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Public statement source · YT226
Contractor Ruined my Full Tile Bathroom
A property-defect account of a second contractor grievance following an earlier roof grievance, in which recovery is discussed only as a possible payout from the contractor's insurer.
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You guys keep making fun of my life of doom and despair, but uh it doesn't stop at the roof. The another contractor messed up my bathroom, and I'm debating on doing it section by section, like trying to redo it section by section, gutting the whole thing.
He frames the bathroom as a second contractor grievance on top of an existing roof grievance, which is the multi-contractor property-defect pattern the Scranton action pleads. No court, docket, complaint, lawyer or judge is mentioned and the contractor is never named.
Why this classification: The case link rests on subject matter rather than identification, and the statement describes workmanship rather than any filing, so it bears on chronology at Moderate without a filing-conduct factor.
All right, but you know, point is all the tile work was done really shoddy and I don't want my bathroom to be out of commission for god knows how long again because I'm I'm basically, you know, getting someone to remodel and helping them do it. You know, it's not like I have a crew that can come in and just bang it out unless uh unless this guy's insurance company pays me out, which is probably not going to happen.
He contemplates recovering from the contractor's insurer and predicts he will not, a stated expectation about a route to compensation on a property-defect grievance.
Why this classification: An insurance payout is not a court filing and he neither says he will sue this contractor nor mentions a lawyer, claim, demand or proceeding, so this is not a threatened or prospective filing; it stays Moderate on the dispute link alone.
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2025-09608 — Tufano v. City of ScrantonTranscript reference · Medium · Timestamped statement at 00:00 researched as bearing on this case: he frames the bathroom as a second contractor grievance after a roof grievance, matching the multi-contractor negligence pleaded in C023. No contractor is named in the video and the tile claim is not obviously the water-damage claim pleaded there.