Micks Distractions

The chip­pies were there putting some fin­ish­ing touches on. They put up the

front strips to hide the cracks in the stucco. The plas­ter­ers also were get­ting stuck into the walls. I had orig­i­nally planned to put in three pocket doors ready for the plas­ter­ers, but because of work com­mit­ments I wasn’t able to. At work, an utter dis­as­ter was brew­ing, so I had to turn up and fix things. Me and two oth­ers SysAd­mins are on a 24/7 ros­ter until the dis­as­ter blows over, so I won’t get much time to do any­thing on the house.
Any­way, it ended up look­ing like

this at the end of the day.

Well, the chip­pies were back again to

swing the exte­rior doors, nail up the

remain­ing cor­ner trim, and put

up the fibro. We’ve run out of bud­get, so unfor­tu­nately that’s all we can get them to do. I’ll have to fin­ish off the innards.
The plas­ter­ers were also back again. They fin­ished off 90% of the ceil­ing plas­ter. We’ve man­aged to hold them back on doing the exter­nal walls until we can get the insu­la­tion installed in the week­end. That’ll be a sun­rise to sun­set job for my wife and I.

I am so glad to have the roof and cladding on now.

Two days of solid rain so far. The site has turned into a big mud pool.

I had to go into work today, so left the chip­pies to their own devices. They worked on the

front bay win­dow.

The dog is the gimpy’s dog was there as well.
I got there late in the after­noon and

spoke to the sparkie about posi­tions of exte­rior lights, and also

the chip­pie about the bulk­head over the front bay win­dow.
It seems that the frame chippie’s mis­takes are com­ing back to haunt us. He incor­rectly placed the bulk­head and the bay win­dow. We also seem to have been given a dif­fer­ent bay win­dow to the one in the plan. Hark­away Homes seems to be very keen to rec­tify any mis­takes made by the frame chip­pie, and have told the fin­ish­ing chip­pie to do what it takes to pla­cate us and bill it to them.
The end of the day

looked like this.