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Old March 12th 04, 07:04 AM
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Building our own house can be VERY stressful.


Oh, no joke for sure. My DH said, after it was done..."I thought we were going
to lose you." Grace's stories really bring that all back! Never again! Way
before we built the house, when we were 19 or so, we had a cute little 12x60
mobile home where this house is now. It was great. Instant house!!

Sherry

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Old March 12th 04, 07:21 AM
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"GraceCat" wrote in message
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"Yowie" wrote in message
news:c2r8bi$20mvre$4@ID- Many many purrs, its a very stressful time.

Yowie


Oh.. and another thing. Even if we handed them the last payment, they
will come back again and again until the job is done or we're satisfied.
Half of these people are extended family and the other half are in Dad's
Sunday School class. The Jenkins family has branched out into all fields
of building from houses, to cabinet shops, to heating/air cond to
electrical work. They're *the* family to use on any and all construction
here. It's at least a six month wait before they even come out to
inspect the house plans so their reputation is excedingly excellent.

So getting it right is the least of my worries. It's just.. it might be
a couple weeks pushed back again...


Oooh! I think its time for building horror stories :-)

We had our house built back in 98/99

Afer the signing of all thepapers I was told it will take 3 months *tops*
before the house was ready to move into. That supposedly included rainy
days, strikes etc etc.

So, figuring that 3 month was a short period of time, Joel and I moved into
the dingiest darkest smelliest most digusting flat because ti was cheap and
why waste more money on anapartment we'd only be in for 3 months?

We went to visit our house every week.

It got to lock-up stage within 3 months.

Then it sat there, doing sweet FA for another 6.

I kept ringing the contruction company and kept getting BS excuses like the
roads weren't ready or the council had put a moritorium on work that week
etc etc etc. All complete lies, I know, because I checked every single one
of their alleged excuses.

The closest I can get to the actual truth is that the building company was
building allthe houses in my area at the one time. So the concreters came in
and laid the slab for every single house. If you happened to be the first
house that had its slab laid, you'd have to wait forever for the last house
to have its slab laid before the frame was contructed.

And right in the middle of the building process there was a housing boom in
Sydney so that you couldn't hire contractors for love nor money

So it got to lock-up stage and just sat there, doing nothing, while we went
mad in this pokey, dingy, smelly disgusting little flat. I would have
willingly gone in and done the painting and tiling had they let me, but no,
I didn't "own" it yet, and therefore I couldn't.

After nearly a year, we finally got the keys to move in. And literally while
we were moving in, the landscapers were still doing the driveway and putting
in the lawn.

I'm really glad you trust your builders, Grace, because I wouldn't trust a
builder as far as I could spit one, which wouldn't be very far.

If there's a next time we are goign to buy a second hand house, and be aware
of its "eccentricities" before we move it, rather that discovering them too
late to do anything about but knowing we could have had it fixed if we'd
just been aware of the problem before it was "set in concrete" so to speak.

You have my utmost sympathies. Here, have a nice hot camomile tea Úº to help
soothe those nerves.

Yowie

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Old March 12th 04, 03:55 PM
Christine Burel
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Soothing purrs coming your way, Grace; hope your stress level goes down
asap!
Christine
"GraceCat" wrote in message
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Thankfully our health is fine here but... We ran into a slight (BIG)
construction problem. One of our walls wobbles. It's not a support wall,
in fact they pulled it out to rebuild again because the first time they
threw it up, it was only to build one part. Sorta like, they had to
perform step one to complete step two, but step two needed to be done
before step one can be done. Hence step one needed to be temporary
before they can return to it and make it permanent.

Anyway, it's a 15 foot (high) wall that doesn't have *any* load bearings
whatsoever but well.. it wobbles when you close the door.

*pulls hair out*

Suffice to say I'm extremely nervous right now because they need to do
some adjustment. Dad and Jody swear it's only minor and it really is ok.
But it does look bad when the wall wobbles even in the slightest. Even
if they're telling me you can yank the whole doggone wall out and the
rest of the house is uneffected... Can I stress that I don't want to see
my house wobbling???

*whimpers*
Grace




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Old March 12th 04, 09:59 PM
polonca12000
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Purrs for your wall,
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"GraceCat" wrote in message
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Thankfully our health is fine here but... We ran into a slight (BIG)
construction problem. One of our walls wobbles. snip



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Old March 13th 04, 01:19 AM
John F. Eldredge
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On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 22:48:49 -0600, "GraceCat"
wrote:


"Steve Touchstone" wrote So, since you
don't say if it's a problem that the builders caught, or
something that they were ignoring and/or trying to hide, I don't
know if you should worry or not.
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They just haven't caught it yet. The contractor hasn't done his
final walkthrough and the foreman is a perfectionist. I have no
doubt it'll be fixed to our satisfaction (everybody's). I've calmed
down, the purrs and prayers helped. It is and was just a bit
upsetting to walk in and see a wall wobble.

And Dad is knowledgable in this sort of thing too and he reasoned
that the structure and construction was sound, it was due to the
height, it would bow out slightly. So we need a beam going crosswise
to pull that slight bend when the door would shut. It sounds scary,
and believe me, seeing it was but it wasn't exactly unforeseen,
hence the reason they looked for it in the first place.

Grace
repeating the logical explanation over and over and over


I worked as a security guard while I was in college. Most of my time
was spent at a particular factory and the adjoining scrap-metal yard
(owned by the same company), but I had some days at other locations.
On one occasion, I spent a night guarding an office building that was
still under construction. The building, all on one level, had
aluminum-stud-and-sheetrock interior walls (non-load-bearing) about 8
feet high, and about 4 feet of open space above the walls, reaching
up to the building's roof. Presumably they were planning to put in a
suspended ceiling, with air ducts and the like above it. The floor
was plywood. I was not impressed with the sturdiness of the
construction, particularly given that, everywhere I walked in the
building, I could see the walls visibly vibrating to each step. I
felt like I was walking through one of those traditional Japanese
houses with sliding paper walls.

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Old March 13th 04, 01:20 AM
Lisa Katt
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I do not understand much of your technical wall problems and other house
building problems.
Purrs dears.
I do think you just want us to hold your paw.
You and Jody are building the house of your dreams. And reality is not as
easy as day dreams are.
So you just vent here as much as you want and need and we will be soooo
sympathetic and pat your head!
Gracie, I think it is just wonderful that you and Jody and the kids will
have your dream home. And we do care about how it will turn out.
Please, report in now and then!
Elisabet and Hugo Katt. Purrs!


GraceCat skrev i meddelandet ...
Thankfully our health is fine here but... We ran into a slight (BIG)
construction problem. One of our walls wobbles. It's not a support wall,
in fact they pulled it out to rebuild again because the first time they
threw it up, it was only to build one part. Sorta like, they had to
perform step one to complete step two, but step two needed to be done
before step one can be done. Hence step one needed to be temporary
before they can return to it and make it permanent.

Anyway, it's a 15 foot (high) wall that doesn't have *any* load bearings
whatsoever but well.. it wobbles when you close the door.

*pulls hair out*

Suffice to say I'm extremely nervous right now because they need to do
some adjustment. Dad and Jody swear it's only minor and it really is ok.
But it does look bad when the wall wobbles even in the slightest. Even
if they're telling me you can yank the whole doggone wall out and the
rest of the house is uneffected... Can I stress that I don't want to see
my house wobbling???

*whimpers*
Grace




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Old March 13th 04, 02:51 AM
Brenda
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"GraceCat" wrote in message
...
Thankfully our health is fine here but... We ran into a slight (BIG)
construction problem. One of our walls wobbles. It's not a support wall,
in fact they pulled it out to rebuild again because the first time they
threw it up, it was only to build one part. Sorta like, they had to
perform step one to complete step two, but step two needed to be done
before step one can be done. Hence step one needed to be temporary
before they can return to it and make it permanent.

Anyway, it's a 15 foot (high) wall that doesn't have *any* load bearings
whatsoever but well.. it wobbles when you close the door.

*pulls hair out*

Suffice to say I'm extremely nervous right now because they need to do
some adjustment. Dad and Jody swear it's only minor and it really is ok.
But it does look bad when the wall wobbles even in the slightest. Even
if they're telling me you can yank the whole doggone wall out and the
rest of the house is uneffected... Can I stress that I don't want to see
my house wobbling???

*whimpers*
Grace


only thing that ought to wobble are weebles - not walls! sending some
wall-steadying purrs - and some nerve-steadying ones, too.
Brenda


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Old March 13th 04, 08:05 AM
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"GraceCat" wrote in message ...
Thankfully our health is fine here but... We ran into a slight (BIG)
construction problem. One of our walls wobbles. It's not a support wall,
in fact they pulled it out to rebuild again because the first time they
threw it up, it was only to build one part. Sorta like, they had to
perform step one to complete step two, but step two needed to be done
before step one can be done. Hence step one needed to be temporary
before they can return to it and make it permanent.

Anyway, it's a 15 foot (high) wall that doesn't have *any* load bearings
whatsoever but well.. it wobbles when you close the door.

*pulls hair out*

Suffice to say I'm extremely nervous right now because they need to do
some adjustment. Dad and Jody swear it's only minor and it really is ok.
But it does look bad when the wall wobbles even in the slightest. Even
if they're telling me you can yank the whole doggone wall out and the
rest of the house is uneffected... Can I stress that I don't want to see
my house wobbling???

*whimpers*
Grace



We are sending soothing purrs westward, Grace; I hope they fix the
wall to your satisfaction. If not, sic Mutt on 'em. ;-)

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Krista
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Old March 13th 04, 03:10 PM
GraceCat
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"LOL" wrote in message
om...

We are sending soothing purrs westward, Grace; I hope they fix the
wall to your satisfaction. If not, sic Mutt on 'em. ;-)

------
Krista


Funny you should mention Mutt....

Mom bought a baby (4 month old) boa the other day and cracked a joke
that she'd feed Mutt to him when he got hungry. (insert glare here) Well
I didn't get a chance to say anything because another girl popped up and
said that it would be a guess who would eat who because Mutt could kick
the snake's ass

I think she's a feminine doggy version of Mikey *grin*
Grace


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Old March 14th 04, 06:27 AM
LOL
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"GraceCat" wrote in message ...

(snippety)

I think she's a feminine doggy version of Mikey *grin*
Grace




Heh. G*d help you. :-P

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Krista
 




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