Thursday, February 7, 2008

No in between

Why is there no in between? When I say that, I'm talking about how it seems like everything lately is going to extremes.

Bills: We have none.
Then we have all of them.

House projects: Nothing going on.
Now I'm building a kitchen and have new tile for the bathrooms.

Work: All week I get off at noon.
Today I worked till 7:00pm.

Work part 2: Everything has been going fine.
One little thing today, snowballed into a mountain of crap today and I spent almost a hour on the phone bitching at people and having people bitching at me. WTF!

On a side note. I'd like to publicly say that I have no love for vinyl floors or their installers. I dislike them a little more each time I have to tear out one of their floors. Vinyl is the "band-aid" of the flooring industry. Nobody actually says "Huh, I think I'll install a vinyl floor and leave it for the rest of the life of my house." NO! Inevitably, they get sick of how crappy it looks and they call us. Then I have to go in and remove the crappy band-aid. I call it a "band-aid" because usually during the building of a house the builder will run out of money and be looking for a "fix," or a way to save a few bucks. Enter, the vinyl floors. They look harmless enough from the top, but if you've ever had to remove them, especially if they are not on concrete. If it's on concrete, you get a scraper, and in no more than an hour your done. If it's on a sub floor, there will be literally thousands of little crown staples left stuck in the sub floor, that will need to be removed. You spend the rest of the day on your hands and knees pulling staples. They use the staples because they install a layer of 1/8" underlayment and then put the vinyl on it. I have no idea why. OK, OK. Long story longer, vinyl sucks, and I had to tear it out today and thats why I got into it with some of the office dorks at work today.

2 comments:

The Zimm said...

I need to replace my kitchen floor....I'm thinkin' vinyl!

Just kidding, buddy! Chin up my friend...it'll get better!

Aimee said...

I'm with ya on that one.....vinyl sucks ass!!