What a Rip Off

So Gary is progressing right along with the house across the road.  He got the gross sink, fridge and range torn out of the kitchen and a new sink put in.  He put in new dry wall pieces and plywood around the bathtub area, then he painted the bathroom.  All of the flooring had been ripped out of the house by the ex-wife.  So Gary went around pulling out all of the staples and sanding down the plywood to smooth it out.

A Lowe's rep came out this morning to measure the house for new flooring.  It came out to a total of 568 feet.  That includes the two bedrooms, the mini laundry room, kitchen, bathroom and living room. She put on her report that the subflooring looked like new.  

Gary got a call from the store stating that since the subflooring was so bad they were going to have to put down new plywood and padding under the linoleum.  And to top it off they were going to charge us for 1000 square feet of the flooring, for a grand total of $5800 to do the job.  Gary went straight up into the air.  They told him they were charging for 1000 sq ft due to waste cuts around the edges.  

Gary even called the lady that did the measuring and asked her what she had put into her report.  She told him she had said it was in great condition.  Gary called the store back and they told him they don't get her report there at the store, they get it from corporate.  Figures. 

This means that we will be doing the flooring ourselves.  I wonder if that is the usual.

We had them do the kitchen floor on the house that my mom stayed in.  There wasn't any of that ridiculousness then with a ton of extra flooring.

Oh well.  I guess the lesson there is to learn how to do all of that stuff yourself and not let yourself be scalped by a business.