Those crazy glaziers

So, the window fitter arrived on site yesterday morning as scheduled, as did our foreman. The job was to replace the upper-central and upper-right panes. And what had been delivered? The upper-central and upper-left panes. And the new centre one was exactly the same width as the old one (i.e wrong), but several milimetres taller (i.e. wrong)


Furthermore, the frame of the original centre piece is engineered to form a straight diagonal seam with the frame of the side panels, like so:


On the new one, this diagonal line goes in the wrong direction, totally ruining the look:


So the foreman sent the window guy off in fairly short order, and we all had a good laugh at what a bunch of clowns the window company are. We are also minded not to give them a third-time-lucky further attempt at making windows which are the correct size and shape. We'll get them to do the necessary fixes of the others and we'll live with the misaligned ones, but it is going to cost them.

In other news I managed to solve the mystery of the whine and tick. It seems they were a bizarre side-effect of my electronic thermometer (stashed in a box in the living room) running out of battery power. I don't think anyone saw that coming.