Slob Contractors put young athletes lives at risk by not capping Natural Gas Line as required by Plumbing Code and properly securing Score Board

 A customer of mine  is leasing an old  Industrial Quonset Hut  which was part of large company that made industrial grade buffing wheels and compounds near Pittsburgh .

He has converted it into a Basketball Training Facility

He went with the contractor the landlord recommended because he has used them in the past big mistake.

It has been one problem after another due to incomplete shoddy work . Door Frames not properly installed and leaking air and wobbling etc etc etc. just bad craftsmanship everything they touched

Well one of the biggest and most reprehensible items they did is when they removed an old Gas Space Heater in the men's room  .

Instead of unscrewing the pipe to it and capping or plugging  it they cut it off with a Sawzall and left pipe open.

So when the young people who come into play and learn Basketball Skills  could set off an explosion by accidentally having a loose ball hit the ball valve and leak gas into the facility. Which was hidden under the thin  Insulation sheet .

Plumbing Codes all require unused ends of pipes to be plugged or capped for this exact reason and had the county Health Inspector come on site and found this it could have resulted in a $15,000.00 fine to the contractor .

To make matters worse the Ohio State contractor who came in to install the high tech plastic Flooring and Score Board never prepped floor properly  and hung a 300 pound score board using dollar store Carbiner's .

and failed to properly torque the backboard on the hoops and one has already broken.

and violated every OSHA law while working like not using rails on scaffolding or safety harnesses .

 Just total complete slobs always in a hurray to run to the next job never caring about quality because they don't have to see it everyday and never have to come back. 

I often get stuck fixing things these slobs have done the customer pays me to fix it then goes after the slob and often has a hard time getting a rebate or otherwise compensated. 

and often these general contractors just like the flooring company all use sub contractors so finding and tracking them down and making them responsible is often hard.