Why are home improvement projects always so fraught with disaster?
Take our back door, for example. It was supposed to be a simple matter of replacing the old door because the bottom had rusted. But Lowe’s ordered the wrong size, something you don’t really know until you get it home. Maybe their slogan should be “Let’s Build Something Together, But We Won’t Really Help You At All. So Really, You Should Build Something Alone.”
So Eddie placed it temporarily in the frame, and went to call Lowe’s to complain and reorder the right size. And this is what happened:
That’s $250 in shards.
Today, we had to get an electrician to come over to help us with our outdoor lighting. The geniuses hired by the previous owners had simply buried the electrical cable in a shallow grave. Lightning likes electrical wires. So that was the end of the outdoor lighting.
Eddie had to buy PVC pipe and new, thicker cable, and then dig up the back yard to bury the new cable. And he promptly hit an irrigation pipe.
And so the electrician is here. I’m looking through the back door, and I see plenty of frowning. There’s some pointing and gesturing. And now Eddie and the electrician are digging. That can’t be good.
Update: The electrician said, “Let there be light.” And there was. And it was good.
Observe and report 
At least nobody fell off your roof!
I hope you and Eddie are well
Kip
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So true. What a disaster that was! The end product STILL looks good, though.
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You didn’t have to go to all that trouble just because I was coming to see you!
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the guys at lowe just want to sell their good’s without wondering customer needs…
I think lowe need an improvement too…
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