King Cobra
Jun 25, 2003, 02:30 PM
Tomorrow we finally move. All the stress that my family and I have faced has come down to this day, June 26. It will be the last 8 hour road trip we will have for moving our possessions back and forth.
Our house is in Sweden, Maine, and we bought it over a year ago. We have had to take several trips up and down from NJ to ME since then, totalling approximately ten thousand miles of driving. The task has been all but easy.
For those that remember, back in the subzero, wintery January in Maine, we had a problem with our pipes bursting, because an expected fuel delivery for our heat did not arrive. This has been repaired under our insurance.
Lack of support from several other companies has added to our hardships. One in particular, Bluedog, failed to deliver a water softener after months of our asking and patience. I would expect that once we have a water softener installed, and after Mr. Bluedog has finished checking his build up of voicemail each weekend, Bluedog will literally turn blue in the face.
A more critical incident with Bluedog occured when he failed to fix a small leak in our kitchen ceiling a matter of months ago. As a result, the ceiling ended up on our kitchen floor. Again, our insurance came to our greatly needed aid.
Other companies have surpassed my parents' expectations. We hired a company, A+ plumbing, to restore our resulting kitchen ceiling floor disaster with a fresh ceiling. The expected job completion date was farther than the actual time of replacing the ceiling by several days.
Even with all of these positive and negative experiences, we experienced positives and unfortunate hardships of our own. One of our most dangerous challenges has been moving our small billiard table up flights of stairs in its parts. The transportation of three cut slices of billiard bed slate, each weighing at least 150 pounds (or about 68 kilograms), was not fun, but it was successful.
Pot plants from our home in NJ were also being transferred, but not all of them stayed packed tight. One particular trip up involved carrying many plants, some small pot plants, in our recently cleaned corvette. A simple slam on the breaks caused one pot plant to tip forward, spilling a variety of soils between the driver and passanger seat.
Needless to say, that was the past, and our last trip up will be soon. What will not be soon, though, is central air for the heat that will bear down on our area. Speaking from experience, it gets both hot and cold around our property, about 250 meters above sea level.
I will be offline from Macrumors until I have more free time to visit the forums again. Wish our family the best of luck. We will need it.
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Our house is in Sweden, Maine, and we bought it over a year ago. We have had to take several trips up and down from NJ to ME since then, totalling approximately ten thousand miles of driving. The task has been all but easy.
For those that remember, back in the subzero, wintery January in Maine, we had a problem with our pipes bursting, because an expected fuel delivery for our heat did not arrive. This has been repaired under our insurance.
Lack of support from several other companies has added to our hardships. One in particular, Bluedog, failed to deliver a water softener after months of our asking and patience. I would expect that once we have a water softener installed, and after Mr. Bluedog has finished checking his build up of voicemail each weekend, Bluedog will literally turn blue in the face.
A more critical incident with Bluedog occured when he failed to fix a small leak in our kitchen ceiling a matter of months ago. As a result, the ceiling ended up on our kitchen floor. Again, our insurance came to our greatly needed aid.
Other companies have surpassed my parents' expectations. We hired a company, A+ plumbing, to restore our resulting kitchen ceiling floor disaster with a fresh ceiling. The expected job completion date was farther than the actual time of replacing the ceiling by several days.
Even with all of these positive and negative experiences, we experienced positives and unfortunate hardships of our own. One of our most dangerous challenges has been moving our small billiard table up flights of stairs in its parts. The transportation of three cut slices of billiard bed slate, each weighing at least 150 pounds (or about 68 kilograms), was not fun, but it was successful.
Pot plants from our home in NJ were also being transferred, but not all of them stayed packed tight. One particular trip up involved carrying many plants, some small pot plants, in our recently cleaned corvette. A simple slam on the breaks caused one pot plant to tip forward, spilling a variety of soils between the driver and passanger seat.
Needless to say, that was the past, and our last trip up will be soon. What will not be soon, though, is central air for the heat that will bear down on our area. Speaking from experience, it gets both hot and cold around our property, about 250 meters above sea level.
I will be offline from Macrumors until I have more free time to visit the forums again. Wish our family the best of luck. We will need it.
(4000)
