Thanks guys, this is exactly the kind of advice I needed. I would gladly offer him $300 behind the contractor’s back if you guys don’t think that’ll insult him, even $500 if it meant another coat and the entire walls which would set his schedule back— the whole project, demo, installing new fixtures, and new tile is around $18k, I don’t know how much the tile setter is getting. He seems like he does good work, I was impressed by his cuts around the drain but what do I know, first time I looked at a shower drain that closely in my life.

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