Friday, February 22, 2008

But into every life a little rain must fall.

And we're having a major downpour here. Once again, another day has ended and we have no kitchen floor. This is becoming an increasingly tiresome issue. The tile guys showed up (again) and once again began kicking the subflooring saying the adhesive that was chosen wouldn't work, the tiling couldn't go down, yada, yada, yada. I gotta admit, I left a voice mail for the Rodney who we ordered the flooring through but I'm glad he didn't return my call because I'm so frustrated and angry I don't think I could have been polite let alone reasonable. I'm really glad that Mark was here to deal with this whole fiasco because I was useless. Chris our friendly foreman came over and he and Rodney figured out a solution. And as Chris said, it's his job to resolve these issues.

Solution for today, they laid down plywood over the kitchen so that the vinyl tile can be installed. Though this evening as I walked around feeling sorry for myself I discovered a number of concerns that will need to be resolved before they try again. To give Rodney credit, he did try to get a crew to do the installation tomorrow, but that's not happening (why would I even think it would I don't know).

So, the deal is they'll come on Wednesday and try for the third time (is the third time the charm or will it be a strike out) to get my flooring done. I'm of the opinion tonight that if this doesn't happen on Friday, that's it. They can take this flooring back and I'll find another dealer and get something else. I don't know, what...ceramic tile, bamboo, something.

Chris, did give us good news, the backsplash installation will start on Monday (though tonight I discovered a hole in the wall by one of the undercabinet lights so I don't know how that'll effect the tiling.) So hopefully, we'll may actually be able to start "cooking" in the kitchen next week.

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