In my Friday, August 24 posting I gave an update on the chimney repair. In it I stated that I had accepted the proposal from St. Louis Chimney. Not having received any acknowledgement, I called and talked with Chris. He acknowledged the acceptance and said he thought they would be able to start the job on Thursday, August 30, but he said he would call to confirm on August 29.
August 29 came and went without a call. On Thursday, August 30, I did get a call from Chris asking if they could come by that afternoon to start the work. I said OK. Chris and his companion showed up along with another person. They put a ladder up to the balcony on the MIL bedroom and then another ladder up to the roof. The third guy went up to the chimney and took some pictures. I came out and Chris said the top row of bricks was loose and expressed surprise that there was no cap on top of the chimney. I don't know what he expected to find since I could have told him there was no cap. Chris said it would take much more work than originally accepted. I told him to give me a new estimate. Chris said he would send me a new estimate on that day or at least by Friday, August 31.
I did not receive an estimate on Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday or Tuesday. I developed the impression that these guys don't know what they are doing and cannot be relied upon to do what they say they are going to do. Therefore today, I called the Mirelli Tuckpointing Co. They did not answer the call but I left a message asking them to call me back about their proposal.
I got a call from Mirelli. I told them I wanted to accept their proposal and asked how soon they could get it done. The lady said they are running about a three week backlog. I told her I would be leaving town in about three weeks. She said to put this information in the body of my acceptance email. I sent that email today. I also asked if they would need to use the neighbor's driveway. The lady said I would not necessarily need to be home for the work to be done as long as they had access to water and power.
Last Saturday, I noticed the ice maker in the sunroom was no longer making ice. This is not the first time the ice maker has tripped, but each time I was able to reset the breaker and things were back to normal. This time, the machine did not loose power, it just was not getting cold. Probably the compressor. Being the Labor Day weekend, I got out the ice trays and limped to today. I called the store we bought the ice maker from, ABS, Inc. I asked if they service what they sell and they said "no", but they could give me a referral. The ice maker is a U-Line. The referral was to Doyle Patton. I called them and they said they could do the job but it might be Friday or even next week. I told them to put me on the list and they said they would get out as soon as possible.
Tomorrow I will be harvesting carrots. I also turned the irrigation system back off after turning it on Sunday. We have a tropical storm "Gordan" coming ashore in Louisiana tomorrow. They are predicting it will result in several inches of rain coming through our area on Thursday/Friday.
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