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Amen to that. Liars and thieves. I can accept that when the final result is fine. We once hired our late neighbor to renovate our dacha and his people did a good job (not perfect, but good enough), but we paid through the nose for top-of-the-line materials and the end result was unmaintainable. I have no idea where any of the power lines and water lines go. I wanted to install a bigger breaker and couldn't, because the line that goes from the pole to the breaker passes through the house like the recurrent laryngeal nerve through a giraffe, I can't run a new thicker cable through the same conduit because there's no conduit, I would have to open up the walls and reroute everything.
Everyone else I've hired has been even worse. For construction my only answer is, "hire a company, include independent inspection in the contract, hire an independent technical inspector". For piping and wiring and the rest being your own general contractor is the only option.
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