Since the last post Dave, Mick and Adam have returned from their summer holidays and have started the big push to finish their work.
Mick and Ad have been grinding out for re-pointing, and Dave has been framing and putting up the external doors. Don't be fooled by the pictures above, Dave had done all the work here, its 7.30 on a Friday evening and I've only come out to interfere.
We've had a fixed price for the plastering, and whilst they have covered a lot of ground its a real shock to have employed people on site as opposed to self employed people. 4 to 6 hour days, and everything seems to be grumbled about. Compare that to Patrick the sparky who apologises for being late if he turns up at 8.30, and then leaves at 7pm because he just had to do that extra few cables. Dave invariably works until 6pm most nights and Christian and Kain the heating engineers think nothing of leaving site at 9pm if they know we need pipework to be finished for the morning. Oh well, irrespective of this the boarded upstairs looks great, the lightwell is a minor triumph we feel, and the reflected light we are now enjoying is fantastic.
Main guest room fully boarded.
Our room about to be boarded.
Kate has sound insulated all the walls.
Both sets of doors need to be painted yet.
Boarded lightwell.
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