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What to do with drywall gouges from flooring contractor

3 years ago

We have hired a highly recommended and very expensive flooring contractor. Part of the job was for his crew to remove old floors. During the removal they had gouged some of the walls (mostly unde4 the baseboard line but some above) as well as chipped several tiles on the bathtub. I have a few questions
1. They are not reinstalling the baseboards so do the holes under the baseboards need to be repaired?
2. Who is responsible for repair for holes over the baseboards? (Nothing in the contract about this)
3. Is it within my right to make them replace the tile on the tub?

Comments (10)

  • 3 years ago

    Some of the damaged spots. There are a lot like this.




  • 3 years ago

    Will the imperfections be covered by new baseboards and new floor for bathroom?

  • 3 years ago

    Some yes others are above baseboards and the bathroom will not be covered either

  • 3 years ago

    It looks like damage that would be unavoidable when removing flooring and trim. Get a baseboard that will cover the damage. The bathroom tile can be covered with some quarter round or maybe patched with some type of compound. I personally wouldn't make a fuss over this.

  • 3 years ago

    No you don't need to repair wall before new baseboards are installed.

  • 3 years ago

    The walls don’t look too bad, should be an easy fix. You can approach the flooring company about it but I imagine some of these type of damages are difficult to avoid but who knows, they might agree to fix it to have a happy client. I think the tile could be more problematic. Even if you would have the damaged ones replaced, do you have extra tiles?

  • 3 years ago

    Some damage comes from just removing the baseboard itself, and some from flooring. Its unavoidable, most of the time. Your damage looks very minor, and mostly is easy diy fix.

  • PRO
    3 years ago

    Usually highly recommended and very expensive contractors have clauses in the contract to cover themselves indicating something like this: "due to limited demolition work, contractor is not responsible for any adjoining surfaces".

    They should have also warned you that minor damage to the adjoining surface could happen and it should be expected.

    Drywall is a minor issue to fix and it will be covered with trim as someone mentioned before.

    As trim goes, if the contractor does only tile work, they don't usually do trim work... unless it's a remodeling company they would have someone to handle finish carpentry work.

    Most handymen can put the trim back, also not a big deal.

    Good luck


  • 3 years ago

    Unavoidable and to be expected. And some of the 'damage' you are bothered about was probably existing and hidden behind the trim--(Photo #2, for instance).

    I would be happy because the damage is minimal; I would have expected worse.

  • 3 years ago

    Hire a drywall guy and a finish carpenter. That’s just part of the overall expense of doing the job, and you as the job GC should be aware of that. Any standard GC would be, and would have already scheduled the followup trades.