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You know the drill.

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As work started on our next living room projects, (new flooring and ceiling repairs) it was time for the familiar refrain to begin chiming in my head.

More work.

More time.

More money.

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Because when carpet and padding was removed in the bump out addition section of the room…

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Damaged floor was discovered. At this point in the continuing saga our renovation nightmare? I expected no less.

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One section was particularly troubling.

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It’s a complete mystery to how or even when this damage occurred.

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The door we just replaced on the right leaked at one time so that would explain water damage on that end…

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But we found bad spots here and there under the windows as well… which could have been caused by the old windows we replaced years ago because though it was damaged, it was completely dry.

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But while the bad spots to the right were dry, that nasty black spot on the left was damp.

And that’s not good.

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Because you know something else had to go wrong.

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Work started on the bedroom door replacement, and you know it didn’t go well.

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After removing the existing door and pulling back the carpet, serious water damage was discovered.

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Which pleased neither me nor my contractor.

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More work. More time.

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More money.

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We communicated through this hole to the basement. That was fun.

Not.

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Rotten floor cut out, awaiting new wood.

Good thing we planned on replacing the carpet.

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You can’t make this stuff up.

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Well, alright you could.

But I’m not, I swear.

When last I blogged about the bedroom renovation project from Hell, we’d decided to throw in the towel and get a full refund on the faulty custom built windows. Our contractor was going to handle that for us since they were purchased through him on his account. It’s not the route I wanted to take, but something had to be done.

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Yeah, I should have known it wouldn’t be that easy.

Our contractor attempted to get the refund and spent a half hour arguing with the sales rep before being bumped up to the manager who told him no refund could be made by the store until the Marvin window service expert approved it.

This is the expert for whom we’ve been waiting over three weeks and the reason my husband has smoke coming out his ears while he sputters about small claims court. They keep saying he’ll be here but he hasn’t shown yet.

After endless phone calls our contractor tentatively got a date to meet the service expert here and then… yes, you know there had to be a then…. then he had an unexpected death in the family and had to fly to Virginua.

Of course he did.

I expected nothing less.

Our contractor wants to be here because he knows if the expert tries to weasel out of a full refund they’ll blame him for faulty installation and he wants to defend himself. I want him to be here because while I know he tried everything to make the windows work… I don’t know exactly what steps he took.

So as it stands now… the expert is supposed to be here tomorrow, but our contractor won’t be, as his flight doesn’t get in until midnight.

I’m honestly hoping the expert is true to form and arrives a day or two late as I don’t want my husband to burst an artery arguing with the guy.

What a f’ing mess.

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