Believe it or not, Our General contactor who was a former TV Building Supervisor, uses subs and for the most part they are the same guys who work on TV newly built homes....this includes T&D for concrete. block and rebar work, as well as the same framers and floor people for tile. I got estimates from T&D ...they are a great company...but they were very high in price and the time to start (months out) was not within my range. When I contracted with my General Contractor, who is a small business, I had no idea who he would be using as subs....but he had done other work in our home and that of neighbors...all positive.... and this was a fairly large job for I was enclosing our lanai w heat/ac, raising the concrete floor, drywall it all and then building a new CBS hobby room addition. Being a small business, he is at their call in terms of being available to complete his job, but he does have a great repoire and gets it done. Any risk was more offset by the differnces in price.
So BOTTOM LINE, for me to go to the guys who had a great reputation such as T&D, it was just too expensive and they could not get to me on my time line.....BUT I unknowingly got them anyway at a much cheaper price through my General Contractor who knew them all through his prior work experience. . All subs were licensed/insured, all plans county approved and inspected, everything came in as expected with no surprises at the end. Think of it as being no different than someone going to Verizon for Cell phone service and paying over $100/month but you can go to Wallmart ...get Straight Talk which uses Verizon Towers for only $45.
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