Another move in date missed on 9/12. Add that to missed dates on 7/1. 7/18. 8/22. 9/1/.
This one was more painful than the others (if that is possible) because I was there on Monday as I failed a City inspection. I didn't have these basic things per code:
- A smoke detector in each bedroom, connected to a central alarm
- Gas range not anchored
- Door from house to garage (holdover from previous build) was fireproof, but the window didn't allow it to pass.
- Exposed wires in the utility room, created after the fire from a fifth bedroom, need to have drywall.
When the smoke detector thing came up, and keep in mind I live in a small, small rural town were everybody knows everybody's business, as my contractor started to argue, I was like “dude I almost didn’t get out of this house.” The Inspector had to know this, seems everybody else does.
Said when I saw what was up, they looked like $15 things. I had gone out and bought $45+ ones. His boss said not to code. Quote me code and then you didn’t get it right. Now the fuck does that happen. Am I being “punked?”
Then I had more time to walk around and gauge stuff and saw the above.
Oh I can't even look at all the other pics like that again to post a few more. They are equally not as good.
Then found I didn't have a garbage disposal. That soap "thing" that goes with my $500 kitchen faucet, nobody can find it. The remote for the LED lights I had installed under the kitchen cabinets, missing. That is a short not total list of the kitchen issues
I still don't have my 15 internal doors. Told they were ordered wrong and it is 4-5 weeks longer, if I want them painted. Well I do. I spent a ton of money for a very, very custom color scheme. None of the five closet doors either. Yeah, no baseboard.
The six canned lights that were supposed to be in my office, well they got installed across the room (a room 20% of my now four bedroom house, HUGE room). All that lighting in an area where I plan to have a huge (and very expensive) Yoga and workout mat. I don't need six lights.
I need them where he has known my office would be since the first time I talked with him. I work out of my house. This room is kind of like the sun to Earth. I kid you not, he suggested other floor lighting. I AM FUCKING DUDE, I SPENT MORE THAN $500 ON PHILIPS SMART LIGHTS FOR HERE.
Then and I kid you not, I couldn't make this up if I tried, he did in fact spend a ton of money to put a bar in this huge room. I guess as a gesture of I fucked up please forgive me (I will not).
Two things, I'd already contracted with somebody to put in a huge bookcase (I have close to 1,000 books). A bookcase that overtime would take up the entire of the back of this room. With a ladder and brass ….
But I am also a drunk. Just starting to try and get sober. He put in a bar. Let me say that again I am a drunk and he put in a bar.
He tells me 10/1.
Oh I can’t talk to him face-to-face. He went to do work in TX on 8/30. Now when he would not return my calls today, learn he is in SC. He didn’t call me after we failed an Inspection, I had to call him.
I am about the most laid back dude you will find. If you have encountered me in a thread and I might have had a few adult beverages I might have been rude. I don’t think so, but I did get banned here once.
Lawyer now engaged and this, I hope not, but this is going to get ugly.