July 10th, 2007
July 10th–I am going POSTAL
Yeah…I gotta get some steam out and I know of no better place to do it than this. Maybe somehow somewhere when someone googles Bryan or Dick or Aaron or BetterBuildDesign or whatever the heck the name of these guy’s company is, this blog will come up and I can get the word out there. I am gonna get the name of the company off their trucks tomorrow…all three of them have it on there, I just have not paid that much attention…I hope they are proud of the fact that they have been parking outside of my house (for sometimes up to 6 whole hours a day GASP!) for four weeks now and everyone can see that they STILL have not finished siding my house.
So I have told everyone who will listen and I will tell more…DO NOT hire these guys to side your house, or do anything for you as it will take four times as long as they say and cost you over 100% more than they say it will.
We have not really been chatty with these guys for a while now…ever since Bryan told me that the chimney that was supposed to take 10 hours to build actually took him 29–yes 29! I thought it was 21, but I was wrong. Bryan was feeling generous when he knocked the rate on the newbie’s hours down to $35 instead of his highly skilled rate of $50 per hour. But of course he had spent 2 hours and Dick spent 1, so that brought my grand total up to $1060.
So I have been holding my tongue thinking OK….they said they would be done by Wed of this week…Not sure how they are gonna get that done…but maybe they will pull a couple of really long days and get it done. Well…that was shot out the window when Bryan left at 8:45 this morning and we were down to 2 guys (really like less than 2 actual workers, but 2 bodies lets say). SO when this afternoon I saw Aaron making a big pile of garbage on the side of the house in the only patch of grass I have left and then dumping gargabe cans of loose nails, screws and metal bits on the top…I SNAPPED! Not sure what he was thinking–EVER heard of a garbage bag?? Apparently not–as he indicated when I asked him!
So we will see what comes of this…
Thanks for listening…
