Have a great day - and - watch out for
Mosquito bites, something else to worry about!

Mosquitoes, eh ... they're our provincial bird

Good Luck, Kevin!! Hi to JONAH!!

Coffee .. 16 oz. black right in front of me ..

Busy day today ...

Have a great one!

[ 21 August 2001: Message edited by: poSSum ]
 

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Originally posted by Joey Red:
Good morning! I'll be in the garage most of the morning working on the camera mount for Lime Rock. Still trying to fine tune it and get the image steadier.

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Hey Joey, are you going to just drive straight to the track on Sat morning or are you staying somewhere near the track on Friday night?? Grace and I are going Friday and I think NBM98SS is as well.
 

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Originally posted by DanA_F99_1977:

Hey Joey, are you going to just drive straight to the track on Sat morning or are you staying somewhere near the track on Friday night?? Grace and I are going Friday and I think NBM98SS is as well.

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I'll be getting up at 0530 at home and head to Dunkin' Doughnuts for coffee and egg sandwiches. I'll be accompanied by Chrissy Bullwinkles. I'm just under an hour from the track. I just got back from testing the camera. I got it nice and steady for the track. It's going to shake a little in the turns because of the Bilsteins but it's going to look nice. Not bad for a custom made mount.
 

Getting ready for an inch of rain today........

The IROC is down.
When Steve checked it just a few days before, it was throwing a MAP sensor code. When the part came in, Steve brought home the scanner, plugged it in and couldn't even get it to communicate w/the car's computer. This is not an expense we need right now. That car already got new injectors and cats last year and even at our cost it wasn't cheap! Now we might get to buy a new computer for it. Great. Rather than haul tools home every day to tinker w/it, it was just easier to have it towed to the shop, so I'm w/out a car.

I'm on my Honda Scooter, trudging home (now in the rain for the next 3 days) at lunch to feed the guys working on the garage.

I can't wait until this garage is done and we can bring the cars back home so I have something to drive!

O.k., done whining........Maybe later I'll tell you about the loads of moldy lumber that keep getting delivered. Fine, I'll tell you about it now. The lumberyard keeps sending lumber all black with mold. I'm going to spray bleach on the stuff that's already framed in, but this last load took the cake. It was solid black with white fuzzy mold on it. They don't see the problem. There are houses around here that are being torn down because of mold. We live in the Pac. NW, Land of the Wet. I do NOT want to have to deal with a brand new building with mold coming through.

Steve's the one who gets to deal w/the lumberyard......I'm so miffed about it that I wouldn't be very pleasant to deal with. Steve's warned them that if he can't get satisfaction, he'll send in the big guns - ME!

O.k......done venting. Thanks.
 

Good luck, I know what a pain it can all be!
 

The contractor just threw up his hands and dramatically said "whatever" when I told him the load was going back. He told me that everything's built that way (with moldy lumber). I think that's why some of the cookie cutter houses being built around here are so shoddy. No one cares! The house gets sold and the buyer has no idea what their framework looks like.

If Steve worked on people's cars, using bad parts.....and told them that that's the way all cars are repaired, we'd be out of business. Since the builders don't reject the moldy lumber, the yards keep sending out a bad product and no one is the wiser until several years down the road.

This is OUR building and we want it done right with quality material that we're paying top dollar for. Is that so much to ask?

(We'll be asking for a discount from the lumberyard on the moldy stuff that was framed in before we could reject it.)
 

Which graemlin is "adament"??
 

They worked so fast the first week that all of the first story walls were built before we realized that what we were seeing was mold. It was the contractor's brother that pointed it out to us.

The excuse from the contractor that all buildings are done with moldy lumber isn't the right answer. At least what's done from here out will be better? (I hope.)

I will be adamant about getting quality lumber......we live where the Douglas Fir is our state tree and the timber industry is a huge part of our economy. I feel there's no excuse in getting an inferior product. The indifference from the contractor isn't helping anything either.

Thanks for listening to me vent.

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We often have wet basement claims where we have to tear out everything due to mold.

Stick to your guns - it's your money and your
garage and your health.

We can't have what's already built torn apart, so we'll just make the best of the situation by treating what's there and be sticklers on the rest of it.

I can assure you that had I known about the mold (realized it) from the first delivery, I would have rejected well over half of what they sent out.

When we do the house, I will know to be up front with the lumber company and the contractor that all of the moldy stuff will get rejected. Unless they want to make a bunch of trips back & forth, or get delayed on doing the job, both of them will have to take some responsibility and provide the product we're paying for.

I think it's just unacceptable.

Tom