Day 3 was a full working day with lots of noise and dust. The ingeneur came to the site today to check on the necessity of this wall and beam that the planning department is so adament about. There is no need for either the wall or the beam - as far as carrying and construction is concerned. The wall is only there because we initially wanted that little storing room there. Alan and I discussed windows - we'll keep to winblocs for the front of the bedroom so that at least the gable look symmetric. Otherwise just similar aluminium windows for the kitchen and towards the road.
Unfortunately the plan does not correspond at all with the actual building. Michelle took pictures and then worked on the old plans and Patrick corrected the things that town planning was moaning about, but nobody actually checked if everything really corresponds. There is a big differance for example in the actual height of the gable/wall above our bedroom window, the roof is not shown correctly, etc. etc. Alan has to really measure out everything and change it on the plans accordingly. As he says, it is not really his job, but it quite often happens that people don't build according to the plan and then the plan of course never get changed afterwards.
Just to make us feel like it is not júst horrible things that we're doing, I've planted 3 of these "pig ears" - Cotlydon - in the 3 pots.
I really feel very sorry for Patrick because this simple making of drawings was becoming a rather big job in the end. And it's not over yet as I can see! In the end we will be very good friends with each other or he will hate us...
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