A Texian's Chronicle: And The Floors are Done

I have been a bit preoccupied this week and have not really had time to post anything here. The floor installers came this past Monday as promised and got most of the floor down. Tuesday they finished up. It was really just one guy and his son. The son didn't do any installing. So that one guy did the lion's share of the work. He was a subcontractor too. Not an actual employee of the business we were dealing with. It appears that is the way this type business, construction etc. is mostly handled these days. It is just too expensive to have employees on the payroll with all the benefits that need to be paid too. It seems that is good for everyone, except for the homeowner.

All in all, the work that was done was was done pretty well. However the attention to detail suffers quite a bit. In this whole 2+ month process both contractors missed things or just flat didn't do them. The floor installers were supposed to move all the furniture and was to have placed felt pads on every piece to ensure that the floor was not scratched. We just found out about the pads today. The installer had us go to Home Depot and get the pads and then we installed them. No big deal but he got paid for that. After they finished the installation they were to have moved all the furniture back where it was supposed to be. Also they should have cleaned the floor. Neither happened. They left while we were out back staying out of the way. When we heard them leave we found the furniture as they left it out of their way. It was unusable all stacked to one side and another room. The floor was covered in a fine dust that took two moppings to get looking like it was supposed to. We had to mop before 'K' and I moved the furniture back. We were very hesitant as we can't lift it enough to move all the way, it has to be slid since it is so very heavy. And wouldn't you know it, we scratched the floor. 'K' was extremely hot. Having left that work to us and then that happened.

The salesman just left here. He came out to see the damage. However he was able to fix it and it looks like there was never a scratch. Acetone did the job. Whatever, 'K' is happy now. You know the rest. We will get refunded on the furniture moving. The sub told them he moved everything back. Did he think we would lie about that? For what purpose? Ah well, it's almost totally over. Tuesday the contractor that did all the repairs will come back and place the baseboards. Hopefully they can get that done in a few hours and get out of our hair finally.

Things are slowly getting back to normal with all the items that need to be returned to their places. But until the baseboards are finished that won't be complete.

Now 'K' is getting new curtains to match the paint and probably some new area rugs. I'm holding out on the rugs. Why cover up these pretty new floors so you can't see them? Ultimately she will win.

And this is the short version.

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