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Special education teacher says contractor won't finish home repairs

The contractor started working in the home in late November. They told the owner it would take only two weeks. Now almost 3 months later, there is still work to be done.

WRIGHT CITY, Mo. – Repair woes have a Missouri teacher living out of a suitcase in a hotel. The woman said the contractor she hired to make home repairs after a flood is making a mess instead.

So, she called 5 On Your Side for help.

The contractor started working in the home in late November. He told the owner it would take only two weeks. Now almost 3 months later, there is still work to be done.

Teaching special education students at Wentzville Middle School is something Michelle Joyce never thought she would do.

“But I've loved every minute of it,” Joyce said.

Joyce whispers when she speaks after cancer required wind pipe surgery. One of her friends at school is nurse Kathy Warren.

“We do our prayer groups together so I knew this was an ongoing problem,” said Warren.

That ongoing problem is in Joyce's home. She showed us the kitchen.

“Right now it's just kind of hanging out on the floor,” she said about the kitchen island.

After a valve to her refrigerator broke a slow leak flooded her home. The floors, wall and cabinets had to be replaced.

“I would ask her every time how's the construction and then the story started: nothings been done the contractor doesn't show up again,” Warren said.

Joyce said that contractor, Norman Dailey, began making repairs in November and said he would have her back in her home by Christmas.

“He just ran the plumbing yesterday, but he hasn't run the ductwork,” Joyce said.

Joyce said he didn't show up the entire month of January. She can't fire him because the insurance company already paid him.

She just wants him to finish the work and so does Warren.

“I just want her back in her home where her grandkids can come and visit and that's what she deserves,” Warren said.

5 On Your Side reached out to Dailey Construction about when gaps would be filled and repairs would be complete. So far, we've heard nothing.

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