Grinding to a Halt

This week proved to be totally unproductive unless you count the day I went there to correct a few of the incompetent framer's errors in framing up rough door openings.  Sheetrock was scheduled to be delivered on Monday but due to the enormous blizzard (by WNC standards) of 2 inches of snow, delivery was postponed.  No amount of pleading or threats was sufficient to motivate Builders First Source to make the delivery this week.  Each day more phone calls and still no delivery.  It boiled down to the fact that the delivery guys just didn't want to, but they managed to come up with the excuse that there was too much ice and snow even after I drove in with my two wheel drive pickup and then scraped the driveway with my tractor.  Each new week is a learning experience in building a house.  This week the lesson is patience.

My somewhat eccentric electrician sent me a bill this week demanding immediate payment explaning that he could no longer carry the burden of the expense of this job.  He also stated that he would no longer do extras unless paid for in advance.  The strange thing is that he has never before requested payment and only recently completed rough in.  His check is in the mail.

It's cold out there and makes it difficult to go there an do anything outside, like clean the jobsite, which is in desperate need.  I also need to build a pump house since the new pump has been installed.  I have to give a plug to McCreary Well Service for their very prompt and courteous service in drilling the well and now in installing the pump.  They were also a thousand dollars cheaper than another bid I got on the pump.  They came out the day after I awarded the job to them and completed it that day.  I would hope that some other subcontractors and suppliers could take a lesson from them in how to do business, especially in this depressed economy.

The great blizzard of December 2010