Beginning to find all the little oddities of the building now.

After once having a house that was over 100 years old I didn't really expect things to be 'square' but it's interesting how deceptive the eye can be.

This is the floor plan and running in line with the tops of the doors is a picture rail that runs all the way round begining and ending at the front door. It looks all the same height so the problems must be with the floor.

The first three doors went on without too much trouble although one had to have a total of about half an inch taken of the top and botton but the other two needed very little taken off.

The next three were two standard room doors and one narrower 27 inch cupboard door.

One door took nearly FIVE Hours to put on and needed more than an inch taken off the top and bottom - so much in fact that the tools kept hitting the staples that are used to hold the door together. Our maintenance man blunted all his tools and broke his electric planer which was why it took so long as he had to do all the planeing by hand. In comparison the next door he put on was actually TOO SHORT and NARROW for the space and the only bit that had to be taken off was one corner where there was a telephone cable running through the door way. It's only the door stops that cover the gaps.

The only door left to do now is the one for the bedroom that we have to decorate before we can use it. There are fitted cupboards to come out so no point putting the door on yet until this room is finished.

Other work is now getting scheduled as they came to start the work on the roof last wednesday. But then things went a bit pear shaped on thursday when the team started to put up the facia and guttering when in reality they didn't know what they were supposed to be doing. A new teamed turned up on Friday and had to start again almost from scratch - in fact the team leader said it would have been quicker if they had started from scratch, but they didn't finish on Friday and left us without guttering - and yes, you guessed it, we had a torrential downpour on Friday night. They came back for a few hours on Saturday, but still didn't get finished so still no guttering. The guys are supposed to be coming on Monday to spray the foam insulation on the inside, so we'll have both teams working here. Should be interesting

Next Job is the glazing - we know the company - they did the glazing at the flat - so there shouldn't be any problems here and we need to get in a tree surgeon to sort out some of the trees at the end of the garden - but that's another story