Day 51 - 23.04.09

I'm not counting yesterday, as it was a public holiday - only the kitchen guys worked. Alan wants Leon to finish in the front before the sheets com on - he does not want them to damage "his" sheets. Leon does not want them to damage "his" walls. Anycase, they have to sort that out between them. At the moment it feels as though they are doing a "go slow" on me. Alan is basically waiting to get the kitchen guys out of the way, so apart from finishing the little wood structure for the "afdakkie" on Tuesday, his guys have not been working here. The afdakkie gives me the feeling that we now have our own church! Do you agree that it looks a little like a church?!

Leon's guys have been working on the outside of the house, first with high pressure hoses (cold) and now they are (or better were - as they left because it was raining too much)busy scraping loose paint off and opening and filling cracks. Alan has got 1 guy - Jan - still here painting and patching. He does not get on with Leon's guys and absolutely refuse to talk to them.! It's quite hilarious. I've just been to the apartment, they will hopefully finish tomorrow, but I think they will still need a full day tomorrow. Now they have just asked Alan's guy to remove the skirting in the bedroom as it was in the way behind the bedroom cupboard. I think that is another something which is shown on the house plan as finishing hére and EasyLife(luckily for us) is ending with the cupboard thére. But it means changing the skirting to fit just the small area between the cupboard and the door opening, and repaint the damaged bits on the wall again. Aggh, it never ends. The carpet is being fitted today a week - next Thursday.

Alan has just been around to see how they're doing with the kitchen and has touched on a few points with the young subcontractor working for EasyLife - discussing light fittings, etc. For the time being, we are not cutting the corner diagonally, can always do it later if it is a problem. The kitchen is at least looking a lot better than on the above photo that was taken yesterday morning.