that s how it happened. they were told up front long before this happened, because it was their choice. if you want me to help you, i need to have a company license. they said, yes. that s how it happened. they knew that you were not licensed? definitely. i d say he s a flippin liar. we would have never agreed to use an unlicensed person or an unregistered person. why would somebody do that? we had just come to this state. we didn t know any of the rules. we relied on paul stickney to keep us wholly and straight. despite his claims, this state document shows that birgh founded his company in 2001, three full years before the job. birgh insists the work he did for the decourseys was good, quality construction and he had nothing to do with the electrified bathtub. when we asked contractor birgh about stickney s official
disclose to the decourseys that he and contractor birgh had a land investment deal. he insists there was no conflict of interest saying one had nothing to do with the other, and what about those assurances he gave the decourseys about the superior quality of dick birgh s contracting work? i said for the type of work which i was, you know, recommending, which was cosmetic upgrades, maintenance items, that i felt he provided more value for the finished product than other contractors i had dealt with. even though he wasn t licensed? i didn t pay attention to licensing for any of my subs, and dick told me that he disclosed that to carol and martin well before they ever hired him. that he was unlicensed? correct. halfway through our interview stickney tries to redefine dick birgh s business. using the word contractor. whether dick was a contractor or not, he s a handyman. dick birgh s company was a help homeowners upgrade and maintain
they didn t have a grip on anything. their fears were confirmed by a local inspector who came to assess the house. first thing he came in the door, he said uh-oh, i smell gas. i said really? oh, yes, he says, and he came over to the stove and he says here s where it s coming out of, here s the strongest smell. and the repairman discovered that there was a flexible pipe joining up the gas pipe to the stove had been crushed in the process of installing the stove and it was leaking gas into the house. it turns out that leaky gas was only one of their problems. for a while we were lying in bed and we could hear it creaking or cracking every 20 seconds, you d hear just as though the timbers are sliding past each other and settling like an old house. and it shouldn t have been like that. the inspector also explained that the addition that birgh had built lacked significant structural support. so instead of supporting the house, the house is supporting it and it s gradually sink
was helping out a friend. dumb? yes. unintentional disclosure? no way. i disclose everything to everybody. in fact, i m one of the best disclosures of the stuff i know of anybody in the business. ask around. stickney does admit he didn t disclose to the decourseys that he and contractor birgh had a land investment deal. he insists there was no conflict of interest saying one had nothing to do with the other, and what about those assurances he gave the decourseys about the superior quality of dick birgh s contracting work? i said for the type of work which i was, you know, recommending, which was cosmetic upgrades, maintenance items, that i felt he provided more value for the finished product than other contractors i had dealt with. even though he wasn t licensed? i didn t pay attention to licensing for any of my subs, and dick told me that he disclosed that to carol and martin well before they ever
he says his company didn t exist before their remodel. there was no company. the company was formed for the benefit of them. that s how it happened. they were told up front long before this happened, because it was their choice. if you want me to help you, i need to have a company license. they said, yes. that s how it happened. they knew that you were not licensed? definitely. i d say he s a flippin liar. we would have never agreed to use an unlicensed person or an unregistered person. why would somebody do that? we had just come to this state. we didn t know any of the rules. we relied on paul stickney to keep us holy and straight. despite his claims, this state document shows that birgh founded his company in 2001,