Get the lid on

I should have known that big things were up today when the site meeting was attended not only by the site manager, but by the head builder as well. We started with the plumbing, and it's not good news. Our captive plumber has not been able to get the numbers down to a sufficient level so we've released him back into the wild. The firm the builders had in mind is apparently quite eager to have a go, so our project manager will be contacting them next.

We were quite surprised to learn that our kitchen rooflights don't come in a non-opening format but, as the builder said, it will make it easier to clean them, so it's not a big deal. Concerns about the kitchen layout were still on the agenda so we dug out the drawings we got done last July and have passed them on. Hopefully they have enough accurate information for the builders' purposes.

And so to the main event: the floor was due to arrive today. When I got home, sure enough, it was in place, its hollow core proudly on display at the rear:


With the extra scaffolding, things are looking very boxed in at the front, like a proper building site:


The floor is made up of nine slabs:


All we want is for it to be soundproof, but it looks like you could land a plane on this.