A View With A Room!

And lots of rooms to view too!! Making our weekly trip down to the house today we had a lovely surprise. There were three young men, two of whom were on stilts, and no, we were not at the circus, these were our plasterers. They weren't the surprise however, well maybe a little one because they were working on a Saturday afternoon and there was three of them, all in shorts, but the big surprise was the change in the house since last week. Every room has been plastered and they were now working on the cornices. I think that's the right word...cornices on the ceiling, architraves on the floor? Correct me if I'm wrong..because I have known to be at times. Not many times mind you..just the odd time. They were busily balancing on their stilts in our bedroom working on the cornices and doing a very nice job of it too. Anyway, as you can see by the photos, a LOT has been done.
The space for the manhole has been cut out and I guess there will be lots more holes cut into the plaster for power points and light switches and the heating and cooling ducts..thank goodness for blue and green and red coloured markers, because that is how the 'hole cutters' will get the right spot, as every room has marks on the ground indicating where all the cabling and wiring are hidden behind the plaster. Or directly below where they have to cut holes in the ceiling for the ducts. Once again, it is very technical stuff. You can also see in one of the pictures that our front doors have been delivered, obviously they have to be painted but you can see the panelling in them and this is what our internal doors will be like. The internal ones will not have the glass bit up the top, but I reckon I didn't need to tell you that, I mean how silly would that be?!
They finally cleaned up around the block, so that looks heaps better. Ready for the next lot of building rubbish to be left. And more rubbish left means more things have been done, so that is something to look forward to.
Oh yeah, and just when you though it was a safe bet that the spa saga was over...nope! Had an email yesterday saying there were 'issues' with the spa. Apparently the headrests that were on the order form were not available for the spa we wanted. Hmmmm, is this ever going to end I thought? Then we read back over the contract and the headrests they said we can have were the ones we originally asked for, and someone had incorrectly ordered the ones we couldn't have and we didn't want them anyway. Pete thought this would be a good excuse to try and get the second spa we liked as according to them we couldn't have the spa and headrests that we wanted..after they told us we could of course, and they don't need to know they had originally ordered the ones we didn't want..so anyway he tried, and got the usual.."I'll have to give Michael a call" blah blah blah..so we shall see..either way we'll be happy..well, as long as the taps aren't up the end where our heads will be because you know who (with the big head) won't be happy!.but why not give them a push and see what happens!
All in all the house seems to be progressing nicely, and with no problems at all..except the one room we were so excited about, but even those problems are relatively minor in the big picture. Everytime we go up there something has been done, so I'm a very happy camper!