Some up some down, Rhinoshield reimbursement

So the good news is my shoulder pain is lessening by the day meaning whatever I did in there was not something catastrophic like a complete tear.  I am still not engaging in any upper body exercise that causes any semblance of pain but I think I may be in good enough shape to get some rowing in at the gym today.

On the down side, this very slow moving illness keeps progressing which so far has the symptoms of a dry hacking cough, nasal drip and a weird sounding voice.  Usually illness with me swoops in quickly, hits me hard and then leaves quickly as well.  This is definitely not following that blueprint.

Yesterday I heard back from the owner of the Florida region of Rhinoshield.  On Monday I made good on my promise to elevate my complaint after the local installer ignored me for over a month.  The owner said his attempts to contact the local guy failed as well.  He said perhaps he was in Columbia, maybe he has family there?  I told him this was all too familiar for me.  The original job and the entire process of my trying to get the problems remediated have been full of nothing but poor/no communication and terrible customer service.

I asked the owner if he had any other sub-contractors in the area that could do the work as I had no desire to have Giovanni involved whatsoever at this point.  The owner then threw out a suggestion that surprised me.  He said I could find someone to do it myself and he could just cut me a check to reimburse me for paying for it. I liked that suggestion.

At first I was thinking about doing exactly what he suggested but after talking to Cindy it morphed into paying ME $500 to do it.  I can certainly handle the job and will take great care to make sure it is done right.  The labor isn’t that hard.  After pressure washing the deck and letting it dry thoroughly most of the painting is done via just pushing a big roller around on the ground.

So my new plan is to call the owner back today and let him know I found someone to do the work, I just won’t let him know the contractor shares my address.