Will Be Lovely When It's Done.......

 
We have to keep reminding ourselves during every ongoing "improvement" that the upheaval, hard work to prep and inconvenience will all be worth it in the end. Yes the toilet is still in the 'can't get any worse' stage but the painting isn't finished because Hubby had another two day fundraiser event and the plumber can't start until after the window is changed...... and this is windows week. 

Tuesday 

8:45am windows men arrived, Jake and Cameron. They started upstairs back of the house. Looks like two old windows out and one new window in without the glass. 

10am took a 20min break. 

11:30ish they took another short break having taken the third window out, put the new window in and glazed the first two. Seems to be going quite smoothly. Hope there's not too many breaks. 

I actually left them to it for the afternoon as I joined some friends at friendH's caravan for afternoon tea. Warm and sunny and we stayed outside for about three hours chatting and laughing. FriendH had filled her table with dainty sandwiches and pretty wrap rolls, scones with jam and cream, cake, biscuits, fruit and more. So lovely. 

When I got home the windows men had gone. Upstairs front and back was done. 

Wednesday 

The windows guys arrived at 9am and Hubby started them off with a snagging list from yesterday's work. Then the two front bay windows caused serious problems! 

Lots of worried conversations while they were holding it all together. Eventually they made a really secure and neat job of the new install. They also managed to replace the patio doors today, odd seeing totally clear doors as the old ones had motifs on that R and E had made for me when they were about three years old and they'd been there ever since. Might have to find something else so nobody walks into a closed door thinking it was open. 

We were told originally it would take three days, these two guys had it as a two day job on their job sheet, today they said they expected to be here till end of Friday. I told them we would hold them hostage till it's totally finished. 

Thursday

Up with the 7am alarm yet again! Yawn! They started with the lounge front bay when I was getting dressed and blowdrying my hair in the room directly above, it felt and sounded like a war zone! 😳

M called in at 10am to use our gym stuff. Really chilly in the house today with windows missing and doors open.  

I actually escaped again for a pub lunch with the team I used to work with. We last got together for our Christmas meal 2019 so it was really nice getting together. One of the others did take a couple of photos but I haven't seen them yet. 

When I got home there was a slice of yummy Victoria sponge that O had made and saved for me. Plus there had been a lot of progress on the windows and doors. Hubby informed me that their office had given them a new job for Friday and they had to finish ours today. They cleared up and vacuumed all over which took till 6pm and waited for us to go around and check everything before driving away. Hubby is really pleased with them, my small hands with poor grip finds all the handles really tight but hopefully they will get easier once all the seals bed in 🤞

Now we have the huge task of thoroughly cleaning the thick dust from their drilling etc, in every room, washing and ironing all the curtains and general putting everything back. 

I've also made a start on the apple crop, a lot less than other years.

These are always a bit rotten at the core, so it's peeling, chopping, quick dip in lemon juice, bagging and flat freezing. 

And last night was another "pandemic overdue" meet up with our friends, so another meal out. Been that sort of week.

Now off to Daughter's so till next week stay safe.

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