Sleepless night
It’s the wee hours of July 21st. Ten days left for everything to be completed and I feel like Troy is beckoning me to the bus he’s about to throw me under. I have had absolutely no success getting him to respect my work schedule though I told him up front I had evenings and weekends to do work.
He and I chatted early this past week and on Tuesday the garage floor would be poured, Wednesday the siding would go up and Thursday the partition wall and ceiling/floor of the over-garage storage would be built. The concrete pour was delayed until Wednesday morning and Troy confirmed that Thursday would be siding day and Friday would be the framing work inside the garage.
Wednesday Troy brought over the paint sprayer to apply the primer on the inside walls. When we mapped out the project he said he’d do the spraying and needed me to come along behind and work the primer into the walls with the roller brush. On Wednesday, he showed me how the sprayer worked and said to go to it… he left me to do it all. With my inability to reach the cathedral ceilings he’s now talking of charging extra, though he has contributed no time at all to painting to this point.
On Thursday Troy arrived with an assistant to work on the siding. They brought a couple big saws onto the site, nailed up some paper and a couple pieces of guide wood and left. Before he left, we had that conversation about him priming the ceiling and he said he’d get it done in a couple hours Friday afternoon. I had hoped then he could paint the ceilings on Saturday.
On Friday no one came to the site at all.
So here we are. It’s Saturday. I’m armed and ready to paint siding, but it was never put up. I’m ready to tackle interior house painting on Sunday, but with priming put off until today maybe (?), the ceilings will have to be painted on Sunday at best… so interior painting can’t happen this weekend.
I see so much that still needs to be done…. he has to get ceilings primed, then painted, siding put up, french drain installed along with proper welling around the below-grade crawl space vents, resizing the crawl space access to code and building a to-code door for the exterior access, install interior and exterior doors and get the garage door guy out here to install that door. I haven’t dared to schedule the garage door installation yet.
After painting comes flooring. We originally agreed that he would lay the laminate floors with me assisting by handing him pieces-working together to make it go quickly. I hope at least in this case he remembers that the deal was for me to assist, not for me to completely do the job.
Then I have to handle the finished electrical properly wiring up all the outlets and switches.
The bus I suspect is Troy continuing to drag his feet days at a time and then demanding all painting completed in a morning or only a couple hours to wire everything up before the inspection.
My other looming problem includes having basically no more leave time left from work. The weekends are the time I have and I have two weekends left— and because he didn’t get his work done this past week, there’s no work I can do this weekend.
