My wife just called – we were getting our house inspected this morning so we could get the builders' to fix the stuff before the 1 year warranty was up, and she pointed out one of the kitchen cabinets where the side of the cabinet was pulling away from the bottom. Right as she pointed out the growing gap, the bottom fell out and all the dishes/plates in that cabinet fell and broke.
The inspector documented everything with pictures – I guess now it's time to get the builders to try to pay for the damages, since there's no reason that cabinet should have done that. Crap. I hope this doesn't turn into a big headache.
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August 28th, 2007 on 1:07 PM
whoa. your wife has a *serious* superpower, Ross. make sure she doesn't point at me… ;)seriously now: after something like this I'd be pretty insistant the builders pay not only for the damages (new china!) but also for all new cabinets.
August 28th, 2007 on 2:11 PM
Crap?? That is AWESOME! you get your house fixed and new dishes. You have a witness, and could take him to the cleaners if you wanted
August 28th, 2007 on 2:36 PM
At least it happened right then while it was being watched. That's pretty sweet.
August 28th, 2007 on 3:10 PM
oh, MAN… that sucks… man, i always have the opposite problem. whenever i'm trying to show someone something that's going wrong, that's when everything works perfectly. heh.
August 28th, 2007 on 3:11 PM
That is the new cabinet design. you put the dirty ones in there and when they fall you don't have to wash them.
It will be a headache.
August 28th, 2007 on 3:26 PM
I have to agree with Budd. As much fun as it sounds to get new dishes/cabinets, what will most likely happen is the builder will bring in a contractor to repair the cabinet and check the others, and then if I manage to settle with them for the price of the dishes without having to do any sort of small-claims court, it's probably going to be for less than the face value of the dishes, and since we'll have piece-parts of each dish set left over, we'll have to either seek out replacements or start over with a brand new set and pay the difference between what we were reimbursed and what the new set costs out of our pockets.And yes, my wife has superpowers. I don't dare cross her – she might decide to point in the general vicinity of my…uh…manhood, and I really don't want that to fall off.