[Chat] need opinions
Christine Gray
langwidge at erols.com
Wed Aug 22 08:28:32 EDT 2007
Dale, yours was the only response I got--maybe because you're in California.
Thank you!
Approaching it that way had not occurred to me
That is what I'll do.
Again, thank you,
Christine
-----Original Message-----
From: chat-bounces at charlesvillage.info
[mailto:chat-bounces at charlesvillage.info] On Behalf Of Dale Ghent
Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2007 8:16 AM
To: The Charles Village Chat List
Subject: Re: [Chat] need opinions
On Aug 21, 2007, at 7:19 PM, Christine Gray wrote:
> I want to stay on good terms with my neighbors, of course; I don't
> know them really well at all but they are nice people.
>
> What would you do? Go to the neighbor? Find the mason/worker?
> Shut and clean?
It's good that you want to stay on good terms.
My suggestion is, whatever you do, is to be as diplomatic as
possible. Although their contractor may have known how messy the job
would be, they themselves probably never realized that the scenario
you find yourself in was a possibility.
You should mention it to them, but don't come across as accusatory.
What's done is done, so I would say something to the effect of "Hey
guys, when you had your breezeway wall repointed, I unfortunately had
my windows open and lots of cement dust blew in. If you're going to
have anymore such work done, just let me know with via a note on my
door. I'll certainly do the same for you if I have a similarly messy
job done on my house."
/dale
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