Here’s what my wife and I have been going through lately. We’ve went ahead and decided to have our house updated. We did quite a bit, new roof, vinyl siding, new windows, shutters, and gutters. The company we chose has been a nightmare, but it didn’t start off that way. Our roof was installed in one day and there were no nails, pieces of shingles, or paper anywhere in the yard. Color us impressed.The vinyl siding and windows is where the trouble began. There were people showing up on the job with alcohol trying to help install windows, drama between subcontractors and the company we chose, and shoddy work cropping up to top things off. Needless to say, we were pissed off. After many calls to the two owners of the company and after many broken promises that the two owners made to us the job still isn’t complete. This is over a month later. Here’s the lovely part though, one of the owners said that they appreciated our patience with everything that has been going on and we’ll definitely get a free meal to some snazzy restaurant here in town. Talk about a slap in the face. I just gritted my teeth on the phone when I was told that. So I wrote a lovely letter with my thoughts on the ordeal. And instead of them giving us a meal ticket, they’re going to have to do more. You figure the time we invested being at home all the time for people not showing up, our electric bill going up cause windows weren’t installed properly, the mental anguish that my wife and I have been going through, and not being able to see our families adds up to more than a free meal.
I’m expecting something very nice in return and won’t accept anything other than. So we’ll have to see. We’ve been real easy to work with, but when we’re unhappy, we’re unhappy and we’re going to try to resolve this like adults. Luckily we haven’t paid them complete and won’t until everything is satisfactory to us. I think we’d be happy with them shaving a couple thousand from our original purchase, because can you imagine the fine they’d receive for allowing people to work with alcohol on our premise alone? Oh well.
I hate drama, save that tripe for the movies.
Our little family currently consists of Darryl, me, along with our pups Lucas & Lily. We've been together for 14 years now, and we love every minute of it. I enjoy all types of crafty things such as knitting, crocheting, photography, sewing, and making cards. Darryl enjoys gaming (both PC and PS3), playing guitar, cooking, and just veggin out. Lucas and Lily just love to sleep, eat, and pets.
