Catch Up.
The roof is finally done. The soffits, fascias and gutters, however, are not. I'll take a few pictures later and post them. I hope that I have an old photo of the house to show the difference, but if I don't. Believe me, it was bad and ugly.
The second day of adventures of home ownership were much better than the first. I was glad that I had to be at work and left my roommate in charge of contacting me if any other disasters came up. About 11AM I got a call from the guy who did my original bid on the roof saying that I also needed to replace the decking on my garage and it would be almost another $1,000. I freaked the hell out on him. He never specified that the increase of cost to replace the decking the day before didn't include the garage. Since I was having the house and attached garage both done, I assumed that it was for both because he didn't say the cost increase was for just the house decking. After the increase in cost for the decking, I couldn't afford this additional increase. I went over the entire day of mishaps that happened the day previous and let him know how extremely unhappy I was with the whole experience. Apparently besides the new decking, he was clueless as to how fucked up the day was. He started stuttering and told me he was going to make a few calls and call me back.
Less than five minutes later he called back. Miraculously, my garage roof DIDN'T need new decking. What the hell? I called him on it. I asked him how it was possible a few minutes ago that I needed to replace the decking and suddenly it was just fine??? I told him that there is no way that I would put new shingles on a bad roof, so what gives? He said he called the city inspector who inspected the tear off the day before and he said the garage roof was fine and it was the house that needed new decking. Then he called the crew to verify and apparently when they had called them about the garage roof, they were calling to find out if they were replacing the decking or not. He misunderstood and thought they were telling him it needed to be replaced. Yeah right. Had I not questioned it, I would have spent an unnecessary $1,000.
I can't wait for the rest of the stuff to be done so I don't have to deal with this company anymore. I will never use them again for any work (they were going to be replacing some windows for me, too) and anyone I hear talking about having work done through them, I will steer them away from them. Bah! And to think the only reason I was going through them was because one of my previous tenants works for them and I know they they will either get some sort of bonus or commission off of this...and I know they need the money. Serves me right for being nice.
There. Done venting about the roofing company. The roof does look really, really nice and I bet once everything else is done, my house is going to look lovely. I need to see if I can bring back my crushed flowerbed...at least some of it. It was getting so gorgeous before I had the work done. One of the plants started blooming the morning the crew started work. At least everything's looking better outside, neighbors are even stopping to tell me how nice everything's looking and how noticeably different the yard looks. :)
Today, I have a wedding reception to go to...ack! in a few hours and after that, the rest of my weekend will be spent filling the left over space in the open top dumpster still in my driveway with all of the debris of some of the projects I've been working on this spring. Goodbye boards left over from the bathroom remodel last summer, goodbye broken cinder blocks from the dog kennel, goodbye old tire we found, goodbye nasty landscaping rock from the yucky flowerbed.
The second day of adventures of home ownership were much better than the first. I was glad that I had to be at work and left my roommate in charge of contacting me if any other disasters came up. About 11AM I got a call from the guy who did my original bid on the roof saying that I also needed to replace the decking on my garage and it would be almost another $1,000. I freaked the hell out on him. He never specified that the increase of cost to replace the decking the day before didn't include the garage. Since I was having the house and attached garage both done, I assumed that it was for both because he didn't say the cost increase was for just the house decking. After the increase in cost for the decking, I couldn't afford this additional increase. I went over the entire day of mishaps that happened the day previous and let him know how extremely unhappy I was with the whole experience. Apparently besides the new decking, he was clueless as to how fucked up the day was. He started stuttering and told me he was going to make a few calls and call me back.
Less than five minutes later he called back. Miraculously, my garage roof DIDN'T need new decking. What the hell? I called him on it. I asked him how it was possible a few minutes ago that I needed to replace the decking and suddenly it was just fine??? I told him that there is no way that I would put new shingles on a bad roof, so what gives? He said he called the city inspector who inspected the tear off the day before and he said the garage roof was fine and it was the house that needed new decking. Then he called the crew to verify and apparently when they had called them about the garage roof, they were calling to find out if they were replacing the decking or not. He misunderstood and thought they were telling him it needed to be replaced. Yeah right. Had I not questioned it, I would have spent an unnecessary $1,000.
I can't wait for the rest of the stuff to be done so I don't have to deal with this company anymore. I will never use them again for any work (they were going to be replacing some windows for me, too) and anyone I hear talking about having work done through them, I will steer them away from them. Bah! And to think the only reason I was going through them was because one of my previous tenants works for them and I know they they will either get some sort of bonus or commission off of this...and I know they need the money. Serves me right for being nice.
There. Done venting about the roofing company. The roof does look really, really nice and I bet once everything else is done, my house is going to look lovely. I need to see if I can bring back my crushed flowerbed...at least some of it. It was getting so gorgeous before I had the work done. One of the plants started blooming the morning the crew started work. At least everything's looking better outside, neighbors are even stopping to tell me how nice everything's looking and how noticeably different the yard looks. :)
Today, I have a wedding reception to go to...ack! in a few hours and after that, the rest of my weekend will be spent filling the left over space in the open top dumpster still in my driveway with all of the debris of some of the projects I've been working on this spring. Goodbye boards left over from the bathroom remodel last summer, goodbye broken cinder blocks from the dog kennel, goodbye old tire we found, goodbye nasty landscaping rock from the yucky flowerbed.