Friday, 1 November 2019

Not yet plastered

After three days away from the site, we returned on Friday for a site meeting with builder and architect. It proved to be a somewhat disappointing meeting and day.
First of all the plastering is not finished and won't be until close of play next Tuesday - that is a full week later than planned.
But that pales by the news that our scheme to get the underfloor heating up and running has been scuppered by not being able to get the electricity supply reconnected. The worst-case scenario for that is it could be eleven weeks away. That is to say in the week of January 20th 2020. Work goes on to shorten that lead time but we have already had to put back the kitchen installation by two months to mid-Janaury.
The underfloor heating needs to run for at least a week before the tiling of the floors can be done.  The plaster needs to dry enough to paint before the floors go down as it is being done by spray painting. The second fix joinery, including the installation of the staircase, can't be done until the tiling is done. Nor can the installation of the kitchen.

The one positive note is that the scaffolding is down and we can now get a good sense of the geometry and volume of the build.



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