rbort
Elite Veteran
Location: Franklin, MA - U.S.A.
My Posts This: Topic Forum | DoorsI figured out why the doors fell yesterday after he left. He leaned them on a cardboard box that was thin and holding a kick plate for my sink cabinet, which was on top of the sink cabinets box. Its a thin light box that is 10 feet long. The weight of the doors pushed the box back until it rested on the garage door. He didn't realize this I'm assuming while he was doing it as he walked out back through the house and out the front door as he doesn't have the remote to close the door from outside. When I came home and opened the door, the door pushed back on the box and tipped the doors over.
In any case, you and I would think and know not to put doors somewhere so that if God forbid they fall they could crash on model planes or helicopters. That's just common sense. Whenever you lead a door against something, you always think to yourself is it stable and can it slide out and fall. The garage is big enough and the right wall of the garage is all open to lean doors against it if he wanted. Why choose to lean them in the middle of the garage with models "underneath them" in their way if they fall behooves me. Maybe as modelers we are particular and think too much, and perhaps as ordinary folks you never think of these things.
However, if you're a contractor and you show carefulness and thought when you work in a client's home you earn that persons respect and will definately get hired again. A good example is the painter. He is maticulous, he takes care of all the things that I see that he thinks are not right and fixes them. He puts cloths and is very careful not to damage anything in the finished room and cleans up when he's done. Compare him to the carpenter who comes in, opens packages, drops things on my finished floor, goes to install baseboard, and drags his nail gun and hammer on my hardwood. There are scratches there on it here and there from that. I was there watching him when he was installing the floor - there is no reason to put the hammer or tools on the finished floor when you're working and you have bare floor to put stuff on. I told him don't do this, but a few minutes later its back to the same routine. Little things like that bug me and when the painter came back he had to repair the painted walls and repaint them due to dings, dirty hand marks and such. Don't get me wrong he does great framing, but for finish work he is a little rough on the edges he should just pay attention to detail and not cause damage to existing work that was done while trying to do his.
Knowing how much those planes are worth (and he asked me out of curiosity when he first saw them) if it was me working in someone's house I'd stay away from them and not lean doors so they can fall on them. Accidents can happen but if you think about it you can prevent them too.
-=>Raja.
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That heli flew up in the air and crashed with the blades spread. The flybar tube in the cage is broken, vertical fin is broken, looks like the CF boom has hairline cracks in it, flybar damaged and blades trailing edge scraped on the concrete floor. I have not picked it up yet, I want the contractor to see it and he's paying for this negligence. Could be more damage that I have inspected it 100% yet. I've taken some pictures.
