Monday - hard plasterers come to finish off the back wall of the kitchen, builders come and finish the architraves and skirtings, and the room really starts to look finished.
Tuesday - plumbers come and fit the pump into the rainwater tank in the lightwell, which will pump water back up and over the roof if the tank fills. Downpipes still not connected, so water will still just fall to earth on the other side of the roof.
Painter also comes Tuesday to give us a quote, it looks reasonable and he seems to think he can get the work done next week - we accept with alacrity. Like all the other subbies that our builders use, he also seems highly professional in his approach.
On Monday we also go once more to IKEA, buy our sink and have another try at buying the range hood we want from their display. Once more we find the manager isn't there, once more we are promised a call the next day, once more Tuesday comes and goes without a communication. We are just heading out there again on Wednesday when we get the call to say we can have it, and on Thursday it is ready to collect. When we get it home we have an "Oh shit" moment when we realise that the chimney is in line with the tracklights. We think it is a resolvable problem.
On Wednesday we also collect some interesting retro Danish lights, which we found on eBay, and which we think will look good hanging over the dining table. We have two to choose from, one gold, one red.
No further building action from Wednesday to Friday - hoping for more next week. Meanwhile we have started on the major exercise of cleaning up the house, now that most of the messy work is complete. It may be premature, as the plasterers have to come back to box in the skylights, and that probably means another layer of dust. But it makes the place look much better now that we've cleaned the floor.
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