So things were going swimmingly on the house. Very smooth! What possibly could go wrong?
We just poured the concrete, had the interior drywalled and patched, plumbing and electrical roughed in.
I guess that should of been a cue that we were going to be thrown a curve.
We had chosen from the very beginning to go with Hardi Plank,
a fiber cement hybrid siding which is essentially molded in the color of your choosing.
With the tantalizing promise of virtually never having to paint the siding ever again.
And after dealing with this cedar siding like this - - it was looking pretty tempting.
So we chose a swatch called "Navajo Beige' which seemed to be a slight neutral "warm" gray.
Our original house color was an off-cream white. So this promised to be the closest choice.
Besides, from a City design-review stand point, we promised them a
near white house with blue/green trim.
What we didn't know was Hardi-Plank has a 3-week lead time. So after we ordered it,
we had a opportunity to sit back and wait. Luckily during this spell
- we went through our craftsmen exterior window design debate.
So after 3 weeks, we got the shipment of Hardi-Plank and the installers went to work.
After planking nearly one half of a wall, we discovered to our horror that this benign
Navajo Beige actually had a trace amount of yellow in it.
If Hardi Plank were a "Happy Bunny."
It also had the magical property of magnifying
the yellow intensity as each progressive layer was added.
During Installation:
What we feared it would look like after they finished it!
So with the prospect of a yellow house - we quickly put the brakes on and halted construction.
Which ultimately involved..
A) Stopping the workers.
B) Having them remove what they installed.
C) Sending the remaining planks back to the manufacturer.
D) Reorder the new color.
E) And restarting the 3 week process all over again.
Oh Did I mention:
F) How thrilled the contractor was with us at this point???
Uhm,..Not so much.
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