Those butt joints in the trim are totally unacceptable, and the nail holes are enormous. Total incompetence. I'd have that re-done properly by someone else.

As for the plumbing problem: Where exactly is the sink supposed to be located?

Chispa, The cabinet maker designed everything, if you can call it designing. He is one of the best cabinet makers around here. I would have to buy from Lowe's, otherwise. Three different lumber yards recommended him 8 years ago. I designed my kitchen myself, and he told me "that can't be done" on a lot of it. Yesterday, he told me that he has used my design over and over again in other's people's kitchens.

I didn't even know how many drawers he was building or on which side they would be on. My only input was to have a shorter cabinet, because the original cabinet blocked half of the sliding shower door. He built the original cabinets that were here from 30 years ago. He measured everything, not me. Plumbing was staying exactly where it was. No changes. As he was delivering it, he told me that he had had a stroke a week ago. Maybe he has been having troubles for longer than that. He also mentioned that he was using medical marijuana for his arthritis.....enough said! Between the two, I guess he forgot to check the plumbing. He said he would figure out something and fix it. We'll see.

Kudzu9, the sink was supposed to go in the center of the open space is all I know. Nothing was drawn for me. I was waiting on him to give me a design. I had not heard from him, so I called him after a couple weeks (and some texts) . He had already built the cabinet. I told him I didn't want any more cabinets built until I had seen drawings. He forgot, and has built 2 other cabinets. I have no idea what they look like or how many drawers, etc. I asked him to send me pictures, but hasn't done that either. Poor guy is obviously struggling. He is also raising his granddaughter by himself.

The guy who built the walls upstairs installed the trim. He usually comes 1 or 2 days a week for a half a day. I never know until he either texts or knocks. He has a cattle ranch so it keeps him busy. He usually does good work, but I will talk to him on Monday if he comes.

The best way to explain the people around here is Deliverance...the old movie. Redneck meets Hillbilly! Seriously! I don't think anyone believes me when I say that people are different around here. Meth is a huge problem around here. Our county has the largest meth problem in the state. We didn't know that when my husband wanted to move here. We are moving north as soon as this remodeling is complete, and we sell this house.

I can't afford to keep paying another person for the same job. We did that with electrical, plumbers, heat/ac, drywall, texturizing, pool liner, etc. I am tired of paying twice, so I will have to learn how to do things myself. The two guys I am working with have been the best of the bunch. I just don't know what is going on with them. I went through 6 or 7 different "electricians". When I checked their license number on their truck, they were not licensed, but their boss was. Problem was the boss was not there to check their work. Everyone is an apprentice around here.

So, what size and length of nails should I use for the trim? If I have to remove the trim and renail it, I want to get the right size nails. My husband has a nail gun, but doesn't have the knowledge of nail size.

Thanks.

That's horrible. I hope you haven't paid anyone for this work. Sounds like you've got a bunch of pot-smoking, meth-using, crackheads working on your house. Either withhold their money until they fix this horrendous job or fire them. You couldn't sell that house with all these flaws. I'm afraid you're just going to have to find a genuine contractor/builder/woodworker who doesn't have a cattle farm or a drug problem.

Peke,

I feel very sorry for you. Getting work done is very stressful. Results like this are why I hate the thought of remodeling. When I had my first house in the mid '90s I felt that I mostly got a good job and it was rare that something went poorly. With this house I feel like I almost never get a good job which has put us off hiring things to be done unless absolutely necessary. Even then I always console myself through the process that I can just hire someone else to redo it if the person I hire screws it up. My expectations are that low.

Since the vanity isn't complete, perhaps you could partically disassemble it, moving the top support piece and the drawers to the right side of the cabinet; and moving the door and false front above it to the left. The sink would then go on the left, above the p-trap and water valves.

Hot Rod, I know they usually do much better work than this, so I hate to be so picky regarding the trim pieces. Maybe there are reasons why. I hope to see him on Monday. On Friday, one of his cows was in labor and died. He had to cut the calf out, but it died too. He lost a lot of money that day with the animals' deaths. No drugs for him, he is just busy. Ranching is tough work, and doesn't pay well, but we consumers need small ranches to stay in business or the big corporations take over ranch land and increase prices. When the cabinet maker made his own floor trim for my kitchen 7-8 years ago, we noticed a year later than one small side cabinet never had trim installed. We could not match it of course. When I mentioned it to the cabinet maker last week, he made the trim, stained it, and installed it free. After 7-8 years! Oklahoma just voted to let medical marijuana be legal a few months ago. You should try teaching small children whose parents use or did use drugs. I will say though, that teaching a child with fetal alcohol syndrome is much more difficult than teaching a child who was born addicted to cocaine or any other drug...and alcohol is legal!

mmmm12COzone5, I think if I was building a new house, there wouldn't be much of a problem. It is just remodeling, and we have to do it in stages. Too small of a job for most contractors. I can understand that, but I can't even get a plumber to call me back. I called 15 last Monday who have advertised online or who were in the Yellow Pages or on BBB website. Lumber yards gave me 3 names. Not one called back. I had explained the job I needed done when I left the message. All of them are within a 40 mile radius from my home. I guess I will have to look for handy-man type people or learn to do it myself. I am a retired teacher, but my husband is still working and driving 1.5 hrs one way to work every day, so he doesn't have much time. But, it is what it is and we live where we live! At this point, I just need to learn to DIY...myself. I know what you mean about low expectations. I am sorry you are having trouble as well. You cannot trust their references. Due diligence does not always pay off. We went through 6-8 electricians before I found one that was exceptional. When I called him the other day, he has moved. He said, "I was sick of all the drugged up, deadbeat, rednecks in this area who didn't want to pay what I had estimated." So, it goes both ways...contractors have trouble getting paid here! Maybe it is like all the uninsured people who go to hospitals and don't pay, so it winds up costing the insurance companies more so they raise my premiums. I never took the lowest bid when we were first looking for contractors in 2011, but I may as well have. My roofing installers had to have seen problems in the roof edges, but they never mentioned it. They just put new shingles on. We found nails in our pool, on the deck, in the landscaping, and in the yard for months. My siding people told me about the problems AFTER he had completed the demo, and AFTER he had installed 3/4 of the siding. So the additional cost was $8000.00 over the $38,000.00 originally bid. I understand that they had to replace about 10 ft of fascia and that parts of the old soffits had no plywood at all under the old siding, but geez, tell me sooner. He was lucky I had money set aside for something else which was my upstairs bathroom and upstairs remodel. So now, I have less money and will reuse the carpet, tub, tub surround, wood countertop and old stained trim upstairs. I had assumed it was just my rural area that caused them problems. Maybe jobs are scarce so some people say they are contractors, but are really just untrained handy-men who need money. I didn't realize that bigger cities than my little town had the same problems. Really, I can't call my town a town...

Wdccruise, he said he would take care of it so I can only hope. He is really a nice guy so I think he will. I just hope taking it apart doesn't weaken it. Here is a picture of the roll top doors he made for an enormous, big screen, projection TV, entertainment center in the master bedroom years ago. He said it was in 1980, so they are 40 years old and still work well. He built the 4 large cabinet doors the other day, so they are new. There were huge speaker niches that didn't have any doors. We put adjustable shelves in them when we moved in. We stuck a desk where the projection TV was, but will probably have him add cabinets to the desk section for a TV and other electronics. It is hard to believe it is 40 years old until you seen the popcorn ceiling, gold knobs, and the pink half bath. The bedroom and the great room/kitchen wood floor will be done after all bathrooms are finished, IF I can ever find a plumber to move the plumbing in the concrete.

So, does anyone know the size and length of the nails I should use on the trim?

The contractor fixed the trim. He tried to explain why he did what he did. Anyway, he fixed it,

The cabinet maker is going to move the drawers to the other side. We'll see!

Well, my cabinet maker did it again! The hall bathroom cabinet is cutting it close. Will a P-trap fit? The pipe (towel stuck in it) that is there will be changed, but it barely skims over that drawer. He is going to have to retire and smoke his arthritis medicine or give up the weed.

It looks like he made the door too small so he made the blank space on the left side of the cabinet.

The wood top is not right. It looks like I need to scribe it and cut it straight. Or at least square it with the wall. Then I need to figure out how to rout out that one part by the wall. I am not sure about that part. Maybe a notch would be better???