It was a late start today... Not because it was late in the day when I arrived at the house, but because there were already four people waiting for me when I arrived at 9! My dad, his gardener and the builders. It might have helped if I'd have known they were all coming...
With the builders turning up today, it meant we had our first paid work done: damp proofing. They started in the morning by seemingly just making the most noise they possibly could! It turns out they were actually removing the bottom metre of plaster from the walls and taking it back to brick. Once that was done they drilled lots of holes and injected goop into it which will hopefully keep the nasty damp outside! With the goop injected they then re-covered the exposed walls with a render that contains a waterproofing agent. By the end of the day they'd managed to complete the dining-room-to-be and they've made a good start on the office. They'd probably have got further but had to shoot off to the builders merchant to get supplies before they closed for the bank holiday weekend...
My dad and his gardener not surprisingly tackled the garden. After mowing the lawns about ten times they started to look respectable. Hopefully if we stay on top of them they shouldn't be that hard work in the future!
With the builders working in the downstairs rooms I was relegated to working upstairs. It was no bad thing though because it forced me to carry on with the relentless wall paper stripping. Before stopping for a lunch break I had managed to clear the rest of the room that we started yesterday. Thats three rooms in total now! There can't be that many more surely...
After lunch I couldn't bear any more of the repetitive 'steam, scrape, strip, steam, scrape, strip...' so I went outside to hack some more branches down. An afternoon with a lopping saw and it's amazing how much difference it makes to the view out of the back of the house. Once they're gone it'll look beautiful!
There's no mention of my wife today and that's because she had a hair appointment so instead did some jobs at home #1 today. Not to feel left out, I also had my hair cut. The difference between the two was that I spent 4 minutes in the chair whilst the clippers did their work, my wife however spent 4 hours!
Lets see what tomorrow brings.
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