So this Saturday the original plumber guy stopped by to re-camera our drain and such. We explained to him the extent of what his co-worker had and hadn't done, and upon realizing that the broken snake hadn't been removed before the concrete was replaced, he determined that it was kind of pointless to stick a camera down there. Also, he felt that his co-worker performed uncharacteristically and had neglected to pour the concrete correctly. The whole thing needs to come back up again. We were to await a phone call in a few days and reschedule.
Well, right about the moment I was assisting a toddler with his potty business, a knock on the door yielded the uncharacteristically inept co-worker who stated he was here to "make lots of noise" in redoing the drain job. His English is not so good. Just an hour from the time I needed to leave to serve as Taxi mom. I was just a teensy bit panicked thinking if I sent them away they might never come back, but on the flip side not feeling very confident about letting this guy fix this unsupervised. Plus, they hadn't called nor made an appointment...plus, said toddler was still sitting on the baby bjorn potty with a disinterested big sister as supervisor. Calls were made, and finally I sent them away when I couldn't get ahold of my dear husband. I had a bad feeling about this all the way around.
I'm starting to think that Angie's List is not a very reliable source for accurate reviews. While they manage to collect a large number of reviews, when contrast to the reviews on our local Yelp site, Yelpers seem to leave reviews more like what we've been experiencing. All the reviews for this plumber on Angie's List were pretty good. However, when I looked them up on Yelp (which I hasn't done before hand), while there weren't nearly the same number of reviews, the reviews that were there were 50% worse... More like C- instead of A+ Why the difference? The same was true for our bathroom contractor too (who I also neglected to research on Yelp).
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