STATEWIDE FUMIGATION

Everything about this process was a disaster. House is 1926 Spanish, with antique tile roof. Following wind damage to some of the tiles, figured this was the time to do tenting. "Some breakage" was expected, but company told me they'd use plywood over foam to spread the weight. In the end, they broke more tiles than the wind did - by a WIDE margin! Cost me an extra $3K in roofing expense. Because of leap year, apparently, they got the tenting date wrong and we had to reschedule on the fly. In the revised schedule they were supposed to arrive Monday 8:00-9:00 a.m. instead of the prior Saturday. The first crew arrived at 5:00 P.M. - about eight hours late. They called for help because of approaching dark; a second crew arrived at 7:00 p.m. The first crew chief told his team to be careful, but in the end everyone - about 10 guys - were stomping everywhere, working in the dark, for the most part without flashlights. (I fortunately had a portable floodlight that helped some.) Tore up many camellia roots digging up soil to anchor the bottom of the canvas tenting. None of the fumigation notices they attached had dates or times on them; the only way I could convince the gas company rep to turn the gas back on once all was done was to tell him (legitimately) that I'd actually slept in the house. Statewide did send a rep out to look at the roof damage. And that was the end of it. As a subcontractor, guess they figured it wasn't their problem.