Well.
The longest day I've worked in a while and I"m feeling it. I spent all day in that shed putting that flooring in. I have to go buy 3 more boxes of tiles tomorrow to finish it, I was way off on my estimating, tho at least it wasn't over-estimating. It's hard work, actually. I started to get better at it as I went along and better cuts and measurements, tho the door and cutting around it admittedly took much longer than any of the rest of it.
The shed came in today. I got a notification on my phone and I checked the camera, sure enough, sitting on my front porch. The washer and dryer also showed up, very professional and courteous delivery driver and helper. The were meticulous about gently handling the boxes and I noted that there were no rips of tears in the boxing, it was all in great condition. Amazing, coming clear from the east coast and then ending up in a warehouse in Dallas. If I had thought about it, I would have tipped them. But, I was exhausted and I still had work to do.
They carefully maneuvered both machines into the shed and I signed off on them. Beautiful coin operated bliss, I do hope all of this trouble will be worth it. It's a lot of money and it's a lot of work. I've got days and days worth of work left to do. It doesn't help that I smashed my left hand middle finger squarely with a hammer while pounding a tile into place. It was alleviated from a lot more pain, tho, by immediately covering it with ice and keeping the ice on there a while.
It's kind of hard to type lol.
Anyway, they came, left and I went home to get the kids from the bus stop. But, I saw Taylor on the front porch. I could tell instantly she wasn't feeling well. I went, got the boys, went home with them but I decided to take them to the property until James got home, mom needed the rest. I finished out the rest of the tile I had and we went home.
Upon inspecting the shed box, it had several tears, rips and open holes in it all over the box. One corner was smashed in. They manhandled this thing in transit and I wasn't pleased. One of the holes showed a gouge in the metal and a long scratch. That'll rust, I thought. Looking at all of that, I decided to start an online return. Give me a new one please. Then is said "It may have to be returned" tho it didn't say who had to pay for it.
So, I finished that but called them afterward. I had to go through one person to get to a person that could help me. This lady said, yup, we are shipping you a new one, no you don't have to return it, you can keep it, we sent an email indicating you could keep or better yet, donate it! Donate it? Who would I donate a damaged shed to? I was amazed they just said yup, keep it and hopefully the next one shipped to you won't arrive in the same condition! Must be a dollar amount that if it's under that, they aren't going to bother with it.
I dunno, but I'm taking it over to the property and it can sit behind the shed. I'm not doing anything with it for now, I don't want to put 2 sheds together at the moment. I want to put one up right where I want the water heater to go and see if it has enough room for the heater and my tools.
I've had several people asking about long term in the last 24 hours but no one has actually committed to moving in. If I can get this shed done fast enough, I'd like to maybe rent out 2 more long term and then keep 4 spots open for overnighters and see what happens. That and the hipcamper situation. I want to run a month or months long special and just advertise "For $10 per night, you can have access to electricity, for $15, you can have access to the shower, kitchen and laundry". A small rig won't use much electricity. It's not a ripoff to ask more to use the facilities. I've paid more for such use.
That's it. Just going to wind down and call it a day.
