Psychotomy

but you can’t blame us!

took my shower at the gym this morning, they arrived ~10 (they told my dad last night 9-9:30, so i ended up more than a little late to my 9:15 appt; resched’d to 10:45) they did some in the living room until about lunch when they had to go to the store/warehouse.

turns out the warehouse ordered the wrong quantity of the wood (christ!) so, uh, they stopped working on that for today. it’s supposed to have come in this evening, or tomorrow morning latest. yeah, uhhuh. then they went to work on the bathrooms. one of the toilet cutoff valve handles wouldn’t turn, so they took it off and asked me to get a new one so they could turn off the water properly. they put in the backing for the tile into three of the bathrooms, there was much hammering. and i had the headache to go with it, JEEEEESH PEOPLE!!! they also scraped and patched part of the shower …

see, part of the shower walls, where the faucets and handles are? yeah, apparently someone (previous owner, builder, someone) wasn’t that hot at it. so they’d kinda cut out a random ass chunk of wall (or broke, whichever) and then patched it by putting the broken bits glued to a couple paint stirring sticks like you get free at home depot or sherwin williams or whoever, and then kidna propped it in the wall. apparently when they took the tile out, it fell out :o so the guy cut out bits of wall to make a patch fit reasonably (squared out the edges, but left the kindof T-shape instead of making a huge hole) and put in a piece of waterproofed drywall/sheetrock stuff so it’s much more properly done now :o

today’s tally: about 6′x8′ of hardwood (maybe 8×10, at the outside) done into the dining room almost done. they took out the living room toilet and put it in the hall in front of the pantry (on cardboard on the unfinished section, so as not to futz up the good floor now), took out the hall toilet and put it in the tub, backing boarded the floors in the master, hall, and living room baths.

i started with 4 toilets, 1-3 showers (3 showers, but one was busted and one had stuff in it from the sink changing i did, but could have been usable). i now have 1 toilet and 0-1 showers (i could TECHNICALLY put some towels on the floor in the basement and use that shower now, but i’m not sure if it’s really OK or not, so i’m not :o)

i don’t think they can finish by friday at this point.

i don’t think they could have finished by friday even if they had started monday. unless, like, they’d started on the bathrooms like they said they were and were fucking supposed to, then they MIGHT have pulled it out. but they can’t even START tiling the basement bathroom until friday, earliest, since i’m supposed to have 1+ bathrooms (toilets) at all times … and so they tile tomorrow in the master or living room (probably both actually), but have to wait until friday to start the basement b/c you can’t walk on the new tile for 24 hours. actually, i don’t know if that’s after the laying, the grouting, or both … i think it’s both ….

which means, uh, they can’t even start the basement by friday … anyone else noticing a problem with the master plan?

but i’m sure it’s my fault for not having the LIVING ROOM done in time even though they didn’t have the RIGHT QUANTITY of wood to LAY in the living room …

shoulda started on the fucking bathrooms like you told me, folks. b/c i ain’t paying any more here :p

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