The builders, electrician and plasterers have departed the building - unless someone has locked themselves in, buried themselves under a new floor or is still on a chimney - one of the 3 new ones we have had to have - they are all gone as of 1.30 this afternoon!
So,thats 8 weeks and almost 80% increase in cost for a 3 week job then. Hey ho, thank heavens they never said it would take this long or they may have been here til Christmas!
Throughout this ordeal I have acted in an exemplary manner - well, exemplary for me at least. I have only threatened to kill one of them on any given day and I fully dispute the accusation that the big burly scaffolders who were 6 days late arriving with my tent for the sunroom and even later collecting it were all scared of me.
I have baked cakes on an almost daily basis for my builders, which is the reason the job has taken so long according to some sources!
So, tomorrow, in celebration of their departure, I am not going to be showered and dressed ready for their 8am arrival. I am going to stay in my jimmies until 9 am, just for the hell of it.
I have spent the afternoon trying to find furniture under the layers of plaster dust and tomorrow I hope to find all my scrapping stuff in the craft room.
Himself has been rather irate because I had carefully covered everything in said craft room in dust sheets and not bothered to put one over the tv. As I explained to him, I dont watch tv.
"Well I do" he replies - so why didnt he cover it up then?
I have asked them all not to rush with their bills as I may have to sell my body to pay them and believe me, as anyone who has seen said body will tell you, its not worth much. Probably get more for scientific research than I would for prostitution.
