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June 15, 2007
Bye, bye shitty floors
Well, here we go.
Last week, we decided that we couldn’t trust the developer, ElAd Properties, to fix the floors in our apartment properly. The responses to our questions showed such a lack of commitment and concern for the quality of the finished product. I mean, if they couldn't get it right the first time, then denied anything was wrong, then agreed something was terribly wrong, the couldn't convince us they could make it right, why should we expect they could do this?
I called a flooring contractor whose work I have seen, and who has been to see our shitty floors. He came by the apartment on Tuesday, and he will start ripping out our shitty floors on Wednesday.
Next call, the movers. Everything has to go into storage for a month. They will be here Tuesday morning at 9.
Next call, brokers. I guess we need a place to live. I dashed around the city today and looked at some really lovely (ie. really expensive) places, and some really dodgy (ie. cheap) apartments. In the end, I chose a kinda dodgy, kinda lovely one-bedroom apartment on the Upper West Side (West 86th and Columbus). Good location for running in Central Park, and close to a Bikram yoga studio at Columbus and West 72nd Street. But man, it’s up there. No more walking to work for Chis.
Ehhh, it’s only for a month.
It will only take them three weeks to rip out the shitty floor, screw down plywood, then nail down the new floor. Afterwards, we will paint the place, and finish everything beautifully before we move back in.
While this is the last thing I imagined we’d be doing, having bought brand new construction, I am actually looking forward to it.
I mean, who wants to make the furniture bounce by simply walking on the floor?
Posted by dave at June 15, 2007 07:18 PM