NEWS
BULLETIN: THE HOMEOWNER WHO YOU ARE TRYING
TO IMPRESS WITH YOUR EXPERTISE HAD
NO CONTROL
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.
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 20th 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?
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