We won the Pocket Door battle - and no we have a problem with it!
hobokenkitchen
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Comments (78)>One of the biggest problems that we have is that boss's dont like to give proven workers anything. . . . This has always amazed me, and it is more the norm than the rare exception. So many employers across all occupations insist upon paying the least possible and have no respect for their employees. So many of them are so cheap that they hire on a project by project basis, grabbing the first loser that they come across figuring he will work for damn near nothing, rather than taking the time to find someone that has their act together, and maybe throw in a bonus if the employee is worth it. Yes, I understand people start a business to make money, but most of the businesses that have been around for any length of time are there because they have good employees that helped them build a good reputation. Sometimes money can be tight, but having an employee like that is priceless. You get what you pay for. If you are going to pay fast food wages you are going to get fast food quality employees.Exactly, on all counts....See MoreShould We Have to Pay to Fix This?
Comments (19)macv - I would have been happy to pay the designer to draw up the details, but she pretty much wanted to be done with the project. We had a meeting with designer, builder & us just before we went to contract to go over the plan. I had a list of questions room-by-room and many of them had to do with the trim details. We kept being told that we would work all of that out as the build progressed. (Plus, the designer had snarky comments & a few eyerolls about me and my lists. I'm sorry, but lists are a good thing and make it easier to communicate and manage a process.) On that early trip to SC, we met with lots of suppliers and made choices to go the ARB. We specifically asked to meet with the trim carpenter to get a feel for how the details were handled. We were put off. Asked to meet him, again, when we were there for the MEP. Put off once more. mdev - Polite? Moi? I'm flattered that I come off that way. Even 20 years in Texas has only put a thin veneer over the Jersey girl core. I just have learned to hide it pretty well. I think DH was afraid to take me up there on this trip because he knew I would go all "Hoboken" on the builder's sorry butt which is just what he needed. Oh, well. Yes, the builder is trying to make us feel bad, so we cave. At this point, I'm so over that. I haven't even gotten to the various tile fiascos, but we are getting the line of "It will look just fine when the shoe molding is on." Well, if is doesn't look fine, it will be even more money, time and trouble for him to fix it then. Oh, and I do send e-mails with the various issue and problems listed out in bullet form and the rationale for what I am saying. I get complaints that my e-mails are too long and complicated. So, when there was a problem that need a lengthy explanation, I wrote it all out to document the issue and put an executive summary at the head of the e-mail. That still got ignored. So then I decided that I should write e-mails that have no more than 2 sentences. Those got a response, but many of the the action items were never executed. pps7 - we've done all kinds of sketches and renderings. We even sent off a sketch for a platform for the W/D to sit on in the laundry room. The master bath has 4 windows in the gable over the vanity & DH had to do all of the coordination to integrate what the trim carpenter and the cabinet maker were going to do. Over two months before the trim work started, I modeled how we wanted the bedroom fireplace to look and sent them renderings from various angles. When the fireplace was trimmed, it looked nothing like my rendering. We don't even think the builder showed the pictures to the carpenter. Same story with the pediment for the opening to the great room. I guess I should have modeled the coffering, but I'm not sure it would have changed anything. Ya know, I appreciate that a custom house is a bit like what I do because each project is different and it's not like a tract house builder who turns them out by the dozen with only slight variations. That's why coordination and planning are crucial to producing a good final result. Oh, yes, we've had our share of change orders, but I've done my darnedest to contain costs and even save money on other areas. The builder made a comment to us that his office manager said he would be owing us money by the time we're done. I think that irks him. Thanks for the comments - Jo Ann...See MoreThings we won't let die.....
Comments (16)OH and here is another one I don't know how but one of my dads 9 sisters got their grandmothers coat she died in about 1940 and I'm sure she had not had a new coat in many years. My aunts came up with the idea of gettin an old fashioned teddy bear pattern like the original teddy bear and making all the siblings a teddy bear. 12 total. I took this a step further and was the 1st of over 40 neices and nephews to ask for just a scrap of that coat I would have been happy witha 1 inch square. But my aunt pieced together the scraps and believe me they was scraps and made me a little flat bear front that was about 5 inches tall the back was just a piece of satin type lining material she had and she apolgized for not having enough material for the back. YES there has been many many make overs in my family. I remember mom had a piece of light brown double knit that she used for a table cloth for special occassions for 20 yrs then decided she wanted a pair of pants that color. Of course I've always teased her asked her if she was gonna make a table cloth out of those pants when she gets tired of them. LOL Then there was the pants mom bought at a yard sale for a dime that was marked a size 10 she took them home laid them out and cut out a pair of size 14 pants out of them. Apparently the pants was much bigger than a size 10 LOL...See MorePocket door problem
Comments (16)Hi. I've had a cursed pocket door too. I do agree with the other poster who said to call your installer because it shouldn't be a problem so soon. But you probably want to try to fix it yourself. So try this: Get up on a ladder with a good light or flashlight and look down the track to see what you can see. You probably will see a wheel that has popped out of the track, and probably the one furthest inside the wall. Make note of how the track is shaped and on which side the wheels fit into the track because if you have a mental picture of it, it will make more sense as you try to fix it. Lifting the door is the trick. And you want to lift it as close as you can get to the area where the wheel is off. By lifting it, you can hopefully pop it back into the track. To lift mine, I used a pry bar at the bottom of the door. The pry bar is long and flat metal with at least one end bent up. Put the bent end (it's short) down on the floor under the door. The long end of the pry bar will be fairly straight up and down, and the short end will be flat on the floor. Step on the long end with your foot to try to leverage the door up. You're trying to get the door to go up so the bad wheel can clear the bottom of the track and drop into it. If it happens, you'll feel the door straighten out and catch. Try up and down a bunch of times to see if you get lucky. If there is too much space between the floor and the bottom of the door to get the leverage you need, stick something like a scrap of wood or drywall or something on the floor under the door so the pry bar can sit on top of it and be close enough to the bottom of the door to provide leverage. Is the door stuck in the wall pocket? It would be best if you can drag the door about halfway shut before you try the pry bar/popping in to the track thing. If it's not budging, you might need help so one person can leverage the door with the pry bar and one can try to pull the door part way shut. It might only go a few inches at a time so you just keep doing that, moving the pry bar down towards the far edge of the door and dragging the door shut a little at a time. I say this because if it's stuck in the wall, you can't lift the far edge of the door unless you can get under it, and therefore getting the door part way shut will let you lift and tip the far end of the door. Good luck. I'm pulling for the little guy and his birthday party....See Moremag77
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