Day 122-128

Note that this is from the week of October 20. Since I’m ready for this project to be over I’m not doing my best at keeping up with the blog. My writing seems to be a perfect reflection of the slowness of the project.

Here’s a somewhat strange story for the final two or so weeks of this project. Our contractor will be gone! He left for vacation Tuesday (day 123) and won’t be back until the 31^st (day 133). Talk about terrible timing. To top it off he didn’t tell us until late Monday morning. He said everything would be fine and we could call him at any time. It didn’t exactly make me feel great about things. He gave us a list of all the things that were supposed to get done this week:

Monday: Prime drywall

Tuesday: Texture drywall

Wednesday: Tile guy, floor guy, and Lazaro (work on trim)

Friday: Electricians and garage door openers installed

Misc: Painting all week, plumbers after tile is done, floor guy back after plumbers are done

David also said Manor and his crew are supposed to come back Tuesday to fix the drainage problem that was created when they put in the retaining wall. That was supposed to be fixed months ago. The ductless HVAC can’t be installed until it’s fixed because the outside part of the HVAC is supposed to rest on the ground they need to fix. And if you recall they were supposed to dig a trench and install the cable they ruined. That never happened, so I’m already prepared to make some phone calls to David.

Here are the things that actually did get done this week:

The drywall was primed and finished on schedule. Lazaro installed the trim. The exterior paint was finished. After calling Manor each day for three days the drainage issue was fixed. That’s it. No floor guy, tile guy, electricity, or garage door openers. The electricians showed up, but they were slow and had to do a few things twice. I’ll elaborate when I update the blog for this week. I will give you a big hint on how things went by stating they are by far the worst group we’ve worked with throughout this project. Even worse than David!

Throughout the week I worked on painting the ceiling after the workers left for the day. I finished up on Saturday and then primed and caulked the trim on Sunday.