I posted a thread sometime ago about a new 350 gallon pentagon I am putting in.
Well, it still hasn't been set up yet due to a lack of a stand/canopy. I have the tank sitting in the middle of my garage along with the custom sump, lighting, Bubble King skimmer, pump, plumbing parts, reef ceramics, RO/DI, auto-topoff stuff and misc other stuff. This has all been sitting there since early June (some of it early May).
The stand/canopy are part of a long, sad situation. I was having Chris Crow build it for me. He is a great guy with a very understanding, patient wife. I am just losing that patience.
Chris started it in late April hoping to have it done in June. Well, a lot of things happened with work and he did not get much time to work on it after getting most of it done. He asked for a transfer and received it without much notice so he was driving 6 hours back and forth every week for a while until he decided to just move to his new location. He has been having housing issues ever since (none of it really his fault) August. He is in a very rural area so housing is a real issue. Now, he is having issues with even getting someone that will build this time of year so it looks like Spring. It is not a good situation for him and if I were in his shoes, my tank and canopy would be pretty far down the list of priorities. All his stuff was put into storage, except his woodworking stuff, which was left six hours away in his old workshop. Nothing has been done in months on the stand/canopy. He can not give me any definite date when I might get it either.
In the meantime, my wife is on my back to get this stuff out of the garage and she is real close to just saying forget the new tank.
Anyone know of any way to solve this dilemma or have suggestions on what I should do. The reason I went with Chris in the first place was because doing it locally was going to take 8 months and cost twice as much.
The bad thing is that if either one of us (myself or Chris) would have known about this, we wouldn't have done it this way. What's worse is that it takes days, sometimes a week to get in touch with him.
I like Chris and don't want to screw him over, but I can't be expected to wait forever. Would it be reasonable to tell him I have to have it by Christmas or I will be going a different route? Problem with that is that to start over locally will take months...
What do I do?
Well, it still hasn't been set up yet due to a lack of a stand/canopy. I have the tank sitting in the middle of my garage along with the custom sump, lighting, Bubble King skimmer, pump, plumbing parts, reef ceramics, RO/DI, auto-topoff stuff and misc other stuff. This has all been sitting there since early June (some of it early May).
The stand/canopy are part of a long, sad situation. I was having Chris Crow build it for me. He is a great guy with a very understanding, patient wife. I am just losing that patience.
Chris started it in late April hoping to have it done in June. Well, a lot of things happened with work and he did not get much time to work on it after getting most of it done. He asked for a transfer and received it without much notice so he was driving 6 hours back and forth every week for a while until he decided to just move to his new location. He has been having housing issues ever since (none of it really his fault) August. He is in a very rural area so housing is a real issue. Now, he is having issues with even getting someone that will build this time of year so it looks like Spring. It is not a good situation for him and if I were in his shoes, my tank and canopy would be pretty far down the list of priorities. All his stuff was put into storage, except his woodworking stuff, which was left six hours away in his old workshop. Nothing has been done in months on the stand/canopy. He can not give me any definite date when I might get it either.
In the meantime, my wife is on my back to get this stuff out of the garage and she is real close to just saying forget the new tank.
Anyone know of any way to solve this dilemma or have suggestions on what I should do. The reason I went with Chris in the first place was because doing it locally was going to take 8 months and cost twice as much.
The bad thing is that if either one of us (myself or Chris) would have known about this, we wouldn't have done it this way. What's worse is that it takes days, sometimes a week to get in touch with him.
I like Chris and don't want to screw him over, but I can't be expected to wait forever. Would it be reasonable to tell him I have to have it by Christmas or I will be going a different route? Problem with that is that to start over locally will take months...
What do I do?
