A new shop in the making #14: Roof is on and now we are painters- not!

Bob
You must be very frustrated with the trades you have had in. Every contractor had several issues. You will certainly enjoy seeing the rear end of all of those guys, but you certainly will enjoy your new shop. I built mine about 4 years ago and the only contractor I had a problem with was the concrete guy – not quite the slope I wanted but nothing compared to your headaches. Keep smiling.
Bruce

-- Canadian Wood Chuck (Bruce)

Bob. It’s looking good. After all of the trials, the problems will disapate as the fun begins.

-- Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com

Bob – sounds like you are on the home stretch. Frustration has been forefront, but once it’s a finished project and you are making sawdust of the project variety – it will all be forgotten.

As for the kid on the roofing deal…. sounds like a teaching opportunity to me. He’s got to learn to stay and do the job he’s hired for. If he didn’t finish the job, he should not be paid for the whole job. If he expects to get paid for the whole job, he should have stayed on the roof until it was done. Just my thoughts.

-- Betsy - GO BUCKS!

You could have hired me. I charge a lot and show up late, but I make up for it by leaving early.

-- Todd A. Clippinger, Montana, http://amcraftsman.com

Todd, you must a a couple of brothers up my way. <vbg>

Bob

-- A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner

I haven’t shown up at all! It’s looking good, Bob!

-- You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. (Plato)

My last clients met my wife and I for a beer and tipped me a $100.

You can see the project in my site listed as “Lucy’s Bathroom.”

-- Todd A. Clippinger, Montana, http://amcraftsman.com

Even with the dash to HD for more paint you probably still saved time with the sprayer then brushing it. Looks pretty good, I bet you can’t wait to get the tools in and start making sawdust.

-- ....next big purchase is wood for the next project, Mark

Bruce, the worst thing you can ever do is build anything during a boom like we are experiencing. I will get through it but not without some scars.
Karson , I can hardly wait to return to normal.

Betsy, the “kid” on the roof was 50 years old and trying to get his “green card” here in Canada.
He charges $20.00 /hour for odd jobs and seems to lack the normal assets of time management.
I am trying to replace him but with what?
Todd, I gladly give a tradesman a $100.00 for a job well done.
By the same token I would deny him full wages for anything less.

Mot, nice to see you post again. Are you allowed out of the house yet? <g>

Mark, the 13 foot ceiling pretty much made up my mind about trying to brush it..
If I had been better organized it could have been done in about 2 hours for 10 gallons of paint.
Airless spraying is the only way to go when the situation is right.

Bob

-- A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner

Hi Bob;

Some guys are slow, some guys are fast, and some guys are half fast.

That’s life right.

Lee

-- by Lee A. Jesberger http://www.prowoodworkingtips.com http://www.ezee-feed.com

Ah, to be a contractor….not returning peoples phone calls, promising people you will show up on certain dates and at certain times and then blowing them off without so much of a phone call…overcharging for materials and labor…making up lame excuses why you missed an apointment…leaving in the middle of a job without telling anyone….showing up two weeks later than promised, doing just enough work to start the job, then not coming back for another two weeks….I wonder if they go to school to learn those skills??

-- Women love me.....trees fear me