>Our house was built by a self-employed general contractor sometime in
>the 60s, and going by the work quality I've seen I can only pray that
>his actual clients got the effort put in because his own stuff is...
>frightening.

I have been assured by people in a position to know that most contractors, like doctors, pay far less attention to their own stuff than their customers'. I guess after you spend your whole working day making sure everything is up to code, you can't be arsed when you get home. Besides which, you can't sue yourself.

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