SUNROOM FIFTYFOUR

Enthusiasm Returns

Wednesday July11, 2007

0830

Two Nice Guys guys show up...both good guys at most anything. Almost look like twins...young. Also showing up are the three Drywallers...today Painters.

1010

Just myself having returned from shopping, spot new PM leaving. Since he seems to float around like so much mist, or smoke there's no point in enguiring about his visit.

1030 GM arrives with Sledge 2...the guy who butchered up the door sill.

Dry Wall guys begin spray painting vertical surfaces. That goes fast. Then they turn-to on the floor, scraping anything off that landed on it. Next they scrub the floor, and begin bleaching it with industrial bleach.

The Hardi-board guy helps them with the bleaching. Says he'll put up the door molding next, giving it his personal touch. He adds that he will be using the Hardi-board as inside border for the room. One of the Drywallers drillled a discreet one-half-inch hole through the concrete footing at floor level where water pools. Perchance a window is left open that should drain away any water. My idea since that's what we had for the old screened pateo.

1125 Knock off for lunch. One guy stays putting finishing touches on the roof.

1300 Return from lunch. Nice Guys good guy putting up door molding assisted by super-demolishing guy who does well at most anything...also young.

Sledge #2 caulking. With most of the caulking done, there's no fear except he caulks the door shut. Too much going on to keep track. What a guy was doing one minute, the next minute he's doing something else. Nice Guys trucks keep coming and going. Just a moment ago a cute blond went by the window here. In the distance lightning is flashing followed by thunder twenty-seconds later. Muggy...one minute blazing sun, the next it looks like Bremerhaven in the dead of winter except for the temperature which hovers in the mid-eighties.

1500 The two PMs ( one now the GM ) are here confering with The One Who Must Be Obeyed. This mornng seeing how nice the job is coming together inside and out, we decided we had enough, and will not have any more butchery. B/H decided that now with the inside painted a bright white, and sixteen windows we don't need any more light...in fact it is downright blinding...even when o'cast. We yearn for the electrician to come and finish their work so the job can be signed off as completed. We want to settle up the last payment, and be rid of them. B/H showed a company letter handed her last November during the "Phoney Permit" caper signed by the perpetrator ( woman ) of the dastardly act, giving us ten-percent off the final price. That's two-grand! The GM, who had never seen the letter before, but did know the woman, declares the woman legitimate, and the discount valid. IT WILL BE HONERED!

The matter of Gable Windows not a possibility do to poor estimation of the Gable Height amounts to another ten-percent reduction in total cost. The issue of broken sprinkler head costs will be deducted, along with some other nuisance items. Ceilings stained during the period the roof was being constructed will be painted by the CONtractor.

Too many small jobs going on to document...like the base-board in the room...that will be Hardi-board too. Overkill, but nice...fortress like, and water-proof, bug proof, and fire-proof. During the evening heavy downpours revealed a small leak...that will be a bear to find. I must tell them in the morning in the case of the room's base-board to keep it a quarter inch off the flooring. I had them drill a half-inch hole through the footing concrete for a drain hole. With all these windows, there's bound to be one left open, and the place flooded. The intent was, like everything else, the base board be sealed at the bottom, but sealants are sealants. I will tell them to maintain a floor to bottom of baseboard of a quarter inch. If there's one thing we don't need is water standing behind that. I'll close this now...expect the painters tomorrow for inside, and outside painting, and other little items always left to do.

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