One year in as a homeowner in Ellsworth…
and is it just me or does a large portion of the contractors and tradespeople simply suck? My home inspector didn’t clock that I would need a new oil tank (the home’s only source of heat when I bought the place was forced hot air via furnace.) No company would deliver oil to me until I got a new tank, despite the fact that someone had been filling the tank (because it was full when I purchased the house). I ordered a new oil tank in January but it wasn’t installed until March. I spent the winter feeding my old tank five gallons of diesel at a time, which would not have been necessary if my wood stove had actually been installed on time.
The FIRST thing I did when I bought my house was purchase a wood stove, which was supposed to arrive in December but didn’t come until February, and then the install day was the Monday after Super Bowl Sunday so of course I got a call the morning of from the company telling me that their guys were out and they would need to reschedule. Screw that! If you know that your team is a bunch of irresponsible “boys” who can’t honor their job commitments, then don’t schedule them to work when you know they won’t, and don’t take out your inefficiency on the customer!
I spent the winter feeding my old tank five gallons of diesel at a time, which was a wretched experience that could have been avoided had my wood stove arrived on time.
I hired contractors for unexpected issues in the house who were supposed to fix things, but they made things worse and trashed my property. (I still have Brandon Knight’s ass print from where he fell into my kitchen ceiling from above.) The electricians and plumbers they subcontracted the job to were also terrible, botched the job, and then were MIA when I needed them to make their work right. I’m bone tired and the house is still not done but I absolutely cannot deal with anymore of this type of behavior, it has ground me down to almost nothing