Day 307-310. Decorators, Carpets, Windows
Decorating continues apace on tuesday, and the corridor is finished. The bathrooms still need some work.
But its in a state that Mr Carpet can turn up and do his bit on wednesday, and indeed he does, so we have carpet underfoot upstairs which is nice. Indeed he is notable for his promptness and efficiency.
Also on Wednesday Pete turns up with a pile of windows, and stores them inside.
On thursday, he turns up with the glass, but no other building takes place. Meanwhile I'm trying to sort out between Bob, Ian and Ivan what state the floor-laying plans are in.
Friday Tim and Barry turn up to fit the new windows. Optimistically, this is supposed to happen in a day (oddly enough this doesn't work: we only get 2 in). It would probably have been better to do this before the carpets went down (really there is no reason they couldn't have been done a month or 2 ago, just like the gutters, ahem) but they do seem to have been careful. Tim is confused that the bathroom windows are clear glass, as are we. Nobody has told him or us that they are due to be taken out again and sandblasted to opaque. Seems an odd an inefficient way of doing it to me!
Later, panics (by me) about a leak - the plaster in the cloakroom cupboard is distinctly darkened and looks like water seeping. Oh dear. After many phone calls and confusions, with Ian out all day and Bob promising Pete tPP who prefers to head off to the pub, its to be left till monday as non-urgent. We hope so. Pete was also supposed to bring the shower curtain but that again delayed.
But its in a state that Mr Carpet can turn up and do his bit on wednesday, and indeed he does, so we have carpet underfoot upstairs which is nice. Indeed he is notable for his promptness and efficiency.
Also on Wednesday Pete turns up with a pile of windows, and stores them inside.
On thursday, he turns up with the glass, but no other building takes place. Meanwhile I'm trying to sort out between Bob, Ian and Ivan what state the floor-laying plans are in.
Friday Tim and Barry turn up to fit the new windows. Optimistically, this is supposed to happen in a day (oddly enough this doesn't work: we only get 2 in). It would probably have been better to do this before the carpets went down (really there is no reason they couldn't have been done a month or 2 ago, just like the gutters, ahem) but they do seem to have been careful. Tim is confused that the bathroom windows are clear glass, as are we. Nobody has told him or us that they are due to be taken out again and sandblasted to opaque. Seems an odd an inefficient way of doing it to me!
Later, panics (by me) about a leak - the plaster in the cloakroom cupboard is distinctly darkened and looks like water seeping. Oh dear. After many phone calls and confusions, with Ian out all day and Bob promising Pete tPP who prefers to head off to the pub, its to be left till monday as non-urgent. We hope so. Pete was also supposed to bring the shower curtain but that again delayed.
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