I met with our new plumber yesterday. He can do all of our necessary and get the tubs set, but he can't start for 2 weeks! Bummer...so much for drywall by mid-July. So now I'm shifting gears and focusing on the outside. The new goal: siding up and the exterior finished by July 15. It seems kind of crazy, but I think we can do it. I'm hoping by July 31 we have insultation in, drywall at least started, and the outside ready for grass seeding.
I built a bench today. Our children were outnumbering the chairs at the dinner table, I managed to make a scrap 2"x10"x54" and 2"x8"x35" into a bench
Thursday, June 28, 2007
Friday, June 22, 2007
Hmm...Plumbing Not So Good
We had a bit of a setback today. I had our plumbing fiasco inspected today, and the inspector wasn't exactly warm and fuzzy. I knew I was in for it when he blew by me in the driveway as I greeted him and extended my hand out for a handshake.
Once inside, he through a royal fit, kicking things around, slamming stuff down on the ground. He wasn't 5 steps in the door before he started going downhill fast. He failed us and kept yelling, "This isn't Tim's work!" and "Tim's a cadillac plumber." My first thought was, who's Tim? And what is a cadillac plumber? He said things like, "It's all wrong", but I still don't have concrete answers on what in particular. When pressed, he just said, "I have to talk to Tim about this." Geez, who's Tim?
I called him later that afternoon and he said the plumber who pulled the permit wasn't the one who did the work at our house. Our original plumber just kind of gave up after doing some of the work. The last I talked to him, he told me, "He was done." I guess that meant he was done, and not the work is done. I knew the work wasn't completed - I'm not an idiot. He did send his son to do some of the work. Also his 19 year old girlfriend (he was in his 60's - should have known then!). After getting rid of all of them, I tried to get it done to what I thought was the point where we were ready for inspection. I tried to get the plates and stuff up for protecting the venting for drywall. But...there was plenty more to be done. Evidently, whirlpool tubs need to be set at time of rough-in, as well as securing everything under the sun with some sort of bracket, plate, or something-er-other. What tipped the inspector off was the fact that I used smaller plates than required by code - code had changed a month before...I thought, "Are you kidding me? Plates? We've had a motley crew in here for over a year working on this fiasco!"
Our conversation that afternoon yielded the number of the master plumber who pulled the permit, and got everything straightened out with the inspector...he only knows the tip of the iceberg!!!
Once inside, he through a royal fit, kicking things around, slamming stuff down on the ground. He wasn't 5 steps in the door before he started going downhill fast. He failed us and kept yelling, "This isn't Tim's work!" and "Tim's a cadillac plumber." My first thought was, who's Tim? And what is a cadillac plumber? He said things like, "It's all wrong", but I still don't have concrete answers on what in particular. When pressed, he just said, "I have to talk to Tim about this." Geez, who's Tim?
I called him later that afternoon and he said the plumber who pulled the permit wasn't the one who did the work at our house. Our original plumber just kind of gave up after doing some of the work. The last I talked to him, he told me, "He was done." I guess that meant he was done, and not the work is done. I knew the work wasn't completed - I'm not an idiot. He did send his son to do some of the work. Also his 19 year old girlfriend (he was in his 60's - should have known then!). After getting rid of all of them, I tried to get it done to what I thought was the point where we were ready for inspection. I tried to get the plates and stuff up for protecting the venting for drywall. But...there was plenty more to be done. Evidently, whirlpool tubs need to be set at time of rough-in, as well as securing everything under the sun with some sort of bracket, plate, or something-er-other. What tipped the inspector off was the fact that I used smaller plates than required by code - code had changed a month before...I thought, "Are you kidding me? Plates? We've had a motley crew in here for over a year working on this fiasco!"
Our conversation that afternoon yielded the number of the master plumber who pulled the permit, and got everything straightened out with the inspector...he only knows the tip of the iceberg!!!
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