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Despite the photo, yesterday kind of sucked.
Not huge suckage in the grand scheme of life, but the day was needlessly frustrating.
This summer, well... year really, has been all about home improvements. We invested in new furniture, installed a new fence, got a new roof, gutters and downspouts. The cost adds up. When you spend ALL the money you just hope things will go well. You want to trust the people working for you. You hope the project will go smoothly, and when it doesn’t... you want to be working with communicative tradespeople.
At the moment we are mid replacing our back steps.
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We had six steps from a patio/landing up to our back door. They were made of wood, and as wood tends to do the steps were rotting. Sadly, the most handy person in my family lives 8,000 miles away. So, I decided the longest term solution with minimal upkeep would be installing concrete steps
Getting a quote proved to be really difficult!
I have no idea how many companies I contacted to do the steps. Most never returned calls or email inquiries. One guy showed up and declared our job to be too small. Another came and just never sent a quote. After weeks, I finally met a fellow (he showed up to give us a bid) who seemed knowledgeable and his company had good reviews. So we signed a contract and submitted a 50% deposit. Hurrah!
Or not hurrah?
I like to be home as much as possible when contractors are doing work. You never know if something weird is going to happen. It is much easier to resolve issues as they happen, than it is to come home to find a job done incorrectly.
Things got weird when I got a call at work from my house late last week. The contractors had shown up to take out the old stairs, but never told us they were coming. It seemed odd. Plus, the call was just to confirm they were at the correct house.
On Wednesday they no showed to build the form. Yesterday they showed up even though I had specifically told them no one would be home to give them access to power. (Luckily I ended up being home.) While here they built the form but left out a step and made them all too tall. Then they left came back and rebuilt the form. They still left out a step and then blocked a window! So I told them that was garbage too. Cement guy showed up in the middle of the second rebuild. My company hadn’t ordered a line so the cement couldn’t get to where the steps were being built unless they shoveled it. However, to shovel it the cement would need to be wetter. The cement delivery guy said the cement would be too wet and the bottom steps would need more time to set before the upper steps could be poured. After over an hour the cement guy left. In the meantime I am texting my main contact at the company expressing my strongly worded dismay at the whole day. He eventually shows up. Promises they will rebuild the form to the exact dimensions of the old steps (you can still see their outline against the house). He says they will take care of that last night.
But instead they all left! And left a mess everywhere.
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There are nails and cigarette butts in that sawdust too!
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So last night we went for a walk by the water.
WHAT A SUNSET!!!
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The stairs situation continues to be stupid today... but at least last night ended on a lovely note. 😍
DFinn. Instead of having them pour the stairs which will end up cracking. There has to be a company in your area that makes pre-made concrete stairs. You give them the dimensions and they make it and delivery it in like a week. And it’s much cheaper and less of a hassle. I did it at my parents house.
Where were you three weeks ago? 🤣😂🤣
They already have a deposit and ripped out the old steps so I think I am pretty trapped.
However, I am feeling more positive after a long convo with the team last night. Turns out the guy i hired subbed the whole job to a different company! But the subs came over with a supervisor last night and we went over EVERYTHING. I am hoping this sorts it all out.
You never asked. Anything to do with contracting questions hit me up. I won’t steer you wrong.
Good luck hope it ends up perfect.👍
I will always ask now!!! 🤗
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Yesterday was a terrible day for me also I hope they sort this all out for you you will be glad to have them sort it out and get it done well
But at least the day ended with a glorious sunset
Sorry your day sucked too!
I think my stairs guys are hopefully sorted now.... I will find out Monday!
Lets hope so and today is a better day and let's hope Monday is a good day for both of us :)
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🌺 🌺 🌺 what a beautiful sunset wowww
Thank you @laya.saa! I feel really lucky to have seen it! Nature puts on such a spectacular show!
I feel your pain. On the bright side maybe this got all of the screw ups out of the way before the actual concrete is poured. Fingers crossed it turned out great in the end!
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Hoping so! And hoping they show on Monday like they said they would. Fingers crossed.
What a crock of shit! It's hard to find good workers anymore. Oh and that's not saw dust, it's Man Glitter. 😂
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Man glitter. 🤣😂🤣 ✨
Is that the same stuff that makes vampires sparkle?
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