I was wrong

[hrj]

So I was wrong about the flooring disaster. It wasn't that it started pouring rain as soon as I had furniture sitting in the backyard. It wasn't that the flooring company had drastically underestimated how long the job would take. No, it was that when they started pulling out the existing tile, they found dry rot. *whimper* I haven't even been home to see it yet because I'm spending my lunch hour getting that sharp point on my new filling ground down. Oh, and the flooring people don't do dry rot. They said, "Bye, call us when you've got it fixed."

Update: I swung by the house after getting the tooth fixed. (Conversation with dentist: D: That's just your tooth. Me: It wasn't that pointy when I came in yesterday. D: No, that's just the cusp of your tooth. Me: Trust me, I know my mouth. D: (scrapes violently with scaling tool) Oh, I see! There we go! Is that better? Me: I told you I know my mouth.) Yes, there's some dry rot at the corners of the sliding glass door. It seems fairly confined to a manageable area, though. (And I can see how it happened -- it's the previous owner/remodeler's trick of putting the metal flashing outside the house siding so that rain water is channeled into a crevice between the flashing and the boards and sits there. So I guess I shift the house projects into rot-removal mode. Might as well find a specialist and have him/her check over the whole house while I'm at it.

Comments

[maestrateresa.livejournal.com]

Crud. :(

[cryptocosm.livejournal.com]

Gee - and if you're going to have to replace some of the door framing, maybe this is the time to replace the door, too? (Yeah, I'm just one helpful little @#$%, right?)

How much did they manage to pull out before they quit? Is there a floor?

[hrj.livejournal.com]

Already ahead of you on that one. And this time, I'll make sure they don't install it backwards!

On the other hand, I think I'm kissing goodbye to some of that "emergency" money I was able to stash in the bank.

[hrj.livejournal.com]

Oh, and they succeeded in pulling out all the tile and carpeting before they quit. They even seem to have fixed the buckled "underlayment" (that's the word I was trying to remember) simply by virtue of driving some screws into it rather than actually removing and replacing it.

[goldenstag.livejournal.com]

YUCK. I am sorry to hear that ... that really sucks.