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[simpsongal]

Changing this thread since I already ordered replacements.

4 months into this neverending bathroom reno....so close.  File this under 'nothing is easy' vs. 'I want this bathroom done.'
I need to return the new hardware - I ordered the replacements below.  Sigh....


www.build.com/schaub-and-company-538/s1125072?uid=3469796

[dove]

We literally just finished this whole house renovation in October. We just got word that we are transferring next month. UGH!

At least the profits will be nice when we sell.

[mrspez07]

We ordered room and board couch and chair and in part picked one with a shorter “ready for delivery” date (December instead of custom in June/July). We got notice ON the day it was originally supposed to be ready this week that it’s pushed out to February! I know shipping is messed up everywhere but they had to have known that date wasn’t legit sooner than the day-of! We were looking forward to new furniture for the new year.

[SusanBAnthony]

Dec 18, 2021 9:57:44 GMT -5 mrspez07 said:

We ordered room and board couch and chair and in part picked one with a shorter “ready for delivery” date (December instead of custom in June/July). We got notice ON the day it was originally supposed to be ready this week that it’s pushed out to February! I know shipping is messed up everywhere but they had to have known that date wasn’t legit sooner than the day-of! We were looking forward to new furniture for the new year.

I have zero affiliation with Room and Board (except for loving their furniture). I can guess why though based on working in manufacturing supply chain. They probably schedule a certain number of shipments each day, let's say 100 a day. They are running behind, and for a good number of days they've only shipped 95 a day. They can either backorder 5 more every day and it snowballs until it gets to the point that every couch they have scheduled is backordered. Or they can take a couple days of production (you) and push it out several months so they can catch up with the rest of the orders. Then hopefully they schedule 95 couches a day starting with all new orders so they don't get behind again.

The problem with the the supply chain instability is that it's unstable. I mean duh lol. Everyone has scheduling and output prediction tools and none of them work right now. For ext we significantly cut our schedule and extended lead time so we could catch up. Except we did catch up in our plant but our suppliers are still shorting us.

So we can either let people go, keep extra people on and cross train (which is what we are doing but it leads to more inflation of our costs) or do layoffs of some kind.

And depending on why the supplier is late they could catch up tomorrow if the issue is Covid cases or they could catch up never if they just can't get people or the raw material.

Or they could have had a semi of couches crash in bad weather and have to remake them all (yes this happens in the winter and it suuuuuuuucks. It can also happen upstream at suppliers and it cascades because right now no one has any safety stock).

Wood is in extremely tight supply right now too. A company that does R&D and wants to make sure stuff actually works (be scared, this is more rare than you might think), let's say they usually use finger jointed pine in the couch. (It'll actually be way more specific than that, down to the species of wood), now they can't get it. They have to make sure the laminated ash that they can get instead works. This might shut down production for a period from days to weeks. And maybe it works but it chews up their saw blades so they can't make as much each day. <----- I made that up, I'm not a wood expert. I don't know how ash behaves relative to pine or if laminated ash is even a thing. But I can tell you that is what anyone who uses wood is dealing with right now.

So yes, it sucks. I would be annoyed too. But at this point I'd treat every ship date as a best case scenario and assume it will be much longer.

And that concludes my explosion of supply chain diarrhea. Thank you for listening to my Ted talk.

[Susie]

We've been living in a house with no baseboards since we moved in, in late June, and it sounds dumb, but I'm so over it.  All the baseboards came out when the HW floors went in, and the installer didn't put them back, that part was on us.  I didn't realize that when H did the negotiating, otherwise I'd have flagged the issue sooner.  We don't have time to sand, paint, and reinstall all the baseboards in the house (IDK who H thought was going to do it, or when).  We've been totally unable to find people who are available to do it.  I'm just so tired of every single room looking raggedy. 

In a similar vein, when we bought the house, I said up front that one thing I haaaaaated was the kitchen backsplash.  Absolutely hated it.  We bought tile to redo it back before we even moved.  Yeah, that tile is still in our basement untouched.  Again, no time.

We're going to swap the LR & DR, but need an electrician to wire for a light in the future DR so we can hang a chandelier.  You guessed it, still waiting on availability.

The chandelier itself is backordered to March (from the early November order), too.  

The only thing that is going in a favorable direction is our whole house generator.  In Sept we got on a wait list for a June 2022 delivery, and we've since moved up to March.  We'll see if that holds.

[konapoppy]

Our guest bath drain is still MIA after 6 months.

Still waiting for our contractor to come finish a small part of the job. I know he has to squeeze it in between bigger jobs, and we really like him, but I want my house done (and garage space back).

[purplepenguin7]

We are moving to a new house that was built in the 1920s and thus needs a lot of updating (mostly cosmetic). We don't have enough cash to do everything all at once but my H and I have wildly different priority lists and its causing a lot of fights and general marital issues. We are moving from a 13 year old new construction townhouse where we chose every detail. Its a huge change for us to go from new modern to cosmetic flaws, more wear and tear, etc. It's funny because our current house isn't in the best best condition and a lot of things are showing wear themselves but I guess it's "our" wear and tear so it feels different.

[libbygrl109]

After waiting months for our kitchen reno to start, we are going to have to wait at least a month more. We would have been fine with that knowledge, except it didn’t come from our designer/project manager, but someone else in the company a week before our original start date. Still haven’t heard from her either, despite leaving messages on her email and voicemail.

So, because we couldn’t rearrange things with our flooring guy on such short notice. we will have new hardwoods this week, but nothing else for at least a month.

So, I will need all of the easiest, somewhat healthy crockpot, instant pot, and/or air fryer recipes everyone has to offer. Something tells me we are in this for the very long haul.

[mrspez07]

I have another one.
I sanded and patched some spots on walls in our main living areas(around the thermostat, corners, behind the old couch (see previous post on couch). Then they sat, so I touched up the paint this weekend. It doesn’t match. It’s better on the grey that is our primary color, but it still shows, but I also decided to touch up our blue accent along the stairs, that one is really noticeable. I’m going to have to go get fresh cans of paint and do both walls again. They were originally done by professionals. the blue one goes to the top of a vaulted ceiling on the stairway, so we’ll see how that goes.
Plus, in walking around looking for chips, I noticed how dirty our walls are, it feels like my family has touched the walls everywhere, or in hard to reach places has dripped or sprayed something onto them, it’s ridiculous!

[deadwing]

Dec 19, 2021 20:45:53 GMT -5 Susie said:

We've been living in a house with no baseboards since we moved in, in late June, and it sounds dumb, but I'm so over it.  All the baseboards came out when the HW floors went in, and the installer didn't put them back, that part was on us.  I didn't realize that when H did the negotiating, otherwise I'd have flagged the issue sooner.  We don't have time to sand, paint, and reinstall all the baseboards in the house (IDK who H thought was going to do it, or when).  We've been totally unable to find people who are available to do it.  I'm just so tired of every single room looking raggedy. 

In a similar vein, when we bought the house, I said up front that one thing I haaaaaated was the kitchen backsplash.  Absolutely hated it.  We bought tile to redo it back before we even moved.  Yeah, that tile is still in our basement untouched.  Again, no time.

We're going to swap the LR & DR, but need an electrician to wire for a light in the future DR so we can hang a chandelier.  You guessed it, still waiting on availability.

The chandelier itself is backordered to March (from the early November order), too.  

The only thing that is going in a favorable direction is our whole house generator.  In Sept we got on a wait list for a June 2022 delivery, and we've since moved up to March.  We'll see if that holds.

In February, I will have been in this house for 5 years.  Still hate the kitchen backsplash.  Although, I haven't bought the tile to redo it.  I'm fairly handy, but I'm apprehensive to do this myself.

I'm also glad to hear your whole-house generator schedule got moved up.  I have a quote booked for February because they are trying to book quotes closer to when they think they'll have stock.  I'd really like to have mine installed before the summer - I'm way more scared to lose AC in July than heat in January.

[simpsongal]

Oh man, I feel bad for y'all but somehow find comfort in that we're not alone in home vents!

[macmars45]

My house didn't come with laundry room storage. My laundry room doubles as my entry from the garage. Therefore my entry from the garage is always a disaster.

[simpsongal]

Vent #2 - I'm doing too many things at once so I ordered the replacement knobs in brass, rather than polished nickel.

#%!(@$^)*!#$_)*!

[simpsongal]

Dec 20, 2021 20:37:21 GMT -5 macmars45 said:

My house didn't come with laundry room storage. My laundry room doubles as my entry from the garage. Therefore my entry from the garage is always a disaster.

We used to have a set up like that - it's like they didn't want to design family homes for actual use by families.  I'll confess, I don't get putting laundry in the mudroom area.  I mean, I get it to a point, but my mudroom gets a little dirty and untidy, it's not where I want to be folding and hanging clean laundry. 

[mouse]

They’re installing our new hvac today (yay!). They’re redoing some of the ducting in the attic and I just heard this exchange:
Guy 1: Well, that’s just wrong.
Guy 2: So wrong. So, so wrong.

I’m dying to know. House is 92 years old and some of the improvements have been…interesting.

[libbygrl109]

Dec 21, 2021 15:25:53 GMT -5 mouse said:

They’re installing our new hvac today (yay!). They’re redoing some of the ducting in the attic and I just heard this exchange:
Guy 1: Well, that’s just wrong.
Guy 2: So wrong. So, so wrong.

I’m dying to know. House is 92 years old and some of the improvements have been…interesting.

Ugh. I hope it wasn’t too bad. I heard similar things coming from my electrician’s mouth when he did our initial estimate. Lots of “oh man, that’s not good”s and “oh wow”s.

[simpsongal]

mouse, libbygrl109, been there, adding "that's just unsafe" and "there's NO insulation!" to the list....

When we bought this house the front lantern was suspended from a thick paint stirrer. This lantern probably weighted 50 pounds.

[libbygrl109]

Dec 22, 2021 8:01:50 GMT -5 simpsongal said:

mouse, libbygrl109, been there, adding "that's just unsafe" and "there's NO insulation!" to the list....

When we bought this house the front lantern was suspended from a thick paint stirrer. This lantern probably weighted 50 pounds.

Wow. That’s one I haven’t heard before.

Got another one: We had the hardwood flooring part of our project done this week. When they got to the bottom of the 3 layers of flooring that was in our kitchen area, there were roofing shingles glued to the subfloor. I thought we had seen enough when we pulled out our basement door (the only one we hadn’t replaced yet because it had a door for the cat to get to his litter in the basement - he recently passed), and found that they used cedar siding shakes as shims.

[mouse]

libbygrl109, simpsongal

I asked and they didn’t tell me! They just said “oh, we’ve seen worse” and they were only halfway through the job so I didn’t want to get pushy. Although later I heard ::clang clang clang:: “Oh, hey! You got it to work!” 😂

My best guess is it might have to do with that there was a vent in the garage (no windows in there so against code) but they knew about it going in and covering it up was in the plan. Or they took out the intake venting not long after, did something in their van, and brought parts of it back in. Also the upstairs was consistently 10-15 degrees hotter so it was always chilly in the main level and sweltering in our bedroom. I don’t know what sort of magic they did but it’s now pleasant on both levels.

[mouse]

I have a friend who found out one of the additions on her house (that always had a weirdly sloped floor) is actually built on a garden shed. Like one of the previous owners had a garden shed on a cement pad, bolted it down, cut out a wall and extended it to the house, then built a second story on top of it. House was built in the 1960s, so it’s not like from some period before building codes or anything.

[fryjack2]

We have landscaping work that is not completed from a project that started in June. That was supposed to start in April. Fine no big deal, nothing emergent and I know everyone is doing projects.

But its now a week from 2022 and there are still half done projects in our front yard. Crooked trees, steps that need to be reappointed, bushes moved, bulb planted for the spring ( lol on that since its freezing here now).


The annoying part is that he keeps posting IG progress updates of projects he is doing on several multimillion dollar homes in the neighborhood and I want to comment, can you just come finish the work you need to do to complete our project, please? I know its a small project compared to your other ones, but we have been loyal customers since you first started your business and would like our yard to look decent before 2022!

I'm glad I only paid him half the bill.

[purplepenguin7]

We were supposed to close on the sale of old house tomorrow so we could close on the new house on Monday 12/27. Well our buyers totally fucked us and now we have no idea what’s happening but definitely not closing tomorrow. Our purchase isnt contingent on the sale, but we don’t have have the cash for our remaining down payment because everything was supposed to be lined up to close the sale first. Instead of spending the last month selling investments and arranging the cash, I’ve been planning for a completely different approach including some remodeling on our new house because we had a 10 use and occupancy on our old place. Now none of our plans might be going forward and everyone is off tomorrow so we can’t get any answers.

Sorry this was super ramble-y, just needed to get that out

[libbygrl109]

Dec 22, 2021 23:08:18 GMT -5 purplepenguin7 said:

We were supposed to close on the sale of old house tomorrow so we could close on the new house on Monday 12/27. Well our buyers totally fucked us and now we have no idea what’s happening but definitely not closing tomorrow. Our purchase isnt contingent on the sale, but we don’t have have the cash for our remaining down payment because everything was supposed to be lined up to close the sale first. Instead of spending the last month selling investments and arranging the cash, I’ve been planning for a completely different approach including some remodeling on our new house because we had a 10 use and occupancy on our old place. Now none of our plans might be going forward and everyone is off tomorrow so we can’t get any answers.

Sorry this was super ramble-y, just needed to get that out

That is so awful. I hope everything is sorted out quickly.

[origami]

I got a new coffee table and now there’s a giant long scratch on the hardwood in my foyer where DH set the box down.

ETA: aaaaand the marble top of the coffee table has a weird splotch that looks like an oil stain so now I get to wait for a replacement. (At least they agreed to swap it though)