[canuckistanian]

He does have insurance and WCB coverage and is a registered contractor with the city of Calgary. He happens to be one of my neighbors and offered to do the framing since he's a journeyman carpenter and is trying to build up a new business. I should have trusted my gut at the beginning and not used him but figured there wasn't much to go wrong since its just a basic garage build. Overall quality looks really good from his end but I will wait until the building inspection is completed to give him full payment.

We discussed the labour cost on at least 2 occasions prior to commencing work and we both agreed on the $1800. What killed him on labour was he took 5 and a half days and had his framing buddy helping the whole time. He originally told me it would take about 3 days and he was only going to get help putting up the trusses.