakageusually 5 to 10 percent more than the job requires. Let me urge you to ask the contractor to order enough so that if something happens down the road and a section of material has to be replaced, you have enough to match and replace it.
Here’s another scary story from the Heavens’s saga.
I bought tile for a bathroom floor in 1990. In 2001, just after the agreement was signed to sell the house, a leak developed somewhere in the drain line between the bathtub and the soil stack. To find it, several square feet of tile had to be removed. When I went to replace the tile, I found that the tile store had gone out of business and that the manufacturer had stopped making the tile.
Long story short: I ended up buying slightly larger tile and cutting it to size. I finished grouting the floor 12 hours before settlement. During the presettlement walk-through, the buyers said it looked “funky.” The leak, by the way, turned out not to be in the drain line but in the supply line to the toilet. The work was unnecessary and added to the stress of selling and moving.
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