Thievin'

It had to happen sooner or later.

There have been some random things go missing from the job site, namely ladders that had been left behind and a crappy old cordless trim saw sans battery that I meant to lock in the POD but never quite made it further than the door. But in the last week the thefts have been stepped up, sadly around the time that the electrical work started. I'd been kind of worried about our plumbing getting jacked but most of that has been in for a few weeks now and the plumber has had no trouble. Of course, I'd been expecting copper pipes but what we got was PEX (I hadn't seen the bid), which is fine- PEX obviously doesn't fetch the high dollar that copper does.

Sadly, romex still has some street value and so the trouble has begun. Even more sadly, the first electrical items to go missing were the electrician's own tools- a ladder and nice floodlight, along with a big roll of Romex. Our friendly electrician, Todd Harding, arrived on site early that morning (6:30ish) to find those things missing and a big pile of all the unsecured cans and pretty much anything else of value piled in the driveway. Meaning that someone was coming back for that.

Now last night apparently some enterprising meth head clipped a bunch of already-run wiring. I say apparently because I haven't actually been there yet, but I am in the process of filing a police report and Steve & Jeff are in the process of buying a bunch of plywood to secure the doorways & lower windows. We are getting close to windows and doors, but they are to be installed by the siders who won't start until next week, and we can't put a garage door in until they have the trim up around the garage, so we are still a ways away from security, and Steve says the wiring must go on.

This may be a new house, but we aren't new to the neighborhood, so these thefts shouldn't have been surprising, especially in light of the home-away-from-home sani-can incident. Still, this kind of stuff happens and you have to start wondering which of your new "neighbors" is having a meth-tastic christmas at your expense, and if this kind of thing is going to go on, and on, and on...

Sigh.

I haven't taken any pictures lately, mostly because it overall looks pretty much the same except for plumbing lines and electrical wire. I do need to get some photos, and soon. I'm sure I'll be sharing them on the blog... sometime. Don't know how jazzed any of you are at seeing the details of rough-in. I myself can't wait to see siding and therefore windows and doors soon enough.