Comments on: Sweet Smell of Progress

By: bungalowbliss

bungalowbliss — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 17:05:06 +0000

I think you should hold on to this guy! He sounds very helpful and willing to go the extra step–a rarity these days!

The skeptic in me agrees that you shouldn’t jinx yourself by promoting him by name quite yet–but it sounds like props are going to be due when this job is done!

By: Whats UP

Whats UP — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 01:44:38 +0000

I am sure that you will miss the tile flooring! I am sure that whoever put it down was doing it in the best interest of who was living there at the time and I bet it looked awesome!!!

By: Why S?

Why S? — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 05:03:35 +0000

Congrats on finding such a great contractor. It looks like you’ll have a truly lovely home when it’s all done. I’m anxious to see the finished product.

Thanks for dropping by Red Hill.

By: Liz

Liz — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 21:42:40 +0000

I am having a flash back to the master bath Joey and I tried creating in our house. We wanted to keep the original fir floors and have them refinished, but when the floor crew came out to do them they basically refused to the job because we didn’t have a subfloor beneath our fir floor boards. They were concerned that water would drip between the floor boards on to the drywall ceiling below them. We were so torn about listening to them or just going ahead with our plan to keep the wood floor. Do you have a subfloor? Your bathroom is going to look beautiful with that wood floor! I hate how chilly our tiles are in the morning.

By: Shane

Shane — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 15:44:14 +0000

momomatic: Once I get done with him, he might want a vacation to Texas!

Andrea: Sounds like our electricians. We waited weeks for them to show up. Ughh

By: Andrea

Andrea — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 00:14:47 +0000

Wow! How nice! He sounds great! I had a few contractors come by, but when I called them back, I never heard from them again. Most of them didn’t even show up for the first appointment. Sounds like you lucked out!

By: momomatic

momomatic — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 21:04:13 +0000

Lookin’ good! Any chance you wanna send your contractor down to Central Texas for a few days?

We’re sanding and staining our floors this weekend. I’m curious to see how badly we screw it up.

By: Christopher Busta-Peck

Christopher Busta-Peck — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 15:27:31 +0000

Looks like things are going well. It’s good that you’ve found someone with the same work sensibility as you – and in the same neighborhood. I’m sure that makes it a bit better for your bottom line, as he doesn’t have to commute so far.

I think you’re onto something with regard to judging a contractor by his or her house. I wouldn’t base it so much on the condition of the house right now – after all, the shoemaker’s children seem to always have bare feet – but rather upon its potential. For someone who works on houses, I think the sort of house that they choose for themselves says a lot.

Of course, this may just be my way of attempting to make an arbitrary decision easier.

By: Jen

Jen — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 04:37:09 +0000

Oh my gosh! Sounds like you’ve got a gem of a contractor! Running errands for you!

Can’t wait to see how it all turns out…