Wide open
Yesterday was the 11 week anniversary of our "temporary" wall being put up. It was a barrier between the inside and the very open addition. John and I are getting more than a little impatient over the pace of our project coming to completion. After 4 days of no-show by our contractor, we lost it on Wednesday night. We left less than complementary voice mails for our contractor, and I doubt he would have shown up yesterday at all if my Dad hadn't called him to offer to help. (By the way, my Dad is a lifesaver.) Thursday night I called the contractor and tried to calmly tell him that he was holding up the show - the plumbing for the bathroom could not be completed by John's brother Pat because the temporary wall was still up. He fumbled through a few comments and then told me that the wall would come down on Friday.
Aside: We told our contractor a few weeks ago that we were hoping to move down the first weekend in April so that our rentor (and good friend Eric) could move in. Although we realized that the kitchen wouldn't be done by then, we needed a working bathroom. He told us that the addition would be "boxed in" by mid-March. Ha ha.
The contractor was still working when I got home at about 6:30p, and so I let him keep working. I peeked in to see that the bathroom walls were open and that we could get the plumbing done. Great. We could move forward this weekend. When John got home about 8p, he took a full look at what was done... and found the back door WIDE OPEN. That's right folks, no tarp, no plywood, just air between the outisde, our addition, and the inside of the house. Anyone who wanted to could have just walked right in, grabbed our various boxes of stored things downstairs and walked right out without us knowing.
Luckily, there was a full sheet of plywood that was nearby that we tacked over the doorway in about 2 mins. When I called the contractor, he stated that he assumed that we were going to be securing the barrier by installing sheetrock in the bathroom this weekend, and so he didn't worry about it. I told him that from a security standpoint it was not accecptable to leave us wide open like that and not tell us before he left. He again fumbled through things and I verified that he would be back on Monday.
My God. What kind of a practical sense idiot have we hired? Does every contractor need this much hand holding?
Aside: We told our contractor a few weeks ago that we were hoping to move down the first weekend in April so that our rentor (and good friend Eric) could move in. Although we realized that the kitchen wouldn't be done by then, we needed a working bathroom. He told us that the addition would be "boxed in" by mid-March. Ha ha.
The contractor was still working when I got home at about 6:30p, and so I let him keep working. I peeked in to see that the bathroom walls were open and that we could get the plumbing done. Great. We could move forward this weekend. When John got home about 8p, he took a full look at what was done... and found the back door WIDE OPEN. That's right folks, no tarp, no plywood, just air between the outisde, our addition, and the inside of the house. Anyone who wanted to could have just walked right in, grabbed our various boxes of stored things downstairs and walked right out without us knowing.Luckily, there was a full sheet of plywood that was nearby that we tacked over the doorway in about 2 mins. When I called the contractor, he stated that he assumed that we were going to be securing the barrier by installing sheetrock in the bathroom this weekend, and so he didn't worry about it. I told him that from a security standpoint it was not accecptable to leave us wide open like that and not tell us before he left. He again fumbled through things and I verified that he would be back on Monday.
My God. What kind of a practical sense idiot have we hired? Does every contractor need this much hand holding?
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