Saturday, September 17, 2005

All sorted out


Well, thanks to G at the B&Q store, the problem has been solved.

Installation Services were struggling to find a fitter so G took it upon herself to do it. She found a new fitter and he came on Friday and has taken out the bath, wash basin and the airing cupboard. He's also taken up the hideous carpet (good riddance!) and put the pipes in for the ladder radiator.

The original bathroom design won't fit in so he's reworked the design as well, it'll be much better the way he has suggested it.

The kitchen fit date has also been moved, instead of waiting until October we're now getting it done a week on Monday - the whole project seems to be coming together nicely now.

On the building front, the inspector came three times and he's happy with the work that the builders have done and has approved it all so they can carry on working. They've just put down the first blocks for the inner wall so we can really get an idea of the size of it now.

M is a little disappointed as it's smaller than she expected it to be, howver it's probably hard for a 6 year old to imagine from four rows of breeze blocks. She'll love it when it's finished I expect.

Friday, September 16, 2005

bathroom - day 3


No apparent change, but the plumbing under the floor is done.

Thursday, September 15, 2005

Bathroom - day 2



Well it's very safe for our children right now! ;)

Monday, September 12, 2005

The bathroom has started - day 1


The remains of the old bathroom are ready for a skip to arrive.

They came...and went..and selfish drivers.

Well the bathroom fitter came and went

The burglar alarm engineer hasn't turned up to move the cables from the airing cupboard so they can't demolish it. He is hopefully coming at midday and the bathroom fitter will (apparently) come back this afternnon.

The building work is progressing well, no further problems today - yet.

Next to our house is a turning circle (we're at the end of a cul-de-sac, silly phrase but never mind) and the house that backs on to it isn't even on our road yet the person living there always parks in the turning circle and says he has permission to do so. The other day he insisted that a workman at our neighbours move his van so he could park in "his" space. Because of his car the school bus for the disabled boy over the road couldn't get past and his Mum had to walk to the end of the road to get him (fine for her but her soon is 9 or so and can't walk very far) and the deliverey driver from B and Q had to reverse all the way down the roaf.

Selfish driver (2) was the BT van driver who reversed an inch away from the side of a car, hit it and drove off. Bad luck for him that DD and I remembered his registration and went and told the owners of the car. Serves him right.

The only way is up.

The building inspector came today, he's still happy but the builders weren't impressed with him.

Anyway, the digging has finished and the builders will shore the walls up tomorrow and start concreting.

We have no fitter!

Well, as predicted, the bathroom fitters did not turn up.

I called B&Q and was told that they would get them to phone us. Still no phone call.

I phoned B&Q again only to be told that the bathroom fitters no longer worked for B&Q but I don't know why. What a good job they hadn't started as they would have been pulled off the job and we'd have half a bathroom.

Scores

Builders 2 Burglar Alarm Engineers 0
Gas Engineers 2 Bathroom Fitters 0
Sick Babies 1 Phone calls explaining no-show 0
Happy 6 year olds 1 Guilty Mothers 0