A taste of steel

This morning's meeting was brief and to the point. Three main issues were addressed:

The doors
We will be handing over pictures of the internal doors to the builders tomorrow. They will then order them from the joiner. After hinting at it last week, we have finally decided to drop the sliding doors in the utility room and put standard doors in instead. This will not only save us from having to sacrifice wall space to an access panel for the sliding mechanism, it will narrow the openings and increase the wall space, most vitally, in the kitchen where the units will be.



The kitchen
In the next few days we will revisit our kitchen people with the final real-life measurements of our kitchen space and finalise the layout and dimensions. We'll then give this back to the builders to arrange for plumbing to be installed in the appropriate places.

The plumber
Our house appears to be situated on some sort of Bermuda Triangle of plumbers. The original one retained by the builders disappeared, only to return with an outlandish quote. Efforts by us, the project manager and the builders to secure the services of other plumbers have all drawn blanks, through a combination of disappearing e-mails, unreturned voicemails and other communications breakdowns. The next step is to try and lure a plumber off the street and hold him captive until the central heating is operational.

So that's the plans for the future. Today the steel arrived:


My spatial reasoning tells me that these two angled pieces will form the frame for the glazed gable, once they're rotated backwards from how they're lying here, and turned to face each other, with the apex where that cardboard box is sitting.


I hope this will be soon, as someone with a flatbed truck and a big magnet could make an easy profit from the site at the moment.

The other big piece of work today was the pouring of hardcore on the patio area:


(Yes, that fridge is still there.)

They still need to do the side passage and then flatten and compact it, but once done, that'll be the end of the groundworks outside. For now.

With the site secured for another day, the night watchman takes up his post: