Sigarms
Super Member
After 5 months of waiting, my carpenter is going to redo our master and boys (and guests) bathroom.
The other day, we picked up the all the tile and flooring for the the guest bathroom (pushing closer to 60, it's a workout taking all that floor and bath tile upstairs LOL).
This morning, we went to pick up our vanities along with countertop for the bathrooms.
For the master bath, a large vanity with counter top was loaded onto my truck bed straight from the manufacture this morning, along with the guest/ boys bathroom (we had to make two trips because the master bath would only fit on the F150 bed).
Get the larger vanity and countertop into the garage, and we unboxed the vanity and it was damaged pretty bad (real wood is a PITA to find nowadays).
Thing is, they shipped the vanity straight from the manufacturer on a pallet in the horizontal position, and put the heavy granite countertop ON TOP of the vanity on the pallet (think about every bounce with that counter top slamming into a wood structure where the weight is not designed to hold it) . Why in the F would you put something so heavy on top of a wood structure (in the horizontal position) where it's strength is to hold that weight in the vertical position?
Ironically, the guest/boys bathroom they shipped the vanity on a pallet in the upright position and put the counter top on the side on the pallet next to the vanity. Needless to say, from two different manufacturers.
Reminds me about 25 years ago when I questioned my manager on why we stocked the heaviest items on a high racking shelving when the heaviest things should go on the bottom close to the floor because they are heavy.
The box store was more than accommodating on or predicament, but we will have to wait for the credit when a delivery is made because there was no way my wife and I were getting that vanity back onto the truck bed to return it.
I'm a pretty stupid guy, but I get worried when people don't use common sense.
The other day, we picked up the all the tile and flooring for the the guest bathroom (pushing closer to 60, it's a workout taking all that floor and bath tile upstairs LOL).
This morning, we went to pick up our vanities along with countertop for the bathrooms.
For the master bath, a large vanity with counter top was loaded onto my truck bed straight from the manufacture this morning, along with the guest/ boys bathroom (we had to make two trips because the master bath would only fit on the F150 bed).
Get the larger vanity and countertop into the garage, and we unboxed the vanity and it was damaged pretty bad (real wood is a PITA to find nowadays).
Thing is, they shipped the vanity straight from the manufacturer on a pallet in the horizontal position, and put the heavy granite countertop ON TOP of the vanity on the pallet (think about every bounce with that counter top slamming into a wood structure where the weight is not designed to hold it) . Why in the F would you put something so heavy on top of a wood structure (in the horizontal position) where it's strength is to hold that weight in the vertical position?
Ironically, the guest/boys bathroom they shipped the vanity on a pallet in the upright position and put the counter top on the side on the pallet next to the vanity. Needless to say, from two different manufacturers.
Reminds me about 25 years ago when I questioned my manager on why we stocked the heaviest items on a high racking shelving when the heaviest things should go on the bottom close to the floor because they are heavy.
The box store was more than accommodating on or predicament, but we will have to wait for the credit when a delivery is made because there was no way my wife and I were getting that vanity back onto the truck bed to return it.
I'm a pretty stupid guy, but I get worried when people don't use common sense.