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[Aquera]

I assume this was because the cabinets were ruined in the flood??? Its a miracle that they didn't fall and smash at some point...

[Deckert]

Yeah, when the leak happened they demoed out all of the cabinets and left the slab on stilts. Get this, insurance company's position was that since the granite had not technically been damaged...it did not need to be removed or replaced. And we ended up salvaging and re-using most of the cabinets.

I had to include some fairly paranoid language in our contract regarding the preservation of their slabs.

[ceramictec]

nice work Brannigan , I really like that last picture, just wouldnt want to clean or dust the front of it

[gueuzeman]

So you slid the new/rebuilt cabints back under the slabs? Wow, nutty.

Looks good though.

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[cx]

Yeah, insurance companies are fun, non?

I rebuilt an entire house a few years back that flooded to a depth of about 5 feet of fast-moving water. Beautiful location, just a little close sometimes to a normally small creek.

I told the owner that the best thing he could do for the long term is just let me build him a replacement about a hundred feet farther from the creek, which would be about eight feet higher in elevation.

Insurance company said, "Oh, no, that would not constitute a repair, but would be new construction. We couldn't pay for that." So, instead, I made the whole thing new and better again, at a substantial cost, and the insurance company advised the owner to increase the amount of his coverage since he lost a lot of content that didn't get paid for.

He sold the property. New owner had flood water just lapping at the foundation a couple years later. He sold the property. The new, new owner had an even more serious flood event than the one I rebuilt after and even more damage was done. I wasn't invited to work on it that time so don't know what was actually done as remediation.

But I'm sure the same insurance company advised the new owner again that no payment could be made to actually protect the house from further flooding, only for repairs of the flood damage.

That incident has been instructive for me in any dealings with insurance companies. Just requires a different sorta thinking, sometimes.

[Chad Deiter Company]

How the heck did you slide the cabinets under ?

[tilelayer]

kitchen looks good floors ugly in the kitchen though. They like stone!

[tileguynky]

Man, do not show that to some of the builders around here.

Sample future phone call;
GC- Hello cabinet company, we are ready for you to start.
Cabinet Company- We will have somebody there soon.
GC-Okay, granite is in and ready for you to put some cabinets underneath.
CC-wtf??
GC-Tile man has installed the backsplash too.


Deckert, job lucks good. Nothing like a project with a little challenge.

[jondon]

Yes I agree with Rick, the countertops and backsplash look great, why such a retro floor, I know I know they probably said we are spending all this money on the countertops and want to keep the tile in the floor simple. With those countertops and cabinets the floor tile just doesn't go. But its they're house and they can do what they want!!

Rick thats interesting about the pinching, that guy teaching you, does he pinch you when your doing something you shouldn't be...lol As for this extreme pitch I don't really know if I would go as far as calling it that since it only the last 4 inches that have a little more slope and with the 2" inch tiles, there is not weight being exerted on that area of the floor except for the water itself but I will take note of your information, she is a friend so I will see the shower periodically to make sure the only pinching going on is human flesh! thanks!

Janna so you noticed the 6 months, well the addition of her home has been going on that long, its really turned out nice. Lots of marble and stone, and all the cabinetry in every room is custom made. With her being an Interior Decorator, her home will be her avenue to get lots of new work from clients. She has a lot of friends and customers who would like this kind of design, he husband is doctor so she meets lots of people in he realm. Hopefully that will translate into some work for me as well! Have been doing work for her since I became a contractor in 1999 and have a great relationship. So your gonna try a fish next? Its hard to say where there is demands for what you do, the wine/cheese/fruit kinda mural is already out there but it would be worth a try, you'll find a market eventually just keep doing what your doing and experimenting with animals...mosaics that is..lol

[Deckert]

I had the same thought about the kitchen floor. Unfortunately, a little water doesn't hurt tile on slab,........so insurance wouldn't pay for it and it stayed.

The tile itself I could live with, but they had painted those grout joints with a grout stain, and its not very neatly done and goobered it up onto the tile.

[jondon]

Oh, so that tile was there originally before the water damage, makes sense now that they keptem! Maybe someday you'l be replacing the floor for them to make it all work!

[silvercitytile]

that looks good brannigan
that would be difficuilt to build cabinets after the top was in.

[lati_cz]

bathroom I just finished

[lati_cz]

demo

[lati_cz]

done