The joys of remodeling
So, I've been told that I should add more stories, instead of just giving a progress update.
So the first real casualty of the job was my pinkie finger. I was prying the layers of vinyl up from the kitchen floor with a crowbar, and had all my weight on the crowbar. Unfortunately, when the vinyl gave way and the crowbar snapped down, my pinkie was caught in the middle. It bled underneath the skin, creating a kinda blood blister (see picture below). I'm not sure if I'm supposed to pop it or not. If anyone knows, feel free to let me know.
In the meantime, I'm super frustrated. The painters are just about done, and the gables look like crap. They pressure washed the gables and then scraped some of the old paint off, but a lot of the old paint was left on. They didn't power sand it because they said it would do more damage than good. So now my gables have an alligator like texture (see picture below). I talked to them about the problem, and they said that they could put new wood on and repaint for $500. Hello!, I'm already paying you about $3000, and I'm already over budget on almost every single part of the job. If they had told me that it would either look like crap or cost an extra $500, I could have made my decision accordingly, and maybe even done shingles on the gables too. But they didn't. Instead, their proposal said that they would scrape and sand everything and fill all cracks. There are cracks everywhere! So I got a good pep talk from Glenn, and a great Starbucks latte, and I'm all revved up to go back and tell them that I'm not satisfied and they need to make me satisfied before I pay them.
And the drywall guy came today to look around the kitchen, because I decided to re-drywall, and decided that due to time constraints it was better to have it done while I'm gone rather than attempt to do it myself when I get back. He told me that the builder is completely overcharging me for building the kitchen closet and reframing the walls. He said that he would charge me $800 for the work they were asking $2200 for. He also said that he could help fix the gable problem. So now I need to go back to the builder (who called to say that he can't get here today and would get here at the earliest tomorrow afternoon) and see if we can come up with a cheaper solution. Like maybe he could do the framing and leave all the drywall to the drywall guy.
Adding to the frustration is the fact that we're completely broke -- too broke to get anyone decent Christmas presents this year -- yet somehow need to come up with money to move, take the NC bar, and with any luck take a vacation.
Sigh......
So the first real casualty of the job was my pinkie finger. I was prying the layers of vinyl up from the kitchen floor with a crowbar, and had all my weight on the crowbar. Unfortunately, when the vinyl gave way and the crowbar snapped down, my pinkie was caught in the middle. It bled underneath the skin, creating a kinda blood blister (see picture below). I'm not sure if I'm supposed to pop it or not. If anyone knows, feel free to let me know.
In the meantime, I'm super frustrated. The painters are just about done, and the gables look like crap. They pressure washed the gables and then scraped some of the old paint off, but a lot of the old paint was left on. They didn't power sand it because they said it would do more damage than good. So now my gables have an alligator like texture (see picture below). I talked to them about the problem, and they said that they could put new wood on and repaint for $500. Hello!, I'm already paying you about $3000, and I'm already over budget on almost every single part of the job. If they had told me that it would either look like crap or cost an extra $500, I could have made my decision accordingly, and maybe even done shingles on the gables too. But they didn't. Instead, their proposal said that they would scrape and sand everything and fill all cracks. There are cracks everywhere! So I got a good pep talk from Glenn, and a great Starbucks latte, and I'm all revved up to go back and tell them that I'm not satisfied and they need to make me satisfied before I pay them.
And the drywall guy came today to look around the kitchen, because I decided to re-drywall, and decided that due to time constraints it was better to have it done while I'm gone rather than attempt to do it myself when I get back. He told me that the builder is completely overcharging me for building the kitchen closet and reframing the walls. He said that he would charge me $800 for the work they were asking $2200 for. He also said that he could help fix the gable problem. So now I need to go back to the builder (who called to say that he can't get here today and would get here at the earliest tomorrow afternoon) and see if we can come up with a cheaper solution. Like maybe he could do the framing and leave all the drywall to the drywall guy.
Adding to the frustration is the fact that we're completely broke -- too broke to get anyone decent Christmas presents this year -- yet somehow need to come up with money to move, take the NC bar, and with any luck take a vacation.
Sigh......
posted by Molly at 9:04 AM
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