An email from the contractor

[Canice]

Well, the downstairs build-out is humming along so far without a hitch, and all city inspections have passed on the first go. So that's good.

But DBF got an email from the contractor yesterday, telling him to start packing up the kitchen, they're ready to start demolition! :eek:

Ack! Ack! Ack! I am soooo not ready for this! Not that I ever will be, of course.
The two contractors and the designer will be here in an hour for a meeting.

Did I remember to say Ack! Ack! Ack! ?

[lisas3575]

Cooooooooooooool! :D

Are they really coming at 10pm for a meeting? :eek: That's nuts.

[Canice]

LOL, Lisa - that was posted in Canice Time. Even weirder than Dog Years. No, they didn't come at 10PM, they in fact came at 6:26 PM for a 6:30 meeting (one of the reasons we love these guys). I just had some limbo time between writing and posting, between talking with them about the kitchen and them yammering with DBF about the progress on HIS downstairs room.

They'd love to do demo on Friday, but we don't even have boxes to pack up in. And, and...and... I'm soooo not ready to have the entire kitchen and breakfast room ripped down to the studs, and to have the rooms filled with strangers! I'm really glad to have had them all working downstairs this past month, anyhow, because we're at least comfortable with them as being really nice guys and hard workers, just getting the job done. It's not even *my* house, really, and it feels soooo personal to think of all those guys in there ripping out floors and cabinets and walls......

[HejazSunKat]

I'm soooo not ready to have the entire kitchen and breakfast room ripped down to the studs, and to have the rooms filled with strangers!

it feels soooo personal to think of all those guys in there ripping out floors and cabinets and walls......

They demo'd my kitchen in one day last summer and the contractor must have called me that day about 5 times. He had an Irish brogue thick enough to cut with a knife. Between his accent, my hearing loss and my never having been through anything like this before I was afraid I'd be missing really important information if I didn't make him talk reeeeeaaaallly slloooowwwwly so that I could understand what he was finding in my walls. I think he was just happy to be destroying something and was calling to share the excitement. I couldn't believe how quickly they did it. I went to work in the morning with a kitchen and came home that night to bare studs. Sure it's stressful but it's fun to come home at night and see the progress. Sounds like you've got a great group of guys to work with too so that's a plus and a half.

I had to laugh about the having strangers in your house part. I remember one particular morning I was down in my basement 'kitchen' a troupe of electricians I'd never seen before came marching through, when I got upstairs there was a plumber (who had his ambulance, yes an ambulance, this is what he drove around) parked in my driveway snaking some pipe down into the floor for my diswasher and shouting to some unseen accomplice. All before 7:00 am.

Enjoy the chaos! It's going to be worth it.

[Deechef]

Take pictures of the progress so we can all share your pain :D