MIAMI CONTRACTOR BLUES PART 2

NEWS BULLETIN: THE HOMEOWNER WHO YOU ARE TRYING 

TO IMPRESS WITH YOUR EXPERTISE HAD NO CONTROL

OVER THINGS DONE TO HIS HOUSE BEFORE HE OWNED IT

Why does every contractor ask you about stuff done to your house…

 A)  Like you did it yourself, despite telling him when you set up this appointment that don’t do handyman stuff?

B) Implying you did the previously botched job, even when it's obvious the work was done 50 years ago?

Windows, roof, appliances, flooring -- you name it.

When they walk in the door, I politely tell them the house is damn near 100
years old and had a fire in the 40s or 50s.

I tell them, by city permitted and approved work, we fixed and legalized some weirdo, ill-advised stuff done possibly in the 60s through 80s.

Though I'm no teenager, I'm pretty sure I look about 50...or 100.

But the window guy says:

"Why didn't you use standard openings?”

“Replacing them would cost a lot less if it was a standard sizes.”

Uh, as discussed just five freaking minutes ago, the house was built in 1920.

According to the abstract, by two old boys from Georgia.

You see any good old boys from Georgia running around la pequena Habana in the last half century?

I didn’t think so.

Anyhow, I’m guessing back in the early 20^th century, when two craftsmen were building a home, when they wanted a window space, they framed it out on the spot.

They didn't go to Home Depot for a production built, standard size – because there was no Home Depot. 

The 50+ guy who you are driving insane right now was born in the 60s, not 1900.

So could we not pester me about why the six decades from being born me did not make your job easier by taking a time machine into the future to pick out what would be standard size window openings in 2005?