"sf" > wrote in message
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> On Thu, 26 Jun 2014 08:06:50 -0400, Nancy Young
> > wrote:
>
>> On 6/25/2014 9:24 PM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>> > On 6/25/2014 10:07 AM, Dave Smith wrote:
>> >
>> >>
>> >> The good news is that I have been vindicated. We had been told when we
>> >> ordered the cabinets that the earliest they could expect to have them
>> >> in
>> >> and start installation would be the week of May 19. We had company
>> >> coming for 10 days arriving on the 26. My wife was under the
>> >> impression
>> >> that the job would be 2 days maximum.
>> >
>> > Takes 2 days on TV. Takes 2 weeks or more in real life. I've worked
>> > on
>> > quite a few kitchen renovations and none were less than a week.
>>
>> First rule of home repairs/renovation: Nothing's Ever Easy.
>>
>> Sometimes even just taking out the old kitchen comes with all
>> kinds of time consuming problems, even on tv.
>>
> What always gets me are those restaurant renovations for $10K in two
> or three days. After the owners sink a real half a million into the
> place, the TV show remodels and makes it look like a million bucks for
> only $10K? Highly doubtful, I don't care how creative the designer
> is.

I know. Especially when they have to spend $2,000 on deep cleaning and
fumigation.