Monday Agenda

Monday we will have the renovation contractor/estimator out.  He will determine what all needs to be restored/repaired and how much it will cost the insurance.  He will be here early.  I have concerns on how this will work and I want to be sure he sees the things I see.  The plumbers discovered a wall of the cabinets next to the leaky dishwasher is nearly totaled.  How will that work?  Do we have to wait on getting a new dishwasher so they can make those repairs?  There are a few other things.  The insurance adjuster said they try to match the existing flooring that wasn't removed and reinstall it with new.  No.  How can a 15 year old floor be matched with a new floor and look right?  He said usually if it is line of sight issue they would remove all the wood floor and install new.  OK, that's what we have but I want to know what the estimator will plan on.  Plus the ceramic tile that we covered with vinyl planks.  Will they just remove the planks or all the ceramic too?  We want it all removed and then replaced with the same flooring we would have reinstalled in the rest of the house.  We would pay any difference.  It goes on.  I'll stop here.

The plumber is coming back also Monday to make the repairs they found last week.  We also are taking delivery on a load of stepping stones we will use to block the dog from digging under the fence.  We have a mix of landscape timbers, cedar posts, rocks and pieces of firewood now and it looks bad and he gets through it sometimes.  The bricks will prevent this.  We got the idea from our next-door neighbor that had the same issue.  

Hopefully we can get this renovation moving once the estimate is done.  But I ma sure there is a lag time due to other projects.  This is a new company from the one that did the water mitigation.  I thought they would be the same company and the hand off would be somewhat seamless.  For some reason the original contractor was not on the insurance company list for the renovation, just mitigation.  They have used them before but the adjustor said they may be so busy they didn't want more work right now.  It seems a lot of folks are still dealing with the Snovid repairs from February plus the storms we had a couple weeks ago.  

Patience

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