Ok, so things are looking up again. Thanks to those of you who have stuck with us so far.
Right now, we have:
* a fully plastered upstairs
* a first coat of paint on the new plaster upstairs (except for under Little Miss's window, which unaccountably will not dry).
* a fully plastered kitchen, study, utility and downstairs cloakroom
* a full set of windows
* part of a kitchen.
These are all Good Things and I am particularly excited about the kitchen finally making some progress.
On the downside:
- two of the window panes are broken
- one of them is badly scratched
- the study window is SO not what we ordered. It's coming out again and the right thing is going is.
- there should be obscured glass in the cloakroom. I don't actually want the children able to pull faces at me while I'm in there (any more than they already do)
- the back doors arrived, and had to go straight back because the hinges / handles were left-to-right reversed from what was ordered
- some of the kitchen turned up broken
- best of all, the man who spec'd the kitchen measured the plans wrong by 1cm - which translates to HALF A METRE on the ground. So we've had to lose a unit unexpectedly. Not very happy with this, I have to say.
Nonetheless, we continue to move forward. This weekend, the renderers are coming in, which means we are definitely OUT - they render by spreading mortar on the wall then chucking buckets of gravel at it. I DON'T want the children getting that idea!
Nik is also slightly calmer (see earlier post). Thanks to all who emailed to offer him counselling / support / tranquilisers / a bash on the head with a brick until it was all over.
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