Sounds like the customer from hell (hectoring workers so much none wanted to be there) met the contractor who can build a disaster. A karmic match.

How 'bout framing the wall properly for the window opening. If you've got a 2x6 wall, you should really be using 2x6s to frame for the window. And I'm sure that live wire is just tacked up there temporarily, but it should still have the breaker shut off or be in a box and capped & tucked away. Just from the pictures I'd say that there are people working on this job that don't know how to do the work right. Is someone actually working on the roof the day the pic was taken? If not, why is the ladder up? How did the contractor end up hiring a siding sub that did such poor work? Why wasn't the contractor there checking up on them that morning they started to make sure they were doing it right? I'm a contractor myself, and I'd be embarrassed to see my job site look like that! This just goes to show why COMMUNICATION is so important between a contractor and a property owner, and why the contractor should still be at the site daily, if only for a few minutes, if he hires a sub to do work on his job. The contractor screwed up here, and the homeowner should have called him on it right away & demanded that it was fixed before the problems got that out of hand. And the contractor should have intervened with the homeowner to get them to allow the subs to do their work. Although I suspect that perhaps the homeowner was asking so many questions because they could see the problems coming...

Looks like the work is up to Saint Louis Park code. I have seen jobs in SLP that look like they were completed by blind children yet the city passes them. Saint Louis Park only cares about getting a permit fee and charging for an inspection when you move. That is the extent of quality control of work in the city.

AS an insurance agent We usually end up with these situation. from losses that are occurring due to unfinished construction and requests for help and direction from the homeowner. BUY a Performance bond for the amount of the work! We routinely suggest to the homeowners that by purchasing a Performance bond the insurance company will provide the money to complete the contract to the amount specified and then THEY will go and collect from the contractor. The work can get done and these horror stories would not make their way to the paper or to our desks. They also would take up the time of the courts, building inspectors, government agencies and the other myraid of people to resolve the issue. It is indeed a far cheaper and less painful proposition than seeing this.

This comment could not be farther from the truth,I have lived in St. Louis park for 37 years and have owned two homes here and yow will be very nervous when you get a permit signed off,it will be right or you will correct it before the permit will be signed off. When this renovation is completed it will be corrected to a very high standard and will be quality work.

...of what you can get by jumping on the cheapest bid.

If city inspectors are doing their job and inspecting the work during all phases of construction there should be no need for corrections to be made at the end. A lot of shoddy work can be hidden and never found or corrected if the inspector only shows up once or twice during construction.

First you got a lady changing her mind throughout the project then you got a contractor unwilling to complete his work. It sounds easy enough to me that you go back to the original contract and do EXACTLY what was called upon.

All I had to read was the contractor installed windows without adding or replacing headers to know he and his crew are complete incompetence.

I agree with Bud. As a resident of SLP who has had several updates a renovations done to my home, I know that when a contractor pulls a permit to do work, that the City is going to take these changes very seriously and hold the contractor accountable for doing the work up to code. Although I hate paying the permit fees, I know in doing so I'm getting some level of protection from the city.