u/govt_gal

I (43f) single homeowner have been working with the same contractor and his team through one renovation and now onto the second.

I fully accept my role in this level of doormat’ness but I want to change! The current issue is the porch, the support pillars were wrapped with some plastic board stuff and there are gaps. Also, the pillars no longer are flush with the top of the porch’s horizontal support beam. I absolutely need to say something which I can but allow me to share some history that makes me have zero faith the porch will be fixed.

The first renovation a wall had to be removed due to dry rot. It was replaced and siding was installed, however the siding looks terrible. Mind you, I live in a historic home, of significant value. My contractor said he would have the siding guy back but he has never been back. To this day, one year later, the siding for that outside wall has not been fixed.

I think I f’ed up on multiple fronts but to focus on the siding issue, I feel like I don’t have a leg to stand on because it’s been over a year.

The question is: do I have a leg to stand on? What about the porch? I already paid for that work but they are still in progress with additional interior work(which is going very well with no complaints from me). Can I withhold that payment until the porch is complete to my standards?

Going forward I will not pay for anything until have reviewed all details of the “completed” work. Please don’t dogpile on me either. I’m fully aware I’m passive and it’s hard because these are dudes working at my house and I worry they will just walk away from the project if I push back on anything.

Any help would be appreciated.

I’m getting pumped to blast the invasive plants this spring. Last summer I was able to start some management and was happy to see success. That’s it. Just wanted to share my excitement!

Another question for the brain trust:-) The PCORI file name convention is, “key_personnel_PI_LastName”. Does that mean it’s like, “smith_cohen. Smith would be the key personnel last name and cohen is the pi last name. I’m sure it is that but I’ve been staring at this grant for a week straight making sure everything is correct.

Omg! For whatever reason we have one version of a draft research strategy that is getting passed between team members for revisions. We had a student I put references, so I created a copy draft and sent to him for that task because I needed to work on the main draft.

For the life of me, I cannot transfer the citations and references over from his draft to my draft in any easy way. Should I just start over and in the future require my study teams use Medley?

How do you all manage references for team members?