Another fun filled week with lots of positive progress, but then a major setback – we’ll get to that shortly… The week started with lots of noise as they opened up access to the new dressing room from the bedroom, and then the kitchen worktops and second fit of the kitchen was confirmed for the Wednesday & Thursday. Around that was lots more decoration and wall prep, and then they started on the internal fitting of the doors.
It was that activity on Thursday that caused our first disaster – as they were finishing up for the day and carrying one of the doors out through the open patio window there was a misjudgement and they took out one of the closed doors, bending the frame and shattering the glass in that panel. A complete accident, but a costly one for them – they responded brilliantly though and by Friday a new door was booked for manufacturing and due for fitting in 6 weeks. Clare missed all of that fun as was away in Rome and Dublin during the week and then ended up bed bound through the weekend after trapping a nerve coaching the kids at gymnastics on Saturday morning. Hopefully that won’t take 6 weeks to fix as well.
Updates from this week:
- Door from bedroom to dressing room opened up, and previous door to that room from corridor closed.
- More filling, sanding and preparation of the hall & landing walls – including a magic act to make the doorway disappear!
- Patching of hallway ceiling
- Fitting of stone worktops to kitchen
- Final fitting of kitchen, including wooden breakfast bar and all remaining units and doors – not yet working as the electrician and plumbers are due back next week
- Hanging of doors to utility room, snug / office from kitchen and entrance to rear porch
- More filling and sanding of the snug / office room
- Painting of facia board on extension roof
- Starting the sanding of the staircase – more work to come on that next week
- Delivery of the remaining new windows (no one was around to help, so I had to carry all the frames and casement windows into the garage!)
It really feels that we are in to the decoration phase now, although we have just confirmed we want the refit of the main bathroom to go ahead too and still have one final wall to come out in the hallway once the steel turns up.
