Construction No Show

With a new car in the family, we need more room in the driveway. So I called 3 concrete guys from the local paper. One cat came and said it would cost a whopping $10k to add a lane to our driveway. The other two cats did not show up. Dang.

This morning I woke up late to find a message on the answering machine. One of the other cats had called saying he was coming over. What? He already missed his earlier estimate of when he would come. Then he just shows up. I called him back and he seemed confused about what we needed. He told me he would need to call me back. He never did. So I guess he is out. Momoko wanted me to talk to him because he said he could do the work for $5k.

Another one of the cats I called finally called me back. This was a few days after he said he could come by. Fail. He apologized and promised he would visit first thing tomorrow morning. If he does show up, and has a good price I will consider him. We need this work done. And I don't have a lot of cheese to spend on this project.

Fence Repair

Last week I called up a fence company. I had their guy come out to provide another estimate on our fence repair. I told him he was out before, and now I had the money to pay him. He said prices had gone up.

I asked him how he could lower the new price back to the original estimate he gave me. He said they could not haul away the old broken fence, and it was save me a bunch of money. I wrote him a check. He said the install people would call me within a week.

A week later, I had not heard anything about my fence repair. So I called the guy up. He was surprised the installation team did not call me. He got them to schedule a time to come fix my fence. Later I got a call saying they had to reschedule. They said they don't install fences in the rain. Finally today I got home and we had a new section of fence. Little Kat says it looks funny because the new wood color does not look like the rest of our fence. I like it though. The old fence was broken in many places due to a tree falling down.

Next step is to find some money to add a new fence in the far back of our yard. A lot of our property is unfenced. Time to fence it in.