We've been remodeling our master bathroom. Since November 2. It's now April 18. That's six and a half months. It's not a large bathroom, nor a particularly complicated (or so I thought) job. But even with using a general contractor, I'm continually amazed at how much patience and persistance it is taking to get this thing done. The last major thing to be done is to install, with frames and casing, 4 new doors: 2 for the bath, 1 for the bedroom, and 1 for the downstairs bath.
The general's price for doors and staining them was outrageous, and I wasn't sure he was hearing what I was telling him I wanted. So, I decided to put the project together myself. I've got the painter lined up to stain the doors (he painted the outside of the house 2 years ago and did a fabulous job). I've got the general contractor lined up to install the doors. Now to buy the doors and hardware. Sounds simple, right? No such luck. It's another lesson that nothing in life is easy.
There was the first trip to the "door store", after extensive web search, to see what they have and make sure they could get what I want. Then a second trip to actually order the doors-- but the door store were closed, with no explanation (construction people are just a little flakey). Yesterday, a third trip to order doors, BUT existing doors are substandard size, so today I need to tear off existing door casings to measure stud-to-stud and stud-to-floor to see if standard size pre-hungs will fit into the existing door spaces. Then there will be a 4th trip to the door store to finalize the order and give the nice man a check. Please note this: the door store is not nearby. Even when you're trying to give people money, you must be patient and persistant.
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