The guy at the warehouse wanted Friday off to begin his big weekend.
I just do measures for the store but I fill in in any way that I can so today was Warehouse day.
In the morning I loaded one pallet of 6 ft long hardwood into a guy's pickup. About noon the UPS guy showed up and had two small deliveries to bring in.
About 3:30 a local courier brought in a pallet of ceramic tile a couple pieces of trim and 20 bags of deck mud.
.....yup, that was all I was needed for.
It gets lonely and boring at the warehouse. ..... Or is it lonely and boring?
Anyway there's a rack near the front door that houses all of the carpet metals, vinyl moldings, vinyl trims, ceramic tile trims and edges, leftovers and you name it
It's always a good idea to save your leftover stuff. Sometimes you order six transitions on the installer doesn't use them. He'd rather turn and tuck the carpet. Those trims go into the rack. The shop ordered one too many transitions, that goes into the rack.
The customer decided they don't want to use any transitions so six of them go into the rack. Then you have the wood stair nose for the 3/4 inch hardwood, the reducers for hardwood, it just keeps piling up and after 20 years you have a mess. Is too expensive to throw away..... So you keep piling it up. (I said you, not me)
...... Well, being the warehouse guy today and having nothing to do and being bored.....
........ Oh Lord if you think this is bad you should have seen before I started.
There's still a bit of a mess but at least all the extra trims of the same type are in individual tubes....
...meaning they're all localized, next to each other, congregated.....
Whatever.
The Cortec baby threshold pieces were in random tubes, they were inside tubes containing metal, they were underneath 3/4-in tapered oak reducers, some to the right, some to the left, all over the freaking place.
Well, the warehouse guy is on vacation so I started pulling everything out ....within reason and made an attempt at a tiny bit of organization.
Like I said, if you think this looks bad .......just pretend there are no tubes. Pretend the tile trims, the carpet flat bar, the oak reducers the pergo the cortec and everything else was just laying there....... Literally, wherever some podank installer threw it in the rack. It piles up and keeps getting deeper and deeper and deeper.
When you're trying to find some oddball piece of trim to match something, you just start digging through the pile. These trims are expensive so throwing them away is kind of stupid. Over the years I've used dozens and dozens of these for carpet edges or things unrelated to a job that was previously done. Those extra trims can be literally gold, you don't have to order one, you just get lucky sometimes and find what you need in the pile. It will be easier now.
Anyway, that was my day and it was kind of a break from normal but standing all day on concrete.....
.......oh Lord, my back and my legs ache like I can't believe.
I hope I'm not starting to get old.