Hot take · 12:57
// THE QUOTE
“back in the day you used to be able to charge back for deficiencies”
— Guillaume Tremblay · GT Painting Inc.
Deficiency-vs-trade-damage scope creep: now painters are expected to eat repairs they didn't cause — a clean contract/risk point.
Full episode at 12:57Why Painters Are the Banks of Construction — and Why No One in Atlantic Canada Wants to Fix It | GT Painting ▸
THE LESSON THIS CLIP CARRIES
Scope creep onto finishing trades (caulking, patching, repairing other-trade damage) has increased over decades while prices have decreased — sub-trades must price a damage allowance into every bid or absorb the loss.
“the expectation that the painters will fix it the painters will fix it and it's the trickle-down effect”
THE CHAPTER IT LIVES IN
Workforce crisis: no apprenticeship, no accreditation, chronic retention failure
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SOURCE: 12:57 of Why Painters Are the Banks of Construction — and Why No One in Atlantic Canada Wants to Fix It | GT Painting