Feels like every plumber, painter and electrician in the general vicinity of Paternoster decided to drop by our kitchen today. At the same time. Hammering, grinding, chiseling, scraping, knocking, whistling all day long. I have such a headache (mostly because I only had one lousy cup of Nescafe today). The electricians were moving the power points, the plumbers were closing off the water pipes and the painters were making the rest of the noise and mess. They still need to plaster over the new pipes and still have cut out the hole for the extraction fan. Plus the window has to be knocked out and the new (smaller) one put in. And the power points in the guest quite has to be moved too. All this is happening tomorrow. The guys will have to spark.
The carpenter has hung the studio doors and added on various locks, handles and things all over the place. He's put up Sarah's glass shelf in her bathroom, but still hasn't drilled the holes in the desk for the cables. I think he has a mental block against doing that. I keep asking him and he keeps 'forgetting'.
Angelo has plastered most of the low wall next to the pool, and has finished building the short wall on the other side of the pool. No sign of the pool people to do the paving today. Marius did bring the painters' ladder back but I didn't get to see him.
The kitchen people delivered the wood for the carcasses today. They only got here at 17:00. We thought they'd gone to Vredendal by mistake.
I scrubbed all the tiles in Sarah's bathroom this afternoon. It was either that or disembowel one of the whistling people with a screwdriver. Took all my frustration out on the leftover grout on the tiles. We've got most of Sarah's stuff in the right place and most of the room has been cleaned. I've locked all the building people out of there now. I am not cleaning that room one more time. Grrrr. Not QUITE ready to move in, but at least it's getting closer. Sarah can't wait to get back into her own room.
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