Its been a long/hard week on the renovating scene! The ribs,blocks and steel were installed and for some reason the time to do this was miss-calculated and landed up taking the guys an extra 2 days! This in turn left only ONE day for the electrician and plumber to do their thing before the pump arrived today. Once again praises to Errol for building in the extra"fat" so as to stay on schedule with our programme. Besides the delay in installation of the slab, I found the team doing the job to be rather rude & unfriendly, basically ignoring us when we arrived on site and just looking at us when asking a question. You must know how well this went down when they had done NOTHING on sight for 2 days - apparently waiting for the beams (which should have arrived on the 15th) to be delivered!!! To my dismay - this morning when I arrived the guys were still putting in the last minute re-inforcing etc at 9.30am (the pump was scheduled to arrive at 10.30am....)
Anyway - I suppose "alls well that ends well...." the pump arrived on time this morning and they started pumping half an hour early
I must say, there was a very good vibe on site when the pumping started. With a whole crew including the electrician, plumber, builder, project manager and 1 excited owner (poor Chris was stuck in meetings). Its amazing to see how its all done and even more fasinating at how quickly its over.
Once the final had been called and completed, Errol treated Peter, Chris and myself to a celebratory pizza & beer at the Jolly Rodger! Our first major mile-stone completed on target - YAY!
3 comments:
Progress looks great. I'm guessing the real fun is going to be in the design and decorating. Probably also a big chunk of the cost.
You can say that again... a few weeks ago we were actually under budget but as of now we are already over budget and as the quotes come in for the finishes the situation doesn't seem to be improving.
Is starting to look great - it is going to be very impressive once finished - you'll be very proud
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