...So we live near LAX which has a sound abatement program that puts heavily insulated windows into homes near the airport to help reduce the noise complaints.
We put our house on the list many years ago and they have finally gotten to us.
So they started yesterday and there are already problems with things simply going wrong and being a bit of a craftsman myself I appreciate good workmanship and am sick over poor workmanship. I've been through some remodeling and I have had some bad and difficult experiences.
We're watching this process take place and knowing what I know (enough to be dangerous) of doing things like trim and molding what I am seeing is making my wife and I a bit sick to our stomachs. We didn't get to pick the contractors the city did and today they did not return my calls. We've got some issues with the quality of the work and frankly don't know if what we are seeing is bad or not. All I know is how I the finished product should like in my mind and I'm not sure that is in line with reality. The molding around the windows seems to have been installed in such a way that it is not uniform, even or square. I see things - especially crooked things very well and I feel bad for the fact that I can see a small amount of crookedness quickly.
Still - here are some pictures of a sample window that I think is in danger of having to be redone. My intention tomorrow is to ask for a good picture of the finished product so that I can see that if this in between phase is something I need to lighten up on...
It is difficult to get a decent picture of the whole window because the light washes out the frame - I'll take after dark and post them. This first corner is a bad one in my eyes and I just don't know how they are going to make everything look even and square when the interior trim doesn't even closely line up with the exterior.
This second one is one I would say as "good" in that the lower exterior trim lines up nearly perfectly even though the side does not - it's close.
So - like I said - in the morning I'm asking for some clarification on how it will look finally. I'm trying to be reasonable with this but these along with the other issues with the project are really bringing us down.