Comments on: Flashback Friday – Home Renovation or Teen Angst Movie?

By: Wendi

Wendi — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:26:59 +0000

Emily, it took me months to get rid of the dust. There were many, many frozen meals eaten during the renovation.

By: Wendi

Wendi — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:25:18 +0000

Clearly, John Hughes worked similar themes through his movies. I guess it’s kind of obvious that I was a fan of his work.

By: Wendi

Wendi — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:24:27 +0000

Actually I was thinking of Some Kind of Wonderful.

But I agree that there’s a bit of the same theme in Sixteen Candles. And really, can you go wrong with either movie? I think not.

By: Wendi

Wendi — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:22:26 +0000

Anne, did you expect Bob the architect wouldn’t have some strong ideas about how the contractors should do their job?

For the most part, we’ve been happy with the outcome. Of course, we’ve had to go back and fix some things. And every so often something new will pop up…like the paint in the bathroom bubbling up because the painter didn’t use a sealer/primer and then only put one crappy coat of paint on. Even when I asked our contractor to remedy this, we got nada. So that, and the fact that it took almost a year to get our final bill from him, are why I’ll never use him again and won’t recommend him to anyone.

And our roofer was DREADFUL.

By: Wendi

Wendi — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:17:05 +0000

Oh Beth, I so feel your pain. When we bought our place, the seller had some work done to get it ready to sell but his friend, the contractor, was clueless. We’re still trying to figure out why they did some of the things they did…like make plywood “walls” around our water heater and furnace. Drywall cost too much???

The thing is, even with the licensed contractor that we used on the kitchen and bath, I still can’t understand some of the things they did either.

I’m sorry about your plumbing woes.

By: Beth @ 990 Square

Beth @ 990 Square — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 21:16:04 +0000

we bought our house renovated, which I used to think was better, except now we’re finding out a lot of those contractors the developer used might not have known what they were doing. so we’re having to fix stuff. and the contractors we call in are going “yeah I have no idea why they would have done it this way…”. And of course the developer (who I did used to work for, which is why we bought the house) didn’t survive the housing bust, so they’re not around to call.

sorry, you hit a sore spot. probably because we spent $1200 on plumbing in the last week and a half. I hope your project went better than ours!

By: Anne

Anne — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 19:15:27 +0000

the follow up to this post, is it good or bad? bob argued w/ all of our contractors except the plumber. the mason got so mad be pulled up his ladders and left pallets behind…

By: TheKitchenWitch

TheKitchenWitch — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:18:47 +0000

Sixteen Candles!!

By: Tracy

Tracy — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 14:16:52 +0000

I wanna say Pretty in Pink.

By: Emily Revere

Emily Revere — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 13:10:46 +0000

You are going to wear sawdust and joint compound! and eat a lot of take out cause you just can’t stand the mess.

Been there done that