Some new work has been done. There is now some siding up. They are having to put it over the cedar siding they put up (that we didn't want) because the windows are sealed in and the Project Manager fears it would ruin them to pull them out and start over (which is what we really wanted). We acquiesced on this point because, A) in the grand scheme of things it's not that big of a deal (the worst side-effect is it will cause the siding to hide a little of the trim where the wall meets the soffit), and B) we just don't want to be total jerks and waste a lot of money/product.
The first thing I noticed when I walked out was that they had a box for the siding sitting on the porch. They bought siding? Why? The plan was to use the old siding from what is now the inside part of the porch. Then we noticed the siding is different. From 20 feet away it looks fine, but up close the grain pattern is totally different. Not a huge problem, I guess, but seemingly an unnecessary one.
We speculated that maybe the old siding was discontinued and therefore new trim and corner pieces can't be obtained. Nope. A little research ruled that out.
Upon calling the Project Manager we learned that he didn't know we still had the old siding.
Really? We told you this. The plan from the beginning was to reuse it. In fact, we commented that we didn't understand why they left it up in the attic where it's hard to get to. Normally I'd say that this plan was never communicated, but then....why did they store the old stuff at all if they weren't planning to use it. Aren't these the same guys who put it up there in the first place?
What I'll never know is whether they were planning to just add the new stuff to the bill. And now that it's attached to the house, and therefore used/ruined, it probably will still end up in the bill (hidden) somehow.
So it's been over a week since anything has happened, and the one thing that did happen has to be redone.
Nothing summarizes this ordeal better than that statement.
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