When handing a subcontractor a check, should I mention a backcharge, even though I’m not asking him to pay?
KJR asked:
A friend of mine who’s in the gutter business went to a house where I’m the general contractor and installed some gutters, while he was there he drove over some fresh landscaping. The client brought it to my attention. The landscaper charged $200 to come back and fix it. When i paid my gutter guy, I asked him to be more careful and that I had been backcharge but was not charging him….I knew it was a snall job for him…..no big deal. I appreciated him coming back to do it.
A friend of mine who’s in the gutter business went to a house where I’m the general contractor and installed some gutters, while he was there he drove over some fresh landscaping. The client brought it to my attention. The landscaper charged $200 to come back and fix it. When i paid my gutter guy, I asked him to be more careful and that I had been backcharge but was not charging him….I knew it was a snall job for him…..no big deal. I appreciated him coming back to do it.
Suprizingly he showed his ass and said that I shouldn’t have even brought that up.
Here I thought I was doing him a favor by not back charging him.
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Judy said,
January 8, 2009 @ 12:15 pm
Sounds like he was way out of line to tell you that you shouldn’t have mentioned it. He did the damage - actually he should have been the one to pay for it. He’s being an idiot to complain at your telling him about it.
pops said,
January 8, 2009 @ 10:52 pm
sure, you should mention. He was sloppy and you cut him some slack. based on his response, lose his phone number. next time it could be extensive damage.