As I mentioned in my post last week, the countertop people, who were supposed to install the countertops this week, postponed us until next Tuesday because their whole shop came down with the flu.

The plumber was supposed to come out Thursday and do what he could do without the countertops being in.  But on Wednesday evening, he called me to let me know that he forgot about us and had not ordered any of the stuff he needed to complete our job.  I have to say, I was not too upset about the plumber since he needs the countertops to be in to get all of his work done, so that would have necessitated another trip.  So, no harm, no foul.

The plumber also does all of the propane hookups, so I was asking him about hooking up the furnace.  He mentioned the HVAC guys should have hooked up the furnace to the propane.  They did not.  (You may remember my mentioning back in June, the HVAC guys are a couple of dopers that surprise me that they can even tie their shoes in the morning.)  The plumber said they needed to install a propane conversion kit on the furnace.  I have no idea if that was installed or not, so I called the builder (who hired Cheech and Chong).  He did not know either.  So the builder called Cheech and Chong, but of course they could not remember.  So we had to take a picture of the model number and serial number of the furnace to send to the retards Cheech and Chong so they could check with their supplier and see what they bought for the job.  This all happened last Wednesday.  As of today (Sunday), we still have no idea if the furnace they installed will even work with the propane system for the rest of the house.  GRRR!!!

The electrician was supposed to come out on Thursday or Friday or Saturday and finish up the last few items remaining on the electrical.  Thursday and Friday came and went with no electrician.  At about 9:30 Saturday morning I called him and asked if he was still planning on coming by.  He said he was, but he had to stop by “Marilyns” and finish a few things for her.  Who Marilyn is or why her money is more green than mine, I have no idea.

He finally showed up about 11:30 with some really awful looking LED lights for the kitchen cabinets and promptly informed us that he had injured his back at Marilyn’s and could not do our work that day.  But he promised to come back today (Sunday).  Of course today, he never showed nor even called.  GRRR!!!

Tina and I finally came to the conclusion today, the electrician has until next weekend to get our work done or I will do it myself.  There is nothing we are asking him to do that I do not know how to do myself.  But it will take me 2-3 days to do what he can probably do in half a day.  But we have been asking him to do this work for almost 2 months and he cannot seem to fit us into his schedule.  Screw him!

For our part, we got all of the drawer glides installed in the kitchen cabinets.  That does not sound like much, but it was a very time consuming process to make sure everything was matched up perfectly and drilled tight.  I am sure we got a couple of them not quite perfect, but how I drilled them, I gave us some wiggle room.

I think I came up with a good way to keep the drawer glides at least within the ballpark of being accurate on each side; clamp a piece of scrap to the bottom of each cleat and set the drawer glide on top of it for drilling and screwing.

We also got some more door moulding done.

Tina has all of the vertical pieces finished.  So I got a bunch of those nailed up.

The blue door in the orange “Trump” wall does not look quite so hideous with a moulding around it.

At the same time, I cut the pieces for the tops and Tina started finishing them.

And I got the top pieces she finished last week nailed up.

So was it a good week?  No.  But we have a plan moving forward.  It may not make us popular with our new neighbors, but it has to be.