2024-09-22 Another week of work - Family get together.

We have had another week of work on Derek's rental.  Much slower pace this week.   

Mudding and taping drywall, and painting molding.   Can only do one coat, then back the next day for another coat, and repeat.

Derek and Kris stripping the old sealant from the shower

We have all the drywall done, and the molding painted, but waiting on the contractor to finish up, as he is supposed to be working in the bathroom as well.

Moved dishwasher from current house to new one.  Derek did a good job with parent supervision

We will just say it.  We have never had a worse experience with a contractor - nor seen such shoddy work.   To clarify, we have only hired two contractors in our experience remodeling 8 homes and 3 boats.  One to relocate the furnace, and one to do a lot of drywall work.   The drywall people were great - husband, wife team that only did jobs through word of mouth.  They were a bit odd, and we provided them a place to park their trailer, use our water, and fed them on occasion, but they did great work.

The furnace guy did not wire the furnace per code, so when we had our electrical work inspected, we pointed in out to the city inspector, and they had to come out and fix it.   

So limited experience with contractors, but a lot of experience with plumbing, electrical, drywall, painting, trim work, floor installation, etc., etc.    The contractor doing the work on Derek's rental does every job shoddy.  Layed new laminate floor over old vinyl, so floor is lumpy at transitions, and soft over the vinyl.  Paint streaks on doors and trim from putting white paint on brown doors, Kris is pretty sure he did some illegal wiring as well.

We talked to him about the flooring issue, as requested by the homeowner, and the contractor's story changed 4 times by our count.   Never seen someone sweat so much in a 60 degree temperature.  Pretty sure he was lying to our faces.

Anyway - somewhat of a frustrating week seeing the quality of work, and being able to do nothing about it without delaying the move in date, and causing the homeowner grief.  We might fix a few items once Derek moves in - time will tell.

Friday was a great day, and a bunch of Deans family all came to town for a belated birthday party for Deans Mom, who is now 90.  Great to see all the family.

Dean, Derek, Nita and Kris

Dean with his brother Lee, Lee's son Andrew and Dean's brother Terry

 

Saturday, we had an early breakfast with some of the family

 

Back to work on the duplex, as we needed to clean, install toilets, seal the shower, and hook up the Cat6 outlets for internet.   Busy day of work.

We are in Idaho, no surprise to see this personal vehicle.   Think the gun is for looks only

Sunday is move day, so another busy day, and poor Derek flies out on Monday for a work trip, and won't be back until Thursday - so he is hoping Kris puts his stuff away where he can find it. :)  Getting things moved into the new space, lots of moving and changing of the minds.

Needed a treat for all the moving, so went to a Dairy Queen.  Like their door handles.