As we come to Friday beer-time again, I’m excited to see how much things have moved on. It’s wonderful to feel how the lounge and kitchen will be now the door cages are in place. Contrary to expectations, I like the closed-in-ness of the lounge – it now feels like we could fit a sofa without overlapping the door. I don’t feel that we’ve lost the airiness of the space, but I guess it’s early to say.
This week the workers have:
- Enlarged the two second floor doorframes including raising the lintels
- Put in the cages which will hold the sliding doors
- Drilled laboriously through solid rock walls to put in the electricity meter box (although ENEL still haven’t come to connect us) and the post box
- Cemented these in place
- Drilled off uneven (but very hard) cement that previous workmen put in our future study
- Scraped out the remnants of the walls we knocked down so the gaps in walls and floors are ready to be filled in
- Drilled off smooth plaster where we need to attach tiles in the kitchen
- Carted out a truckload of rubble
- Brought in a plumber to get a quote for central heating
- Knocked down the future bathroom floor (which was too high), ready to put in a new floor next week
Roscoe’s arms and ears are feeling how much drilling he’s done. It will be great to get the electricity connected so at least they won’t have the noise of the generator.
Next week may not be as good – there’s going to be a street demonstration of policemen and women so we have to remove the hoist. I hope it doesn’t set us back too much.
Our budget for the works so far:
Previous total EUR 2,147
Labour EUR 1,300
Petrol for the generator & truck EUR 53
Cement EUR 28
Bricks and fast-drying cement EUR 43
TOTAL EUR 3,571
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