Madre de Dios...

I guess nothing really can just work at this place, can it?  Friday night, I returned home, and my key turned in the lock, but it wouldn't open the door.  WTF??  Yesenia and Sandra were upstairs watching movies, so Yesenia came down and opened the door.  With the door opened, I was able to turn the lock.  Cool.  Must've been a fluke, right?  WRONG.

This morning, Sandra and I stepped out to go run errands. She forgot something inside, so we turned around (from the front steps) and put the key in the hole.  Turn... then stuck.  What?!  Again... Turn, then stuck!  GREAT!  The freakin lock's busted!  And to boot, there's NO other way inside!  I called Crownlock to come and open the door.  The guy said he was pretty busy and it' be a while.  That's cool.  I figured we'd go to Uncle Bill's and cut the shelving then meet him back at the house, right?  It all worked out, we met him up around 4:30 PM.  He came in and spent a good 25 - 30 minutes trying to open the door.  It took a LONG time, but he eventually got it.  With the door open, the key turned the lock to open and close it.  Great.  Now we can't even trouble shoot it!

He removed the lock completely and began to look at the insides.  I looked over and it was all rusted!  The thing wasn't moving internally because it was getting stuck on some rusted parts!  Nice.  Now to get a permanent fix, I have to buy a new front door lock...

More WTF...

I was outside washing some of the tools off when I noticed the upstairs light was on AGAIN.

Not my electrical bill, I know, but I loosened the bulb so it wouldn't be on.

Repairing the Laundry Room Ceiling (3)

This was one of the three holes the contractors cut into my ceiling for shits and giggles. They ended up cutting into my sisters walls to do what they had to do, since they couldn't reach through my ceiling. WTF, right?!

One last layer of compound with plaster of paris did it. It's all smoothed out and looks fine. I guess I have to paint this room now to make that square go away. Crap.

More Contractor WTF...

I got home today to find that the contractor had been parking his ginormous truck in the garage. The problem with that is that I had placed a couch in there. What did he do with the couch? REST IT ON THE WATER HEATER!



What the hell is wrong with this guy?

More Contractor WTF...

WTF were they thinking?! "Oh, the hose isn't long enough to reach, BUT, we'll just stretch it over and nail it down to get water?!" Well thanks. There's a hole right under the nozzle now. The hose is officially fucked.

WTF...

Got to the house today after work, and once I opened the door, it stank. It smelled like a gym locker room! I was trying to figure out why, when I traced the smell to the bathroom.

The floor was all wet! Apparently, when they removed the upstairs toilet, they poured the water on the floor, and it came through the ceiling. I have piss water all over my floor!


I don't know why, but they also lifted floor boards.


And someone thought they should open the window.


And put another hole in my ceiling.