My Sanity !!!

As we all know, renovating/building is generally a stressful task to undertake. Having heard many stories from many friends, Chris & I realise how fortunate we have been during our renovations. To date we have only fired the first project manager and this was only one week into the job. This doesn't mean that we haven't come close to firing others. Using labour only sub contractors is trying at the best of times and they tend to want to do the easy work first and pretend to not understand what you mean when you want the more challenging tasks completed. I must admit that on Monday last week was the first day that it all got too much for me and I had my first good drizz. This was when Errol stepped in again and lived up to his other nickname "Wilde Builder". There was a fair amount of shouting and many unhappy faces, but it seems to have had the desired effect. Of course there has always been the question of my sanity but one thing is certain and that is without Errol it is almost guaranteed that I would be in Tara and the keys chucked away!

All the commotion got the guys got going and by Saturday the majority of the plaster work was done and the only other brick work is the wine cellar entrance as well as the wall between the garden & garage. This wall can only be built once the pool has been dug.

So as it stands for now this is the short term programme:
plastering to be completed by Wednesday
rinolite to start on Wednesday
prep for roof painting started today
pool digging starts Thursday/Friday
underscreed heating to be laid on Thursday
floors to be screeded on Friday onwards
internal painting starts next Wednesday
all doors/windows to be completely installed by next Friday
kitchen cabinets start 28th

This leaves us with a month till expected completion date!