Website owner: James Miller
Why do people do bad work? One reason can be ignorance, not knowing the proper way to do the job. But the more usual reason for bad work is simply not being willing to put in the time and effort required for a good job. Doing the job right simply requires more time and trouble than the person is willing to invest. It is much easier to take a much shorter, quicker route: doing a job that appears OK on the surface, taking the money, and running. Example: Exterior painting work. A good job requires proper surface preparation before the actual painting. This means removing all the old loose paint, replacing rotted pieces, caulking, replacing bad glazing around window panes with new glazing, etc.. All this can be a lot of work, the hardest part of the job, in fact. A much quicker, easier way is to just paint over the old loose paint, rotted wood, and loose, crumbling window putty without doing the initial preparation. If you put in caulk or new window putty you are supposed to wait a few days before painting it. But this involves coming back another day to finish the job --- which is added trouble. The shorter, easier way is not to wait --- just paint over it right after putting it on. And the truth is if you do everything the short, easy way the final job may look fairly good. It may even last out the one or two year warranty period. But that is as long as it will last. And it was a bad job. June 1993
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