OK we are buying a house through a private sale through a friend who is a real estate agent. The house was a rental before and when moving out they accidentally ruined the laundry room floor, so the owner was having that redone. We inquired about having the carpet removed from the dining room and replaced with linoleum at the same time, we were quoted a price which would include also doing the entry way since there would be just enough flooring leftover from the sheet anyway. They came in and pulled the carpet and decided the sub-floor needed to be sanded and a hole needed to be filled. So we went and sanded the sub-floor and filled the hole ourselves so they could complete the job today. I went out there tonight to take a peek (I have keys already even though its still in escrow) and while the linoleum looks wonderful I noticed a problem. The carpet edges where the carpet meets the linoleum have not been tacked down, they are still completely loose but the transition strips at the edges have been installed. The molding around the edge of the dining room and laundry room also has not been put back on. The home inspector is coming and this stuff needs to be done so we can close. So my question is this….
Is there a valid reason a flooring installer would leave the finishing undone like this? I will talk to him tomorrow and its possible they just planned to finish tomorrow, but why put the transition strips down without affixing the carpet to them? Is it possible that the quoted price did not include putting stuff back and tacking the carpet where it meets the linoleum? I honestly don’t see how that could work. My husband is a mechanic and often has to remove parts to get to the broken part… it would be UNHEARD of for him to just leave those parts off after fixing the part he is fixing. The cost of removing things and putting them back is included in the quoted price… shouldn’t it be the same for flooring? Any idea about this?