Monday, March 20, 2023

Hamster Wheel Weekend Recap

A beautiful Monday to you all!  Did you rock it out this weekend?  I hope so.  Did you sit on your couch?  Be thankful.  Some of us have couches sitting on top of our tables or leaning against a wall!  😄

It was one of those weekends where you felt like you were running on a hamster wheel and getting nowhere.  We ran the gamut of emotions from being mad at the drywall dude to being mad at each other to being mad at the jackass that came out to give us an estimate for whole house re-piping and his arrogant tude to everything in between.  To put the cherry on it, anything we got food wise tasted like utter crap.  There is nothing worse than when you want to stress eat and it's all in vain.  I know, we shouldn't stress eat but if you were dropping what's going to end up being just over $20k in a month's time for improvements no one will even see/notice, you want whatever will make you temporarily feel better.

Let me give you an idea of our world right now in the form of pictures so you can understand why we're both clinically insane.



When they don't put down a canvas drop cloth and drip green glue all over your stairs whose carpet you weren't planning to replace immediately so now despite using rubbing alcohol to remove it (recommended) it's not working so now more and more dirt just accumulates on the spots.


Yarf.

(too friggin' lazy to redo that pic)


When they know you have to replace the outlets/switches after they're done.


The condition they thought it was okay to leave the garage in upon departure.  Actually this was after the Mr cleaned up a bit.  This company got many compliments about how clean they'd leave the jobsite.  😐


We had to get a Bagster from Waste Management to chuck all of the extra drywall left behind since bulk pick up doesn't take construction materials.  That'll be another $250 please.

What the view would look like from the couch if it wasn't sitting on top of our dining room table right now.


So that should give you a bit of an idea of how utterly chaotic it is here and why we are pissed, over having brainless idiots passing as contractors in our house and feel like every project reinforces the born under a bad sign theory.

"Maybe you could go down and get in a workout?"  Sure!  Let's go downstairs!


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Priming was yesterday's formal workout and then mama needed to break out some wacky juice.



Thanks to those who responded to the FB poll on keeping the walls Driftwood Gray or switching over to Wheat Bread now that we basically have an entire house to paint.  Wheat Bread won overwhelmingly.  I did paint it on the wall:


I swear it just looks like another shade of gray in pictures but that's not what it looks like in person!  It's one of those 'griege' colors but I think it's heavily picking up on the gray on the walls despite two coats on that sample.  So we'll go with that when we're paint ready.

Wanna know something else fun that happened?  So after we got our $8500 re-piping estimate and then a $2300 estimate for the hot water replacement from this jackhole who had a snooty tude and told us something like we "didn't have time to wait on the hot water tank"...a day later there was a leak on top and the pilot mysteriously went out.  Now I'm not accusing anyone of anything but I did ask the Mr if the guy was left alone with it at any point because we've gone 3 years with it sounding like that.  He said he wasn't anywhere near it.  Sounded like sabotage to me!  😆  So apparently hot water tanks are lined with glass???  I did not know this.  I guess that is the underwater buckshot sound we've been hearing/ignoring.  Now I want to make clear if I'd known we had glass knocking around in there I would've immediately had it replaced but we thought it was like big rocks of calcium knocking around in there.  I feel like the stupidest person on Earth when it comes to homeownership and I've owned for 28 years!  Why do we not have classes on this crap in school?  Like mental health classes and homeownership classes should be mandatory.

So, that wraps it up on our end.  Every single day there is literally a new problem.  Given we have another estimate being done, I'm just going to pray that is the only disturbance in the force for today.

PLEASE tell me you had a better weekend!  Share the deets so we can live vicariously!

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6 comments:

  1. I do wish they had home maintenance training in school or honestly anywhere. I'd sign up now just to know what else I might be totally unaware of now so as not to be blindsided by it. The weekend flew past too and I feel like I need another weekend already. Welcome to Monday I guess.

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    1. I really think schools (high school and college) are doing a major disservice on how to 'adult' when you leave and how to handle stuff. If you don't grow up with a handy family or someone to show you these things (which I think most of us didn't) then you're kind of screwed. Like apparently I needed to pay attention more in science to avoid the echo laden disaster that is now the stairwell. I guess I'll be looking at macrame to hang in there.

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  2. That is a complete nightmare and so many bad areas that they just destroyed. How that can be considered "professional" is beyond me. I would be so embarrassed as a contractor to leave someone's home like that. And how do they not use drop cloths?!?!?!? Whether or not they are with the Better Business Bureau a complaint can still be left on there for others to read just how terrible their work is. I know the BBB is the first place I look at when we need work done just to see if there is a rating there and any reviews. Oftentimes there's not much there, but the ones that are there are usually pretty detailed, both for the good and the bad. They literally left your house in ruins, the jerks. I really really hope that the plumber today is a breath of fresh air, who's kind, professional, and knowledgeable and doesn't try to make you feel dumb like some of these jerks do. And I hope the estimate is a reasonable one!

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    1. If this one a one off, I'd say bad luck of the draw but this is the second highly rated drywaller in a row. I have zero faith in anyone anymore. I've been priming today and boy does he have some crap to fix including one seam that is going to have to be ripped out and start over because he did a sh*tty, sloppy job. I'm beyond angry. Still waiting on the estimate but big thumbs up on the plumber. At minimum they'll be replacing the hot water tank Wednesday.

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  3. Wow, they sure did you dirty. I'm so sorry you are going through all this.
    Hopefully brightness on the horizon

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    1. Quite literally did us dirty! LOL I am praying these are the last contractors we'll ever have to have in here for a LOOOONG time. It has just been one disastrous thing after another. Seriously consider going to trade school so I can just become a GC myself.

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