The contractor was a no show today, so nothing happened again. He wrote last night to say that he wouldn’t be able to make it until the afternoon as he had volunteered to be thrown in “jail” for the MDA and he had to raise $2500 “bail” to get out. I guess he never made bail. I just sent him this email:
Ed,
The delivery window from Best Buy was from 1:00 to 3:00PM. They showed up at 2:55… If they hadn’t made it by three I was locking the door and driving off to work where I was going to cancel the order and get my money back. That’s what kind of mood I’m in.
I am hoping your absence today from our house does not mean you are as discouraged with this project as we are. Donna was kind of discussing renting a U-Haul and loading all of the cabinets and stuff in it and returning everything to Lowe’s to start over at Home Depot. I remain only slightly more up beat.
We have decided to keep the 3 cent cabinet and use it as one leg of the counter on the back wall. This way we can take back one of the 15″ drawer bases and get a more respectable $346 back. We got the wet box for it out of the dumpster and it is drying in the back room.
As for replacement and additional cabinets I have good news and bad news. Good news is that the order will completed at the factory on the 28th. The bad news is that the truck to our area stores only delivers on Tuesday, meaning they won’t be available to pick up there until the 5th. On the 24″drawer base, they will not ship out a replacement until we get the bad one to the store, but if we get it there on Thursday, we may get lucky and it too will be ready at the store on the 5th.
Let me know if we can count on you for a truck to take the unneeded and unusable stuff back.
Thanks,
Brian