"Best and Worst for the Week," in the Flooring Potpourri forum, begins: "cproader said
........I spent two and a half weeks paintin a church, and I aint gettin a paycheck fer it.........
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been a while since i put something in here..... haven't done one of these in a while.....was fun. double stick ax in a mini cinema .2 men 2 days....pic quality poor as i only had my cell ph with me. need to put my cam back in the car. got a fair bit of ax comin my way and it's always fun workin with different colors an patterns......one next week where the pattern match is almost 2 yrds.
Our buddy Flash spent better part of the last week installing a scarlett o'hara staircase (full caps, both sides, wide double bullnose at the bottom, slenders down in the middle and then widens out again at the top) upper hall with 117 pickets, basement staircase, well over 100 yards. His paycheque was cut before he could render an invoice. The shop paid him just over $500 for it.
I spent two and a half weeks paintin a church, and I aint gettin a paycheck fer it.......
You'll be getting a paycheck, it's just that you've go to pick it up at the pearly gates. The only thing is, when you pick it up, they'll smile and tell you how glad they are you arrived. Then, how they have 3,000 yards for you to install in the North side of heaven, that the carpenter has been asking for you all day because the furniture movers are coming in the morning!
You'll be getting a paycheck, it's just that you've go to pick it up at the pearly gates. The only thing is, when you pick it up, they'll smile and tell you how glad they are you arrived. Then, how they have 3,000 yards for you to install in the North side of heaven, that the carpenter has been asking for you all day because the furniture movers are coming in the morning!
Dobby
.......I guess the check outta be good.........3000 yds !!!!..............I hope Demo shows up..........
This may be in the wrong place, but here goes ......
We started the first stage of a retrofit today, resilient in the kitchen, hall, foyer and powder room. The job was spec'd for skimcoat. Customer has 5 cats, asked them to put them away, didn't want them traipsing through the patch, getting it all over the house and forcing us to do it again. Customer not happy.
We started pulling 1/4 round. Not one linear foot had NOT been pissed on. Eeeeeewwww. We are not happy.
Once the patch was done, we left to go to the shop to pre-cut our 23 footer. While walking down the side of the product, I tipped the 12' straightedge and it gouged the vinyl. Just cost us an extra seam. We are not happy.
The customer had supposedly purchased 13'2" goods, but we find it was 12'. Another extra seam. We are not happy.
Made the job work in 4 pieces. The stench of cat piss so bad, neither of us could barely hold our cookies, let alone eat our lunch. Eeeeewwww.
Then at the end of it all, I'm setting up the bolts and seal for the toilet, and drop one of the brass bolts down the hole. Eeeeewwww. Looking up at Dave, he is shaking his head, no, he is not going out for another set. I look at him, then back at the hole. Eeeeewwww. Ran to the toolbox to retrieve the magnet we keep there, but it won't grab the other brass bolt. Now I have no choice; I plunge my right arm down into that disgusting oriface, took several tries before I could snag the escaped bolt. Eeeeewwww. Beyond caring what the customer thinks, tell Dave just what I think of him. Then ran to the kitchen sink to soap up my arm. Eeeeewwww.
Customer happily paid our fee. In cash.
Just took the longest shower I've taken since I was a teenager.
When they want the carpet portion done, it's going to be another crew.
Deb
(Jim, you REALLY need to add vomiting smilie ... )
Don't you just love those kind of jobs. If anything can go wrong it will. The Wife and I had one a month ago where a guy died in his apartment and was not found for three or four days. Besides not being a good house keeper it was bad. The wife give me a mask and a bottle of Vicks. That lasted about thirty seconds. Thought about duct taping the whole jar to my face, but just jumped in and got it done.
..........so ya was up to yer shoulders in it today, eh.................I was pullin some kitty weezin pad and tack today too......and it was so bad, the pad was stuck to the floor with it................my boy was outta town today so I had to get it up..........but if'n I dropped somethin down the big hole, I am callin a plumber...........
........I spent two and a half weeks paintin a church, and I aint gettin a paycheck fer it.........
.......I hope Demo shows up..........
<-- you can borry that one fer a while.
........my boy was outta town today so I had to get it up..........but if'n I dropped somethin down the big hole, I am callin a plumber...........
