Thursday, November 12, 2009 - Sunny Days Wasted

Nashville has seen one of its most beautiful weeks of the year. Not a drop of rain all week and barely even a cloud in the sky. At least that is what I hear. I was in Baltimore most of the week where it was dreary, cold, and rainy all week. You also wouldn't have guessed it was sunny in Nashville by the amount of work done on the house. Looks like they were able to waterproof the blocks...and from straight appearances that's about it. We have had a string of about 10 workdays with no rain and we are crawling on this project. Apparently we had a plumbing inspection called in for a week, and they finally came out Wednesday. The inspector wanted something tested on the plumbing, and I am guessing no one was around to assist him, so he had to come back Thursday. The testing was a success and we passed the inspection, but lost our place in line at the concrete plant. So that has pushed us back to Tuesday for the pour...when it is supposed to rain. And it is supposed to rain most of the week. I don't want to write any more about the rain...I have enough posts about that (see, well, everything in October). I think our contractor is well aware of the impending rain because the crew was supposed to come prepare everything (clean-up and even-out the gravel where the concrete pad will be poured, lay down plastic sheeting, etc.) on Friday and did not. No need to do this if it is just going to get wet. I feel like we have had a lot of good, sunny days wasted as we slip ever-so-close to being a month behind schedule. Grrrr.