Ugh -- Workmen going to Toilet in my Yard
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my freshly painted kitchen island - oooh, eh, or ugh?
Comments (29)Regarding window treatment(s) -- Your window is an odd size and I notice from your photos that the top of your refrigerator, doorways, cabinets and top of window all are about the same level around the room. If it were me, I would break up that pattern by doing some sort of simple inside mounted shade for privacy and mount a classy valance up close to the ceiling so that the bottom of the valance comes just below the top of window frame. It will break up the line running around your room and give the illusion that your window is taller. Check out your fabric store for easy valance patterns that can be adjusted for your window size. An easy one I've seen if you don't want to sew is to purchase square napkins, then drape them over a rod, with points downward, overlapping each napkin across the rod. Make a few stitches to tack in place, and voila, you are done....See MoreWorkmen in your home
Comments (19)Luckily, I haven't had a problem so far with the honesty of the tradesmen who have worked in my kitchen (but we have removed the valuables anyway). It is their competance and/or professionalism that is driving me and my GC nutty! I can only surmise that they never clean up after themselves at home, so it doesn't occur to them to clean up a jobsite when they are finished. My GC is bringing in professional industrial cleaners nest week to bring some order to the place after the drywallers and the countertop installers failed to shroud their workspace before sanding and grinding. I'm still recovering from Sparky who failed to do a little check after installing a new panel to ensure that full power was restored to our home. Due to his shorting out a part on the meter, we had some power, but not enough to cook, or light the bathrooms. I missed an important Fed-Ex delivery because the doorbell didn't work, and I had to get my "morning" coffee at 2.00pm at the local mall. Our local power utility ultimately had to come out and fix the problem. I have renewed admiration for my GC, who never loses his temper and keeps smiling, even though he is dealing with similar (or worse) circumstances at several jobs simultaneously....See MoreWorkmen in your house
Comments (50)We would never leave a worker alone in our home. We had a carpet installer steal blank checks from us while we were home, doing our best to watch him and his assistant. He started writing them all over the place and it was a big, extended, mess to deal with the whole thing. We closed the checking account and filed a police report. They kept writing the checks for many months. We kept getting notices from businesses and collections companies for years afterwards, then we'd have to send the police report, etc. We knew who had done it, but the police wouldn't even investigate. We think it's best to avoid having any workers in our house, if possible. If it's not possible to avoid it, we plan to be home and watch them carefully. It doesn't matter if they are licensed/bonded or claim to be honest or trustworthy. It doesn't matter how high-priced they are, either. Paying someone more definitely doesn't mean you're getting someone honest or even increasing the chances of getting honest people. Good reviews on the internet mean nothing. It really only takes a second for someone to steal something from you, like some blank checks out of your desk drawer. The police won't do much to help you when it happens. So, lock up your valuables, blank checks, etc. even if you are also going to be home. We have learned to do a lot of things ourselves. We do things ourselves because we've found the quality of work produced by the majority of people that you can hire these days (including the ones charging the highest prices) to be frequently subpar and also because it's a huge hassle to have workers in our home (making messes, being disgusting in our bathrooms, showing up late or not showing up to work at all on some days, needing to be watched in case they try to steal something, etc.). Judging by what we've seen in other peoples' homes, and by work that's been done in our homes by people we've hired (including some very high-priced people), we almost always end up doing a lot better job than we would have gotten from anyone we hire, anyway. Yeah, it takes time and effort to do things ourselves and it's true that there can be a learning curve, but it's completely worth it to avoid having workers in our home. As an added benefit (though this wasn't why we started learning to do things for ourselves in the first place) we don't have to pay them the large amounts of money that many are charging these days for their poor quality work. We also don't have to take time off of work to be home to watch them (which is especially frustrating when they show up late, work short days, don't show up at all on some days, etc). We have also gained a lot of valuable skills and enjoy knowing how to do a good amount of things for ourselves. Of course, we can't do everything and we know our limitations. People used to be able to do a lot more for themselves. These days, many people have become basically helpless so far as doing anything around their own homes. It's not such a great trend, imo....See MoreUgh. Master Bathroom Color Merry-go-Round. Help!
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