3 bay garage is full. Contractors are running behind. New pellet stove being delivered today and new cabinets delivered on Friday. My garage bay is filled with nice furnishing from our longtime home. My husbandsgarage bay is filled with new appliances. The third bay is full of our furnishings we moved out of this home for the remodel. I have no idea, guess put the cabinets in the pole barn for now Plumber (s) fell through. Going to pay a bonus to a plumber friend to drive all the way up here, except we are at the mercy of his schedule, he can only afford weekends. Still moving back in a few weeks regardless of plumbing or drywall or cabinets or flooring Oh LOL, and we have new garage doors ordered and here, but need to empty the parking bays for the installer first. Hmm.
Yes, 2/3 of entire home including kitchen, living room, foyer, and great room down to studs! Good times.
I like hot dogs as much as the next person, .....but I luvs me my coffee. I think I'd never drink coffee from that pot again.J/K wildwest, from personal experience, any job I've done in my home or another's has run into roadblocks. Open a wall to discover it needs more work than planned, etc........ You'll get through this, we have faith in ya'. Oh, and I'm sure I'm not the only one who'd love to see pics of what's going on. We can join you in your misery.I think the saying is "misery loves company".
Thanks PapaDave. I have 3 coffee makers. One here in Rv. One in the house, and one in hubbys 1978 terry trailer! COFFEE (oh yes, and camping perk dh puts on butane burner or woodstove when we are without power!) Before: After: working on how to load pics. TBA sorry And I am fortunate to have GREAT contractor He even took the old woodstove out today and the ceiling is already sheetrocked!
Hmm... finally found a use for the coffee pot I have aside from collecting dust! I can't handle coffee at all.
I feel your pain Wild. We're doing the same thing. Camping in the house while it's flipped upside down. Thankfully, we're in the home stretch and should have 99% done by tomorrow. So... I can report that it does actually come to an end. Of course, we've said that before...
Sounds like things just got a bit more wild in the west! When I had first met her, 99 lbs hired some "local boys" to rebuild her deck...tear it down to the joists and put on new decking and re-rail it. "Make sure you're done before the 4th..???" "Oh yeah, no problem..." There was plenty of time to do the job, if only they showed up. When she they failed to show up for the third day, she rode around until she found out where they were, stopped in and "reminded" them of their agreement, at which point they dropped what they were doing and came over until the job was finished. Shall I send her out your was for a visit?
ahhh, the trials and tribulations of renovations. As a contractor myself I have seen most everything you and some of the members are describing. Some of the biggest issues are; homeowners acting as GC, schedules with subs, contract disputes with GC (or subs) and unforseens. Timelines almost always never get met due to unforseens. You could open up a wall and see mold which was caused by an ice dam last winter, termites eating away at a sill that could not be seen until a floor was taken apart. It's a killer.... Hopefully you will find some common ground soon and things that are nearly in the finish phase will come togther before the snow flys
Thanks My Is! Like I mentioned before we have a great GC. Our tribulation are the GC's subs are so busy trying to get ALL their jobs done including many other homes in a short building season they only work 1/2 days on my home when they can. My concern is that 1/2 day working on my home is double the trip charges than if they worked a full day as well as many more days to complete.... But I am so grateful for kind, trustworthy workers that I just keep writing the bimonthly checks. Trustworthy is especially important to me, especially now as I will be sharing their workspace pretty quickly but I will still feel safe if you know what I mean. The GC did however find a new drywaller after 15 trip charges for less than 800 sq ft of drywall from the last sub. We are doing a self install on the new pellet stove, so I can go back in as soon as thats done (he is in his push time as well...). I will dig out the hot plate and microwave, use the bathroom sink for coffee and make do till the remodel concludes. Though DH is doing flooring, painting and trim, after our addition and remodel in 1998 I don't have time expectations, poor guy needs to rest between work, taking care of me and toddler :firepit: and relax by the fire.
Thanks HD! We have done the bbq grill and fast food for 3 months now and boy do I crave a home cooked meal! Sadly there is not food delivery since I live out of town, bummer. Only another week or two though! Yep getting out hot plate then for some simple home cooked meals
Talk about early! Check out MM's posts. He was on at 12:30AM and again at 3:30AM... he obviously doesn't need sleep...
