on november 1st when i signed the lease papers, i mentioned to the building management that the tub was in disrepair. the management was willing to get it refinished and immediately called the building super to notify him that it needed to be done. apparently the super couldn’t do it, so it was decided that the contractor was to do it. a couple of days later i got a call from him asking to set up a time to do it. we agreed to the next day at 9am.
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| the tub before |
not having any furniture, i was still staying with my boyfriend at the time. i had to trek from his place, meet the contractor at 9, and somehow get to work by 10am. no clue how i thought this could be done. i went to meet him anyways, hoping that the tub would take maybe an hour, and i’d only be a half hour late for work. well, i shouldn’t have been worried. we met up (he was on time. surprise!) and all he did was look at the tub. i had hoped that he’d do it that day, so that the two days drying time would end before i even moved anything in. no-go!
i tried to set up a time for him to come back, but he was impossible to schedule any further than a week in advance. all his available times, i wasn’t available. he seemed to think that i didn’t have to work mon-fri 9-5. oh well… finally after several phone calls, and an insane amount of hemming and hawing on his part (including an offer to do it on thanksgiving. yeah right!) we settled on last wednesday. then a few more phone calls we settled on 9am. (worked for me. it ended up being one of my random mornings off. ok so i don't actually work mon-fri 9-5...) finally the day rolled around. the boyfriend and i showered super early so the tub could be dry by 9. the bf went off to work and i settled in for a long wait.
9am nothing. 9:30 i finally called him and he said he’d be there soon. 10am he rolls in with some young guy. he explains what is going to happen, that it’ll smell. and ask him for the 20th time (cuz he always answered in the wrong way) how long it’ll take. he replies for the 20th time with ‘1-2 days’. ‘no’ i explain ‘right now, him doing it, how long will it take?’ finally i get the answer i’ve been looking for… ‘an hour’ he says. well… 2+ hours later the young guy leaves my apt. granted he had to seriously sand the crap out of my tub before even starting.
now my tub is super bright and white. it’s still bumpy though and you can see that it’s thin in places; what really should have happened, was that after the two days of drying time, they should have come back, done another finer sanding, and put done another application of the finish. then the tub would have been perfect. but of course that would have taken two trips and four days. it is lovely though just the way it is.
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| the tub after |
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