Friday, October 13, 2017

I can't believe they aren't driving me crazy yet.

This is the first time I've ever worked with a commercial contractor, and I think I'm sort of loving it.

Mr S. thought I'd be losing my mind by day seven. His timeline was - day one, they would drive me nuts. By day three I'd find them interesting because of all of their stories, and by day seven - I'd be over that.

But we are two weeks in now and if I could only use commercial contractors - I might do that. Obviously that is not a reality because they aren't going to fix stuff other than structural.

Residential contractors are always complaining and telling me I can't do things. Like once, I wanted to hang a really heavy set of sliding interior doors at my rental. That contractor and I went round and round until I scrubbed the net to find some extra heavy duty hardware to support a super heavy door. And to some degree I like the challenge of convincing a contractor that you can do what I want without a hack. I mean, you can always hire residential guys who will do anything you want, but you don't want those guys. You want the curmudgeons.

Commercial contractors I'm a little afraid of. They will do anything I want, so there is no one to rein me in. If I say I want this gone, I'd turn around and it'd just be gone. Commercial contractors are monsters. In a good way.

I guess on Monday I have my first inspection. A framing inspection. And I'm dancing with Mother Nature now. We get a chance of rain on Wednesday. Usually we can make it to Halloween before we get any rain.

2 comments:

  1. Just stick blue tarps all over it like Houston did ...

    :-)

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  2. That actually looks likely. They upped my rain total to a half an inch yesterday. The isn't nusance rain, that's real rain. We will see what they say tonight.

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