Constructions Blues Day 1
as many of y'all know, Matt and I are starting renovations to the house. This year's big projects: Front walk / entry way and Kitchen. Today was (literally) the ground breaking of the front walk. Though I expect problems to crop up throughout the projects... i didn't expect it to start so soon.
6:45 am Phone Call from crew coming to demolish the existing front walk and pour the concrete saying they wouldn't be here until closer to 11.
7:00 am Alarm goes off... get Allie to school, run errands, do a load of laundry, pick up the house a bit, have breakfast with Matt.
10:00 am crew gets here (early / late) dumpster has not arrived yet, but crew starts anyway. Gizmo is the crew lead, and he seems real nice and friendly (see? could be much worse)
10:15 am Gizmo asks me to come look at two things: 1. there is a cable running under the porch (our cable/internet). we'll probably have to re-wire it. 2. there is a concrete slab under the front porch that will have to be dug up for additional cost (didn't know it was there.) so far, handleable, expected type problems.
11:00 dumpster arrives.
11:30 Kitchen Designers arrive, sign contract for Design phase of Kitchen Remodel.
12:30 as Kitchen Designers leave, Gizmo tells me the boards under where the old porch lay are rotting and we need to call in a carpenter. Plus for some machinery malfunction, they can't continue the demolish today, and will be back tomorrow at 7 am to rip out the rest. then they can probably pour the concrete next Tuesday (mean while I've lost our two main entrances for almost a week, rather than the 2 days we were originally told). But i should be able to have the dumpster removed tomorrow. (yeah, right.) and both sets of people leave.
2:00 PM the coordinator / sales person for the company doing our front walk comes by to handle personally the issues that have come up. given the pricing of what's come before, I'm fairly certain we are not being gouged, or taken for a ride. We sign all necessary paperwork to remove the cement slab and suggest we don't kill the back entrance until last minute next Tuesday. I will affirm this with Gizmo tomorrow. But he explains why they can't deal with the rotting boards and why we really need a carpenter. I call Mr. Handyman.
Mr. Handyman will send a carpenter out 8 am on Saturday to do a consultation, and if it's possible to begin and even finish the work (depending on findings).
The best part of all of this, is i'm terrified of what happens when things REALLY go wrong.... :-)
Hopefully i'll have pix up soon
6:45 am Phone Call from crew coming to demolish the existing front walk and pour the concrete saying they wouldn't be here until closer to 11.
7:00 am Alarm goes off... get Allie to school, run errands, do a load of laundry, pick up the house a bit, have breakfast with Matt.
10:00 am crew gets here (early / late) dumpster has not arrived yet, but crew starts anyway. Gizmo is the crew lead, and he seems real nice and friendly (see? could be much worse)
10:15 am Gizmo asks me to come look at two things: 1. there is a cable running under the porch (our cable/internet). we'll probably have to re-wire it. 2. there is a concrete slab under the front porch that will have to be dug up for additional cost (didn't know it was there.) so far, handleable, expected type problems.
11:00 dumpster arrives.
11:30 Kitchen Designers arrive, sign contract for Design phase of Kitchen Remodel.
12:30 as Kitchen Designers leave, Gizmo tells me the boards under where the old porch lay are rotting and we need to call in a carpenter. Plus for some machinery malfunction, they can't continue the demolish today, and will be back tomorrow at 7 am to rip out the rest. then they can probably pour the concrete next Tuesday (mean while I've lost our two main entrances for almost a week, rather than the 2 days we were originally told). But i should be able to have the dumpster removed tomorrow. (yeah, right.) and both sets of people leave.
2:00 PM the coordinator / sales person for the company doing our front walk comes by to handle personally the issues that have come up. given the pricing of what's come before, I'm fairly certain we are not being gouged, or taken for a ride. We sign all necessary paperwork to remove the cement slab and suggest we don't kill the back entrance until last minute next Tuesday. I will affirm this with Gizmo tomorrow. But he explains why they can't deal with the rotting boards and why we really need a carpenter. I call Mr. Handyman.
Mr. Handyman will send a carpenter out 8 am on Saturday to do a consultation, and if it's possible to begin and even finish the work (depending on findings).
The best part of all of this, is i'm terrified of what happens when things REALLY go wrong.... :-)
Hopefully i'll have pix up soon