On my last post I talked about having marriage therapy. Well, it turned out that our therapists needed therapy. The first guy who was supposed to help out (we'll call him Joe). Ended up needing a more supervision and help than my husband or I could offer. After taking two days and $280 dollars to make our back porch worse than it was we figured it was time to let Joe go. We both felt bad because he worked really hard to mess up the porch.
The next person who was supposed to help (let's call him Ted). Didn't show up the first day. When we called to find out why, we received a pretty reasonable explanation, so we figured we'd give him another shot. When he didn't show up the second time we received an out of this world explanation that we're sure was a complete lie, but we still figured we'd give him another chance since we're really desperate to get some work done on the house. Ted failed to show up a third time and we found out that it was because he was in jail. That explanation sounded not only reasonable but likely sowe decided just to let it be. If he does happen to show up I'm sure we can find some work for him to do.
During all of this I called a "handyman" from our local paper. Mr. Fix-it was very leery about having Handyman Ron come to the house. I told him that his two fellas had not worked out, so he should give my guy a shot. He begrudgingly agreed and it turns out I can pick a pretty good handyman. Ron was able to actaully accomplish work today. Not only did he show up on the day and time he said he would, he was able to start and finish jobs with out a parole officer by his side. It just doesn't get any better than that. We now have doors on all of the bedrooms and shelving in three of our closets! In addition to Handyman Ron (not his real name), we had another contractor and his helper come and rescue our back porch. We praying that he is the miracle we asked for. We called him on Friday and we knew it might work out when he actually called us back when he said he would. A couple of jobs have been postponed for him and he has a few weeks available. We will gladly fill up any time he needs filled. I have a railing on my back porch and he says he's coming back tomorrow. House renovation has never been so easy.
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4 comments:
Wow, that's great about HM Ron! So glad he worked out. Hope you made it back in decent time on Sunday.
Kim
I'll have to show this post to Stuart. He'll feel much better about some of the handymen that we have hired.
Kate
Kate,
It got better as the week went on. Our contractor showed up when he was supposed to, but only worked about 1/2 days. Oh well, at least it's getting done. Hopefully I'll have deck picture pictures up soon.
Dee
Yeah. That was the same difficulty we had. Our contractor showed up at nine took a break at nine-thiry and for lunch and again at about two and then left around three. He was shopping for more jobs the whole time he was in the house and charged us for two full days though he only worked for about eight hours total. He is now our go to example about diligence. The kids were astonished by his work ethic. Months later they are still talking about it.
Stuart ended up finishing the work the guy started after he called him to let him know we wouldn't need him to finish the job. We could take it from there thank you very much. I wonder if he has a clue?
Thanks for commenting on my blog as well. There are times that I wonder if anybody is out there.
Hugs to all. The girls were just talking about your girls yesterday.
Kate
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