Hello!
I am wondering how you define "building a wall." My carpenter claims that it's obvious I should understand that a wall is just putting up studs and not covering it with plasterboard. That the work of installing plasterboard is an additional cost. Is this reasonable?
I am wondering how you define "building a wall." My carpenter claims that it's obvious I should understand that a wall is just putting up studs and not covering it with plasterboard. That the work of installing plasterboard is an additional cost. Is this reasonable?
What, does he mean that only the frame should count as a wall and that the boards are some kind of extra add-on? Interesting with a "wall" you can walk straight through. I'm not a carpenter, but it sounds like he's trying to cheat you.
If you wrote "frame up a wall" then I can to some extent agree with the carpenter. But building a wall should be more than just studs.
It says "building new walls" and "installing drywall." But they mean it only applies to the inside of the room. It does say that work outside the room is not included in the quotation, but we assumed that a wall is a wall with drywall on both sides. Now they want to be paid for the work to put up drywall on the outside.
Sounds like an ugly way to make a quote seem cheaper and then make up for it with "add-ons." I don't think consumers can be expected to understand that a wall isn't a wall on both sides. That wallpapering and such isn't included is one thing, but the wall itself...
The question is just how I should proceed when it's one person's word against another's. They seem to think that we're stupid for not realizing that a wall is actually just framed, and unfortunately, this is just one of several things they think we should have understood would cost extra.