Micks' Musings

There is a song with the chorus "The working man makes work for the working man to do". The song may have been tongue in cheek but it proves the saying "Many a true word is spoken in jest". I am sure everyone can think of an example. In our case we had our house renovated a few years ago and every time a tradesman completed his task there was a mess left for the next tradesman to have to avoid. We visited the house everyday and cleaned up the mess in an attempt to keep the renovation on time. It didn't work and our builder still managed to find $20,000 of extra charges as well as taking 35 weeks to complete what he said would take 14 weeks. To save money we did the painting and we did most of the work before the flooring man came to lay the new floor (5 weeks late). The floor took about 7 weeks to do (it was a 10 day quote) and the floorers managed to put holes in the walls and ceilings which we had to patch and paint over. It is of little consolation that the f