So much for the idea of keeping a journal on this site.
A few entries and I give up.
Here we are it's 17th September over 7 months since the builders first walked into our lives and at last I think we can say they have finished. Well, almost.
As with all builds, the odd snag crops up and this morning a guy is up a ladder fixing a gutter. When the upper floor went on over the garage, the gutters were extended and a new down pipe was fitted. OK so far. As the work progressed they realised that they would have to dig a soakaway for this downpipe, and a another one for another section of roof. So they decided to route the rainwater another way, to the other section of roof and so now they only have to dig one soakaway. OK they've saved themselves a bit of work. Except the new section of guttering which started out having a downpipe at the end, now doesn't, but it still slopes that way. So a couple of weekends ago, when we had a heavy downpour. The gutter overflowed.
The trainee is now up the ladder re-fitting the gutter. At least I think it is the trainee, he has made a mess of my front door and the dinning room floor. Lets hope he does a better job with the gutter. I think it would have been easier if they had just dug the second soakaway.