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September 22, 2021, 6:44 am
A contractor took a sledgehammer to a bathroom remodel after alleging he wasn’t paid in full in a timely manner by the homeowner, and now public opinion is split after video of the destruction went viral.
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Amber Trucke told KRDO that she hired Terry James Gregory and Jordan Cazares of Dream Home Remodels of Colorado to fix up a shower in her bathroom and do some additional work throughout the house. As the job came to a close, she wasn’t happy with how the shower turned out, and claimed that she wanted to wait to pay the contractors the remaining $4300 balance on the $7555 job.
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“I wanted to be wowed and I wasn’t wowed,” Trucke said. “But I knew she was comin back Friday to clean things up and I figured maybe I’d be more impressed then. So I was not going to pay them until I saw the actual finished product.”
The actual finished product turned out to be a completely demolished shower, as Gregory and Cazares returned while Trucke was at work and only her roommate was home, allegedly under the guise of picking up their materials.
Video shows Gregory taking a sledgehammer to the tiles as the woman filming begs him to stop.
“We put weeks into this. Thousands of dollars into this,” he says. “Is somebody going to pay me?”
“It’s not your house to destroy,” the woman responds.
But Gregory pushes back, claiming that the tile hasn’t been paid for and therefore is his property, before returning to knocking it out with his sledgehammer.
“Let me tell you something,” he says on his way out. “No contractor in the state of Colorado will fix that when they find out that I took it back because she refused to pay me.”
According to the contractors, there were actually multiple projects that Trucke refused to pay for after the work was already complete, “including a vanity, mirror, light fixture, 2 ceiling fans, plumbing work, fixing rotten framing in her walls, and an exterior door replacement.”
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They cited a breakdown in communication and said that Trucke didn’t express any displeasure in their work while it was in process — only when they asked to be paid.
“We regret that this contract went sour. It has never happened before and is not something that is made regular practice,” Cazares told KRDO.
Some folks on Twitter backed up the contractors, saying they should have gotten paid for the work that they did, and they were completely in the right to undo said work when that fell through.
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However, Redditors pulled what they say are images of the contractors’ subpar work, prompting others to stick up for the homeowner in this scenario.
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Trucke has stated that she plans on taking the contractors to small claims court over the demolition. “Obviously people are sometimes not what they seem, and that was certainly the case this time,” she said.
*First Published: September 22, 2021, 6:44 am
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