I need someone who knows what they’re looking to either tell me I am being overly critical or that my concerns are valid and I should do something now.
I hired a licensed bonded contracting company to replace the old T1-11 siding on my home with Hardie boards. They started on Tuesday and have been working all week. I leave for work before they get here and they are gone or wrapping up by the time I get home. For the first few days they were just removing the old siding and installing plywood the original builder didn’t bother to install so there wasn’t much for me to really critique, but I did notice they damaged some of my trim around my garage door by seemingly using a crow bar to remove some of the old siding.
I finally got an opportunity to check out their handiwork Friday, as they have started to install the siding wrap and some of the trim and I am spotting things that are giving me real concern. I should note, there is a middle-aged gentlemen who is the “project manager” that I worked out all the details with, but the two people doing the actual work look like literal children. One is maybe 19 early 20s tops, and the other must be no more than 16. Being at work I hadn’t noticed until this Friday. I think the company I went with subcontracted out to this project manager, and he apparently enlisted his nephews or something.
Some things I noticed, they either don’t measure their cuts or they are trying to cut costs by not wasting material because they are leaving large gaps of 1/4 to 1/2 inch between trim that I can only assume they plan to fill with caulk. The siding wrap isn't taut and flat to the wall and they started installing trim without taping down overlap at the seams. They left a huge gap between the trim and some brick façade that goes right into the flashing that I have no idea what they plan to do about. It’s way too large to caulk. I’m thinking they should have either should have installed some siding in there, or used a bigger trim piece. There are multiple trim pieces that when they tried to nail down the nail bent back and is preventing the trim from being flush with the wall… and they were good with it I guess. They left two as is and I found a third that was clearly just as bad if not worse that they just filled with caulk.
Reddit wouldn't let me upload, so here is a IMGUR link with some pictures. I have plenty more.