PJ - when are you guys moving ? do you have a limited time frame to get the work done? For some reason, I remember you telling us you were moving...but did I space on the work part? I don't remember that. Is there a lot of work on the new space?
We are trying to get in by april 12, thats the date we set, but the way things are going maybe a little later. I have as long as i need to get out of the place i'm in now and into the new palce. It needs a little work, small projects. The dely is the contractors, 2 more were supposed to come today for the new place one was a no show and the other rescheduled for the 2nd time for tomorrow.
Most of the work is because a old couple lived there the last 20 years and really were neat, but the place needs a little freshing up, if you know what i mean. The paint and wall paper is 20 years old as well as the rugs. The rug people were supposed to come next monday but i moved them to the following monday. The real problem is getting painters and a contractor, if i could just get that, we could move ahead.
A few guys at the fire house have thier own buissnesses and offered to help, but i told them no. One of the rules at the FDNY if you offer to help someone in your fire house it has to be done for free, of course i have to buy the materials, but they would not take money from me. This is not a rule the offical FDNY, as i stated above, it has to do with the brotherhood or tradition and the way FDNY were taught for hundreds of years. You don't take or make a commision off of family and in the FDNY everyone is family, it has been taught and told like that for hundreds of years and will be the same way for hundreds more.
It's considered rude to offer him money and its rude for him to expect money or give a bill. This is why i can't hire anyone in the FDNY, otherwise this job would be done already, but i don't want any of my guys having to work for free, when most of them have little mouths at home that they need to feed and certainly won't take a dime from me, i always felt that to be rude and won't use my own, others in the FDNY take advantage of it.
Me and dw ripped apart the wooden kitchen cabinets and sanded them and used stripper, then we are gonna refinish them. They will look nice, so far it's day 2 of the kitchen cabinets and i would say by tomorrow it will be done. So small 3 day projects like that is all it really needs, other than fresh paint and rugs.