by RogerS » 17 Nov 2017, 19:13
Gosh...nearly two months on and no posts. Sorry chaps but always seemed to be playing catch-up to stay one step ahead of the builders, prepping plumbing and electrics plus the odd bit of joinery and so no time to take many photos or post stuff. After all, there are only so many photographs of plasterboard one can take.
So where are we. Up the proverbial creek without a paddle. Today should have been a day of celebration as the builders are effectively offsite. There is one guy...a superb plasterer and excellent all-rounder who is carrying on to finish plastering the utility room, downstairs loo and together with his brother - who used to lecture on plastering and how to make proper plaster-of-paris cornices - putting up some proper Georgian cornicing in a downstairs room.
But. Effing effing radiators from a cr*p Italian firm called Cordivari. Discovered on Tuesday that one radiator has oversize studs on one side that prevents the fixings from going on. The numpties at the factory managed to pack the wrong fitting set in one of the radiators. That was Tuesday and response back there has been none. Just had another go at fitting some more only to discover that virtually every effing thread on every effing fixing on every effing radiator is blocked up with paint and so needs retapping with one of the bolts before any attempt can be made to fit the radiator. And some are so bad that the bolt will not cut it - literally and metaphorically and my tap and die set is God knows where.
So what's left to do after fitting the rads and getting the CH up and running ? Well, getting the bathroom and ensuites tiled, shower trays in, shower screens up, bogs and basins in. Oh yes...paint the whole of the inside of the house. Downlights in....really looking forward to getting up into the loft to do that. Sockets and switches on the walls. Kitchen finished off, hob in, appliances in, doors on etc.
And flooring ...what to do about that ? And LOML hates the stairs.
So b******ks to it all. I'm going down the pub.
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