We got some bodies and things started happening... slowly. On Thursday we had another bit of a go and were promised two builders, two decorators and three electricians on Friday. What we actually got was one decorator, one electrician with a migraine, one electrician who arrived after another job and then disappeared 'to the wholesaler' never to return, and no builders at all. Give us strength. Please.
On Saturday they worked overtime (are we paying extra for this??) and we had a decorator and two builders. The builders are working, crucially, on the outside loo. As long as we have a nice outside loo it doesn't matter if we haven't got electrics or water inside, does it?
To be fair, the outside loo was on our 'to do at some stage' list and it seems 'at some stage' would appear to be now. We haven't got the energy to argue, so a revamped outside loo it is. One of the carpenters suggested that if we were going to put a cute apex roof on it, why not extend it to make a log store on the side. Genius! We said yes...
Here are the various stages so far:
We made a small dressing table for the dressing room.
That's 'made' as in 'assembled' - it's from IKEA. We needed to do it to find out what else I can wedge in my walk-in wardrobe. The answer is 'not a wardrobe'. I can get two sets of IKEA Billy shelves. Yay?
The Aga flue has a big gap where it meets the wall. It needs filling.
Nice pink fire foam, eh? Needs a bit of work...
I think the pressure is finally getting to me...
We have decided to have two walls tiled in the bathroom. I asked BOB if he had a tame tiler who could do it and, yes, he has - he said he would talk to him. Meanwhile, the decorator was looking at the height of the sitting room with some trepidation, not least because of the slightly wobbly trestles that had been provided by BOB. Would it help if we hired a proper scaffold? Yes, apparently it would, so we did - it arrives tomorrow. In the meantime we asked if he could possibly paint something else - maybe the bathroom, eh? Yes, but it would be better to do it after the tiling, so when's the tiler coming? I phoned BOB to ask - "Oh, you actually want him to do it, do you?" YES THAT WOULD BE GOOD OH DEAR AM I SHOUTING I'M SO SORRY BUT I THOUGHT I'D MADE THAT PERFECTLY BLOODY CLEAR...
As for purchases, we bought two pew ends to make a shoe shelf for the utility room (trust us, it's going to be lovely) and went on a proper shopping expedition this morning, visiting SEVEN shops in record time:
Carpets Direct - vinyl flooring for bathroom and utility room, fitting on 11th July.
Pets At Home - Ruby (new cat) has to have a pill every day, we wanted a pill shooter thingy which they didn't have.
The Range - they did have a pill shooter and we got one pack of Dylon Machine Dye in Tulip Red. We've dyed a sofa cover (soooooooooooo much easier than getting Plumbs to make us a new one) and it missed a bit. We need five packs to do it again. They had one.
Homebase - two extra spotlights as we'd miscounted how many we needed and wood filler to fill the holes in the pew ends. This was the Cardiff branch as the lights are being discontinued and they were the only place within 40 miles to have any.
Wilko in Cardiff - looking for dye, we got two more packs.
Sainsburys - Lucozade, Diet Coke and dark chocolate. We were flagging.
B&Q - duvet covers to make curtains for the music room, a shower caddy to fit over the shower wall and a cheap white lampshade to paint for our fab Kerosene can lamp. Seriously - it's going to be lovely. We're going to paint the white shade (altogether now) RONSEAL WILLOW!!
Wilko in Chepstow - looking for dye, sadly drawing a blank. Still two packs short then....
And a footnote: This week Plumbs sent us a 'Customer Satisfaction Survey'. Yes, they really did. I filled it in, but I don't think they're going to like it...
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