Rich's House AKA Wampecack Creek Farm

[rancar]

Re: Rich\'s House AKA Wampecack Creek Farm

Real nice pics Rich. Look forward to the rest of the pics and the story of the renovation work in progress. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

...Bob

 

[dourobob]

Re: Rich\'s House AKA Wampecack Creek Farm

Just another day in Paradise!
Great looking spot Rich and, as many have implied, it ain't the destination (i.e - finished product - as if these places are ever really finished) , it's the journey (and all the memories created along the way).
... and it sure looks like you and your family have a wonderful journey ahead.

Bob

 

[RichZ]

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Thanks for the cheer, Cindi!! /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif

Naw!!! We're not discouraged, we knew what we were getting into. But we've had so much rain, the project is going slower than we planned. But, our carpenter, Tim, is an animal!! He keeps working even if it's pouring, until it just gets too muddy to continue, so we're not as far behind as we could be! /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

I'm gonna get a camera ASAP to post construction pictures! /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[RichZ]

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Dave, the foundation is stone. And yes, the beams are all chestnut and oak. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

Before we moved to upstate New York, my wife and I owned an antique shop, where our speciality was restoring and refinishing antique furniture. My favorite woods are chestnut and oak, so it's pretty cool that our house is made up of those two woods. /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif

 

[RichZ]

Re: Rich\'s House AKA Wampecack Creek Farm

Thanks for all the compliments, guys! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Hey Pete, we may have nice barns, but your place isn't anything to shake a stick at!!! I check your website from time to time, and you have a beautiful old place, too! /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif

 

[Anonymous Poster]

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You are very lucky Rich. Up where you are there must still be some kind of work ethic. Down here in la-la land you have to practically stand over the workers with a loaded weapon. A typical workaday on our remodeling project......

The workers show up at ten thirty, spend an hour stringing cords and getting set up, work for thirty minutes and break for lunch. Then about three o'clock, whoever the current 'new guy' was, he would sneak into yard and start quietly gathering tools and cords' and we wouldn't see them again until ten thirty the next morning. I think one day we got a whole hour out of them.

 

[RichZ]

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Up here, people expect results. Northerners are VERY demanding. If a contractor doesn't give you 8 hours of work per day, they won't be in business very long.

 

[Anonymous Poster]

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Ever seen the 'Money Pit' with Tom Hanks? I think it was filmed in Fla-la land. At least they got the story line from here I bet.

 

[RichZ]

Re: Rich\'s House AKA Wampecack Creek Farm

Yep, saw it. Funny movie!

We hope we won't have quite as many problems, but expenses do keep going up!!! /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif

 

[rancar]

Re: Rich\'s House AKA Wampecack Creek Farm

<font color="blue">"You are very lucky Rich. Up where you are there must still be some kind of work ethic. Down here in la-la land you have to practically stand over the workers with a loaded weapon..."</font>

That's unfortunate Cindi. Good contractors I've hired show up at day break and will take their 15 minute morning and afternoon break, half hour for lunch, work the rest of the time, and quit by 5 or 6 PM. Bad contractors I've had dealings with don't show up when they say they intended to, will drag a project out longer than they intended to, and this is the last job they've ever gotten from me. My sense is in New England contractors work hard for a living if they want to establish a niche in their field of endeavor. If they don't work hard, they find themselves out of business in a relatively short period of time. Call it the Yankee work ethic or whatever. It's refreshing though finding folks who work hard for a day's wage.

...Bob