Sunday Morning Blog

August 05, 2005

Home Improvement Induced Insomnia (or, Hiii)

[mood| flipping out]

The Bathfitter guy was here until 2:00am this morning! That's right, you heard me... 2AM! You have got to admire the guy's dedication and perseverance. He was here from 10:30am Thursday, until the early hours of Friday morning. What a horrible night's sleep. We were beginning to consider it a good thing that we had recently furnished our guest bedroom, but he left... finally.

This most recent marathon adds to our string of bizarre and poorly managed home improvement fiascoes. The shower, which had previously been Bathfittered in a manner I can only describe as amateurish, now looks fantastic. It took him all day and night, because an overzealous manager told the first installer to come and tear out his work. In the process of ripping his work out, he created a day's repair work for the installer who came to redo the job yesterday (or today, or the last two days or whatever – you get the picture). I can only say that we are extremely lucky this has all happened while Jesse has had some time off – not that she intended this time off for babysitting contractors in our house.

Now, aside from the brand new carpet that was ruined by the first installer, we are nearing completion of the major projects planned for our new home. We are looking forward to a time that we are not haunted by strangers at odd hours on odd days. We can see the light at the end of the tunnel. I think we need a vacation.

Posted by capecodcyclist at August 5, 2005 06:31 AM