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Floor Jack Scam

Posted on: Wed, 05/07/2008 - 20:40
Floor Jack Scam

Crew chief points out that the living room floor vibrates when his largest crewman walks across it. He asks to inspect the floor from below. He emerges from the craw! space or basement and announces that the floor may collapse and needs bracing with heavy jacks. The crew installs several $35 metal screw jacks from Lowe’s or Home Depot beneath a completely sound floor. The home owner is charged $500 for each jack installed.

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Posted on: Fri, 11/07/2008 - 16:42 #1

I am not sure how I feel about this one, I have to actually jack up my back porch as the people who owned this home before us never did and for some reason we thought it had bracing, well now its cracked and we need a temp. fix until we can afford an entire new deck.

Posted on: Mon, 11/17/2008 - 10:15 #2

Any worker who lies in order to get a homeowner to pay for unnecessary work is a scammer, pure and simple. This is a despicable tactic that wouldn't be needed if the person was good at what they do.

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