Home Depot Contractor Delivers Substandard Fence Materials and Fails Repeated Repairs
A Home Depot-arranged fence installation used inferior, defective lumber instead of the fence-grade material specified in the contract, resulting in misaligned posts and structural issues. Three separate repair attempts by the contractor failed to fix the problems and in some cases made the fence worse, leaving a $4,381 dispute unresolved.
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