In the Vein of If You Give A Mouse A Cookie
Posted: August 1, 2017 Filed under: Uncategorized Leave a comment
When you live in an old house you need to paint it often. So you call your trusted painters and they come and clean the wood to prep. While they are scraping the old paint they find some soft and spongy wood. So they dig a little deeper with their tools and actually make holes in your house.
They say you need a carpenter to come and fix the wood. When you tell them your carpenter has retired they call their friend who comes right over and looks at the soft and spongy wood. They say they can fix the two door jams, one window sill but they need to find a replacement for a big window/door. So the painter skip those areas while the carpenters go to see about the window/door.
While all this is going on there are guys on the roof ripping it off and you can not hear what the painters and carpenters are saying because of the banging on the roof.
When the carpenters go to the building supply they are told it is a special size and the building guy gives the carpenters the name of someone who can make it special. When the carpenters call the guy he says, “Yes, for $2,000.”
When the carpenters return to tell the price I tell them it is too high, so they skip that and fix the others. When I look at the issue I ask the painters if he thinks we can just cut out the soft and spongy wood and replace that part and not the whole window/door. He agrees and asks the carpenter if he thinks that is possible. He agrees and so it will not cost $2,000. So it looks like the carpenter can fix it and the painters can paint it after it is done. But when your I live in an old house you need to paint it often so this does not happen.
Less Dana, More Good 