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July 10, 2001, Tuesday
Well, the one blessing today is that it rained about 4:30 this morning and
kept sprinkling until about 10 a.m. Nice cool morning, but hot and humid
in the afternoon. Jeff arrived at 7:30 during breakfast to tell us Yucky
Lumber called and doesn't want to deliver in the rain because the OSB
flooring will disintegrate in the rain. My reply to Jeff was:
1) OSB is used in all weather conditions.
2) I never ordered any OSB for this project.
We called Yucky Lumber and discovered they don't stock treated 3/4 inch plywood
and had substituted OSB , but hadn't mentioned the change to us. I told them
that was unacceptable and to take it out of the order, a savings of $178,
but, now I have no flooring. If I had had my wits about me I would have
rechecked the invoice to see if they made any other changes. They promised
to deliver the balance of the order and a check for the difference no
later than 3 p.m.
Jon and I drove to
town and went to T.H. Rogers lumber on Route 5. They didn't have sufficient TR
ply in stock, but can have it here by tomorrow, with luck, but guaranteed by
Thursday morning. They will deliver the ply and concrete products and I
pray they are reliable. Jon and I returned and installed the kitchen sink
and a temporary drain.
Trauma 2: Heard the lumber truck coming up the hill at the stroke of 3 p.m.
And went out to check the load. The bill of lading was all wrong. They had
substituted 5x5 posts, which will work but won't stand proud of the surface
as planned. All the standard lumber is right, but all the TR lumber is
wrong. They substituted 2x6 for all the 2x8's (they don't carry 2x8's,
which is nutty) and they sent 16 footers instead of 14'. It took an hour
and a half to decipher the mistakes and to make phone calls back and forth,
all while standing
in the blazing sun. They claim they told Jeff about the changes but there
is no note on the estimate, which I never actually saw or I might have
caught it. Yucky is going to take back the 2x6 and substitute 2x10. This
means that the house floors will be higher than the kitchen by at least 2
inches unless we can lower the whole building area a bit. Perhaps the
posthole man can do this. The whole order is still such a mess I'm not
sure what is coming back and I suspect I may be short of floor joists for
the bedrooms. The change to 2x10's raised the total cost a bit, but they still
owe me money back for the OSB mess. I haven't balanced the book yet, but think
the new flooring will raise the estimate by about $500 to about $2506.
Good thing I brought cash.
To finish off the day,
the old TV died on us, so we went into town to Wal-Mart and bought a new
TV on sale ($80). Tired and frustrated, so to bed at 11:30 in hopes that
tomorrow will see the arrival of the last of the lumber and the start of
real building.
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