Genmor Plumbing is the Repipe Specialist franchisee for my area. I had them re-pipe my house, and am generally satisfied with the results of the plumbing. The building inspector was happy with their work, said that it looked solid, and was done well and according to code. However, there are several cosmetic problems that we were left with.\r
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- Caulking around spigots: they did the worst caulking job on the holes in the siding that they made for spigots that I've ever seen. I will have to remove it and do it all over again. Caulk was just blopped on the top part of the holes, not even smoothed. No caulk on the bottom of the holes at all. \r
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- Holes for spigots: they apparently drilled the holes for the spigots from the inside rather than from the outside. As a result, there are big chunks of the surface of the siding gone around the holes (we have T1-11 siding, a plywood-type siding). Everyone knows that when drilling holes in wood, you drill into the side that you care about the appearance of, rookie mistake. All unnecessary, a result of their emphasizing speed over quality in the cosmetics.\r
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- Sheetrock patching: The person that I had in to texture the sheetrock patches that they did pointed out that they had used 1/2"" thick sheetrock on the ceiling patches instead of 5/8"", which is customary for ceilings. As a result, he had to put on a lot of mud to fill in the extra thickness, which took longer to dry, and cost me more money to match the surrounding ceiling area. The patches were solid, they just took longer to blend in than they would have otherwise.\r
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-Surface plumbing. There were two places where we ended with plumbing on the wall surface. One was in my contract, but I hadn't seen it until they did it (the laundry area of our garage). The other is behind our dishwasher, which I feel is the result, again, of their emphasis on speed rather than planning and thinking about what they were going to do before doing it.
Pros: Good plumbing skills, responsive to problems
Cons: Poor cosmetics
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