Pre-mature A-squee-viation....
Jun. 8th, 2006 10:19 amSo... I should have posted this when I found out... but I was so numbly upset that I didn't write it until now.
So yeah... The series of events were as follows:
1. I clean the corner of the room where the A/C unit is and shove all the crap to the other side of the room.
2. Contractor and his two minions arrive and set up their equipment.
3. Contractor supervises the extraction of the unit and leaves with the old unit.
4. Minions drill and chip away at the hole in the wall to widen it for the new unit.
5. Drilling.
6. More drilling.
7. Sure up the new wider hole with small wood beams in the frame.
8. Stop working and make a phone call. They stop working.
9. Time goes by.
10. Phone call comes in to them from the contractor.
11. I get the news -- the sleeve they had is too small for the unit. *blink blink* And more imp... annoyingly, the contractor can't get a replacement sleeve of the right size until the next day.
You may remember I have a hole in my wall now.... how is this remedied, you may ask? Now the minions were extremely apologetic about the whole thing, but still it doesn't fix that I have a hole in my wall. The plug the hole with the sleeve that is too small for the unit, hence it's too small for the hole -- the then take a plastic drop sheet and twist it up and run it around the edge to fill in the gaps, and finally seal the deal with duct tape. Ah the beauty and functionality of duct tape.
Thank goodness there is a metal cage on the exterior of the building to make entry through the A/C hole much less possible. I decided to sleep in the living room just in case I hear some industrious moron try to remove the metal cage and break through the duct tape barrier. (I also had to nudge the minion to bring my ladder in from the outside, I didn't want to make it easier for that industrious soul).
So now I wait for their return.
What kills me is that the sleeve and the A/C unit were sitting in my living room 75% of the time since they arrived, you think they would have noticed this fact before they got too far into the job. Mt fear was realized, when I called the manager of the building I told him "I really need this done the same day, so I don't have a gaping hole in my wall for an extended period of time."
So yeah... The series of events were as follows:
1. I clean the corner of the room where the A/C unit is and shove all the crap to the other side of the room.
2. Contractor and his two minions arrive and set up their equipment.
3. Contractor supervises the extraction of the unit and leaves with the old unit.
4. Minions drill and chip away at the hole in the wall to widen it for the new unit.
5. Drilling.
6. More drilling.
7. Sure up the new wider hole with small wood beams in the frame.
8. Stop working and make a phone call. They stop working.
9. Time goes by.
10. Phone call comes in to them from the contractor.
11. I get the news -- the sleeve they had is too small for the unit. *blink blink* And more imp... annoyingly, the contractor can't get a replacement sleeve of the right size until the next day.
You may remember I have a hole in my wall now.... how is this remedied, you may ask? Now the minions were extremely apologetic about the whole thing, but still it doesn't fix that I have a hole in my wall. The plug the hole with the sleeve that is too small for the unit, hence it's too small for the hole -- the then take a plastic drop sheet and twist it up and run it around the edge to fill in the gaps, and finally seal the deal with duct tape. Ah the beauty and functionality of duct tape.
Thank goodness there is a metal cage on the exterior of the building to make entry through the A/C hole much less possible. I decided to sleep in the living room just in case I hear some industrious moron try to remove the metal cage and break through the duct tape barrier. (I also had to nudge the minion to bring my ladder in from the outside, I didn't want to make it easier for that industrious soul).
So now I wait for their return.
What kills me is that the sleeve and the A/C unit were sitting in my living room 75% of the time since they arrived, you think they would have noticed this fact before they got too far into the job. Mt fear was realized, when I called the manager of the building I told him "I really need this done the same day, so I don't have a gaping hole in my wall for an extended period of time."