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It Might Be a Sign of a Problem If...
Feb. 23rd, 2010 10:48 am... the contractor working on your house sends you a text suggesting "let's meet for drinks" at a local (to you, not him) watering hole. At 6:30, when one gets off of work at 5.
In this case, my contractor wanted to tell me that Menards screwed up my kitchen counter - again! For those just tuning in, the new kitchen counter was shipped in three pieces. One of those pieces got busted in the truck. Another piece is a foot too long. The third (and smallest) piece is actually correct. Each time, getting a new piece equals another week lost to Menards!
This is not as bad of a problem as it could be, because my contractor has at least two days more work to do other than countertop installation. There's a day worth of minor electrical work (hanging lights, switch and outlet replacement) and a day's worth of touchup paint and cleanup. Plus, the cabinet doors need to get done and a new exterior door needs to be installed.
Now, my contractor is generally doing a good job, but I hereby promulgate a new Gerrib's Law, which I laid on him last night. The law is: Bad news is like garbage - it just gets worse with age.
Like I said, I got home at 5, and didn't have a whole lot to do until 6:30. So I measured the countertop, figured out the screwup, and then generated a punch list of things for him to finish up on. I also told him I didn't even want to hear about the idea of additional work at the house until all previously-contracted work was complete.
Like I said, bad news is like garbage - it just gets worse with age.
In this case, my contractor wanted to tell me that Menards screwed up my kitchen counter - again! For those just tuning in, the new kitchen counter was shipped in three pieces. One of those pieces got busted in the truck. Another piece is a foot too long. The third (and smallest) piece is actually correct. Each time, getting a new piece equals another week lost to Menards!
This is not as bad of a problem as it could be, because my contractor has at least two days more work to do other than countertop installation. There's a day worth of minor electrical work (hanging lights, switch and outlet replacement) and a day's worth of touchup paint and cleanup. Plus, the cabinet doors need to get done and a new exterior door needs to be installed.
Now, my contractor is generally doing a good job, but I hereby promulgate a new Gerrib's Law, which I laid on him last night. The law is: Bad news is like garbage - it just gets worse with age.
Like I said, I got home at 5, and didn't have a whole lot to do until 6:30. So I measured the countertop, figured out the screwup, and then generated a punch list of things for him to finish up on. I also told him I didn't even want to hear about the idea of additional work at the house until all previously-contracted work was complete.
Like I said, bad news is like garbage - it just gets worse with age.
