Final payment and punch list

last year

I’ve been doing a lot of reading about this. It seems withholding final payment until all items are addressed, and corrected is standard. However, this is dicey in my situation because my contractor shows up with another guy in toe, and gets very nasty and insulting. The treatment of the punch list here is that it’s merely optional items the GC is willing to tackle as a favor. He says he’s done with my house, and the subs and everyone are sick of my house and they’re not coming back. They - the GC and my point of contact came to the house for the final walk-through, but left before I could get through the list. He was quite adversarial. He said it would be too damaging to alter some items, so my question is— then why didn’t he ask me before he installed them or ripped stuff out? I wanted to be involved, and was available. Others items, he was very nice about, and sent his guys back out over the last couple of weeks. So my question: Is the punch list optional? Does the GC get to arbitrarily choose what he will fix? What is reasonable?

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millworkman
last year
You hold back 10% from every payment (called retainage) that he gets when the punch list has been completed. You have allowed the aderserial party to run the show so now I do not know what to tell you. This all needed to have been discussed and put in writing before the project began. You are now at his mercy as to what he will or will not fix. Punch list is minor fixes or repairs, touch up or similar, not wholesale changes.
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Zumi
last year
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You cannot ever fix Z when the problem started at A. And that is why you pay for up front design work to describe Z, so that it gets made the way you want. Do you want Comic Sans Serif, Times New Roman, or Calibri? Bold, underscored, or italic? 10 pt, 14 pt, or 20 pt. Single spacing, double spaced, or 1 1/2 spacing? Black, slate gray, or blue?

Punch list is a nail pop. Not move a light fixture.

Reading you past posts, he SHOULD be done with you. You are a ridiculous consumer. You don’t know or explain what you want on the front end. You just say a whole lot of NO after the fact. And then expect him to change it. The onus is on you to communicate and explain on the front end dude. And you have zero idea how to do that. Which is why you needed a paid designer. And lower end inspirations, or a bigger budget. You do not get DOM PÉRIGNON at Budweiser prices.
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shirlpp
last year
Ouch!

It is not mandatory. What is on your list that he refuses to do?