16th March 2018
Picked up the radiators, and ordered the ones for the upstairs and the bathroom.
I managed to add a new timber to the rotten joist in the bathroom, bolting it to the existing one, there was a spare piece of five by two, (that I obviously paid for,) and long nuts and bolts (I also paid for) that were just right for the job.
The next job was to tidy up the window surround, this needed some timber to build out and support the plasterboard. At lunchtime I walked into the town, passed the ripped-up road to collect my shoes from the cobbler, and to have a veggie breakfast. Then fully fuelled headed back up the hill to the building site.
I think Pompeii is in better condition, but Andy is doing a good neat job with the pipes, nicely aligned and all corners square. Diplomatically he asked if I could remove the wooden frame AGAIN to make the routing of the pipes easier. So I swept up again, removed the frame and waited for the next pile of rubble to fall.
Ten minutes later the first of the new rocks and debris hit the floor, as Andy chipped away the stone hindering the way for his pipes. My hand twitched, the brush was moving towards the fresh pile, raising up as if to assume a sweeping position, but I regained control, and just waited for him to finish his soldering. I hadn’t seen Louis the builder for a few days, I was a but worried that I might have swept him up and emptied him into a black bag.
Another Lifetime to go 