When a supplier gives you lemons, throw them back!!!!!!!!

Well, here we go again, 10 trees all set and ready for the third floor deck. Next week, hopefully by Thursday all the joists will be in place and we can get back to the main house. Hopefully also, Rita will blow by to the west and leave us alone.


So after the red cedar posts were in place and cut level to 12 feet 2 and a half inches it was time to place the arched beams. This was done with a new genie lift, the other one turned out to be a nice piece of artwork....during the fire...:)


After the beams across the support posts were set, next we had to set the beams that stretch across the bar/game room. We had entered into a contract for all the post and beam work and in the contract it stated that these beams not to notched or cut to the exact length just 20% cut off the side to make a flat top, so the beams look like they go into the ceiling. I received a phone call while in Denver that these beams didn't fit or were even close. So I called my dear wife and told her to go up and take pictures and call me with what she thought about them....."They look like crap", she replied once she saw them. So I packed up my stuff in Denver and headed for the airport....


As you can see, they not only cut them but they cut them way to short to have a nice tight fit. The cost per day is running about $2,300 for labor along with other expenses, so I don't have time to wait for suppliers to fit their mistakes.


In fact, I was so ticked off that I lost my voice for three day after the supplier came up to the property and I got done screaming at the idiot. I don't lose my temper often, but when I do....the wife, the kids, the dogs, the cat and everyone else seems to vanish. Nothing fit because the idiot was to lazy to field measure anything........So I canceled the $210,000.00 contract because of a paragraph that I had put in that clearly stated that all materials had to be delivered on the assigned dates and had to as the contract stated. So when life gives you lemons, just squeeze them hard and make lemonade...but when a supplier gives you lemons, have them escorted off the property and go to plan B, version 2934.


After we paid him for the stuff he had delivered, I had them cut the ends off and we used them in the exercise room. The beams for the exercise room were to be 10x10 square cut doug fir....but these look great. The doug firs are now in a bedroom and on it goes.


We use Genie lifts and I had bought one and rented another one to help set the posts and beams. We even rented a crane to help speed up the process of moving materials around. There were two rows of beams placed over the support posts to finish the look.


I flew back on Monday from Denver and drove up to Butler, TN about 2.5 hours into the back country to were we had purchased the 46 foot tree with a 50" butt cut and talked with them about replacing the beams. We went out in the saw yard and as I picked out the logs, they loaded them and took them over to the mill, debarked them, and after I marked where I wanted them cut.....they run them thru the mill...it was amazing and I wish I had a camera with me. The next day, a tractor trailer of logs arrived at the job site and we unloaded them while the third floor trusses were being placed by a crane.....those pics later......During the two days it took to replace one vendor with another they worked on the garages and nanny flat.

So never give up on a dream......and never let anything stand in your way......simple as that. On a side note....what a great week of trading it was this week.....and enjoyed busting on everyone in TradersHaven.