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Deck replacement day 4… progress?

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At the end of day four, which turned out to be an 11 hour day – our contractor arrived at 7:15am and left at 6:15pm- this was the result.

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Five deck boards.

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Five.

Count ‘em… five.

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Three ‘picture frame’ and two others.

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After 11 hours… at $55 and hour.

Let me do the math for you… that’s $605. Which works out to $121 per board. Granted there was a lot of measuring and cutting around the existing railing posts, and at $96 per board we’re glad he’s precise and doesn’t waste material, but wow.

Sorry Mick, but in this instance… time is definitely not on our side.

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  2. Two neighbors in my mom’s hood have recently had issues with contractors regarding invoices.

    There’s a huge mansion being built in the corner on my mom’s street. They began in covid and there were a lot of delays but it’s still not finished and mostly the supply chain is back to normal. Finally, someone ran into the owners and they said oh the contractor quit and took 80% of the money with him.

    He’ll never work again with a reputation like that… But why did he quit? That’s the real question.

    Because… the other neighbor just moved away into a resale home in a neighboring town but is doing some renovations. He came by to say goodbye to my mom and I’m said the contractors who are doing the interior renovations show up sometimes at 9:00, sometimes at 10:00 and sometimes not at all, but pack up at 2:00 pm. They work very short days and spend an hour or so having lunch … And, they will make him be there for certain deliveries at a certain time and then not show up without calling, well the owner is hanging around waiting, possibly having taken time away from his own work. The main contractor said he can’t find people who are reliable…

    It just makes me cringe.

    I hope the final product isn’t as painful as I predict it to be… Ugh.

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