Hiring a Good Contractor

Always do a project on a holiday when you can be sure stores are not open so you can't get necessary parts; gut everything especially if it's a bathroom. And by luck, the outlets in the living room will quit working.

Someone is down in the basement cutting the drains so while you are cooking dinner to feed everybody. There isn't any hand washing but you are cooking potatoes so they can be mashed but remember, you can't pour water down the drain because they have been cut. So to be helpful your son-in-law takes the pan of potatoes outside to drain and then proceeds to dump them on the ground. No problem you can always feed them beans.

Your daughter is in the living room working on the receptacles to find the problem and calling out for her husband to shut off the breaker. Needless to say he shuts off the wrong breaker and she gets zapped. Now remember you don't have a bathroom and the outlets don't work in the living room and your dinner has been dropped out in the front yard.

Now while all of this chaos is going on someone goes to bathroom in second bathroom and the water from the toilet accidentally goes down the drain. In the meantime one of the dogs craps on the floor and your daughter yells out who crapped on the floor and my grandson is down in the basement and yells upstairs, "it wasn't me, Ma."

In the meantime the outlets get fixed but now the lights won't shut off. Remember she is a Do-it-yourself. Actually, everybody involved is a Do-it-yourself. Oh, and to make it more interesting we are having a blizzard outside. The moral of this story is: Do not let your son-in-law get involved. Just let him sit and watch the football games.

Now it is a few hours later and the bathroom is not done and they only have a few minor leaks, the lights in living room don't shut off, but we did get dinner over with can't do the dishes because there isn't any water. My tip is to hire a licensed plumber, electrician and contractor.