Week 42, Day 5

Week 42, Day 5:

Today’s automated WordPress posting didn’t work because the Broadband link was down at 16:00 through being moved over to VDSL / FTTC
Various significant milestones today:
- It’s exactly 10 months since building work started, meaning today was the original forecast completion date; it’s currently expected to take about another month to make the house habitable and a bit longer than that before the landscaping and decorating is complete
- The plasterers completed the last room, marking the end of their continuous 11 weeks of work
  - Mostly a two-person team assisted by one or two others on occasions, so something like 25 weeks of effort
  - A really top-quality job including some difficult areas – especially the inside of the curved roof (which looks amazing, even inside the storage cupboards)
  - I’d highly recommend GC Interfinish to anyone wanting quality plastering in the East Midlands
- All the scaffolding on the south side got dismantled ready for the installation of the solar shading next week, meaning that today’s time-lapse photo looks a lot different from yesterday’s
- Thanks to some better weather, the majority of the zinc got installed on the north roof, with just a few sections left to complete – and then the fascias, down-pipes etc.
- The kitchen worktops arrived and the sink worktop and splash-back is finished but there was a mishap fine-tuning the cut-out for the flush-fitting induction hob and the worktop for the island will have to be re-made
  - I think the mid-grey colour (Silestone Cemento) looks a bit odd against the bare plaster, the blue protective film over the gloss-finish cabinet fronts and the cardboard protecting the polished concrete floor but it should look better when everything is finished