Day 315. Pete mostly: old hallway

Today mostly Pete plastering the old hallway. He gets most of it done; there is some stuff around the old doorway into the living room to tidy off though.

Also Bob "drops off" some samples of flooring, when I wasn't here, and apparently the quote from Ivan for laying same is in the post. Which means that the long-awaited deadline of monday for actually doing the laying is going to be missed, as even if we could decide on flooring in time, and accept the quote, they still need to get the wood. And... when the two "obvious" rooms are done (D's room, and the new room) where will they continue to? We need the hallway finished off first, obviously we think.

Also the top-of-the-stairs is not yet sorted: Crescent the stair people appear to have fouled up putting on the handrails (they put them on top of the chipboard floor, so they are too high; cutting them down to the correct size appears fairly easy though but for some unkown reason Bob won't do it, and Crescent apparently are shy).

I have realised now (far too late) that what we should have done is kept the old stairs. The area on top where the new stairs/landing is would have become a largish upper landing area, which would have lead onto D's room. Very useful for storage (!) and big enough to be a temporary 4th bed when required. And we would have got a small study downstairs. Not quite ideal, but soooooo much less knocking about.