More Setbacks

We had some great progress on the house and that all came to a screeching stop yesterday afternoon.

First off...progress photos.

House is a little more than halved trimmed.  Dwayne who is doing a great job was here on Monday but hasnt returned.  I have no idea why and I'm a little pissed as to no explanation of why he is not here. 

Bob and I finished the table and started painting the chairs.

We had to finish it with a different brand of polyurethane ( more about shortages in a minute) and it's a bit shinier than we prefer...can said satin...but we are happy with it over all.

So we knew we were gonna need chairs for this table and I didnt really want to buy new but would if we found a good deal.  And then I thought of the brilliant idea of painting the ones we have...why the heck not? 

So here's the chairs we have (8 total)

I was thinking that we could paint them black but Bob suggested we paint them "Oil brushed Bronze" to kinda match the table base.  So that's what we did.

Its not black though it appears that way in the picture.  It's more of a blackish-brownish combo and I think it goes perfectly with the table.  Here's the rub.....apparently now with gas prices being so high EVERYONE from grocery stores to mom and pop shops are having supply chain issues.  This is all due to our incompetent President.  Sorry, my blog, my opinion!  I've seen people on Ebay and Amazon offering this paint now for anywhere between $27 - $40 A CAN!!  That's gouging anyway you look at it!  Its downright shameful but if pipelines hadnt been shut down then we wouldn't be having this issue.  Yes, I know the stockmarket has a lot to do with the price but when there is less of anything then it becomes more valuable.  Enough...off my soapbox.

Our cabinets are coming next week so Bob and I headed to Kempner to pick out our granite for the bathrooms and get on the schedule for measuring.

We found a couple of slabs that were on sale and we thought would go nicely in the bathrooms.  

It has a little maroonish color to it that we thought the sandstone would make "pop" and it was really pleasing to look at.  

So another item checked off the list.

So yesterday afternoon Kirby ( the plumber) and OG ( the electrician) were at the house.  They were supposed to put on the bathroom fixtures and disconnect the light in the bathroom so that the sheetrock above it could be taken out and repaired.  That was where we had the roof leak.  They left not soon after they arrived and we went down to see what they had done.  The fixtures were on in the guest bath but the light was not taken down.  So we  went over to the Masterbath and no fixtures were on the shower. And there appeared to be water on the wall and on the floor.  Not wanting to jump to conclusions we thought we'd wait to see if it dried up or if there was more in the morning.  

These are pictures that I took this morning.

So we shut the water off because we know there is a leak and I texted Ernie.  He said he would be out later that afternoon but everyone else was off until Tuesday.  WTF!! Sorry, so OG and Kirby leave on Thursday, knowing they wont be back till Tuesday and they dont tell us we have a leak?  They have to drive right by the shop and we were there!!

I'm so angry that I could just spit nails.

Ernie came out and of course apologized but that doesnt explain OG's and Kirby's behavior and knowing that NOTHING will be done until at least Tuesday if not beyond that is very frustrating.  If Andre's has to come back and tear down part of the shower structure then its gonna be a real mess.  I just dont understand the lack of thought about this whole situation.  For now, we've turned the water off and we just have to wait and see what happens on Tuesday.  

Cabinets are coming on Monday.