As usual, Macky aims to please. He’s completed both rooms in 2 days – a feat that the other painters wouldn’t have come close to accomplishing based on their work schedule from last week. We’re still waiting to get the bill on that…and unfortunately, after spending some time in the living room lately, we’ve noticed that the work wasn’t even that great. They trimmed the beams off sloppily and there are now noticeable places where they gouged the wall while removing the paper but when I said leave a somewhat sloppy feel since the house is old, they took that to mean that all the little things they screwed up could be left as is. Not what I had in mind. If it was there before, that’s one thing. But we’re talking about things that were clearly recently done. For example, they used one of those rollers with spikes on it to pierce the wallpaper and get better saturation for the remover stuff. The rollers tend to leave little spike marks in the wall if you’re not careful…and they didn’t bother to cover them up. Definitely not the quality of work we saw from our first project with them (which was infinitely easier even though we had 18 foot ceilings to be painted) and they’ll definitely not be getting any additional work from us.
Hubby also called Hornbach today and they finally have our shower. He got the impression that they may have given the shower to someone else the first time it came in…and that they intended to give this one to someone else also. Not sure what sort of crazy system they are working on there and why they think that’s acceptable but we are thankfully getting the shower delivered sometime tomorrow so we’re very happy about that. So Macky will start finishing that up on Monday and should easily be finished by the end of the week, despite needing to lay a bunch of tile and all that.
I was without internet for quite a few hours yesterday so I had the opportunity to unpack some boxes. I also installed the drawers for the pantry in the kitchen because I realized that there is actually a detail sheet about it in the IKEA instruction book for the drawers. So at least a few more things could be put away and a few more boxes discarded (it’s hard to see the progress at this point since there are still quite a few boxes around) and when the doors to cover those areas finally arrive, we can just put it all together rather quickly.
We are also giving back the house this weekend. We still have to finish painting one room, cut and lay a new piece of carpet on the stairs and clean the carpets. We intended to do all of this on Saturday but the landlord sent an email last night that they want to come by on Saturday at 2 pm which means that I will need to go today and paint & see what I can do myself with the piece of carpet…perhaps the glue will work better this time around and I’ll be certain not to let Ayla get anywhere near that step. I’ve noticed that she once again was chewing on the thing and got another piece off. It must be very tasty carpet. So since the shower is coming sometime tomorrow, I guess I will be making a quick trip to Hornbach for some paint rollers and then I’ll be heading to the house (which at least has better heaters than here which is a very good thing since it’s quite cold today) to finish the painting. Hopefully I can also cut the carpet and will attempt to lay it also but since it’s on a corner I’m not really sure if I can pull it off alone. And as for the carpet cleaning…they were dirty when we moved in so we’ll see. I guess worst case the landlord causes a scene about it and we either take care of it Saturday or have him take it out of the deposit…
