[Selanne_200]

I think it always comes down to the owner when it comes to choice of sub-trades in residential homes anyways. If it's a spec home and built to sale, most of them would care less how to work is as long as it's the lowest bid for the job. I was just at an open house in west vancouver this past weekend, and a house currently listed for 2.9 mil has such a terrible finishing job it's disgusting! The floors on the top floor isn't even level and you can feel it when you're walking in the room barefoot, the drywall isn't even cut and then mud in properly around the switches so that there's already all sorts of nicks and cuts around it, the choice of granite for their counter-top is cheap (black galaxy if you know prices of granite), shower tubs are still using the real cheap 4mm framed slider show glass that wobbles as you slide them. This is absolutely outrages that these houses are demanding that money they are, the only thing they have going for them is location, but you would think they would put a little bit of conscience in it when they build, but nop!
If everyone was building a house to own/live in, i'm pretty sure 75% of those east indian would go bankrupt/jobless. I refuse to hire any east indian trades on any of the important tasks but even on the simple stuff they still manage to fuck up. My excavation and demolition contractor manages to fuck something up every time he's on site: Kinking the water line when he was back filling cuz they didn't support the water line properly underneath prior to just dumping dirt onto it, knocking and damaging the garage foundation with their bobcat during backfill of the garage, tried to bill for me something that was never discussed and claimed he did etc.
If you're planning on building a home for yourself and not to sell, if you can avoid it, I would avoid the east indian trades like a plague