But first we had to guide this large semi truck down our over grown dirt road....
Clearly this is one of the times where you have to fit a square box into a round hole.
First attempt was a no go so he left and circled back around
This is as far as he got in before our security features (over grown bushes) began to make loud screaching noises.
He made it past our little trees... after of course doing a little pruning along the way.
Not sure where to go from here Todd takes over guiding the truck driver.
You see this one branch? He hung on forever but he was not alone a ton of other sticks, leaves, and branches fell off when he left. This probably wont be the last time that we have a Semi trimming our trees, remember we still have to move in and bring in new furniture! haha
Here she is! Yep thats my name on that top box! She doesnt look like much but each box was an estimated 400 lbs.
So our troops began unloading.
Even the truck driver helped (He was great! He didnt have to do this at all but he did and he was smiling the whole time)
All three parts are unloaded now its time to take a look at the door before he drives off into the sunset!
Box #1 was opened up and revealed... a giant (too big to be our door) glass door. Mind you this first box was also the box that had my name written on it. Of course I was prepared for something like this to happen (my phone was not, yet again I can only talk on speaker phone) and quickly called up our door manufacturer. While on the phone with him he told me: First, that it was not their mix up (its the shipping company's fault). Second, it was my second set of doors (we only ordered ONE set of doors). Third, they had no idea where my door frame was (maybe its somewhere in Florida) Understandably I am clearly sent into a angry tailspin for the lack of clear responses this gentleman in customer service is giving me. I told him he has 1 hour to locate my door frame and get back to me. I am super upset because we had taken time out of our day (before we were scheduled to) to unload this beast, not to mention all of our friends who stopped what they were doing as well to help us out. Temps were hitting in the 100s I kid you not and work was at a stand still on the house while Todd helped us out.
These packages were nailed, strapped, and wrapped shut. Power tools were needed to open each and every one and we did end up having blood shed (Todd had a slight cut on his leg but wiped it off like a real man and moved on*) Box #2 & 3 turned out to be right and our doors but that meant we were missing our door frame. The most important part! From what we could see they looked good. We didnt take them out completely because without a door fame we cannot install them at all. We had to refuse the package with my name on it and load it back on to the truck...
This time the guys went into full man mode and hoisted it up with no lift gate at all. I was super impressed.
My delivery slip signed with a refusal and noted a missing package the driver was on his way. We too had to leave (me back to my sick bed and The Hubs back to work). On our way back we got a call from the door company again letting us know that they have contacted the delivery service and they will get back to me within a few hours. By 6 I knew that I was not going to get a call back from anyone and I stopped worrying about it for the day.
Skip ahead to noon Tuesday and still no call back from the door company. Like I had been thinking no one was answering the phones now in customer service. I left a message and waited... and waited. Still nothing after an hour I tried a new extension and was spoken down to by a very rude man in sales named Lee, after asking him to transfer me to someone higher up he transfered me back to the same jerk in customer service who had not returned any of my calls, who sent me straight to voicemail. When I called back to reach Lee to explain to him how to use his phone they decided to not answer the phone at all. Yep. I am floored, I am pissed, and I am ready to gas up my car and head to Georgia to give this company a tongue lashing like never before! Time to play good cop bad cop or like my husband says "Fire & Ice" we have had a few people work with us in the company and mostly though email so we pulled another name from the hat and he gave her a call. She was supposed to send us in email outlining some of the things that we have already discussed but hours after the phone conversation there was still no email. This email was also to include how we have an extension on our time to see if there are any defects in the door.
The story above was written on June 17th and 18th and today I have finally gotten back to (after days of being angry) finish it. Today is July 1st and we finally have a door installed! I am jumping ahead a little bit so lets go back... last thing we were dealing with was the missing door frame. Well... by the middle of the week they FINALLY found it... it was... wait for it.... STILL SITTING IN THE WAREHOUSE! So then they decided to re-deliver it (we are getting near the end of the week so if anything goes wrong at this point we might just be SOL. So the new delivery day comes and I still havent heard from anyone and its 3 in the afternoon... so I give them a call, I tell them that I am NOT getting off the phone until I know it will be delivered today... well she comes back on the line to let me know that.... ITS NOT EVEN ON THE TRUCK! She says "yea... I'm looking at it right now, the driver picked up the wrong package"
ARE YOU JOKING?! AM I BEING PUNKED?! YOU SO SILLY.
Not a joke, and its friday and they wont be delivering it over the weekend.
Monday comes along and we were scheduled to have our frame delivered first thing in the morning....
Welp. It did. This time the driver decided to be a real D*ck and wouldnt pull completely down the road, so now the frame had to carted down the road... remember each one of these is about 400 lbs. this man is here EARLY, and it has been raining for 2 days now so our dirt road was more like a giant road of sinking quicksand. Lets just add the sprinkles to the top and mention that this driver has a bad back and cant help my husband lug this thing all the way down! I cant. I just cant. So bless his heart... He got it done, a guy who was working next door saw this and DID end up helping at the end.
Yes. Before this door even becomes an exciting thing in my daily life, it continues to just get worse. The frame is inches shorter on each side, making the radius off and there are no holes to drill the bolts into the wall that this is supposed to line up with! At this point we have gotten ahold of an Engineer in Tampa who now must write up how to drill the holes in this door so we can be in compliance! Aye dios mio!
Thankfully I can now skip ahead to say that....
She is installed!
Sorry there is nothing wrong with your screen, this is all that I am giving you! Hahaha after all this build up this is it... Dont worry my darlings you will get to see it when its complete! I do have other things that I can share with you!
We are on day 943 of rain, at this point I think my plants are just going to drown in my garden box.
This Grand Canyon is currently being used as our temporary water feature, till we getting something cool... like a real fountain! Ha! I actually love this little run-off stream for the strangest reason with the birds always chirping and the trees swaying I start to sing Pocahontas songs! :) I might still be a little girl at heart. With all this rain comes weeds and grass...
Lots....
And lots....
And lots of weeds & grass.
You cant even see me its so tall! Ha just kidding I was crouching a little bit... but not much :)
But we started to take care of it here is a before & after:
We headed out here one day after work and put in some good sweat equity! We also were out there this past sunday but this time we decided to just spray it first and let it dye. Weirdly enough the guy who is going to be doing our sod said he would stop by to kill them :)
I have also picked out some new lights for the master bath since we had to toss out my idea of having a light fixture over the bathtub... Silly me I just dont know building codes! I did get the 'Okay' to still have a chandelier in the bathroom! yay! Its going to be so sparkly now! Hahah :) I'll save it for another posting though! We start insulation tomorrow so its another BIG day!
*I want to just note that building a home is super stressful and I honestly wouldnt be able to do it without the men we have had working on it with us. I am truly thankful that Todd treats us like his own kids (both his sons have helped us with this house as well) we may have panic moments but he is always ready to calm us and explain what is going on when we have no clue what-so-ever. My husband always talked to Jake (Todd's son) about one day having his dad build his home and we are beyond blessed to make this a reality. Its really exciting to know that once this house is complete we will be able to celebrate with him and everyone else who has helped with this project.
No comments:
Post a Comment