High Mountain Siding

Friday :: 03 July 2009 :: 09:41 PM
175 days to Christmas!

Andrew Sumner of High Mountain Siding (Coeur d'Alene and Spirit Lake, Idaho) cannot be trusted to do good work, meet a schedule or repair work installed improperly. He will make promises but will not live by his word. Do not use him unless you want to lose a lot of money.

We hired him but he did not complete the work and the soffits fell off -- and he will not answer our calls because he has been mostly paid. We were going to set up a website for him here but things have gone awry and we are sorry we have nothing good to say about him or his company.

When promoting the idea of Contractor Licensing, the big government groupies claimed this would sift out the bad contractors and that the customer would have a mechanism to report bad conduct and get some kind of action on their claim. I was one of their biggest scoffers because this has never worked in any State. The only thing contractor licensing does is build a large bureaucracy and increase the cost of construction.

Well, I decided to see how the system worked. The claim form online does not work, go figure. So, I mailed in a claim against High Mountain Siding and Andrew Sumner, who is licensed. It took four months for the bureaucrats to acknowledge my claim and let me know my claim would be assigned and someone would contact me. It took fifteen months for an investigator to contact me. By that time, Andrew Sumner had closed his business. So we agreed there was no point to pursue this - resolved by attrition. Thank God, big government is here to protect us!

There is no purpose for licensing contractors, except to create bureaucracies, drive out competition and increase costs to the consumer.

Why Did The Chicken Cross The Road

©by internet

DR. PHIL:

The problem we have here is that this chicken won't realize that he must first deal with the problem on 'THIS' side of the road before it goes after the problem on the 'OTHER SIDE' of the road. What we need to do is help him realize how stupid he's acting by not taking on his 'CURRENT' problems before adding 'NEW' problems.

OPRAH:

Well, I understand that the chicken is having problems, which is why he wants to cross this road so bad. So instead of having the chicken learn from his mistakes and take falls, which is a part of life, I'm going to give this chicken a car so that he can just drive across the road and not live his life like the rest of the chickens.

GEORGE W. BUSH:

We don't really care why the chicken crossed the road. We just want to know if the chicken is on our side of the road, or not. The chicken is either against us, or for us. There is no middle ground here.

COLIN POWELL:

Now to the left of the screen, you can clearly see the satellite image of the chicken crossing the road....

ANDERSON COOPER - CNN:

We have reason to believe there is a chicken, but we have not yet been allowed to have access to the other side of the road.

JOHN KERRY:

Although I voted to let the chicken cross the road, I am now against it! It was the wrong road to cross, and I was misled about the chicken's intentions. I am not for it now, and will remain against it.

NANCY GRACE:

That chicken crossed the road because he's GUILTY! You can see it in his eyes and the way he walks.

PAT BUCHANAN:

To steal the job of a decent, hardworking American.

MARTHA STEWART:

No one called me to warn me which way that chicken was going. I had a standing order at the Farmer's Market to sell my eggs when the price dropped to a certain level. No little bird gave me any insider information.

DR SEUSS:

Did the chicken cross the road? Did he cross it with a toad? Yes, the chicken crossed the road, but why it crossed I've not been told.

ERNEST HEMINGWAY:

To die in the rain. Alone.

JERRY FALWELL:

Because the chicken was gay! Can't you people see the plain truth?' That's why they call it the 'other side.' Yes, my friends, that chicken is gay. And if you eat that chicken, you will become gay too. I say we boycott all chickens until we sort out this abomination that the liberal media white washes with seemingly harmless phrases like 'the other side.' That chicken should not be crossing the road. It's as plain and as simple as that.

GRANDPA:

In my day we didn't ask why the chicken crossed the road. Somebody told us the chicken crossed the road, and that was good enough.

BARBARA WALTERS:

Isn't that interesting? In a few moments, we will be listening to the chicken tell, for the first time, the heart warming story of how it experienced a serious case of molting, and went on to accomplish its life long dream of crossing the road.

JOHN LENNON:

Imagine all the chickens in the world crossing roads together, in peace.

ARISTOTLE:

It is the nature of chickens to cross the road.

BILL GATES:

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