construction

So I’ve been living (once again) on a construction site…the house that I’m sitting in (with a great view and great neighbors) is undergoing renovations…these were (of course) started when the family was here but as everything takes much much much longer than anticipated it is still going on. Well they come back on Sunday…(sadly I’ll be evicted)…and I’d have to say they are going to be surprised (pleasantly I hope) by all the work that has gone on. It does still feel that it has been all last minute—so much going on this week but it is getting somewhere! The bathroom floor was retiled—and of course they pulled up the old linoleum tiles at least a week before actually doing the new ones so I walked on the sticky stuff for the duration…the sink was leaking and they didn’t want to put the tiles in until that was fixed. Ok. But everytime the plumber came back the drip was different—and not always better…but that was done and then the tiles started…that took about three days to finish what with the power cuts so the grinder wouldn’t work to cut the tiles around all the door frames and toilets…
The front porch is getting a roof put on it…so really I haven’t been able to use the front porch much because it is a huge mess of dust and grit and I’ll admit I’m a little worried something might fall on my head as it isn’t finished yet…then it got the tresses (supports?) up and stayed like that for ages (maybe only a week and a half)…then they came and took the tiles off part of the existing roof so they could integrated it…and left it like that for 3 days…but today I came home and over half of it has been tiled…and the rest will be done tomorrow (so I’ve been told).
And the back kitchen door had a concrete patio area put in…not really a patio but a stepping place that wasn’t just mud…so they dug up the area…put in gravel and then paved half of it—and left it for 2 weeks…that was just finished yesterday with the paving…and today they put the smooth finish on it…I hope it is tilted slightly in the right direction...otherwise the water will just flow right into the kitchen. The roof for that area should also be coming tomorrow…