Hi guys,
In my haste to try and get the boat prettied up before the rains hit, I screwed up royally. I found a guy to do blister repair and paint my boat from the window line up. Basically the flybridge area and the front windshield brow. It is a '77 42' DCMY Uniflite. Anyway, he kept milking the prep work. Saying he needed more time for this and that. He took two weeks just to do the sanding and filling. Anyway, he handed off the job to another guy because he landed a bigger gig doing a paint job on a 180' yacht that he said needed his full attention. The other (new) guy showed up today and just ripped apart the work that the first guy did. Here was the list of beefs.... . There was no need to have so many people (4) working on the boat as were there doing prep work . With the number of people that were on the project at any given point, it should have moved much faster . The filler that was used is a metal filler (auto body) not one that is designed for fiberglass . Over half the fills that were completed were done wrong. There is air and water underneath many of them . On top of using the wrong filler it was never sealed so the filler has absorbed a lot of rain water and needs to be redone . The fills that are there will pop out inside of a year if they are left the way they are now, due to the above . The sanding work was poor and needs to be redone almost completely. Otherwise the finish will be extremely rough . The windshield brow was sanded so unevenly that there are actual waves in the surface . The backend of the fly bridge needed so much work they weren't even willing to touch it without starting over Needless to say I am pissed. I have the crappiest looking boat in the marina now. The guy that did the first round of work took off and we are heading into the rainy season and I not in covered moorage. The new guy is telling me that to do it right, he needs to do the following: . Yank out all the body filler that the previous guy put in . Put in fiberglass filler . He wants to put 2 layers of fiberglass over the entire thing . redoing the fairing work . Gelcoat . then paint On top of all this, after he strips everything out he wants the boat in covered moorage and out of the rain for a MONTH to dry out before he applies the new fiberglass fill and fiberglass sheets. Does any of this make sense to anyone here who has fiberglass experience? Or am I getting taken for yet another ride? I am already hunting down the first guy because I want a large chunk of my money back. Two people now have basically said that the work he did was crap. So I have $4100 into prep work that all has to be redone and a boat that I am embarrassed enough of, that I don't want to take it out of the slip because it looks so bad. I need a beer...... Kerry --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "UnifliteWorld" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/unifliteworld?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
