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Feb 19, 2009 
We’ve gotten to the frustration part of the rebuild/repair. We are having too many “I want to pull my hair out” moments recently. We have a general contractor/project manager that doesn’t really do a whole lot. He set up the initial workflow and then hasn’t really been actively involved since then. Lately, Casey has felt more like a general contractor than he has. We get a call from one contractor telling us to tell another contractor they need to get something done before they can work. Then the other contractor tells us to call them back and relay more information to them that they can indeed get working.
Then there are the constant no-shows, and no-calls. I’m a prompt kind of guy. If I tell you I’ll be somewhere by 8AM, I’ll be sitting in your driveway by 7:55AM and will knock on your door at 8AM. We had a plumber who was supposed to call on Monday to come over. No call, no show. So Tuesday, I call up the company and tell them that if they don’t show up today we are going to find someone else. Once again, the job of the general contractor.
We are getting sick of delays, getting sick of people not calling, and getting sick of people not showing up.
However, the contractor I talked about in the previous post (the one who ran an errand for us) has been great. He shows up when he is going to show up, and works the entire day. We even bought some Fighting Sioux hockey tickets from him (he had 4 season tickets, we bought two for a game) and sat next to him and his wife. It is hard not to give him a shout out yet, but I am going to hold back until the last nail is driven and bills are paid.
Sorry for no pictures, I have a pile on my home PC but I haven’t had the time to sit down for more than a few minutes at a time. I can tell you that our upstairs bathroom has drywall up and the first two layers of mud applied. We have a hole in our floor for the tub drain. We should have our faucet show up today or tomorrow and then the supply lines can be installed.
Our main floor kitchen is about half drywalled. Since it is under the upstairs bathroom, it has to wait until the tub supply lines are ran before the drywall can go up. And the drywall that will be on the walls under that piece of drywall have to wait for it to be installed. However, we do have a gas line for our stove, and a water line for our fridge ran and done.
Going to our downstairs bathroom, we decided last minute to move our washer and dryer into it as the bathroom is wayyyy too big for a basement bathroom. So the no-call, no-show plumber who finally showed up ran the water lines and drain line for the washer. Now we are only waiting on electricians, who should be here today or tomorrow, to come run the dryer line. Oh, and the plumber has to get the dryer vent installed. That requires going through a layer of wood, a layer of concrete, and another layer of wood. Plus a layer of foam (more on that to come). But once the dryer vent and the dryer power line are ran, that room can be insulated and rocked.
For now, I will keep telling myself: soon, Shane, soon. And in the meantime, I’ll keep ripping out the little hair I have.
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). I’ve heard that this particular town would be an excellent place to raise a family… I guess that’s even more incentive to move. It’s tricky to imagine reducing the focus on my career, but I bet its worth it! Thanks again!
