[Elmer-Dallas Texas]

The contractor incurred significant cost, stress and time compensating for design error made by someone else. Did he charge you extra for this? Imo, he should have.
If the design error had not been made, he would not have had to retrofit soffit into a filler.
It is totally unconscionable to say that this bump is worth $1,000.
Whatever is done to it now will make it look worse. Imo

 

[Jeekinz]

The cabinet guy sucks if he cant fix that without tearing apart the kitchen. I've finished "cabinet installers" installs, the hardest part is the fillers, transitions, moulding, etc. Any monkey can hang cabinets.

 

[Daph P]

The contractor incurred significant cost, stress and time compensating for design error made by someone else. Did he charge you extra for this? Imo, he should have.
If the design error had not been made, he would not have had to retrofit soffit into a filler.
It is totally unconscionable to say that this bump is worth $1,000.
Whatever is done to it now will make it look worse. Imo

Yes he did charge us extra for it, and we gladly paid it because it was what he recommended and said he could do. If he'd said it would be too hard, then we would've let the window be out of center instead. It wasn't a difficult workaround, and it wasn't the design error that caused it - it was a badly installed screw. Also it's not a bump anymore, it's a hole filled with wax, which he did when he reset the screw before it pushed out the front of the filler.

 

[Daph P]

The cabinet guy sucks if he cant fix that without tearing apart the kitchen. I've finished "cabinet installers" installs, the hardest part is the fillers, transitions, moulding, etc. Any monkey can hang cabinets.

We're going to meet with a couple of other carpenters about it.